2021 competition opportunities

Larinda said:
1 live competition a week.
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Wow! I’m struggling to picture a bank account full enough to feed that habit, lol! Anyway, even if money were no object, I’d never have time to wash my dresses in between comps. Or practice. Then again, if money were no object, I’d own enough dresses that I’d never have to wash them; and competing is pretty darn good practice in and of itself.

I can dream...sigh....
 
worddancer said:
Question on USDC events. What are these different Smooth titles mean? Since I'm bronze Smooth I'll just compete Tuesday?

What are these open to the world or American titles? Thanks!
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Monday
  • Pro/Am & Amateur PT/JR/YH ‘All American’ Smooth One Dance Events
  • US National American Smooth Pro/Am PT/JR/YH Championships
  • US Open to the World American Smooth Adult Amateur Multi-Dance Events
Tuesday:
  • Pro/Am & Amateur ‘All American’ Smooth Bronze One Dance Events
  • US National Pro/Am Closed Bronze American Smooth Scholarship Championships
  • Closed Bronze US Open to the World 9-Dance Championship – Smooth Dances
Wednesday:

  • Pro/Am & Amateur ‘All American’ Smooth Closed Silver & Gold One Dance Events
  • Pro/Am & Amateur ‘All American’ Smooth Open Silver & Gold One Dance Events
  • Pro/Am Open to the World American Smooth Rising Star Events
  • Pro/Am Open to the World American Smooth Gentlemen’s Events
  • US National Pro/Am American Smooth Closed Gold Championships – Smooth Dances
  • US National Pro/Am American Smooth Scholarship Championships – Smooth Dances
  • US National Pro/Am American Smooth Scholarship Championships – Smooth Dances
  • Pro/Am Open to the World American Smooth Scholarship Events
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Are you just doing closed?
 
Getting pricing on Eastern. i did SO SO poorly at that competition last year, right before the lockdowns. i need a little redemption. (also they posted almost my full mambo and used me in an ad, so i am like OH HAI YOU MY FAV ALSO) filming would be by Feb 1. the last week of Jan and first week of Feb are going to be super busy for me.
 
j_alexandra said:
Tri-State, run by the Gavrilines, is going virtual. March 19-21. Website has not been updated since last year, so don't freak if you look and it says CANCELLED in big red letters.
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Warren J. Dew said:
I can understand it, but too bad. Looks like we we'd have to travel for a real competition.
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It sounds like the decision about whether to go virtual depends on the geographic location of each comp (maybe number of new Covid cases/deaths or state and county restrictions), and/or the comfort level of the hosts, and/or the difficulty in finding enough judges willing to attend in person...what are some other factors that may be at play?

As far as I know, the Heritage is still proceeding in person (March 2-6), but they had to relocate it to Atlanta because North Carolina’s Executive Orders regarding size of mass gatherings and stay-at-home hours are prohibitively restrictive for a ballroom comp. However, there’s still plenty of time for Georgia’s rules to change before the Heritage.
 
Local studio is planning to compete in person at the Heritage the first week in March. So far, 3 students have signed up. Studio Mgr gave me the package pricing details (the studio’s package, not the Heritage package) in case I want to sign up. It is an all-inclusive package, so there are no a la carte options. One price covers everything (travel costs to Atlanta [it’s a 2.5-hour drive each way], X nights of “deluxe accommodations” at the hotel, banquet dinner each night, breakfast each morning, welcome cocktail party, admission & preferred seating to X number of sessions, souvenir program - and all of this is for student AND teacher, so you buy only one package, not two). Oh - wait. On top of the package price, the student also pays $X per dance entry (and 3 x $X for a 3-dance multi).

SERIOUSLY??? Cocktail parties and banquet dinners??? Even if I were willing to take the inherent risks already associated with attending a dance comp in person, I would not voluntarily add to those risks by skipping blithely into multiple indoor social gatherings with a bunch of strangers who have traveled in from all over the country, even if there is a mask requirement (and idk if there is. Local studio requires that student & pro both wear masks at all times, on and off the floor, regardless of what comp venue requires).

One of the 3 students who already signed up dances with my pro. :( So Pro is going to be in that high-risk environment for several days. I asked him if he will be required to quarantine when he gets back, and he said he doesn’t know (but I got the impression the answer is no). Sigh. I’m already going to miss out on lessons with him the week he’s gone, and then I also have to decide whether or not to take lessons with him for 10 days after he returns. (But I will probably sign up for lessons with a different pro during that period, or use the time for lots of extra solo practice at home.)

Interestingly, another of the 3 students who already signed up to compete at the Heritage is a retired physician, and her medical practice was in the field of - wait for it - infectious diseases. :oops:
 
ProgressNotPerfection said:
Local studio is planning to compete in person at the Heritage the first week in March. So far, 3 students have signed up. Studio Mgr gave me the package pricing details (the studio’s package, not the Heritage package) in case I want to sign up. It is an all-inclusive package, so there are no a la carte options. One price covers everything (travel costs to Atlanta [it’s a 2.5-hour drive each way], X nights of “deluxe accommodations” at the hotel, banquet dinner each night, breakfast each morning, welcome cocktail party, admission & preferred seating to X number of sessions, souvenir program - and all of this is for student AND teacher, so you buy only one package, not two). Oh - wait. On top of the package price, the student also pays $X per dance entry (and 3 x $X for a 3-dance multi).

SERIOUSLY??? Cocktail parties and banquet dinners??? Even if I were willing to take the inherent risks already associated with attending a dance comp in person, I would not voluntarily add to those risks by skipping blithely into multiple indoor social gatherings with a bunch of strangers who have traveled in from all over the country, even if there is a mask requirement (and idk if there is. Local studio requires that student & pro both wear masks at all times, on and off the floor, regardless of what comp venue requires).

One of the 3 students who already signed up dances with my pro. :( So Pro is going to be in that high-risk environment for several days. I asked him if he will be required to quarantine when he gets back, and he said he doesn’t know (but I got the impression the answer is no). Sigh. I’m already going to miss out on lessons with him the week he’s gone, and then I also have to decide whether or not to take lessons with him for 10 days after he returns. (But I will probably sign up for lessons with a different pro during that period, or use the time for lots of extra solo practice at home.)

Interestingly, another of the 3 students who already signed up to compete at the Heritage is a retired physician, and her medical practice was in the field of - wait for it - infectious diseases. :oops:
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PUsh back and ask for a la carte? i always demand a la carte. SInce i do makeup for people, i never get to eat breakfast and sometimes i miss lunch, so i don't want to pay for it. and yeah, gross who wants to have a cocktail/infection party?
 
For all you know, the retired physician may have figured out how to pass for medical personnel and gotten a vaccine. But still.... they ought to know the Pro hasn't gotten vaccinated and shouldn't go. Being medical they should have some concern about encouraging that sort of exposure.

Not wanting to go to banquets, outings and so on is one of the reasons I won't go to comps that require travel. I'm willing to go to Windy City which is a 40 minutes drive from my house (and 20 from my Mom) and Crystal Ball which is 15 minutes from my house. If it's a lot further, the whole comp experience occupies a lot of clock/calendar-time. Avoiding exposure means if I don't go out to restaurants, sitting on my dufff in a hotel room eating. That's not fun.

I can understand pros doing these-- that's how they make a living. And winning competitions is good for future business. You have to compete to win. I can similarly understand the cashier at the grocery store coming in to work and so on.

But I'm an am-- and Bronze at that. To be worth the expense, I need a comp to have additional elements of fun beyond just competing. (Comp organizers know this. That's why they have these banquets. But... well... I'm not going to them right now!)
 
ProgressNotPerfection said:
It sounds like the decision about whether to go virtual depends on the geographic location of each comp (maybe number of new Covid cases/deaths or state and county restrictions), and/or the comfort level of the hosts, and/or the difficulty in finding enough judges willing to attend in person...what are some other factors that may be at play?
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Also number of competitors expected to attend, since putting on a competition has a high fixed cost. Incidentally, this is also the reason for the emphasis on packages; the competition contract with the hotel probably includes a fixed number of banquet attendees, so that requires selling a predictable number of banquet tickets, irrespective of whether people actually go. From the studio point of view, things like the banquet are often seen as an opportunity for studio socialization. That's a big selling point to some people, not so much for others.

That said, I suspect the decision in the case of Tristate was driven most by state restrictions; last year, they cancelled only when the restrictions no longer permitted them to run the event. In the spring, the Northeast had the most deaths, and governments here now seem to be taking the politically safe tactic of repeating what didn't work then.
ProgressNotPerfection said:
As far as I know, the Heritage is still proceeding in person (March 2-6), but they had to relocate it to Atlanta because North Carolina’s Executive Orders regarding size of mass gatherings and stay-at-home hours are prohibitively restrictive for a ballroom comp. However, there’s still plenty of time for Georgia’s rules to change before the Heritage.
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I expect Georgia will also be repeating what they did before, which was remove their minimal restrictions earlier than anyone else.
ProgressNotPerfection said:
Interestingly, another of the 3 students who already signed up to compete at the Heritage is a retired physician, and her medical practice was in the field of - wait for it - infectious diseases. :oops:
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If an infectious disease expert were doing something I thought wrong in their area of expertise, I'd consider the possibility that they were right and I was wrong, at least enough to ask them for their reasoning. Maybe you've already done this, of course.
 
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