appeldance (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} appeldance) wrote,@ 2006-08-13 22:42:00 |
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Lonestar Invitational - Austin, TX
The Lonestar Invitational is an ACDA country event held in my home away from Austin, TX. It was a great weekend and pretty much everything ran n time. The only problem was the swing competition on Friday evening.
This was the first year that The Lone Star had been involved with running the swing portion of the event under the World Swing Dance Council Rules - WSDC. This allows swing dancers to accumulate points that allows them to graduate to higher categories and it keeps dancers from staying in lower categories when they should be dancing higher up! We that said the system is less than fool proof and there needs to be some sort of regional directors to oversee the comps and to insure the intentions of the rules.
There was trouble in the registration of dancers for the swing category and the contest ran over two hours behind. Some of the competitors choose to leave. Others became very agitated and tired as the night ran extremely late. I myself gave up on the contest and began the celebrate with students and friends alike. By the time the contest started everyone was a little more than tipsy. We had a good time despite the poor start to the weekend. The music for the swing contest was provided Victor Loveira and Tina .
Saturday was a much better day for The Lonestar. Pro-am contest ran on time and without incident. Later that evening was the dinner show. The show was a good length and had a good variety of dancers participating. Susan and I closed the show with our Showcase swing to "Give Me One" and it was very well received by the audience. It is always such a pleasure to perform for such a warm and enthusiastic group of people.
Saturday also included the the Jack-n-Jills and Strictly swings. I judged this portion of the weekend swing contest. It was again a little disorganized but, well attended. The scoring got a little askew. Score were not recored properly but, were later set straight. It was important for many of the contestants because they were on the borderline of having enough points to move up into higher categories at the upcoming Dallas Dance swing event. There have been many times in the past where there were scoring errors made by the event. I think that it is honorable and the right thing to do when the event makes the effort to correct a mistake when it is made.
Sunday went off without a hitch and the various dance categories Division 1 & 2 were fun to watch and judge. The day wound down and awards happened late in the afternoon.
Carolyn Wilburn won 1st overall and Becky MacCorkle got 2nd overall in her division. I am very proud of my girls:-)
The Lonestar Invitational is an ACDA country event held in my home away from Austin, TX. It was a great weekend and pretty much everything ran n time. The only problem was the swing competition on Friday evening.
This was the first year that The Lone Star had been involved with running the swing portion of the event under the World Swing Dance Council Rules - WSDC. This allows swing dancers to accumulate points that allows them to graduate to higher categories and it keeps dancers from staying in lower categories when they should be dancing higher up! We that said the system is less than fool proof and there needs to be some sort of regional directors to oversee the comps and to insure the intentions of the rules.
There was trouble in the registration of dancers for the swing category and the contest ran over two hours behind. Some of the competitors choose to leave. Others became very agitated and tired as the night ran extremely late. I myself gave up on the contest and began the celebrate with students and friends alike. By the time the contest started everyone was a little more than tipsy. We had a good time despite the poor start to the weekend. The music for the swing contest was provided Victor Loveira and Tina .
Saturday was a much better day for The Lonestar. Pro-am contest ran on time and without incident. Later that evening was the dinner show. The show was a good length and had a good variety of dancers participating. Susan and I closed the show with our Showcase swing to "Give Me One" and it was very well received by the audience. It is always such a pleasure to perform for such a warm and enthusiastic group of people.
Saturday also included the the Jack-n-Jills and Strictly swings. I judged this portion of the weekend swing contest. It was again a little disorganized but, well attended. The scoring got a little askew. Score were not recored properly but, were later set straight. It was important for many of the contestants because they were on the borderline of having enough points to move up into higher categories at the upcoming Dallas Dance swing event. There have been many times in the past where there were scoring errors made by the event. I think that it is honorable and the right thing to do when the event makes the effort to correct a mistake when it is made.
Sunday went off without a hitch and the various dance categories Division 1 & 2 were fun to watch and judge. The day wound down and awards happened late in the afternoon.
Carolyn Wilburn won 1st overall and Becky MacCorkle got 2nd overall in her division. I am very proud of my girls:-)
