Just to be pedantic for a moment, you've said 3 or 4 then listed 5 events and you missed out the Scottish Ceroc Champs on the 18th October (I thought we'd better mention that as this is their Forum ) so that makes 6.Originally posted by Gus
ODA feeling the need to sound off:reallymad :reallymad :reallymad
If my ageing memory serves me right we now have about three or four Modern Jive champs that in some way or other puport (either explicitly or implicitly) to produce 'National Champs'. Let me see, there is Blackpool (C2D), Hammersmith (Ceroc), Jive Master (Ceroc Metro), Bristol (LeRoc), Brighton (LeRoc) ... have I missed anyone out????
At the end of the year, how many couples will be splashing across all their publicity material UK CHAMPS!. I'm already a bit tired of every and anyone promoting a course, club or holiday including a refernce to being a Dance Champion .... just how many are there????
Any comments? (having lit touchpaper, stands back for flaming )
I gave this matter a lot of thought before organising a competition myself. Is there room for another competition? What do you call the winners? Will anyone come? Will I have a good time? Will anyone else?
When I looked at what we've got down here in the South-East we've got Ceroc running 2 competitions and no others being run at all. For an independent event we need to go to Blackpool (which was brilliant even if I didn't win) and Bristol (which for me clashes with Cowes Yacht Racing Week and probably clashes with quite a few other people's holidays as well). But both of these are a bit of a trek so I suppose geography has played a part in the decision to hold a competition in Brighton.
Then, if you're inviting people from all over the country you have to call it a 'National' competition. Which means your champions will be National Champions. And why not. They've won a competition in a fair (hopefully ) contest. Anyone who's won a competition is going to be good (regretfully, better than me - and probably you, Gus) so you would hope that you could learn something from them if they use their title to promote their courses.
I can't imagine that more people are running courses than before just because there have been dance competitions. But if we know nothing about the person running a course except they've won a dance contest we have some idea that they can dance - although we still don't know if they can teach
Personally, I can't get enough competitions. On most Sundays I'm out Sailing in regattas and quite a few Saturdays too. Loads of people play football/squash/cycle/run/etc/etc every weekend. Our children compete in sport, music and dance festivals all over the place. We've got just 6 dance contests to choose from in the whole year, that's just one every 2 months. If I could I'd enter all of them - and win none of them but have a great day out with like minded people from all over the country
p.s. I'd love to say I win elsewhere but my sailing team have only won twice in the last 2 years and scores of races. And one of those was 'Best Dressed Crew' - as wardrobe mistress I was so proud.
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