sentences:  When Jim Jones retired as the Troopers' director in 1987, he was succeeded by a string of directors who were all alumni of the corps.This, however, did not translate into competitive success; from 1987 through 2005, the corps finished in fourteenth place twice, but otherwise were ranked in nineteenth to twenty-fifth place.Then, in 2005, the DCI Board of Directors suspended the Troopers from competition for non-compliance with membership rules.