Competition budget calculator
What a ballroom competition costs: your entries and the organizer's fees, your teacher's fees, travel, the hotel and the coaching before it, per competition and per season.
This competition
$4,225
$169 an entry, all in $12,675 for 3 like it
Entries 25 × $55 $1,375 Your teacher's fees 25 × $55 $1,375 Registration and admission $75 Travel and stay Travel, hotel nights (2), meals for each day (3) and your share of your teacher's travel $1,020 Coaching before it 4 × $95 $380 This competition $4,225 The season Competitions like this one: 3 $12,675 To set aside each month The season spread over 12 months $1,056Your competition
The three starting points are assumptions for illustration, not any competition's fees. Every organizer sets its own, so use the figures from the entry form, and your teacher's own.
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Entries and fees, USD
Entries Fee for one entry Teacher's fee for one entry 0 if you dance with an amateur partner. Registration or admissionTravel and stay, USD
Flights, train or fuel Your share of your teacher's travel Hotel nights A night at the hotel Days there Meals a dayCoaching and the season
Lessons booked for it A lesson, USD Competitions like it a seasonHow the sum is worked out
Are these real entry fees?
No. They are starting points we chose to show the shape of a budget, from a one-day local to a several-day major. Organizers publish their own fees on their entry forms and they differ a great deal, so replace ours with theirs.What counts as an entry?
Whatever the organizer charges a fee for. Some charge for each dance, some for each multi-dance event, and many add a scholarship or championship fee on top. Count entries the way the entry form does.Why is my teacher's fee separate?
In Pro/Am you dance with your teacher, who usually charges a fee for each entry and often shares the cost of getting there among their students. Those can add up to more than the entries themselves, so they get their own lines.Does DanceFlow run competitions?
It can: online entries, Pro/Am partnerships, heats, marks and results. A studio also uses it to plan a season, with each trip's entries, the teacher's fees and the share of travel on one bill. DanceFlow is not NDCA-sanctioned.More free tools
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DanceFlow puts each student's competitions, entries, fees and lessons in one plan, and says when the lessons will run out before the competition does. Free during early access.