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Subject: Re: Offbeat Proposal


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Paul J
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Date Posted: 13:19:51 10/15/03 Wed
In reply to: Tim C 's message, "Re: Offbeat Proposal" on 12:39:00 10/15/03 Wed
 >There were,
>in reality, severe timetabling issues at the last
>IVDC, resulting in rounds having too many couples on
>the floor at one time. With any increase in numbers
>(and there was a huge increase in numbers last year),
>the programme would be almost impossible to run.
>Offbeat and Rock 'n Roll, being non-core dances (I am
>not saying they add no value, as you quite rightly
>point out that offbeat helps dancesport recruit), are
>obvious places to cut.

There are many other ways of shortening the competition:

* Imposing entry limits
* Forbidding people from entering Beginners and Intermediates in the same discipline
* Not having a semi-final for the combined Advanced competition (instead taking the top 3 from each final). This one alone would save around 30 minutes - about the same as the increase in time due to the new-format team match.

Paradoxically, I also believe that _reducing_ the number of people in each heat would have the effect of speeding up the competition. This is because:
* Each heat would require less music so, even though there would be more heats, each round wouldn't take much more time.
* The judges woudn't be desperately looking for numbers to fill in their sheets. This would lead to greater uniformity in the judge's opinions, and would allow a larger cut to be made to the following round. (Last year, we had to have a couple of extra rounds in some of the competitions, due to not being able to recall the desired number of couples.)

Last year, we had one of highest number Offbeat entries in recent years - I think that it would be unwise to assume the same number of entries in future.
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