amateurs competing from different teacher/schools-entry form

[lemonade]

Hi,

If you have an potential amateur partner from another town and he takes classes/lessons at one studio and from one teacher and you take them at another studio with a different teacher and you both decide to try a competition, must you enter under the name of a specific school or teacher? Or can you just enter as 2 amateur people competing, and not under the name of any teacher or school? This is hypothetical, but trying to think ahead. I can see where if you make a definite decision to be partners you would need to choose a coach/teacher and take lessons at one studio maybe? But in the beginning if you are just trying it out to see, I guess that is where my question falls. In other threads I saw how some do the long-distance partnership, and for those, are they choosing one person's studio/coach over the other's? Does the other person not go to the studio in their own town anymore? Thank you everyone for any insight!

 

[DanceMentor]

I would say the competition organizer would not care all that much what you put down on the form. Potentially, they may call and ask for clarification, it won't matter much to them. They are just glad to have your entries.

 

[Laura]

Are you in the US lemonade? I ask because the two most commonly used competition software systems in the US use the information listed under the leader's school/coach/address when generating the competition program. So even if you listed a different school for the follower, it most likely would not show up anyway.

 

[and123]

Since I now train in 2 different studios, I now compete under "Unaffiliated" at collegiate comps so as not to slight either studio. But Laura is right in that when listing competitors, often the leaders' affiliations are shown, and the followers', if different, may or may not be mentioned.

 

[Standarddancer]

For most NDCA comp, they ask for studio info, but when they announce you at the comp, they only annouce the state you are from, like "so and so" from "NY" or "NJ", etc, usually don't announce which school you are trained.

I've noticed when registering MAC, now seems USA dance software O2cm also doesn't show couples' studio info in registration, only state info showing there (this is quite different from last year, last year at MAC entry, studio info were listed after couples' names, not this year). maybe to eliminate extra paper work which make sense.

The only place asking studio / school info and announce such info is college comps, so if you not sure which studio to put, or your time to be trained in each school is almost equal, you can put either school or just "unaffiliated", comp organizer don't seem to care.

 

[lemonade]

Thank you so much everyone, that is helpful. I think if faced with the situation, maybe writing unaffiliated until sure of what we might be doing together would be easiest. It is not something I have to deal with yet but I was just trying to see how people handle the forms coming from different areas and backgrounds. As always, I appreciate your input This site is the best...

 

[lemonade]

Are you in the US lemonade? I ask because the two most commonly used competition software systems in the US use the information listed under the leader's school/coach/address when generating the competition program. So even if you listed a different school for the follower, it most likely would not show up anyway.

Yes in the US...and thanks I did not even think of that, and good to know as well.

 

[JANATHOME]

NDCA comps do ask for a studio/coach name when registering as an AM. You dont have to fill it out but if one of my instuctors is there with other students and possibly could earn income for top teacher I will fill in his/her name...every entry counts.

At some of the smaller comps we have attended a student entry of the pro will gain them free access to the session. These are the only times I consider closely how to fill out our AM forms because at our level/ranking it does not much matter to the coach. A a champ level though one should give courtesy and credit to thier coach for thier training.