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Pburgs coach has not seen them due to the fact that she did not feel there was any reason to see them. Jerry Butcher has the scoresheets becasue he is also teh athletic dir. at pburg as well as the district tourn. director. The scoresheets were given to jerry after each team was judged in a signed and sealed envelope.

I have choreographed for many of the area teams including May Valley, Allen Central Middle, and High school so I know most of AC dancers and Pburgs dancers personally. I know what each team is capable of doing and I know which team has correct technique on turns and leaps. Neither AC or Pburg have perfect teachnique. Not many teams do but the difference in the teams is Pburg has 18 dancers as compared to AC 6 so it is much easier for Pburg to hide their flaws than AC. Also when judging it is easier for a bigger team to draw in a crowd than it is a smaller team. I coached 5 teams last year the biggest team having 20 girls and the smallest having 10 and the team with 10 girls even though they were a very good team did not place as well in any of the competitions they competed at as the team with 20 girls. Now I cannot compare these 2 teams technique wise as the bigger team was elementary age and the smaller team was high school age. I am not trying to dog AC by any means like I said earlier I know many of their dancers personally I just know that teachnique wise yes they many have turns in 2nd but there is a big difference in doing them and doing them correctly. If AC dancers started taking dance classes they have the potential to be a good team they have just have a rough few years with keeping a team together due to having coaching problems. Now that those are fixed the team gets better every year. They just still have a little ways to go before they are on the same level as Pburg but they will get there eventually.