Simple Singles Rotation
Do you sell, have, or know someone who has a simple singles rotation
only for singles? I was looking for something for non-computer
literate people to use at our Convention.
I do not know of such a program.
However, I have two potential solutions:
- At a couple of dances in the Los Angeles area, they have a "Singles Board",
a poster-sized board with columns labeled, Boy, Girl, and Out. Each single
registers by writing their name on a 1.5x1 inch sticky tab. Someone manually
places the Boys in one column, and the Girls in another. Dancers look at
the row in which their name appears to find their partner. Prior to each
tip, one of the columns is rotated by moving the topmost item to the bottom
and shifting the other items up one column.
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You could use my SQROT rotation program as follows:
- Create a new rotation, and add four dummy couples, giving names such
as "Out1B", "Out1G", etc. These couples are all marked as Category "Angel".
- Add each single to the rotation, with their appropriate Role, and mark them
as Category "Student".
- Make sure the "Students must dance" flag is set, and also the "Angels only
dance if necessary" flag is set.
- Generate a rotation for each tip. Dancers then look at the screen to find
their partner, but they ignore their assigned square number.
- if a single is paired with an "OutNX" person, then they sitout that tip.
- This scenario has not been tested with the program, but I suspect there'll
be few problems.
