Top Awards
Top Teacher, Top Students and Top Studio awards are based on both entries and placements. Teachers and students must dance the events to earn points.
Teachers that dance Pro/Am and also have student couples dancing in separate amateur dance events will be awarded “coaching” points and will accumulate 1/2 points per couple. Coach MUST be identified at the time of registration.
There will be no points awarded for any scratched or missed entries for any reason.
Each entry, whether for single dance, multi-dance challenge or scholarship event is considered a single entry point.
Placement points will be awarded according to the following schedule:
- Youth events will be award 50% points.
- 1 pt per entry, no extra points for placements (1/2 pt per entry youth)
- 1-2 Dance events
- 1st= 8pts 2nd=7pts 3rd=6pts 4th=5pts 5th=4pts 6th=3pts 7th=2pts 8th=1pt plus 4pts/recall (youth events at 50% i.e., 4 pts, 3.5 pts, 3 pts, etc.)
- 3-5 Dance events
- 1st=20pts 2nd=15pts 3rd=10pts 4th=8pts 5th=6pts 6th=4pts 7th=2pts 8th=2pts plus 5pts/recall (youth events at 50% i.e., 10 pts, 7.5 pts, 5 pts, etc.)
Cash Prizes will be presented for Top Teacher, Top Studio, and Adult Pro-Am Top Student. Cash prize amounts will be determined based on event attendance.
Non-cash prizes will be presented for Youth Pro-Am Top Student, Youth Amateur Top Student, and Adult Amateur Top Student.