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Online Meetings
• On-line meetings are now available in
basketball and wrestling; and this
spring for track, baseball and softball.
• Plan to have all sports on line next year
• We hope you will find this to be a great
alternative to attending meetings in
person.
Complete Online Registration
Now Available!
• If you took advantage of this option –
THANKS!
• Easy and Convenient
• Saves MSHSL time and $$
• Give it a try!
Check Officials Directory
• Associations must only assign registered
judges
• Schools must only used registered
judges
• Non-registered = no contest
• Contest cannot be made up
• Be sure to check the official’s directory
after the test deadline of November 3.
Coaches Rating Judges
• Change in rating system
• Coaches will rate from 1-7 in five
separate areas
• The overall score will be the average of
the five categories.
• Several adjustments in descriptions
Rating Judges
• Judges – thanks for
entering schedules!
• Coaches thanks for
rating!
– For being fair and
objective!
• Remember that this is
a rating
– Compare to other
judges who you see
Judges Rating Schools
• Popular and useful!
• Only rate site mgm’t for home team
• Comments will be tied to the events
• Will make these more useful for schools
• Objective comments not editorials
• Comments that will help the school
Judges Rating Schools
• File Incident reports – any rating of 1
• Thanks Judges!
• Fair and objective!
School Ratings
• Composite scores available to schools
• Use for comparisons!
• Use for incentives!
• Use for recognition!
• We are making a difference!
Tournament Card
• Benefit now available to Judges
• $25 -- good at most section & state events
• Get to games and watch other officials!
• Deadline to purchase is November 24
Recruit!
• Shortages are a challenge
• Judges Recruit
• Coaches Recruit
• Former athletes/dancers
Retain!
• Key to shortage of judges!
• Coaches – treat judges with respect!
• Give positive, constructive feedback
• Lower levels
Reminder . . .
State Tournament is
February 13 & 14
at
TARGET CENTER!!
Rules & Policies
• Be aware of the official Bylaws for
Dance Team
• Be aware of the official Rules and
Policies for Dance Team
• Both are included at the end of the
Dance Team Rule Book
Rule Interpretations
• The MSHSL is the sole and exclusive
source of binding rule interpretations for
contests involving member schools.
• Questions concerning rules and their
official interpretations should be directed
to one of the Dance Team Rule
Interpreters as listed on your handout.
Minimum and Maximum
Number of Competitors
• Applies to number on the performance
floor – not to roster/team
• Minimum: HK and Jazz is 5
• Maximums: HK = 34
Jazz = 26
Minimum/Maximum
Number of Contests, continued
• Varsity Only
• Same for all three classes
• If not in compliance routine is not
scored
- does not count toward the 3-contest minimum
needed for post season.
Penalties for Timing Violations
• 1 – 10 Seconds
= 1 point
• 11 – 20 Seconds = 2 points
• 21 – 30 Seconds = 3 points
• 31 Seconds & above = 5 points
Jazz Requirement
• Minimum of one pirouette must be
performed in a jazz routine, by the entire
team, at the same time.
• Penalty – routine is not scored and does
not count as a meet
Pirouette -- Defined
• A complete turn of the body on one foot
in releve`
• The working leg must be in passe`
• Minimum of a single – OK to do more
rotations
• Performed by the entire team – all at
the same time!
2nd Jazz Requirement
• One leap or jump must be performed by
the entire team at the same time.
• Penalty – routine is not scored and
does not count as a meet
Scoring Systems
• In meets using four (4) or fewer judges,
the “C” rank system will apply.
• Tie Breaker with four or fewer judges –
add all points of the judges. If there is still
a tie, the tie stands.
• Page 41 needs to be corrected
Tab Room Personnel
• Need to have complete working knowledge of …
- each step of tabulating process
- all forms
- procedures to execute accurate and
complete results
- rules and that govern tabulators, tab
room, and the tabulating process
• Computer programs must follow the rule book
process.
Judges Area
• Judges area must be secured by a raised
barrier (“theater rope”), to keep
spectators separated from judges
• Crepe paper, signs, tape, etc. is not
sufficient
Procedural Changes
• Kick Counter/Timers will count the
number of competitors on the
performance floor
• “C” Rank System
Try-Outs
• Only sport that does this – causes
confusion
• 1 week – after state -- until June 15
• Not Required
• You can/should have additional try-outs
when the season starts
• Try-outs are for winter comp team – not
for fall “group”
Summer Waiver
• Months of June and July
• File waiver with your school
• Allows contact with your dancers during
this time
• Can request a waiver to have one public
performance during the summer
• CANNOT work on choreography/winter
dance during the summer.
Undue Influence – Bylaw 307
• You CANNOT have any type of out of
season requirements as a condition for
membership on your team
- Go to a camp or clinic
- Go to a specific studio or any studio
- Participate in fundraisers
- Attend summer practices
- Attend conditioning sessions
- Participate in fall program
Undue Influence, continued ...
• Penalty – to the coach:
- Censure
- $500 fine, 1st Offense
- $750 fine, 2nd Offense
- $1000 fine, 3rd Offense
• MSHSL Board could apply additional
penalties – for example suspension from
coaching.
Fall Programs/Groups
You MAY NOT:
• Have direct contact with your dancers
• Plan and organize programs other than
conditioning
• Select the fall team
• Set requirements for fall team members
• Attend practices
• Tell the fall coaches what to do
Fall Programs, continued
You MAY:
• Watch team perform
• Plan, organize and conduct
conditioning programs -- open to anyone
• Train fall team coaches
Same rules as all other sports!
Choreography
• Cannot work on Choreography outside of
the 2-week time frame
• Rule: May work with up to 1/3 of your
team to develop choreography beginning
2 weeks prior to the first day of practice.
• October 6, 2008
• This is an exception for Dance Team –
don’t abuse this opportunity.
Competitive Season
• They may attend studio & participate
• Dancers can PARTICIPATE, but cannot
COMPETE on a non-school team
• They may compete in a form of dance
significantly different from Jazz or HK
• Can’t be required to attend studio
• You could have your own rule to not allow
them to participate at a studio
Coaching
• You or a member of your staff cannot
coach any dancer who is part of your
grade 10-12 program outside of the
competitive season.
• Can work at a studio, but not with those
dancers
• Can work with them on dances that are
significantly different from Jazz or HK
More Information
• A new FAQ will be developed to
provide updated information in these
areas.
• This information will also be available
to your Activities Director
• Additional Information will be posted in
the Dance Team area of the League
website.
Final Comments
• When you have questions
in any of these areas work
with your Activities
Director
• There needs to be
compliance – continued
problems could lead to
changes in rules
• If it looks like a coaching,
acts like coaching and
sounds like coaching it is
coaching!
Know the Score Sheet and
Improve as a Coach!
Purpose of the Score Sheet
To provide black and white tools to judges:
• A scale which assists in remaining
consistent
• MSHSL-specific criteria to develop a score
• A scoring system to determine a team’s
rank
• Provides 10 categorical areas of feedback
from judges to coaches, which can be
used to improve the routines.
Tools of the Score Sheet
• Tool 1: The Scale
– Minnesota Average
• Tool 2: The Format
• Tool 3: The Criteria
Tool #1 – The Scale
Poor
1
2
Below
Average
3
4
Above
Average
Excellent
Average
5
6
7
8
9
10
The Minnesota Average is used to keep judges
consistent – meet to meet, class to class and
location to location. It is based on CURRENT
routines of ONLY Minnesota State High School
League teams. Out of date routines and/or teams
that do not participate in the MSHSL dance team
program, when using the scale, skews the average
and does not allow all judges in all areas to stay
consistent, one to the other.
The First Team Performs
• Judges write comments on their tally
sheet detailing the components of the
routine and how they are being
performed while watching the team
• KCTs are timing the routine, counting
kicks, watching to see if teams run on or
off the floor and this year, will start
counting the # of competitors on the floor
Scoring
• The judges look over
their notes and
record each category
score and the final
score on their tally
sheet. This can take
one to two minutes.
First Team Average
Example: 53 43 55 50 49 = average score of 50
Range of Scores: 43 – 55 or 12 Points
Optimal Range: 5 points on either side of the average or 45 -55
It is recommended that judges consider bringing
their scores within a recommended range of the
average to start the meet on scale.
Second Team Performs
• Judges record each category score and final score on
their tally sheet. They check to make sure that their
scores for the 1st two teams are on scale and reflect
what they saw.
• The 1st and 2nd team’s score sheets are filled out and
turned in to the runner.
• The runner checks to see if the team’s name on the
bottom of the sheet is correct & that the judge signed
the sheet. They run the 1st two sheets for all judges to
the tab room
• After the 1st two teams, score sheets are taken to the
tab room after each team is scored.
Score and Rank Tally
• After the score sheets are turned in, each judge
records her/his scores on a separate tally. At
the end of the meet, the judge ranks each team
on this tally, based on the score. They turn this
tally sheet into the superior judge at the end of
the meet. The superior uses it to double check
that each judge’s scores and ranks match up
with the scores on the score sheet and are
reflected on the ranking sheet.
• NOTE: Judges are not allowed to change their
scores once the score sheet has gone to the tab
room unless a score has been transposed
incorrectly.
Timing & Judges’ Conferences
• On average, the process of scoring takes
approx. 2 ½ minutes. Occasionally, a judges’
conference will be called to discuss a potential
violation or clarify a rule. Teams’ scores and
placements are not discussed. Most of the
time, these conferences take less than 10
seconds, but when necessary, the process
could take longer. Making the correct ruling is
the ultimate goal, even if it takes a little longer.
Tool #2 – The Format
• THE HEADINGS
• THE CATEGORIES
• THE CRITERIA
The Headings
• Jazz - Encompasses all styles of Jazz
• REQUIREMENTS OF A JAZZ ROUTINE:
- No more than 5 kicks above the waist performed
by the entire team while linked (connected)
- A minimum of 1 pirouette performed by entire
team at the same time. Definition of Pirouette: A
complete turn of the body on one foot in relevé.
For the purposes of this requirement, the working
leg must be in passé
- A minimum of 1 leap or jump performed by the
entire team at the same time
• NOTE: 0 has been removed from score
sheet because of new rule
Video Clip #1
3 pirouettes
by 4 team
members;
this would
NOT meet
requirements
High Kick
• Definition of Precision: Exactness - not
allowing for any variation
• REQUIREMENTS:
- 50 – 75 kicks above the waist
performed by all of the team members
• NOTE: There are no other requirements
in High Kick precision (a style of hair,
splits, movements or skills, specific
styles of uniforms, etc.)
The Categories
• Ten, 10-point categories = 100 points
• Percentages are easy to understand and
compute.
• Each category is 10 points and the scale
does not change.
• Balance: The routine that has the greatest
balance is rewarded in this score sheet. A
team cannot be proficient in just one area.
The Criteria
• Specific to MSHSL
• Categories have specific criteria elements
• Balance of Objective and Subjective
Criteria
- Objective criteria rewards proficiency
- Subjective criteria allows for creativity
What is NOT on the Score Sheet?
• Any criteria that isn’t already written on the
sheet
• Written feedback – The scores are the team’s
feedback.
• The uniform – only the following items should
be considered:
- Are the uniforms in compliance? (This is not
judged in the score sheet.)
- Have the uniforms stayed in place? If not,
they are scored down in Presentation.
(continued on next slide)
What is NOT on the Score Sheet? (cont.)
- If the uniforms are designed for visual
effectiveness, i.e., color blocking or thematic,
have they been utilized effectively? (If this is
a consideration, it is a SMALL consideration
under visual effectiveness.)
• The uniform is not judged in any other respect
• Individual value systems or moral guidelines:
There are no criteria for appropriate moves,
song choices or uniforms. The requirement
for teams is to have the music, lyrics, routine
and uniform approved by their AD.
Jazz Category Highlights
• Criteria elements are not listed in order
of performance
JAZZ SKILLS:
– TECHNIQUE OF TURNS
– TECHNIQUE OF
LEAPS/JUMPS
– DIFFICULTY OF SKILLS
Video Clip #2
Turn Segment
Execution
• PLACEMENT, CONTROL & UNIFORMITY:
Criteria to Remember:
– Consistent strength behind movements
– Use of proper technique
• DEGREE OF ACCURACY:
Timing - Memory - Spacing
Choreography
Includes two separate categories
– First 2 Categories:
Visual, Creative and Practical
– Second 2 Categories:
Difficulty
Choreography
DEFINITION FROM WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY:
• Choreography - art of planning or
executing dances
• Choreography is an “ART,” thus more
subjective allowing
for greater creativity
Video Clip #3
Arm/Block Formation
Choreography
VISUAL EFFECTIVENESS & CREATIVITY
PRACTICALITY OF CONTENT
Video Clip #4
Good use of ripple
Difficulty
DEFINITION FROM WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY:
• Things that are hard to do or
understand; hard to deal with or satisfy
DEFINITION OF DANCE TEAM DIFFICULTY:
• Level of skill in which choreography is
planned and executed
High Kick Highlights
KICK TECHNIQUE:
• No kick difficulty considered in this category
• No height considered in this category
HEIGHT, PLACEMENT & TIMING :
• All three criteria items are equally weighted
DIFFICULTY OF KICKS:
• A difficulty category - technique is only a
small element (continued on next slide)
High Kick Highlights, continued
More Difficult kicks:
• Kicks that require a quick rotation of hips,
i.e., full fans, screw, x-over, reverse fans
• Kicks that require different muscle use,
strength & control – hinge, reverse hinge,
battements (note: battements in place are
harder than moving forward)
(continued on next slide)
High Kick Highlights, continued
• Elements that can increase difficulty are:
- Movement: moving the kicks (harder kicks
are harder to move)
- Fill between kicks: Footwork, Leaps/jumps,
Turns
- Arms: unconnected kicks, change in arm
positions (arms over head, rockettes)
- Combinations: Combining difficult kick
elements
- Pace of kicks
- Long segments of kicks, distribution of
kicks, variety of kicks
Choreography
• PRACTICALITY OF CONTENT: Two
differences in practicality HK vs. Jazz
• Precision Style Used – Elements that
cannot be executed in precision style are
a practicality error
• Height Line/formations are balanced –
Varying heights, especially in kick
segments, are a practicality mistake.
(This can also signal a lack of intricacy in
transitioning)
Difficulty of Formations and Transitions
DEFINITION OF INTRICATE:
• With many parts artfully combined; complex
and difficult; having many interrelated
elements, parts or factors
HELPFUL ANALOGIES:
• Corn maze – can’t get from here to there
without following a logical path
• Kaleidoscope effect – changing the look
with a minimum of movement or a logical
blending of one look to another
Difficulty of Formations and Transitions
(continued)
SIGNS OF LACK OF INTRICACY IN
TRANSITIONS/ FORMATIONS:
• Dancer(s) drag attention as they are
transitioning
• Height line or formations are not balanced
– height variances are obvious
THIS IS A THOUGHT CATEGORY
Presentation
COMMON PRESENTATION ERRORS:
• Loss of Stamina – posture, timing and
placement suffers
• Over projecting to the ceiling or under
projecting to the coach, etc.
• Facial and Vocal breaks in unity
– Open mouths, making faces, winking,
sticking out tongue, head shaking
– Singing, screaming, talking to each other,
swearing
Presentation, continued
• Good recovery from mistakes does not
gain points – Bad recovery could lose
them
• NOTE: Presentation should be
choreographed –
just as the rest of
the routine is
Video #5
Presentation
Score Sheet Training Disclaimers
• All video excerpts of routines are used for the purposes
of illustrating specific examples. They do not, in any
way, define the proficiency of a team and are a small
excerpt of one section of one routine at one given meet.
Routine video was selected based on its ability to
illustrate specific criteria and not for any other reason.
• This is a brief overview of the score sheet. The training
is not all encompassing. Dance team is an art form,
thus, there are objective AND subjective criteria.
Coaches should make choreography decisions based on
their knowledge of the score sheet criteria, their team’s
strengths and weaknesses and the feedback they receive
via the scores rendered by officials.
Reminders
• Coaches Coach
• Judges Judge
• Respect the difficult
job you each have
• Not adversaries
• You are on the same
side!
• To serve kids!
Keep Working to Improve!
We are Making Progress!
All events a positive
experience!
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Judges
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Test Code from the Rules
Clinician before you leave!
• You must have this code in
order to take the on-line
test!
• Tests must be completed
by November 3!!
Coaches
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attendance code!
• Go on line and register
your attendance!
• Deadline is Nov. 3!
• Remember to pick up
the sheet!