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Subject: Re: The Mother of All Proposals


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Ali
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Date Posted: 16:08:15 05/19/03 Mon
In reply to: Ian 's message, "Re: The Mother of All Proposals" on 15:38:13 05/19/03 Mon
 Fine, I agree on your point about 'not selected, tough luck', and have removed the clause allowing this.

Also the odds team as proposed is only *organised* by the hosts, i.e. they advertise it and ensure it all gets together; it is the SC who make any decisions on composition/ suitablility etc. so the exec are not involved in that capacity.

Once-couple teams are automatically out of standard, regardless of their standard! They cannot possibly get anywhere.

Apart from the biggest teams who can fill ABCD and more, *every* other team could potentially field 1-couple teams, yet some are too large/good for full amalgamation to be possible. We're then forcing the worst couple from a team to dance on their own - what does that acheive? The same argument holds for 2-couple teams, albeit less strongly. Full-team amalgamation cannot solve this - indeed, if two 3-couple teams amalgamate, then we still get a 2-couple team left over!

I'm not against two-team full amalgamation in principle - but history would suggest that it isn't going to happen. Eddie Moxey of Essex proposed this, and even he didn't use the clause the next IVDC - and his was a 2-couple team.

I understand your point on team cohesion, but I fail to see how a couple can be cohesive on their own (no filthy comments please :->) when they are guaranteed to be knocked out and will score nothing for their uni.

It seems silly to make a load of couples dance on their own with no hope and gaining nothing for their uni when we can put them together, give them some hope, some friends and for their results to count for something.
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