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Proposal: Entry limits at contests

Details: Contests will be categorized into 3 categories (small, medium, large), based on the location and venue available. Small events (at local venues w/ seating of 5000 or less- your typical high school show) would have a limit of 12 corps entering the contest, medium events (at large HS/small to medium college or municipal stadium- think any Texas show, Walnut CA, etc) would have a limit of 16 corps, and large events (any venue over 20,000, think the Bowling Green KY CLASS show) would have a limit of 20 corps. Entry would be on a first-come, first-serve basis, regardless of division. Separate World and Open/A class shows would still appear on the schedule as focus shows for the purpose of Sweepstakes points and establishing finals week seeding; there would be no limits on attendance at these shows.

Rationale: One of the "problems" we've always seen is the issue of trying to make the tour schedule more realistic, and 30-40 corps at a show is just not realistic. I've tried to address this in past seasons by simply adding more events to the calendar, but what usually happens is "Show A" has 25 corps and "Show B" has 5. With attendance limits in place, we could have more balance at various events.

Since there is no longer a "minimum" number of shows that corps need to attend to be eligible for spots in finals, extra caption points, etc as in past seasons, the issue of being limited in the number of shows you can potentially attend is reduced.

Example:

Schedule for Wednesday, Jan 15th:

Tour schedule:

East: Newark DE (large), Orono ME (medium)

Midwest: Fairfield OH (small), Carbondale IL (medium)

West: West Covina CA (small), Hillsboro OR (medium)

South: Huntsville AL (large), Melbourne FL (small)

Effect on the activity: Would diminish size of individual shows, which would be balanced by increasing the number of shows available. This would require a bit more programming by "The Management" on the front end, but not much beyond that. Would allow us to do "regional-split" touring as we've done in the past (ie having more shows in New England, doing both a California and Pacific NW tour simultaneously, etc).

Proposed by: Matt Briddell, director of Kadence

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Kadence- Yes.

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Glory of Music - Yes

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Yes.

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Hell, yes!

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