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Ballroom Dance Resource - Articles on Dancing The problem with dance judges having "one too many"...~ thanks to www.dancescape.com DRINKING & JUDGING AT DANCE COMPETITIONS (thanks to www.dancescape.com/mydancefriends) At a recent collegiate dance competition, a number of competitors witnessed judges who were pouring Jack Daniels into their cups and drinking as if they were at some bar. At another major US competition, a judge had consumed so much alcohol that he had marked the same couple into the semi-final twelve times (he was relieved from duty at that point). Here are comments from Dancers: dancer328i writes: 'When it comes to judging a competition and drinking alcohol or anything that's going to impair your judging, that's (sic) just hurts me as a competitor. It's so disrespectful to the competitors like myself, the other judges, and the sport itself.' Birdleg writes: 'I spoke with one of the other judges, who was also disgusted. He said that he spoke to the ... judges about drinking at work and was told, 'This isn't work.' Nice attitude. If you're getting paid,then it's work in my book ... If I drank at my job, I wouldn't have a job any more.' Another Elizabeth writes: 'Were they drinking enough to impair their judging abilities? I really don't think that judging is the kind ofactivity that suffers noticeably on the first drink - hand-eye coordination is probably the first thing to go.' Salome215 writes: '... I was coming back to my seat after going to the bathroom and did the 'excuse me' thing while walking past people in the row to get back to my seat. One gentleman was extremely rude; he didn't move at all and when I finally had to try to squeeze by he got pissy that I 'bumped his leg'. Imagine my surprise when, 10 minutes later, this same man got up - to judge the Latin show dances! He literally had to be helped to his feet and walked down the stairs by another gentleman, and he had to hold on to the chair backs in the front rows to get to his seat. He was stumbling drunk. And he was judging a professional event.' What do you think about Drinking & Judging? Post your comments at the DanceScape Forums, www.dancescape.com/mydancefriends or read others' comments in the 'Collegiate' section, http://www.dancescape.com |
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