Call for Step Teams

Black&BlueEnt · #1 02-16-2011, 01:25 PM

Step Teams! Greek Show opportunity in Johnson City TN on March 5, 2011... $2500 in cash prizes in the team groups... audition footage may be required. NO ENTRANCE FEE!!

Black & Blue Entertainment will be hosting a full weekend of parties and events surrounding this unique happening. Weigh-In's, Friday Night Parties, and a Vegas-Style MMA and Greek Show under the same lights... did I mention one of the largest after-parties in... the Southeast??

If you are in the Southeast, your TEAM (collegiate OR All-Star) thinks they can take the prize, and have an interest in helping set OUT the first ever MMA/Step Show, please email me at: reecekimberly@gmail.com .

Johnson City, TN is located 4 hours from Charlotte and Atlanta and an hour & half from Knoxville. East Tennessee State University is the campus that we will be pulling most of our spectators from but spread the word and bring a crowd with you. We are partnering with local hotels to provide great rates for our student and all-star Step Teams....

Get at me!!! again, reecekimberly@gmail.com or find me on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/kim.reece1

We also have an "EVENT" link that you can help spread the word to any interested Greeks:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php...19841188087715

Monarca7 · #2 02-17-2011, 10:44 AM

Yeah if you want good teams to travel you going to have give more than 3 weeks notice for shows. Just a tip You would have wanted to post this in early January.

Senusret I · #3 02-17-2011, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Monarca7

Yeah if you want good teams to travel you going to have give more than 3 weeks notice for shows. Just a tip You would have wanted to post this in early January.

Not even.

A spring step show needs to be planned in the late summer and finalized with more teams than you really need by December.

A fall step show needs to have planning start the previous April.

That sort of planning at Georgetown's step shows in the early 00s used to get us SO MANY TEAMS. And it wasn't even a competition! (That's how I met my first LSUs, MSUs, OPBs, etc etc)

Monarca7 · #4 02-17-2011, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Senusret I

Not even.

A spring step show needs to be planned in the late summer and finalized with more teams than you really need by December.

A fall step show needs to have planning start the previous April.

That sort of planning at Georgetown's step shows in the early 00s used to get us SO MANY TEAMS. And it wasn't even a competition! (That's how I met my first LSUs, MSUs, OPBs, etc etc)

You make a good point at my Alma Mater we started planning our show nearly a year before hand. I stand corrected.

Senusret I · #5 02-17-2011, 05:34 PM

Wasn't trying to correct you homie, just adding to the discussion

Monarca7 · #6 02-17-2011, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Senusret I

Wasn't trying to correct you homie, just adding to the discussion

Thanks! Sucks I know my frat would have wanted to do this. The step team is always looking for new competitions.

Daryl W · #7 03-23-2011, 10:04 AM

@Black&BlueENt....I'd say exception to this would be teams that are already set to travel and that's all they do is go around stepping in competitions. I've known several different Frat teams that do this. HOw did the event turn out for you?

DrPhil · #8 03-23-2011, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Daryl W

@Black&BlueENt....I'd say exception to this would be teams that are already set to travel and that's all they do is go around stepping in competitions. I've known several different Frat teams that do this. HOw did the event turn out for you?

Having planned a few stepshows, I can say there are really no exceptions to this. "Professional steppers" like the UnKNOWn Stepteam (who I haven't heard about or seen in years--I wonder what's up with them) have lives and aren't automatically available with a 3 week notice. Stepshow planners need to get contact info early and find out their timelines for traveling and so forth. A team might commit at the last minute but that uncertainty creates stress and places the stepshow in a negative light. It also doesn't erase the possibility that a team can have to bail on you at the last minute--even more last minute than a 3 week "hey there's a stepshow, you wanna be in it" notice.

Also, getting teams to commit with only 3 week's notice can happen if the team members are friends or acquaintances of the stepshow planners--if the planners know teams that have shows together and either don't mind traveling or don't have to travel. Again, even friends and acquaintances may have other things to do than be in your stepshow; and they may be annoyed that you waited so long to ask them.

The last possible exception can be local high school and church stepteams that rehearse often and essentially treat the last minute stepshow as they would performing afterschool or for a congregation. That is hit or miss because if those teams are horrible or bail on you at the last minute, that reflects completely on the stepshow planners. Stepshow planners are expected to think of all of the kinks and choose good teams to perform.

So, the above exceptions are so hit or miss that they aren't really exceptions. The only last minute team solicitation should be done if a team, that has already committed, has bailed on you.

BluPhire · #9 03-23-2011, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by DrPhil

Having planned a few stepshows, I can say there are really no exceptions to this. "Professional steppers" like the UnKNOWn Stepteam (who I haven't heard about or seen in years--I wonder what's up with them)

The original team retired a long time ago. There is a new squad but they don't travel like that.

DrPhil · #10 03-23-2011, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by BluPhire

The original team retired a long time ago. There is a new squad but they don't travel like that.

*cough cough*

About damn time we got rid of them.

*cough cough*

Thanks for the update.

BluPhire · #11 03-23-2011, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by DrPhil

*cough cough*

About damn time we got rid of them.

*cough cough*

Thanks for the update.

LOL

I love my frat, but yeah it was getting old.

Their legacy did open the debate about traveling step teams.

DrPhil · #12 03-23-2011, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by BluPhire

LOL

I love my frat, but yeah it was getting old.

Their legacy did open the debate about traveling step teams.

Ohhhh yeahhhhh, I remember those threads. LOL.

Daryl W · #13 03-23-2011, 11:16 PM

[QUOTE=DrPhil;2040564]Having planned a few stepshows, I can say there are really no exceptions to this. "Professional steppers" like the UnKNOWn Stepteam

In fact the Unknown Step Team was one of the groups I had in mind when I sent my reply. The Ques also used to have a team that went around steppin in shows. On the Christian front, Alpha Nu Omega has a real tight team that travels all over. I used to captain a Christian step team that traveled as well. I think with us, we only had 5-6 steppers, no props (chairs, canes, etc), single young fellas with no families, so yes, relatively short notice did not bother us if our schedule was clear. If show wasn’t within 3 hour drive, we would just pass on it.
I appreciate your feedback though, I do agree that a step show planners first option should be to contact groups months in advance, especially if a competition.

DrPhil · #14 03-23-2011, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Daryl W

]I do agree that a step show planners first option should be to contact groups months in advance, especially if a competition.

Yeah, none of the the things you listed are examples of exceptions. There are too many uncertainties (i.e. relatively short notice did not bother us if our schedule was clear) to wait until the last minute to solicit teams.

I'm going on and on about this because this issue is one of my GLO pet peeves.