CHEERDANCE MECHANICS & GUIDELINES

1. The competition will be held on August 26, 2017, at Global Reciprocal Colleges 6th Floor. Call time
for the participants is at 7am. The team captains from the participating section shall draw lots to
determine the sequence of actual performance. Late teams shall automatically be scheduled first in
the order of performances.
2. The entire duration of the performance must not exceed six (6) minutes, exclusive of 30 seconds
pre-setting and 30 seconds exit/pack-up and clean-up.
3. The routine parameters:
The routines are cheers or yells, creative dance or gimmickry and the cheer-dance routine piece.
The evaluation of the cheering will not be judged as a stands-alone element rather as part of the
Overall Impression Category.
A minimum of 4 minutes and a maximum of 6 minutes excluding the preparation, entrance and exit
are given to each performing team. Timing starts at the first obvious moment or sound and ends
when the end of the routine is obvious to the official timer.
4. * Cheers/chants must be yelled by the dancers live (not pre-recorded).
* Creative dance is any dance performance accompanied by pre-recorded music geared towards
entertaining the audience
* All routines must be appropriate for family viewing. Any vulgar or suggestive movements, words, or
music may result in disqualification. Uniforms must also be decent.
5. Criteria for judging:
1. TECHNICAL SKILLS
a. Degree of difficulty 15 POINTS.
b. Dance technique 5 POINTS.
c. Gymnastic skills 5 POINTS.
d. Pyramids 15 POINTS. (Maximum of 2 levels)
2. ROUTINE
a. Synchronization 10 POINTS.
b. Safety 5 POINTS.
c. Choreography 10 POINTS.
d. Energy and Projection 10 POINTS.
3. CHEER AND YELLS
a. Audibility and Volume 10 POINTS.
b. Content 5 POINTS
4. OVER-ALL IMPRESSION
a. Audience Impact 5 POINTS.
b. Showmanship 5 POINTS
TOTAL 100 POINTS
6. A panel of judges shall determine the winners based on the foregoing criteria. Any violation of the
foregoing rules may be used as a ground for disqualification or otherwise cause the appropriate
point deduction on the final score. The decision of the panel shall be final.
 CRITERIA FOR JUDGING

TECHNICAL SKILLS ROUTINE CHEER AND YELLS OVER-ALL IMPRESSION

(35%) (35%) (15%) (15%)
a. Degree of difficulty 15 a. Synchronization 10 a. Audibility and
POINTS. POINTS. a. Audience Impact 5 POINTS.
Volume 10 POINTS.
b. Dance technique 5 b. Safety 5 POINTS. b. Showmanship 5 POINTS
b. Content 5 POINTS
PARTICIPANTS POINTS. c. Choreography 10 TOTAL
c. Gymnastic skills 5 POINTS.
POINTS. d. Energy and
d. Pyramids 15 POINTS. Projection 10
(Maximum of 2 levels) POINTS.

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