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Subject: Re: But you can't...

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Graham

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Date Posted: 13:51:42 05/27/03 Tue
In reply to: Manuella 's message, "But you can't..." on 13:04:32 05/27/03 Tue

>Uh how did you read that into what I said????

Well, you wrote:

>>>It is hard enough
>>>going up a level knowing that you may not make a final

Which implied to me that you thinking making finals is 'the norm'. I'm sorry if I misinterpreted, but that's how it reads to me.

>All I said was that if you are brave enough to go up
>then you shouldn't have to then be humiliated if you
>go out in the next round of the level below!

If that's what you said I apologise.

>But I do think that if someone has worked really hard
>all year, and they have the chance to come first in
>Intermediate, why should they be forced to dance up
>and not make a final? This suggestion is great for
>those who won't make more than a round in Adv. But
>lets say we end up with quarter/semi/final in Adv. The
>people who make the semi but not the final probably
>would make the Int final - if they had been allowed to
>dance it. So why shouldn't they?

Because it is an arbitrary cut off. As Robin (and others) have said, the way we choose to structure the opens, we award prizes to the best 6, not the next, say, 12, the next 6, and so on. It's strange, but it works. The problem is defining the standard of the cut-off points, and the discussion is about how to stop people who are blatantly above them and know they are above them dancing down.

> By this logic noone
>who is any good would ever be allowed to win Int -
>because they should always be forced up to not the
>final in Adv.

Not if everyone in intermediate were less good than everyone in advanced. The issue people have is with the overlap.

> You might be able to convince yourself
>that if you go out in a semi in Adv you are "better"
>than all the Ints - but you still don't go home with a
>trophy.

No, but I'd go home more satisfied. And I'd have one less meaningless trophy to dispose of.

This sounds more confrontational than it was meant to - sorry - but I still hold to all the points I have made.

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