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Subject: Re: Open entries - another idea

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Graham

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Date Posted: 14:46:37 05/27/03 Tue
In reply to: Greg 's message, "Re: Open entries - another idea" on 14:22:34 05/27/03 Tue

>Also, thank you for the compliment that I looked
>better than some advanced couples at IVDA. My partner
>and I had not done any non-basic ballroom all year and
>decided to enter intermediate on the day. We did
>basics and got to the final (coming 7th). Part of our
>success was the confidence with which i approached the
>event. I would not have danced so well if i knew that
>i was not allowed to make the final no matter how well
>we did! Equally, we would have been very out of place
>in advanced, wihtout costume OR routines!
>Trying to impose rules on entries would have forced us
>to dance advanced (= not dance at all) or only be
>allowed to make the semi. Either way would have denied
>my partner and myself the obvious encouragement that
>reaching a ballroom final at the nationals brings.
>(Whether or not it is meaningless as it is only
>intermediate...) Thoughts?

I maintain that my suggestion is sound.

Regarding the standard of the int final, I just think that if people danced down against the guidelines and then made the final, they should have danced adv, because they may well have made a round, and would certainly not have been the weakest in advanced by some way. There were 7 couples in advanced who got one or no marks. I got one. I danced intermediate at SUDA, and got very few marks towards the final. Thus assuming the IVDA int final was as good as that at SUDA, it seems reasonable that the finallists were at the very least on a par with 7 couples in advanced.

Yes, I'm in a bad mood today, sorry.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Open entries - another idea	karen	11:27:48 05/28/03 Wed
Re: Open entries - another idea -- Graham, 12:17:42 05/28/03 Wed