Omega Score

In every case, your score is made up of parts that reflect how you did in each round - prelim, semi, and final (depending on how big the comp is). These parts add up to 100, so your overall score will always land somewhere between 0 and 100. As a reminder:

You will have to find the following role-specific numbers (e.g. if you competed as a leader, you will need the number of leader contestants and judges marking leaders only):

Why we need these value will become apparent soon! Just follow the right path in the flowchart below to calculate your Omega score. It might look like a maze at first, but don’t worry — it’s always the same formula, just with a few tweaks here and there to cover all those exotic edge cases.

You might find the following tables useful:

Make sure the number of participants is role-specific (leaders and followers are counted separately), and the number of judges should exclude the chief judge — their mark matters only in the case of a draw!

Omega Flowchart

Intuitive Explanation

To get a better feel for how Omega (\(\Omega\)) works, let’s zoom in on a full competition - one that includes all three rounds. We can break your score down into three components:

\[\begin{align*} \Omega =\Omega^{prelim}+\Omega^{semi}+\Omega^{final}. \end{align*}\]

If you did not make it to the final round, \(\Omega^{final}\) will be zero, but you will still get contributions from \(\Omega^{prelim}\) and \(\Omega^{semi}\)! Looking closer…

\[\begin{align*} \Omega^{prelim}=\left(\frac{100\cdot N^{prelim}}{N^{prelim}+N^{semi}+N^{final}} \right)\cdot\left(\frac{x^{prelim}}{10\cdot J^{prelim}} \right) \end{align*}\]

where

  • \(N^{prelim}\) is the number of role-specific contestants in the prelim round.
  • \(J^{prelim}\) is the number of role-specific judges (exluding the chief judge) in the prelim round.
  • \(x^{prelim}\) is the number of points you scored in the prelim round.

There are two components here:

  1. Total participation: First up we look at how big the prelim round was compared to the rest of the comp. If it was packed with dancers, just making it through is a big deal - so you earn more points. On the flip side, if only a few people showed up, getting to semis was probably easier, so your \(\Omega^{prelim}\) score will be smaller. This part reflects how tough the competition was, and it depends on how many people danced your role.
  2. Relative performance: The second part of your score is all about you — specifically, how well you did compared to what was actually possible in that round. To work it out, we need to know how many judges there were. If every judge gave you a “Yes”, you’d earn the full \(10 \cdot J^{prelim}\) points — and that’s where the number in the denominator comes from. From there, it’s just a simple comparison: your actual score divided by the max possible. The more “Yes” and “Alt” marks you get, the higher your score climbs. Easy math, rewarding dancing!

So altogether, \(\Omega^{round}\) can vary depending on the event, division, and your role (unless you’re dancing Strictly — then you’re in the same boat!). But once we scale everything to fit nicely between 0 and 100, you can compare your scores across different comps and over time like a pro. 📈

And that is what makes \(\Omega\) so powerful! 💪