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Date Posted: 18:22:29 11/02/20 Mon
Author: Mom
Author Host/IP: 77.sub-174-224-140.myvzw.com / 174.224.140.77
Subject: Pittsburgh feis - inside
Kudos to the Pittsburgh feis organizers for making these events happen. However Sunday was a mess. All grades dancers there all day. Camping in holding rooms when it was only supposed to be a place to gather before dancing. Really wish the schedule had been set up like Saturday with certain groups coming in waves. DD dances 9 dances Saturday in 1.25 hrs (second chance). Sunday it look more than 3 for 5 dances. I hope for successful feiseanna from them in the future but I hope they also revisit the scheduling.
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Small champ competitions not running concurrently in un-airconditioned rooms. Dancers vomiting and nearly fainting from heat and exhaustion. There's a reason the region requires 10 minutes between dances. -- More, 23:22:46 11/02/20 Mon (cpe-65-189-55-125.cinci.res.rr.com/65.189.55.125)
They could have had 718OC wait in the holding room while 719OC danced soft shoe then switched off and the same for the other champ comps. (They tried to run small OC comps non-concurrently at the Celtic Fling last year too, so this is not because of Covid) The $1.00 bottles of water the Feis promised were nowhere to be found (water fountains shut off due to Covid). Parents were trying to wait in the halls, but told to wait in the holding rooms so halls wouldn't get overcrowded. Then the same parents kicked out of the holding rooms. We weren't allowed in stage rooms unless our children were dancing. What the heck!? Honestly, we regret participating. This was unacceptable.
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I'm not sure which feis this person attended, but there was no vomiting and fainting from heat exhaustion. I had multiple dancers in that room and saw no such thing! Sour grapes! -- MW mom, 17:09:40 11/03/20 Tue (ue.tmodns.net/172.58.200.152)
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My daughter hit the floor hard, knocking over a chair in the orocess and vomited into her bag while down there and that was 718OC. I brought the issue up with the committee long before awards, so sorry, not sour grapes. -- Additionally, 18:32:03 11/03/20 Tue (cpe-65-189-55-125.cinci.res.rr.com/65.189.55.125)
My daughter threw up after nearly passing out after her third round. She went down so fast a chair flipped over. It would be kind of ridiculous to make that up considering there were plenty of people in the room. A dancer in 716OC had a similar issue, also vomited and was disqualified because she wasn't able to recover in time to do her set. Another dancer got sick in a third competition, as we overheard from one of the parents helping with awards and it was her child. You don't like reading it but this sure as heck isn't "sour grapes."
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I will add, I stated heat AND exhaustion, not heat exhaustion. The first two comps one Stage 1 were very small (6 and 7 dancers) so Rounds 1,2 and 3 were bumper to bumper. -- --, 18:42:53 11/03/20 Tue (cpe-65-189-55-125.cinci.res.rr.com/65.189.55.125)
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716OC Comp. -- No name, 10:19:14 11/04/20 Wed (NoHost/64.58.253.130)
My kid was the one from 716OC, and I was the parent helping at awards. I never post on this board, but I feel the need to clarify. I will say it was hot in the room and the air conditioning could have been better, but my daughter getting sick was her own fault. She forgot to eat her breakfast because she was preoccupied practicing for the competition. She drank a bottle of water before going on stage and vomited after her second dance. This is not the fault of the feis, but of my daughter for not eating before dancing. She elected to remove herself from the set part of the competition. A difficult lesson to learn, but a lesson learned none-the less.
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I hope she felt much better after eating something. My daughter made the same mistake several years ago and in hindsight, should have withdrawn from that competition. Hindsight, LOL! -- --, 16:15:25 11/04/20 Wed (cpe-65-189-55-125.cinci.res.rr.com/65.189.55.125)
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People didn't listen -- it was insane, 12:30:38 11/03/20 Tue (dynamic-acs-24-101-120-55.zoominternet.net/24.101.120.55)
We saw families with one dancer show up with multiple family members, non-dancing siblings including little ones and yes that led to overcrowded holding rooms. I rotated my dancers between the hotel and our car yet we had to stand at the actual stages because people were camping. The volunteers could only do so much because people were not listening.
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Appreciate the effort and the opportunity for DD to perform before Oireachtas -- No name, 14:38:03 11/03/20 Tue (76-221-157-218.lightspeed.clmboh.sbcglobal.net/76.221.157.218)
We were registered for both days and left Saturday evening partially because of the behavior we saw of the people arriving and partially because DD had the run-through she wanted, so we saw no need to take the additional risk. It was a tough event to hold right now and I appreciate the efforts of the volunteers and organizers. Some families were great and compliant. Others, not so much and that puts everyone at risk.
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This should have been run as a two day Feis. They used to do it that way. -- ----, 16:46:15 11/03/20 Tue (cpe-65-189-55-125.cinci.res.rr.com/65.189.55.125)
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It was freezing in the air conditioning rooms. Stage monitors gave ample time and waited if needed. It was a lovely feis -- No name, 09:03:17 11/05/20 Thu (pool-74-98-213-102.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net/74.98.213.102)
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Our stage room wasn't air-conditioned. What stage were you at & how many were in your child's competition? Open Championship? It was sweltering where we were -- Dance Mom, 11:01:35 11/05/20 Thu (ue.tmodns.net/172.58.204.186)
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Yes same champ comp -- No name (no vomits in the vicinity/), 15:20:46 11/05/20 Thu (pool-74-98-213-102.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net/74.98.213.102)
Monitors and judges nice and waited. Judges wrapped up from the chill of the ac blowing
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Stage 1. Freezing! Lol -- No complaints and it was a 2 day feis (busted as a pot stirrer), 15:29:33 11/05/20 Thu (pool-74-98-213-102.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net/74.98.213.102)
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I am assumning she meant champs on one, grades on one -- they have done that in the past, 10:18:51 11/06/20 Fri (dynamic-acs-24-101-120-55.zoominternet.net/24.101.120.55)
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We are talking about a huge hotel facility. They absolutely have air conditioning. Maybe the temp setting was not to your preference, or needed to be cooler for a larger gathering, but to say the facility is not air conditioned is absolutely false -- was there, 16:44:30 11/06/20 Fri (pool-173-71-180-190.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net/173.71.180.190)
We attended Saturday only and typically attend all the Pittsburgh Feiseanna at this venue so we're very familiar. I thought the committee did a great job. We were grateful for the opportunity to compete in a safe setting.
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Only the dancers &1 parent permitted in the huge room -- Plenty of room/ did I mention plenty of AC to go around (The non AC post is a lie), 09:56:35 11/07/20 Sat (pool-74-98-254-182.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net/74.98.254.182)
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We were in there too and air conditioned or not, it was quite hot in the morning. I can't comment on the number of family members on sight, because frankly, I was focused on my own child. -- Just a mom, 11:10:01 11/07/20 Sat (ue.tmodns.net/172.58.207.107)
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