| Subject: Re: Open entries - another idea |
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karen
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Date Posted: 11:27:48 05/28/03 Wed
In reply to:
Graham
's message, "Re: Open entries - another idea" on 14:46:37 05/27/03 Tue
like greg said i don't think it's possible/workable to split between who is allowed to make the final and who isn't. again, who would decide who is and who isn't?
also, as someone else said earlier in this discussion, there could be an intermediate couple that were average at he beginning of the year and are able to win ivda intermediate, i think they ought not be forced up to advanced level just because they happen to have improved a lot (especially if they are also in beginners events the same year... see Tomas and Marianna won int latin last year, or the guy who won it this year also was a beginner).
basically, if u have no rules to say who should enter what (i still believe u can't have strict and fast ones!), u cannot try and exclude people from finals. on what basis would u?
on the point sarah took a while ago, that winning int doesn't mean much i want to disagree. it means a lot to the people who enter int (else they wouldn't enter it) and to the ones who don't win it, else we wouldn't have this discussion.
>>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?
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>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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