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Date Posted: 23:16:19 07/05/24 Fri
Author: Much more inside
Subject: These dancers don't want to enter Adult Championships but feel this is their only option to remain competitive. These dancers would love nothing more than to compete against dancers their own age and have world qualifying opportunities.
In reply to: Give it up 's message, "To “here’s a question” -some dancers have recently WQ’d and now are in AA with much less experienced dancers? Why go to AA?? To place or win? Doesn’t seem right? Why not over 25 OC group, leave the Adult comps to those that haven’t danced in 5+ years and/or truly “adult” dancers. Just seems sad and another way to get money." on 21:20:35 07/05/24 Fri

It is ridiculous that CLRG has single age groups, one double age group for ladies, and then lumps every other dancer into a senior men or senior ladies category. People would lose their minds if we pitted 12 year olds against 17 year olds, yet we expect dancers in their late 20s, early 30s, and older to go against dancers 5, 10, 15, or more years younger than they and not have an issue. There is no reason that an organization that crowns two dozen different world champions each year can't add a few more men's and women's age groups to promote competitive dancing at the highest level for everyone.

Styles evolve as people age. Under 8 dancers look way different than under 12 dancers, who in turn don't look like under 16 dancers. A 30 year old won't dance like a 20 year old yet is expected to compete against one. Between the senior entries and adult entries at NAIDC, there could have easily been an under 30 and over 30 age group added with a brilliant standard of dancing. These dead-end competitions that you don't have to qualify to and cannot qualify from is just insulting but is the only option for dancers who want to remain competitive.

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