I will take a stab at this....

I am a teacher who doesn't let my students enter Miss Maj or Beg/Int pageant if they aren't going to AYOP. There is no need to win it if you aren't going to represent it.

I also encourage my students to not enter again if they win the first time(adv that is) Beg/Int students don't do it simply b/c there is nothing to gain for entering it again if they already qualified that year.

I don't restrict my students for entering any other events. My advanced soloists pretty much for the most part enter both State and Regional Solo in the same year. Now with that said I do have some cases where some kids don't or can't enter our State(which is in March) so they only enter in our Regionals(in June) or vise versa.

I have had kids with conflicts at Regionals with Graduations and recitals(have 4 this year with conflicts) so some of them can't enter Regionals to do solo b/c it falls on their conflict day.

For our State Adv soloists this year the most there were in any of the divisions was 6 so everyone qualified. But at our Regionals there could be up to 15 in one or more of the divisions. I fully expect everyone who won at our state to also enter the Regional solo. Do I have a problem with this? No...and the reason why is this. Because there are 8 spots to be earned. Not 1 as in Beg/Int Pagnt or 3 in Adv Miss Maj.

I feel like the pageant is harder to place in and I really don't have anyone who has won Adv who has said they are going to enter it again at Regionals. As a matter of fact I have NEVER had anyone except for 1 student and she isn't my student anymore(and some of the reasons she is not is b/c we didn't see eye to eye on things)

Maybe we are odd...but once we qualify we are all set with doing it again. I feel that they can practice their solo, strut and modeling events by entering open events and they don't need to enter the pageant again.

Call me crazy but thats what we do here.

I really don't care what other studios do or don't do...I really could care less if someone wins the title for 12 years in a row...I care about what my kids are doing, how they are representing our state/region and how they do in their events.

I think that this is a great discussion....Im not here to bash anyone to preach to anyone or to judge anyone.