What to do when you don't want to elevate level ?

[dancingirldancing]

Hi,

We have 1 more comp to win before we elevate to the next level.

Honestly, we don't want to as we want to see how we go at our current level at the big nationals in the end of the year.

We don't feel like we can be competitive in the next level yet.

On the other hand we do want to keep on doing comps big and small until then to better our floor craft and general comp skills.

There is a chance for us to place at the smaller comp and then forced to elevate.

Should we:

- Do the smaller comp at our current level and risk elevation
- Not doing comps until the big nationals
- Keep on dancing up knowing we won't win anyway so we won't risk gaining points !

What would you do ?

[Chris Stratton]

Dancing up and saving your lower level elgibility for a major comp sounds like a good idea - seems like sooner or later you won't have a choice but to dance in the higher level so might as well start getting used to it

[dbk]

Hi,

We have 1 more comp to win before we elevate to the next level.

Honestly, we don't want to as we want to see how we go at our current level at the big nationals in the end of the year.



A friend of mine was in a similar situation - about to point out, and probably going to place very well at the comp before MIT (our biggest comp at the end of the year).

He and his partner chose to dance at the higher level at the smaller comp, so they would not point, and go back down to their "real" level when there was more competition.

This was collegiate competition, so I don't know if you can do that in other kinds of competition.

[Lorelei]

Not sure if you are talking about USADance points or which. If you are almost pointed out of USADance, try competing collegiate meanwhile, or vice versa, since points do not translate between the two. If you dance higher lever in smaller comp in the same organization where you are trying not to level, you might still place well in that next level and get double the points in lower level.

[Chris Stratton]

She's in Australia.

But a correction - results from US sanctioned competitions do affect collegiate elgibility, just not the other way around. (And some of the college comps have not yet updated their rules to re-specify the import mechanism after the USA dance rule changes completely broke the illogical import mechanism that usa dance used to suggest. Other comps were already requiring that sanctioned comp placements simply be tallied as if they were collegiate comps)