 Winning the DCI A-60 prelims only to lose the finals to the Mandarins, the corps vowed to win next year, and retained most of its members in 1988.1988 started out very promising, the corps winning its second DCM A-60 title and scoring a comfortable 15 points above the Mandarins at DCI Midwest in Whitewater a week before DCI.The Whitewater show, however, would mark the beginning of a turn of fortunes as the Mandarins scored .2 behind the first place EK at DCI prelims, and then, beat the Emerald Knights in finals a second straight year.