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NielsenE

11-25-2006, 12:54 PM

I've been trying to track down the dates of the upcoming semester's competitions in the Northeast; I tend to have an inside leg as most ask me to scrutineer several months in advance, but I'm noticing several prominent absences whose websites seem to not have been updated yet. So if anyone else can help add to this list, I'd appreciate it. Also if your school is looking to plan a competition for this spring, you might find this list useful... (Bracketed events are not collegiate events, but run by USA Dance)

East Coast Midwest West Coast
January 2007
6-7:
13-14: [MAC]
20-21: Caltech
27:28:

February 2007
3-4: Triangle Open, NC
10-11: U. Michigan
17-18: Boston University Star of the North
24-25:

March 2007:
3-4: Binghamton Iowa State
10-11: Harvard & Stony Brook
17-18: RPI/Hartwick (joint)
24-25: Holy Cross

April
31-1: MIT
7-8:
14-15: UC Riverside
21-22: [Northeast Regional]
28-29: UC Berkeley

I know Rutgers and Princeton are missing from the list, last year they held a joint event the last week in April. I know Brandeis University and Simsbury High School both explored the option of organizing a competition last year and both were targeting April dates, not sure if they're going to try again this year.

Anna

11-25-2006, 12:59 PM

Princeton and UPenn are planning to co-host a competition again, but the date is a bit up in the air since when Northeast Regionals moved, MIT moved to the date we were about to announce. (We're most likely not doing the last weekend in April since that is during UPenn finals.) This is really helpful for finding an alternative date, thanks!

Rutgers is late April. They usually don't announce their date until the spring, though.

NielsenE

11-25-2006, 01:07 PM

Oops thanks for the corrections on the co-hosts of the Clover Star Classic.

Looking at this year's schedule... I think some schools should consider looking at moving back in February for 2008. (While I've known schools to throw a competition together in two months, I don't advice it so another Feb 2007 event seems unlikely)

I think BU used to be the first week of Feb while Harvard was one of the latter weeks in Feb, which helped to space out the season. Northeast Regionals move definitely through kink into the April schedule and "compressed" the teams into March.

IlyZislin

11-25-2006, 01:14 PM

Ballroom At Maryland will have Baby BAM Jam (beginner comp for those who started dancing less than 2 years ago) in April / May (I'll find out when)

Anna

11-25-2006, 01:15 PM

Yeah, we're probably doing ours in February, hopefully 24-25 to have more time (there's some delay with setting a date since UPenn usually has a show in February and they're trying to move it to March). Northeast Regionals did affect the schedule quite a bit...ah well, hopefully it will work out!

NielsenE

11-25-2006, 01:24 PM

Normally by this point I'd also have 3-4 midwest colleges talking to me, but I haven't heard from them yet. I guess I'll change the title to 2007 Spring Collegiate comps, when I start getting those (and the date for Baby BAM Jam)... I already have two California ones to add....

Mandicraft

11-25-2006, 02:01 PM

Here's a list of the Midwest collegiat comps that we know about so far.

Feb 10th - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI - http://www.umich.edu/%7Eumbdt/home.htm
Feb 17th - Star of the North (Has both collegiate and amatuer divisions) - Minneapolis, MN - http://www.usadance-mn.org/
Mar 3rd - Iowa State University - Ames, IA- http://www.stuorg.iastate.edu/danceco/events/cbc.html

Northwestern University in Chicago and Notre Dame both usually host competitions, but we haven't heard the dates for certain yet.

LaLoona

11-25-2006, 06:01 PM

going more south:

http://www.dancingwithwolves.org/triangle/

Triangle Open in Raleigh, NC on Feb.2-3

IlyZislin

11-26-2006, 01:10 AM

Arnold Classic is March 3 and 4 in Columbus, OH

NielsenE

11-26-2006, 12:21 PM

Arnold isn't a collegiate nor a USA Dance event that draws a large collegiate crowd, right? I don't think I want to start including all competitions...

IlyZislin

11-26-2006, 11:18 PM

Arnold isn't a collegiate nor a USA Dance event that draws a large collegiate crowd, right? I don't think I want to start including all competitions...

It has a pretty good attendance from the collegiate teams (i ran registration for them last year, and can probably give you the stats, if you want).

Kitty

11-27-2006, 11:47 AM

YAY! Stony Brook competition!
Hope New York schools will support it over Harvard...
I mean Harvard was great last year, but Stony Brook is doing this for the first time ever!

Anna

11-27-2006, 07:15 PM

EDIT: It looks like UPenn/Princeton might not be Feb. 10-11...should have a date for sure by the end of the week though.

White Chacha

11-28-2006, 12:32 AM

The copy of American Dancer I got today claims the NE Regionals are on 3/23-25/2007. Is that an unfortunate print deadline or did they really change their date again?

IlyZislin

11-28-2006, 02:33 AM

The copy of American Dancer I got today claims the NE Regionals are on 3/23-25/2007. Is that an unfortunate print deadline or did they really change their date again?

Print deadline... :(

reb

11-28-2006, 11:56 PM

With the help of some friends, here is some input from the left coast:

Caltech 1/20/07 (deadline for online registration is Dec 23, 2006)
http://ballroom.caltech.edu/comp/

UCSD 3/3/07 Peter Edwards is the coach
http://recadmin.ucsd.edu/sports/teams/dancesport/

Stanford 4/7/07
http://www.sbdt.org//cardinalclassic

UCR (Orange Blossom Ball) 4/14/07
http://www.orangeblossomball.com/

UNLV 4/20/07-4/21/07 Gail Michel-Parsons is the organizer, email REBELDANCESPORT@aol.com (REBELDANCESPORT@aol.com) (http://usadance.unlv.edu/desertchallenge (http://usadance.unlv.edu/desertchallenge)

UC Berkeley 4/28/07
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/%7Eucbd/classic/2006/

UC Santa Barbara - has a team - do they have a comp (Porfirio - do you know?)

UC Irvine is thinking of starting a comp ??

Claremont College has a good formation team, Chris Witt is the coach of the formation team, email chris.witt@pomona.edu (chris.witt@pomona.edu)

ASU has about 600 members and have their own internal comp

University of Arizona Greta and Danny Carlson emails are greta@swfo.arizona.edu (greta@swfo.arizona.edu) and dwcarlson1@msn.com (dwcarlson1@msn.com)

San Francisco (Laura, Ava, Turtle ??)

Hope this will give you a starting point where you can gather more info about the West coast collegiate comps.

Anna

11-29-2006, 12:07 AM

ASU has about 600 members and have their own internal comp

:shock:

reb

11-29-2006, 12:09 AM

Please modify, improve, correct, add to the West Coast input so we get it right!

NielsenE

11-29-2006, 01:09 AM

Unfortunately the timespan for editing the OP has past so I can't edit it any more.... However all is not lost, I know another poster is thinking about harvesting it for a collegiate website that would display competitions by zip code (sort by proximity to an entered zip and date, I assume??) I don't want to out the poster in as I know how busy we both are.....

We actually both have domain names suitable sitting unused... if anyone else wants to step up and maintain some static pages for us in the interim, that would be great.... please PM me...

IlyZislin

11-29-2006, 01:22 PM

skwiggy

11-29-2006, 02:34 PM

Ballroom At Maryland will have Baby BAM Jam (beginner comp for those who started dancing less than 2 years ago) in April / May (I'll find out when)

I hope it doesn't conflict with MIT again this year. Last year we skipped the show to hurry home so we could judge the next morning. But this year I really want to stay to watch Mirko and Alessia!

Ithink

11-29-2006, 03:45 PM

Sounds like it won't conflict given the tentative dates and given that MIT is a few weeks earlier this year. I hope it doesn't conflict with Regionals...

Joe

11-30-2006, 07:21 AM

If there's a conflict, BAM is just SOL. ;)

IlyZislin

12-01-2006, 01:27 AM

I hope it doesn't conflict with MIT again this year. Last year we skipped the show to hurry home so we could judge the next morning. But this year I really want to stay to watch Mirko and Alessia!

I'm hoping to be doing the same :)

misteria

12-17-2006, 10:03 AM

2007 UPenn/Princeton Clover Star Classic is on February 24-25. I think these dates won't change anymore...

Anna

12-17-2006, 06:54 PM

Yep, it's completely set now. (We just had to change before because of conflicting with MIT.)

yanka

12-18-2006, 01:45 PM

Yep, it's completely set now. (We just had to change before because of conflicing with MIT.)

Thank you :)

NielsenE

12-19-2006, 12:32 AM

So are any NE/NY/NJ teams thinking about an event in mid april? (7-8, 14-15,21-22)? I'm feeling that the season is ending extremely early this year for me... (will be out at UC Berkely on Rutger's traditional end of april weekend)

Anna

12-19-2006, 01:38 AM

As far as I know, MIT, USABDA regionals, and Rutgers is everything for April. I'm hoping Rutgers won't conflict with regionals (I don't think they've announced a date yet? but last year they were on the 22nd or so).