I'm not sure how everyone elses experience was but ours was pretty sad. Three of our dancers competed in the Jr. Solo Division and the music was started early on 2 of them. Fortunatly my girls are experienced enough that they were able to recover quickly but this resulted in messing up their dramatic opening. The next day for the troupe competition I stood by the sound guy and told him not to start till I gave him the ok so this time it worked out but the video guy was missing!!! He strolled in toward the end of our performance eating something. No one said a word about it to us. It sucks because all the winners received copies of their performance except us! So we are out prize money and the DVD. Did anyone receive their prize money yet?