sentences:  At the first DCI World Championships in Whitewater, Wisconsin, the Troopers finished in sixth place in a competition that featured thirty-nine corps from the East, the South, the West Coast, the Midwest and Great Plains, and Canada.For DCI's first four years, Troopers were an annual finalists, placing second in 1973.Then, through the mid-1980s the Troopers were in and out of DCI's Top Twelve Finalists.