This is the kind of thinking that got sports days stopped.
Competitions are about finding the best, they are not fair, the best will usually win. There will be winners and there will be losers. A 55 year old couple who have been dancing 12 months should not expect to win a competition. They should be delighted to make it through the first round against people who will have mostly been dancing a lot longer, teacher or not.
Again, wooly thinking that ultimately says that competition is evil because people are not all made equal and some will lose. MOST people will lose -
there can be only ONE winner.
If C2D really thought that people should "dance against their equal" you'd have to have a pre-competition dance to make sure everybody in every category was "equal".
Effectively, you'd have to say "you'd win this category as you're not equal to the others in it - therefore you can't be in this category". This means that the competition is to see who should not have been in that category as they've proved that they are not "equal" to the other competitors. Clearly that can not be the case, which is why I'm surprised that C2D are saying it
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