DC Diamond Circulate Final Statistics

[bjarvis]

I couldn't sleep after 4am so I thought I'd do something seriously mind-numbing in the hopes it would bring on sleep. It didn't work, but I'm largely done the final reports I need to submit.

We had 878 paid registrants, including 39 first-time attendees and 18 day-trippers. This doesn't include the 12 calling staff, their spouses and four audio & flooring staff.

Canada	58
Denmark	2
Japan	4
USA	814

Male:	702
Female:	174
Trans: 	2

MS	42
Plus	196
A1	20
A2	260
C1	136
C2	86
C3A	32
C3B	24
C4	18
non-dancer	54
Unspecified	11

All Join Hands		1
Anywhere Squares	3
Bloomin Squares		2
Boots In Squares	14
BOQ			1
Boston Uncommons	4
Cadillac Squares	7
Capital City Squares	4
C-Dogs			4
Champlain Valley Rainbow Squares 3
Chesapeake Squares	32
Chi-Town Squares	37
Cleveland City Country Dancers	11
DC Lambda Squares	78
Delmarvalous Squares	4
Desert Valley Squares	5
Diablo Dancers		16
Edo 8s			3
El Camino Reelers	33
Finest City Squares	20
Foggy City Dancers	4
Gateway Squares		6
Golden State Squares	12
Grand River Squares	6
Heads to the Center	4
Hotlanta Squares	23
Independence Squares	40
Indy Tri Squares	1
Iron City Squares	6
Lilac Squares		2
Lone Star Lambdas	4
Midnight Squares	20
Oaktown 8's		3
Ocean Squares		1
Ottawa Date Squares	6
Prime 8s		6
Puddletown Squares	18
Rocky Mountain Rainbeaus 32
Rosetown Ramblers	16
Sho-Me Squares		4
Shoreline Squares	3
South Florida Mustangs	4
Squares Across The Border 22
Suncoast Squares	5
T Squares		5
Temple Squares		4
Times Squares		50
Tinseltown Squares	13
Triangle Squares	27
Western Star Dancers	18
Wilde Bunch		17
No Affiliation		214

Comments

[steven-homer.livejournal.com]

It sort of surprises me that there were 214 there with no club affiliation. Also, I can only think of 12 Wilde Bunchers. I wonder who the other five were.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

The IAGSDC web site will list someone as "No Affiliation" unless they explicitly select a club, even if they have a club in their profile. It was a design decision to allow people with multiple club memberships to select their preferred association for a given event, but it does have the side effect of exaggerating the unaffiliated count. I can fix these for the people I know but the SF Bay area dancers are beyond my ability to reconcile.

The web site also marks everyone as female by default; there are a number of guys who would be surprised by their sudden sex change in the records, although I've cleaned up most of those.

As for more larger numbers of Wilde Bunch folks than one might expect, I see this for some other clubs as well. I'm guessing some folks still think of themselves as belonging to a club even if their membership has long since lapsed.

[steven-homer.livejournal.com]

"[T]he SF Bay area dancers are beyond my ability to reconcile." I think everybody thinks that. ;-)

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it!

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

The bay area dancers define dance-polyamory!

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

There are 16 of us in the club photo; only Alan Martinez was missing that I know of. I counted 17, too.

Danny's working on the website registration fix so that people have to claim at least one club affiliation and dance level (real or aspired to). From what he told me, there were hundreds that registered that didn't choose a club/level by accident, since it wasn't a forced choice.

[steven-homer.livejournal.com]

Now I remember who they were, looking at my club photo. Boy, we really need to circulate a memo about wearing club shirts in those pix.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. Kinda didn't happen this year. Next year, my understanding that the 2010 model of the WB club shirt is a bowling shirt.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Because of where the halls were located in relation to each other, I had the perception there were LOTS of dancers around all the time. Even the MS hall was full frequently because of it's location in relation to where dancers first encountered. Excellent decision!

I remember when I went to the straight nationals in Denver in 2004, there were vast areas that just felt empty inspite of 7,000 being registered. I think 50% of the people just traveled there to tour around and not dance at all--maybe a random tip or two here and there to say they did. Our convention in DC? Just the opposite.

Chicago can certainly look to the scheduling and hall location of DC as 'best possible world so far' model. Caveats of course are that there are very few dancers in the early morning and at mealtimes, and the Specialty tips looked like they got a bit out of hand! But if anyone felt they didn't have ample opportunity to dance and didn't, it's their own fault!

Next year, you'll be able to enjoy Chicago I daresay!