Yes, we have a competition next weekend and still don't know when the girls dance. Kinda hard to plan the rest of the weekend!
I know what you mean! My daughter has a competition that starts on Friday, and we still don't have a schedule.
Last weekend we were really on the go. DD had a competition in New Hampshire, about an hour and a half drive, one way. She also had a performance with the modern dance company that she's apprenticing with. It was touch and go for awhile because we weren't sure if it was going to be physically possible for her to attend both events. You can't be in two places at the same time.
Finally, a few days before both events, we found out that her hip hop comp team would be performing Saturday evening an hour before the start of the other dance event (which was taking place back in Maine, almost two hours driving time from the comp venue). It was not an option for her to miss the dance competition, but the studio director was fine with her missing the awards ceremony later that night.
The director of the modern dance company did everything possible in order for DD to be able to perform with them. She started the show a bit late, and put the companies pieces in the second half of the show. As soon as the hip hop comp team finished their number, DD ran backstage, changed into street shoes, and we ran for the car that my husband had already brought to the front of the theatre. We drove back to Maine and got to the theatre right at intermission. Everything went off without a hitch, and DD was so happy that she got to perform in both events.
Of course, we had to return very early the next morning to New Hamsphire. DD had a solo that was scheduled early Sunday morning, and a Trio for that afternoon.
Now, I have to say something about this particular competition. It was Showstopper, and it was the first time my daughter's studio attended one of their competitions. I really was not impressed with Showstopper. They have a wonderful website that makes it sound like a fun competition. It wasn't. There were a lot of fabulous dancers and dance numbers. No problem there. And everything went on time, and there were big, crystal clear monitors on each side of the stage. However, there didn't seem to be any excitement, for lack of a better description, particularly during the award ceremonies. It was very cookie-cutter, here's your trophy, good job, next, and so on.
There were no "fun" type of awards given out, like many competitions do, and the same woman gave out every award and said the SAME thing to every dancer. You knew she didn't really know which number she was rewarding. If it was tap, her standard remark was, "marvelous tapping!", and for hip hop, "great energy!", and so on. A lot of competitions will do things to rev up the dancers before the awards are given out. Not Showstopper.
The thing I really didn't like was the way they announced the particular placement of each number. Most competitions won't even give a 1st or 2nd place in a certain division if there aren't at least ten numbers in that catagory. In Showstopper, if you were the only person in your age group/division/style or whatever, you received 1st place. It had nothing to do with how you scored or what medal you received. But, worse than that, in my opinion anyway, was that they gave a placement to everyone. Meaning that, if there were 17 dancers in a certain catagory, the announcer would start at the bottom and announce every single placement. Do you really want to know that you're number 17 out of 17, and have everyone in the audience realize you came in last place.
I don't know, it just seemed odd to me.
Despite all that, DD did very well, earning a double platinum for her solo, and coming in 2nd in her age division, and 3rd overall. Her comp trio earned a double platinum, coming in 1st in their age division, and 2nd overall. Their hip hop number didn't do as well, receiving a gold.
That was the other weird thing. If a dancer came in 1st in their age group, even if they were the only dancer in that catagory, and despite what medal they earned, a piece of their routine was shown on the big screens when they received their medal or trophy at the awards ceremony. Yet, if you earned a double platinum and had a very high score, and you were up against a lot of others in your catagory, they didn't show any of your routine, unless you came in 1st place.
To me, it would make more sense to showcase the double platinum winners since they were the ones the judges scored high.
Geez, didn't mean to go off on a tangent! Anyway, it was a fun, but exhausting weekend, and we have another one coming up. But we don't have to try to be in two places at once this time!
ETA: I forgot to mention my thoughts on the previous post about the April Fool's joke. NOT funny!
We also found NUVO's judging to be very tough with TONS of high silvers handed out (and no DJ Picks for the entire competition). But we also thought it was pretty fair. Out of 16 dances our studio submitted, we had 10 high silvers and 6 golds, and 3 of the golds were high socres for their division! The gold dances truly earned their gold! I hope your director looks at the big picture, and really doesn't get mad. 
Thus far my younger dd, the dancer, hasn't expressed an interest in dancing in college.
