Sorry, but I don't see your reasoning here. For example - suppose 80 intermediate, 20 advanced, and a max of 10 competitors on the floor at once. Old way: 8 intermediate heats, 2 advanced heats. New way: 10 first round heats, 10 second round heats, plus at this stage all you've done is work out who your 20 advanced dancers are, so you need another 2 heats there to get to the same point (ready for 2nd round of advanced). That's 22 heats instead of 10!Originally posted by Andy McGregor
The difference would be that you wouldn't have separate rounds for the first heats of the intermediate and advanced so there would be a saving there.
The only way you're going to get a "saving" is to (as you suggest) "pack them in"; but as you could (and to some extent in practice do) do this in the current system anyhow, it's not going to help much...
Dave
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