USA Dance/Proficiency Points Question
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JudeMorrigan
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Good for you, CarolinaSmooth! I'm afraid I never followed up with Dapha after Nationals. I'm glad to hear she presumably hadn't gotten back to me because you had really stepped up to the plate.
Bailamosdance
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Awesome!
Daphna
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Actually CarolinaSmooth has done much of this work on his/her own. I've been a little too busy with work (that thing that keeps getting in the way of what I'd much rather spend my time doing) and haven't had time to follow up with much of anything. So many kuddos to CarolinaSmooth.
19DancerBabyLin
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holy cow tht looks amazing! props to you carolinasmooth!! i'll be keeping an eye out for that!
ChaChaMama
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+2! 
bia
Forum Master
I'm looking forward to using the database! In the meantime, I'm trying to figure my own points, and I have a few questions.
First, how does the system deal with ties? At a recent comp, we were in an event with only one other couple, and we tied for first. Does that mean that I get one proficiency point, since our placement was first, and there were two couples in the final, or do I get no proficiency points, since we didn't actually beat anybody? Similarly, what happens if we tie for last in an event that starts in a semi? In that case, our placement according to O2cm is a lower number than the total number of couples in the semi, but again, we didn't beat anyone, so it seems silly to get any points.
Second (and I swear I've seen this addressed on DF before, but I can't find it), am I right that the points are per event, even if the dances for a particular age level and style are divided into multiple events? So a bronze level dancer who dances a WQ event and a FT event will get twice as many points in the appropriate level as a gold level dancer who dances a WTFQ event? I don't see any other way to calculate it, but it does seem odd.
First, how does the system deal with ties? At a recent comp, we were in an event with only one other couple, and we tied for first. Does that mean that I get one proficiency point, since our placement was first, and there were two couples in the final, or do I get no proficiency points, since we didn't actually beat anybody? Similarly, what happens if we tie for last in an event that starts in a semi? In that case, our placement according to O2cm is a lower number than the total number of couples in the semi, but again, we didn't beat anyone, so it seems silly to get any points.
Second (and I swear I've seen this addressed on DF before, but I can't find it), am I right that the points are per event, even if the dances for a particular age level and style are divided into multiple events? So a bronze level dancer who dances a WQ event and a FT event will get twice as many points in the appropriate level as a gold level dancer who dances a WTFQ event? I don't see any other way to calculate it, but it does seem odd.
