SDsalsaguy
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Eh?
US Pro/Am Dance Championships
- Thread starter Laura
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Wow, finally seen a listed price for this comp which is reasonable. However I know of a studio that is upcharging just for the competition a price of $15,000. Then they charge 65 an entry in addition. However they claim the studio and the teacher make no money on these; with upcharges like this someone is making money!!!
Warren J. Dew
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Well, the WDC traditionally sanctions professional titles, and the IDSF "amateur" titles. The IDSF has tried to stay as far away from pro-am as possible, so the WDC is the obvious governing body for it.
As for the event in this thread, US pro-am ballroom championship trademarks used to be held by the USBC, and they may still lay a claim to them - though it would be weaker since they now use "dance sport" instead of ballroom in their event name. Still, holding the event in France may insulate it somewhat from potential U.S. trademark claims.
I really hope that this isn't digging up and beating a dead horse, but we're "taking the kids on a field trip" soon, so I started looking for studios along the route. One had this listed on their calendar, and although I first googled the name just as they had it on the calendar, I couldn't find anything. I forgot now what I changed, but this site came up:
http://usproamdancechampionship.com/schedule.html
There's one red flag to me that jumps out immediately. This image:
http://usproamdancechampionship.com/sitebuilder/images/Charlotte_2013_1940-808x241.jpg
Strongly resembles something you'd see on the page of an MLM/pyramid/ponzi scam. Seriously? Dudes cheesing with fistfuls of money? But anyway- I am willing to reserve judgment until I can truly see one way or another for myself.
Can anyone who's been to the Nashville one give me a rundown of it? Is it exclusively pro-am, or are there also am couples? I don't want to blur lines and break rules, but we have some students interested in competing who don't want to spend quite so much money. I don't know if you're "allowed" to flip-flop between being a "pro" at this event and an "amateur" at other potential events. It might seem a little hokey, but it might also be a comparatively inexpensive way to get some feet wet.
http://usproamdancechampionship.com/schedule.html
There's one red flag to me that jumps out immediately. This image:
http://usproamdancechampionship.com/sitebuilder/images/Charlotte_2013_1940-808x241.jpg
Strongly resembles something you'd see on the page of an MLM/pyramid/ponzi scam. Seriously? Dudes cheesing with fistfuls of money? But anyway- I am willing to reserve judgment until I can truly see one way or another for myself.
Can anyone who's been to the Nashville one give me a rundown of it? Is it exclusively pro-am, or are there also am couples? I don't want to blur lines and break rules, but we have some students interested in competing who don't want to spend quite so much money. I don't know if you're "allowed" to flip-flop between being a "pro" at this event and an "amateur" at other potential events. It might seem a little hokey, but it might also be a comparatively inexpensive way to get some feet wet.
Valid point and thanks for not being preemptively admonitory and judgmental (I'm sure we all live with some pretty awkward mistakes and bad alliances that we wish we could strike from the past...) of my morbid curiosity and questioning (why don't they just do like every other small comp though, and have an am bracket too? and how can you NOT wonder when you see a site layout from 199Lame?), but in the end, the whole website and the way they assume that any teacher coming across it was interested in immediately pimping themselves out for moneymoneymoney to the point of looking ridiculously comical and desperate was a sufficiently discouraging factor.
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