Since this is a USASF thread, my request is again mandate some sort of off season. Choreography by Memorial Day is scary to me (not knocking the gym, but the concept), and once one gym starts others try and catch up etc. etc. IT just widens the divide in my opinion between the elite gyms with a large following who can enforce this even more stringent summer schedule, and other gyms that will lose numbers by becoming even more of a commitment...And of course the kids get burned out and mom and dad are sick of driving themIf I recall the thread correctly, they started choreo last year on Memorial Day... most of the other gyms barely had teams finalized by then