| When: | June 17th, 2006 |
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| Previously Reviewed: | 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 |
This feis graduated to the "Recommended" list this year due to continued outstanding grades. Improvements made from last year have only confirmed the wisdom of my decision:
- Last year's location within the Exposition Center was used far more intelligently. The partition from last year was removed, three of the stages were set up where the vendors were last year, and the vendor's area was set up between the stages. There was a little bit of crowding getting around stage 3 because people set up camping in the area between its public seating and the vendor's area, but this can be remedied by designating camping areas.
- The inclusion of a pizza vendor in the lobby was very popular with the feisgoing public, and gave more options for lunch than the normal feis fare. Having said that, they ran out of breadsticks awfully early.
- The stages Clan Seger was watching (4, 5, and 7) rocketed along all day. We were done for the day and leaving Louisville before 3 PM. Had Devonna and I danced, the kids would have been done well before we would have been.
If there are any more improvements they could make, they would be as follows:
- The main reason more adults did not compete at this feis were because the committee had been encouraged to interpret the Midwest Standard Syllabus as only allowing two levels of adult competition. They should reconsider this.
- A lot of competitions which had been run in previous years (Parent/Child, soda bread) were missing this year.
- I read complaints online about the Prelim/Champ stage not finishing until after 6 PM. There were enough extra adjudicators and musicians available after all the other stages had finished (approximately 2 PM) to allow moving competitions over to stage 7, which was the biggest of the non-championship stages. Why is moving competitions at the end of the day such a problem for this committee?