As a kind of tangent - how do people think that the now established more frequent larger events could differentiate themselves/develop? Or is the current format/style acceptable to keep on using?
I've just thought of another point, as far as I can see, all the weekenders end up being sold out? Please can someone correct me if I'm wrong
So there's obviously a market for them.
I think there would be a lot of disappointed people, now they've had a taste of them and got used to booking a few a year, if the choice (and the amount) of weekenders was cut down again.
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As a kind of tangent - how do people think that the now established more frequent larger events could differentiate themselves/develop? Or is the current format/style acceptable to keep on using?
I think there were a few spaces at Breeze in 2010
but that may have been due to the 2009 web page showing up on some search engines, which said it was fully booked, when in fact here were spaces
Franco's weekend, the month before, at Sand Bay, did not sell out, but it was very poorly advertised
RB weekends do not always completely sell out ( but single rooms are taken a year in advance )
I think the last two Holiday Rock, Twixmas events, did not completely sell out
but I don't think I heard of an event being cancelled, due to a lack of punters
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Blimey, it's taken you 5 years to figure that out?
My opinion is that weekender help improve people's dancing at the weekender - people get an immediate lift from being surrounded by dance, and focussing on it.
But, I also think that some or all of that improvement is subsequently lost afterwards - that's based both on my experience and comments made by others. In that way, you could think of weekenders as 1 big 72-hour class - you improve during the class, but unless you retain and internalise the improvements, you lose them afterwards.
Dropping the stupid names would be a good start.
To be fair, there's inevitably a limit to how much one Ceroc weekender at a Pontins site can differentiate itself from another Ceroc weekender at a Pontins site. And Ceroc have made some efforts to give each one a distinct identity - The Blues One, The One With The Spacehoppers, and so on.
Bottom line, people are happy with what they have at the moment - they know what they#re going to get when they book a Ceroc weekender, and adding too much variation might put people off. I agree with Lory about the improvements in conditions; I'd just like to see more competition with Ceroc in the large-scale weekender market, to keep this improvement going.
Being ever so slightly controversial , IMO, the worst scenario is when a weekender is the week before a comp.. all the serious dancers turn up in practice mode
It seriously changes the atmosphere, to the detriment AFAIC
Camber seemed to have retained all the 'fun' dancers, who's 'first love' is social dancing
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Blackpool date for next year is w/e of 3rd March - so if Camber is 2nd w/e in March again, then this shouldn't be a problem.
Having said that (remember my comment was before the event), didn't feel there was any fun lost by those who chose to go to Blackpool being missing at Camber
I just make them up, of course. I was not talking specifically about Ceroc weekenders, I was just referring loosely to events I have been to in general which have included a couple of Ceroc weekenders. The first one was great, the second one had a lower attendance level and a high proportion were relatively inexperienced dancers. I can dance with them nearer home, so that weekender was not worth the effort and cost to me. It did seriously put me off going to another one.
My experience of weekenders with such small numbers is that after discounting the leaders that I don't really want to dance with and the onesOriginally Posted by David Bailey
that don't really want to dance with me (and I would be amazed if half fell into the "good dancer" category, what about the natural distribution curve?) there just aren't enough left to keep me busy enough - the first night is fine, the subsequent nights may get repetetive.
Straycat's point about the advantages of smaller venues/numbers is good - i would agree but only where individual freestyles are concerned, for a weekender i want more, the full experience.
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