DDC Prohibited Acts

In DDC a team will be disqualified if the Tournament Director determines that any of the following acts have taken place during any DDC competition event.

General

• Acts which significantly interfere with the event preparation or operation, such as failure to listen to instructions given by event officials etc.
• Acts which were determined to intentionally interfere with other teams.
• Use of ropes of a material that dirties the stage or use of ropes, props, or costumes that damage the floor.
• Acts which go against the Code of Ethics or Code of Conduct.

Performance and Freestyle battle

• Increasing or changing team members registered compared to qualifier events.
  • Only instances in which the number of team members decreases due to unforeseen circumstances, such as injuries, etc., is a change in team members accepted. In this case, the change must be reported in advance of the start of the event to the Event Organisers.
• Dangerous acrobatic moves, such as a front or back flip with a double rotation in the air.
• If a team member performs an acrobatic move and a majority of the acrobatic judges deem it dangerous due to lack of room for the approach, take-off, flip, or landing, etc., the team member will be disqualified, regardless of their ranking.
• Acts which may injure the spectators. (i.e. throwing or dropping a rope or ball into the spectator's seats)
• Acts which require cleaning the stage after the performance (i.e. use of confetti or water)
• Acts which use fire. (i.e. flames or firecrackers)
• Team member(s) climbing down off or falling of the stage.
• Team member(s) disappearing from the stage (acting area) during the Performance, even as part of the choreography. (Waiting offstage, moving backstage, etc.)
• Use of props for which no request was made or which are prohibited.

Freestyle battle

• Acts which intentionally interfere with other teams.
• Acts which interfere with the opposing team’s turn by moving out in front of the “waiting area,” whether intentionally or not.
• The team that is doing its move intrudes into the opponent team’s “waiting area” and does its move there.

note

During freestyle battle the call to disqualify or not is left up to the judges. Judges can raise their hand prior to judging to request deliberation at which point all judges will discuss the suspected problematic acts and make a decision as to whether or not to disqualify the team. After the decision has been made normal judging will continue.

Speed

• Team members not registered to compete in the Speed event compete in it.
• Acts which intentionally interfere with other teams.