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Subject: Re: Meeting Proposal

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Matthew

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Date Posted: 13:19:05 06/02/03 Mon
In reply to: Greg 's message, "Re: Meeting Proposal" on 14:35:11 05/30/03 Fri

Not to mention Bristol's Riverdance who did not compete at SUDA but won the offbeat this year.

They perhaps thought they would like to spare the audience at SUDA a performance that you (and many others) would probably have thought to be of an awful standard.

I think the gist of the original suggestion was for qualifiers so that at IVDA only those that have proven themselves the best 8 offbeats will be allowed to grace the floor. As for not being ready, they will just have to get ready. No one has said so far that they don't think they will be able to get ready before SUDA. It's like homework assignments (for me anyway!) - having a later deadline doesn't mean a product of better quality - it just means more dragging of feet before *really* preparing. Give 'em an earlier deadline and they'll be there earlier.

Personally, I would MUCH rather sit through 8 X 3.5 (= 28)minutes of relatively good quality offbeats rather than to sit through 16 X 2 (=32) minutes of mostly "awful" ones. But that's just me I guess. =)

>It has to be said that this year the standard of
>offbeats was awful compared with the past two years
>that i have seen.
>I agree with all the comments about them being boring
>and too long etc.
>I don't know what a compromise situation would be as i
>would rather get home earlier and miss one really good
>offbeat, than sit through 10 lots of the same junk.
>Also, you can't say that you have to have competed at
>SUDA/NUDA as some teams are not ready by then (for
>example Oxford's offbeat was only at IVDA last year
>and came second).
>It would be great to get back to the quality offbeats
>like Sheffield's Circle of Life, Imperial's 'Thriller'
>and even Camb's Chicken Run, but if that can't be
>achieved, then scrap the whole thing. It's not
>dancesport and if there are enough people why not have
>an Offbeat national comp separately.
>(Or hold the offbeat after the prize presentations and
>demo so we can go home early!)
>If the choice is between maintaining the frenzied
>PVC-clad, pseudo-70's, poorly synchronized jigging
>around, or having fewer couples on the floor in the
>events that matter to the majority, I know which would
>get most people's vote!

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Re: Meeting Proposal	Tim	14:30:42 06/02/03 Mon