Register as soon as you can.  Cancellation is easy, up to the deadline.  After the deadline, send an email to compchair@purdueballroom.org. 
​Please review the rules to the right.
​Everyone Needs an O2CM account.
This account can be used at all O2CM competitions everywhere.
Your account has dancers in it. When you create it, you will be the first dancer in your account.
Once you have an account, others can find you and add you to their account.

Individual Competitors:
You and your partner both need an O2CM account before you can register.
Make one at http://my.o2cm.com 
You will use your partners' name, account number (RIN), or email address to add them to your account.  If you are on a team, ask your leaders to read the instructions below, and send you a link, so that your RIN will be linked more tightly to the team account.

Check if you have already been registered by someone else.
http://entries.o2cm.com/?event=pbc

If you have already been registered, contact the person(s) who registered you to make any updates or use your tracking number to add yourself as a competitor in your own account:
Tracking Number Lookup - verified on10/11/2021
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On the registration form, entries are only visible in the account that created them.

Team leaders:  
We still recommend you use one account to manage your whole team.

Why?  If you are paying for more than one admission ticket, reserving all those tickets in one account will help you organize the balance due, and will help us know what to expect. 

If you haven't already, make an extra account that represents your whole team at
http://my.o2cm.com 
Use your school mascot for competitor name, for example.

Send your team members a link like this:
http://my.o2cm.com/Account/Register?account=teamAccount@somemail.com​
replacing teamAccount@somemail.com with the team account email address you used to log in above.  When they open the new account form, the associated email address will already be filled in with your email address.

If you do the above correctly, your team members can log in to their own accounts, but also they will be linked to your team account.  This means when you log in to an event using your team login, their names will be in the leader/follower pull down lists.  

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Or for an even more powerful "studio account," register an unused email address at
https://my.o2cm.com/studio/Register​
This account is "more powerful" because it allows you to create competitors without their help.

TBA Partnerships:
​The Midwest collegiate community has a partner search spreadsheet going around.  Ideally you can find someone there.  There will also be a TBA paper on the registration table at the welcome dance.

There are premade TBAs.  When its time to choose a lead or follow, press the green button "Add competitor to lists". Under "Search by Email", enter the email address tba@o2cm.com.
Choose an available TBA.

NOTE: Signing up with TBA partner does not trigger any partner matching.  This is mostly just to help with scheduling, and having at least one event ensures that we make a packet for you.  The system is based on recalling leader numbers, so as a follow you can dance the first round of any event with any registered leader.  Also, given enough advance notice, our deck captains may be able to add you if there is room in the schedule.

Just before the event, all entries led by "TBA" will be deleted to make it easier to register you with an actual partner.

Payment
We accept payment at the door now, during the welcome dance:
Contact us to make early Saturday arrangements
We will hold all the packets until the person with payment arrives.  Until then, just go straight into the dance. 

Need An Invoice?
Register your whole group under one account, and add all your tickets in O2cm.
Then, press the Green button "Full Accounting report" on the registration page.

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NOTE:  By registering as a participant, you agree to Purdue University's Hold Harmless Agreement.

Older (yet still somewhat applicable) instructions follow...
Multiple partners in Multiple accounts
Are you caught up in a dance triangle, or hexagon/star, etc.
1. Create all the competitors and entries under one account 
or 
2. You will need to know each person's email address, name, or RIN to add them to your account.
-Tracking Number Lookup-

There is a known issue where you add a partner to your account, but the partner disappears before you can add entries.  If you are struggling with this, contact support@o2cm.com
To review your entries, go to http://www.o2cm.com and check the Purdue Comp "Entry List" "By Competitor". 

http://entries.o2cm.com/?event=pbc

email webmaster@purdueballroom.org if you have any trouble using the O2CM registration system.
GENERAL RULES:

​Newcomer Eligibility:  

A newcomer is someone who has been dancing 12 months or less.  Not competing, just dancing.  If you already had been learning to dance when we held last year's classic, then you are not a newcomer.  
  Your eligibility to dance newcomer is not improved by dancing with a particularly inexperienced partner, or even by being a particularly inexperienced partner.  
  Your eligibility to dance newcomer is not improved by never having been recalled by the judges.  
  Your 12 months timer does not pause if you take some time off from dancing.
  Your newcomer timer does not reset after a long absence.  There's no going back.
  If you are not eligible as a newcomer in even 1 dance, then you may not dance in any of the 4 styles at the newcomer level, no matter how inexperienced.  Other teams have asked us to enforce this policy.
  Otherwise, we encourage you to compete Bronze or higher.  We have seen couples make it to the Bronze Final using only Newcomer figures.  Just dance well.

The 2 Consecutive Levels Rule:
The 4 'styles' are:
American Smooth, and International Standard,
American Rhythm, and International Latin

Any individual may only appear in up to 2 consecutive levels in each of the 4 styles.
The level(s) you choose in one style do not limit your choices in a different style (Although you may get looks of suspicion if you dance Open in one style and Bronze in another).
To compete in newcomer as one of your levels, you must qualify, as described above.

The Progression of levels is: 

'Closed' (Syllabus only) Levels:
1 Newcomer (Only Pre-Bronze & Bronze steps allowed), 
2 Bronze (Only Pre-Bronze & Bronze Steps allowed), 
3 Silver (Pre-Bronze, Bronze and Silver Steps Allowed), 
4 Gold (Any Syllabus Steps Allowed), 

'Open' Levels:
Notice 'Novice' does not refer to an inexperienced person like it might it the dictionary.
Usually a person has danced at least silver before attempting to compete Novice and above.
5 Novice - Choreographed Routines. Any Syllabus or otherwise (No lifts or Stunts)
6 Pre-Champ - Choreographed Routines. Any Syllabus or otherwise (No lifts or Stunts)
7 Champ - Choreographed Routines. Any Syllabus or otherwise (No lifts or Stunts)

NOTE: Some Dances are danced together as one event, these are indicated with two letters in parenthesis, such as Bronze Standard (WQ), which combines Waltz and Quickstep as one event.

The one exception: 
If there is a shortage of leaders:
A silver follower may lead a newcomer follower in a newcomer event.
This newly created leader is now a newcomer leader.  Please do not use this rule to create an unfair advantage.  The presumption is that this silver follower is not skilled at leading yet.
Technically, one might say that this new leader should not have more than one year experience as a leader.  Tip:  Wear a vest to make it easy to remove the number.

A Note on American Style:

In the American style, we like to follow the USA Dance rules, which are more concerned with proficiency level than with steps.
http://www.usadance.org/dancesport/athlete-information/the-syllabus/

Syllabi can also be found:

Near the end of the USA Dance rulebook
http://usadance.org/dancesport/forms-and-resources/rules-policies-and-bylaws/

Appendix 1 in the NDCA rulebook:
http://ndca.org/rules-and-results/ndca-rule-book/

Costume Policy
For Purdue Comp we suggest using the same dress code as USA Dance.
http://usadance.org/dancesport/forms-and-resources/rules-policies-and-bylaws/
 
We will not be enforcing dress code at our competition, but please do not dress in a manner which gives you an unfair advantage for your level. 
 
We will do our best to give a costume change break between Gold and Novice, for those of you competing in both of those 2 consecutive levels.