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Subject: Re: The "what category/level debate

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Tim

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Date Posted: 11:46:47 10/25/03 Sat
In reply to: Gi 's message, "Re: The "what category/level debate" on 13:53:24 10/24/03 Fri

I tend to see the beginners event as a special case. It is a trophy for those people who are in their first year on the university circuit, and have not done ballroom or latin competitively before. Nureyev and Fontane could have entered beginners, its true, and it would have been good for them to have done so. (Whichever Uni would have had a kick-ass offbeat team as well!). Yet they shouldn't have entered Novice.
Likewise, I think Scott, Sarah, et al, should have entered beginners. But not Novice or Intermediate.
The mistake is seeing beginners as the bottom rung of the Adv/ Int/ Nov categorisation. It isn't. It is a separate event, and I don't see any contradiction in the best beginner couple also winning advanced.

>I'm in agreement with various people on various
>aspects of the debate; ofcourse Scott could have
>entered into the beginners section (in my mind at
>least) as he actually was a beginner in Latin and
>Ballroom dancing, however as Di rightly points out, if
>you are already so highly talented (and a trained
>dancer in the sense that Ali explains - another point
>upon which I agree) where is the fun in that? Going
>through to the final would be no surprise let alone
>making the next round, and you certainly wouldn't get
>those butterflies as the the final positions are
>called out and one after another your number still
>isn't called out til the very end. I also agree that
>simply making an advanced final (even if you come
>last) is far more satisfying than winning a beginners.
>What really is the point in competing if you don't
>need to push yourself at all? In the end shouldn't
>DanceSport be more about dancing to the best of your
>personal ability rather than going home with the
>biggest trophy - we shouldn't forget the reason that
>we all started dancing in the first place.
>By all means allow dancers of scott's capabilities to
>enter the beginners section; the other beginners will
>enjoy themselves so much more through out the day!

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