Annual Meeting

Hosted By

Destiny Majorettes

At

Langham Community Center, School Road, Langham, Colchester. Essex on the 4th November 2007, From 3pm to 5pm

 

 

 


 

 

Agenda

                           1.    Welcome to the meeting

 

                           2.    Apologies for absences

3.    Year Review by Steve

 

4.    Rules

                a.      Judges Comments     

            b.    Comments On Guest Books  

            c.    Competition Payment In Advance     

            d.    Judges    

            e.    Sportsmanship    

            f.     Technical/artist twirls/left and right hand twirls judging

            g.     Adult Behavior (Drinking, Smoking and Bad Language!)

            h.     Baton Twirling (Unlimited Marks)

               i.        Trophies 1st - 4th ( for all sections when thee are more than 10 troupes attending) & more than just first for Drums  

            j.     Small Troupes Scoring 

            k.    Amount of Points Per Judge       

            l     Reduce times of sections to allow more variety of sections.  i.e. 1 and 2 baton routines,  other equipment 

            m   Parking at Comps

            n    Combination - should include all troupe members?

            0    Pom Pom or Cheer/Punch Pom routine?

            p    Freestyle - confirmation of what is expected and whether score sheets are correct for this?

            q    Mace Size

 

 

5.  Meeting Close

 


Minutes

Present at meeting

       Destiny,  Ipswich Gold & Whites,  Ice illusions, 

       New Horizons,  Sensations,  True Colours, 

       Illusions,  East London Royals,  Colchester Inspirations,

       Electralites,  Inspirations,  Chapelttes,  Diamond Lite, 

       CIFA,  Illusions  and  New market Hotshots. 

Apologies for absence

        Alliance, Harmony Majorettes and Felixstowe Poloz

Meeting Items

        1.   Steve welcomed Everyone to the meeting

 

        2.    Apologies for absence

 

        3.    Steve Reviewed the Year.

 

        4.    Rules

                    a.     It was decided that all comments on score sheets should be Positive and not negative or personal. constructive         

                            comments only. 

b.     Personal comments on websites/Guest Books were to be stopped.

 

c.     All payment for competition entries are to be paid in advance and not refundable. 

 

d.     Judges not to judge all day and Judge different sections i.e. Not all Seniors. Judges to offer encouragement

        and smiles to performing majorettes and not sit there looking miserable.

        

e.     All troupes must take responsibility for their own Majorettes, Parents and anyone associated to them, No

        comments about other troupes.

 

f.      Competition hosts to educate their judges in what they are judging and what is expected of them.

 

g.    All troupes to get their own troupes in order with reference to bad language, Drinking and general bad

       behavior.

 

h.    This Item would be covered when we discussed the score sheets

 

i.     When ever there are more than 10 troupes competing there must be 1 to 4 places.

 

j.     Covered in item s

 

k.    This Item would be covered when we discussed the score sheets

 

l.     Routine times will stay at 8 minutes including march on and off

 

m.   Host troupes to keep competing troupes informed and up to date on any issue to do with the competition 

                i.e.        Restricted Parking etc.

 

n.    Combination to continue with any amount of the troupe participating.

 

o.    This Item would be covered when we discussed the score sheets

 

p.    Senior and Junior Freestyle and remove Military, Freestyle not to include any dance moves.

 

q.    The correct size mace and Batons should be used, in the event of an undersize mace or baton being used 

       then no marks to be awarded.

 

r.     Judges to make sure they treat all competing troupes the same i.e. Clap for one clap for all. Host troupes to

       make sure that all judges have read judges notes and understand them.

 

s.    A new minimum amount of majorettes in a section was set to three with the acceptation of Tiny Tots.

 

t.    Ties are allowed and the host troupe to try and have backup trophies or awards in the event of a tie.

    5. The Meeting Closed at 5pm

PLEASE NOTE THAT COMPETITOR RULES AND SCORE SHEETS HAVE BEEN CHANGED.

If I have spelt anything wrong please accept my apologies and let me know and I'll correct it.