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Ryan Benoit's avatar

No. The asterisk is rude, disrespectful , and uncalled for. In 2019 Spartans beat everyone that showed up. Those kids worked their tails off and put together an awesome program. It is not their fault two groups did not attend. We have to be better than this nonsense.

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Ryan Benoit's avatar

Did you even see the Spartans 2019 production?

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Shawn L Putnam-Greer's avatar

yes I did. I am hardly the first person in history to assign an asterisk to denote special circumstances. It doesn' t automatically devalue it.. that is YOU assuming it is meant to denigrate. You're responsible for your own erroneous conclusions, not I. But I can guarantee that a widespread poll of DCI members being complete honest would have the vast majority feeling like an asterisk is a reasonable thing. Fine, they beat everyone that showed up.. That doesnt change the fact that they DID NOT BEAT the two juggernauts of that division that year. And they hadnt beaten them before, and now after that year. THAT is absolutely worthy of a special notation.

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