Subject:  The Mother of All Proposals |
Author:
Ali
|
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
Date Posted: 12:47:44 05/19/03 Mon
Here is the first draft of the full consititutional amendment covering the proposed team match format. There is still plenty of time to amend it before the meeting, so keep the comments flying in (sensible ones please - no "2.8.1.19 Sheffield shall win the Team Match, regardless of the actual marks" will not be considered :-) Please try to hack holes in it - it's better that loopholes are found now.
I've put a few comments in where appropriate, describing the reasoning behind a clause etc. I will include this, suitably amended, in the big proposal document on the web, which I will bring up to date so you can all print it out ready for the meeting (hint, hint).
Some of the language is a bit klanky, but this is in keeping with the definitions already in the constitution.
Enjoy!
2.8 The Team Match
2.1.4.x -> 2.8.1.x
2.8.1.4 At least...
2.8.1.5 One or more 'Amalgamated Societies', which shall be treated as Member Societies, shall be organised by the hosts. Team Captains may nominate couples or individuals for inclusion in this Society if they are, for any reason, unable to form a complete team (whether A,B,C or D). If all four of their teams are full then spare beginner couples or individuals may also be nominated. The Standing Committee shall consider all the nominations and select couples or individuals for inclusion in the Amalgamated Society, which shall then appoint a team captain. Members of the Amalgamated Society may not dance for their Member Society for the duration of the Team Match and all their results will count only for the Amalgamated Society.
2.8.1.7 All competitors in the team match must be present students.
2.8.1.8 All competitors in the team match must be members of the member society they represent, unless they have joined the Amalgamated Society (2.8.1.5), where they must be members of the society that nominated them.
2.8.2.1 The Team Events are preceded by a Team Walk-On.
2.8.2.2 The Team Walk-on should consist of the Member Society Teams being presented in the order determined by the ballot in 2.1.11, one behind the other, with a banner and announcement for each Member Society. All teams should walk on to the same music except the host team who may, if they desire, walk on to music of their own choosing.
2.8.3.1 The Team Match shall consist of two separate events, namely Division 1 and Division 2.
2.8.3.2 The dances in the Team Events are Waltz, Cha-Cha, Quickstep & Jive.
2.8.3.3 Each Member Society may enter up to four teams into the team match.
2.8.3.4 A team consists of up to four couples; each couple may compete in only one dance and only one couple from each team may compete in each dance.
2.8.4.1 If a Member Society enters one team it is called the A-team, with subsequent teams being named B, C and D-teams respectively. Only if a full team is entered may the next subsequent team be entered.
2.8.4.2 Member societies may apply to the Standing Committee for exemption from 2.8.4.1. The Standing Committee may then, at their discretion, grant conditions under which this may take place.
2.8.4.3 Member societies shall pick their best possible A-team from the couples they have available. Having done so, they shall then pick their best B-team, and so on. At the discretion of the Standing Committee, Member Societies violating this in an attempt to influence results may be subject to clause 1.4.4, or may not receive any overall credit for the results of the offending teams.
2.8.5.1 All teams are entered into a 'qualifying' round or rounds to determine in which division they shall compete. The number and organisation of rounds is at the discretion of the hosts, who shall attempt to have approximately equal numbers of teams in each division. The hosts may also offer the option for teams to skip qualifying and directly enter division 2.
2.8.5.2 All qualifying rounds must involve all four dances equally.
2.8.5.3 After qualifying the divisions are treated as separate events and proceed through to finals as normal.
2.8.5.4 Teams knocked out in semi-finals shall dance an extra round, namely the 'play-off final', where the adjudicators shall mark them as in a final.
2.8.6.1 Each couple within a team is given the same number to wear.
2.8.6.2 Throughout the match, each team's marks are treated together in the same way as couples are in open 4-dance events; all members of a team are recalled together, and placings are found in finals for the whole team. Couples within a team are not considered individually.
2.8.7 There shall be an official warm-up session in each of the four dances after the walk-on, which is solely for the couples competing in that dance in the team match. The dance floor must be cleared for each warm-up period.
2.8.8 Semi-Finals should, at the discretion of the organisers, be danced as two heats, with all dancers returning to the dance floor to dance for a short time after the second heat.
2.8.9 There shall be no dress restrictions.
2.10.6 The BDC Skating System is used to evaluate marks within each division event.
2.10.7 An overall ranking of member societies shall be obtained using the scoring system as described in Appendix C.
2.10.8 - 2.10.10 removed.
2.10.11 - 2.10.13 -> 2.10.8 - 2.10.10
2.1.5 etc. -> 2.1.4 etc.
Remove 3.17
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
| |
Feedback: 
