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🤠Competition Process Video🤠

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STEP 1: Register for the competitions

• Register for your desired competitions early—tickets sell out fast!
  If entries are sold out, grab a waitlist spot if available. Those who already have a weekend pass or are on the waitlist will be the first to be contacted if more competition spots open up.

• Tip

  • Line dance competition choreographies will be released 6-8 weeks prior to the event.  Make sure to put ample time and practice into knowing the routines well and practicing ways to make the dances uniquely yours!

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STEP 2: Check in at event

• Once the Event starts, always listen up for any announcements from the Event hosts regarding YOUR competition or all competitions, since there are usually changes somewhere along the way in scheduling or whatever else.  Be adaptable and flexible for that.There is a check-in station near the entrance where people can be assigned a bib number to put on their back or rear of clothes, along with 4 pins, so just save all that for the day of the competition. 

• Tip

  • Many competitions require the dancer's number be on their back.

    • Partner Dance Follows- Lower Back 

    • Partner Dance Leads- Upper  Back​

    • Line Dancers- Backside

 

STEP 3: Attend the Competition Meetings

• If you're competing for the first time, attending the pre-competition meeting is required. A judge or host will guide you through everything you need to know—judging standards, procedures, and what to expect throughout the competition—so you feel clear, prepared, and confident. If you’re a returning competitor who has attended a meeting at a previous event, you are not required to attend again—but you’re always welcome to join for a refresher or to ask questions.

• Tip

  • While we won’t always have real-time updates on timing during these meetings, they’re the best way to ensure you understand expectations and are set up for success.

 

STEP 4: Be in attendance for your heats

• Make sure to stay close or on the competition holding area so that you get proper directions and don’t get disqualified.  This is also a valuable warm up time when practice space is provided.

• Tip

  • If you need to leave the practice space, make sure to inform a floor Marshall and the people around you so that if your name is called you can be accounted for.

 

STEP 5: Line Up & Take the Floor

• The competition marshal will have you line up by order of your numbers.  It’s VERY important that you stay in line and ready to enter the floor.

• Line Dance Floor Etiquette

  • The “Floor Wrangler” will guide you into how many lines to create on the floor

  • Prelim Details

    • You will likely dance between 1:20seconds to the full song. Be ready for dancing the full song.

  • Semi Final Details​

    • Prelim songs will be utilized for this round. You will likely dance between 1:20seconds to the full song. Be ready for dancing the full song.​

  • Finals

    • Finalist will dance the full song of each finals routine in their respective division. 

• Tip

  • As the Floor Wrangler walks the competitors around the dance floor, smile and wave and be cheerful.  Your other competitors need you to be happy so that they can have confidence dancing with you too.

 

STEP 6: Be Aware of expectations while on the floor

• All competitors will be asked to turn to face their numbers towards the judges. The judges are trained to make their rounds to make sure each dancer gets seen by each judge. 

• You must wait to be dismissed before leaving the floor after a competition.  We want to make sure that the judges see all the competitors equally to make the best judgments.

 

STEP 7: Stay tuned for call backs

• Once the competition is complete, there will be announcements concerning who made it back to the next round.  If your name/number is called, you MUST repeat steps 2-5.  There will typically be 2 “alternates” who will be called in to compete if any of the semi-finalist/finalists do not show up on time.

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STEP 8: Stay tuned for awards

• Awards will happen Sunday during the concerts. It’s important for all finalists to be in attendance.​