1. Deadline for registering:
The deadline for registering is March 6, if you are not paid up by then, you will owe an additional $50.00.
2. New Rules for 2012:
There are new rules to qualify - In addition to dancing in an NQE with the same partner in the same events, this year you must also achieve a ranking of 75% or above, in the events you'll be competing in at Nationals based on the number of couples who danced in the event at the NQE.
3. Costume Checking Station:
All Pre-Teen, Junior, Youth and Adult syllabus proficiency level dancers will have to have their costumes checked prior to picking up the registration package. You will not be able to pick up your registration packet with first checking in at the costume station and signing the anti-doping forms.
4. Please make sure that you have a current USA Dance membership card. We will be charging an additional $5.00/membership if we need to fill one out at the event.
5. Image Release Statement:
Portions of this event may be filmed and/or photographed by USA Dance, Inc., its agents, various
local and national TV stations and print media, and/or other third parties. Since there is no way of
knowing what audience, background or competitor shots/footage will be utilized, it is considered
that everyone who attends or participates in these events, by their presence, has consented to the
use and release of any image and their names to identify those who may appear.
No payment will be made to you for the use of the images taken of you.
For the purposes of USA Dance’s mission, by entering this venue, you give USA Dance the right
to use, publish, reproduce, modify, adapt and distribute your image at any time in any manner or
medium, including without limitation use in print material, presentations, the internet, television,
mailed promotions, exhibits, and press releases. USA Dance may publish the images with quotations
provided or submitted by you. You agree that USA Dance does not need your consent or approval
of the finished product or products and the copy or other matter that may be used in connection
with the images, or the use to which the images might be applied. You further agree to release
and discharge USA Dance, its agents or third parties and all persons acting under USA Dance’s
permission or authority from any liability by virtue of any blurring, cropping, distortion,, alteration,
optical illusion or use in composite form, whether intentional or otherwise, that may occur or be
produced in the taking of the images or in any subsequent processing of the images, as well as
any publication of the images, including without any limitation any claims for libel or invasion of
privacy.
Unless you inform USA Dance otherwise, the Release Statement shall cover any and all such
images. If any person has an objection to the possibility of being seen in a photography, video, film
or television production, it is advised that you do not enter the ballroom.
Thank you, and we are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
© Photos Carson Zullinger
