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Date Posted: 13/06/25 19:00:37, Fri
Author: See inside
Subject: For background, this rule was added one or two years ago because people complained that the WMH were not evenly split. You could end up with all the WMH in same split.
In reply to: Why you call people idiots ? 's message, "Why are WMH evenly split ,is it not a random draw all dancers ." on 13/06/25 17:09:22, Fri

Always good to know where we were before we start complaining about where we are.

They used to do the splits by birthday. The oldest half of the age group was in one split and the youngest half in the other. But, people complained about that because you could end up with a disproportionate number of the best dancers in one split.

So then they changed to random. But the problem with random is (1) you can still end up with a disproportionate number of top dancers in the same split because random is not the same evenly distributed; and (2) in an activity with a history of cheating by the adults who should know better, the lack of transparency in how the splits are done leads to suspicion that the splits are not as random as it is claimed.

So then people were complaining that all the top dancers were in their daughter’s split. (No one ever complains if the other split has all the top dancers). So IDTANA decided to address this by randomly splitting WMH between the splits. Why? I don’t know.

I’ve been a dance mom for a long time but am not in the know. But, based on what I do know, I think there are forces in IDTANA who want random and those that would like a method that is done with transparency and results in dancers being evenly split in some relatively objective manner. The random split of WMH was a good start.

MidAmerica splits are done based on previous year’s results. I never hear anyone complain about the system because it is transparent and it divides the top dancers evenly between the splits. You can end up with odd situations where one split will have 2 WMH and the other split none, but we all all know that can happen.

It seems the most transparent thing IDTANA could do would be to mimick MidAm’s system. (Or do a variation where you alternate WMH based on World’s results and then alternate the rest based on last year’s results and divide the rest randomly or by birthdate.) But those in control are unwilling to g to give up random.

I want to believe the splits are truly random but after typing all that out, it seems that the easiest thing to do would be a transparent system and the only reason not to do random is because you have the power to manipulate the splits. If those in control are not manipulating the splits, then you’d think they’d have the sense to see that random splits just cause more distrust and should be abandoned for that reason.

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