Hello All,
Following today's government briefing, it is with the greatest sadness that I have to confirm what many of you may now be expecting.
DERT 2020 is cancelled.
Today's government announcement was a surprise, we had thought that we would probably be able to run DERT, even in a scaled down manner, and that our contingency plan of preparing to move the competition online was just a sensible 'worst case scenario' to have,
but now we cannot even do that.
We are setting up a virtual DERT Showcase (just for fun) which will run over Saturday 4th April to keep everyone entertained while we aren't allowed to get together. It is going to be much smaller than we thought as we now don't have time to ask you all to
record 6 competition standard videos 'just in case'. Instead, what we would like is a video of your choice, which we will schedule over the course of the day (not judged). We would like everyone, including the Traditional, the Veterans, and DERTy teams (if
you have permission to post online videos) to have a video.
We are so disappointed for all of you, after all the work that goes into preparing all your dances for DERT, the crawls, the practices, the mad showcase ideas.
I can hardly believe that I am sending out this email, and I am so sorry that this year's DERT isn't going ahead.
We have 576 cups in the spare room, and a box of t-shirts en route, badges in production, gin being labelled, beer being brewed... We will be in touch with people who have pre-ordered merchandise and post it out when we can.
I'm so sorry,
Lynne
DERT 2020