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What It Is

COMPMNGR is a ballroom dance competitions management program from Douglass Associates. It is not a typical modern cloud SaaS product, but rather a specialized desktop software suite for dance competition organizers. It is built around competition entries, scheduling, scoring, finance, on-site operations, and web publishing, covering the operational workflow from pre-event preparation to post-event follow-up.

Core Capabilities

Its strongest feature is “heating” scheduling for dance competitions: it can generate a competition program from a tentative schedule, handle pro/am, student/student, age groups, levels, multiple ballrooms, and multiple floors, while avoiding time conflicts for teachers or competitors. The system also supports generating qualifying rounds, editing programs, RTF output, and publishing heat sheets and results to the web. On the finance side, it can manage packages, purchased items, payments, credits, invoices, hotel rooms, meals, table seating, and tickets. For scoring, it provides a scrutineer scoring aid, supports the skating system, preliminary rounds, showcases, and non-competitive entries, and can feed results into top teacher/student/studio points. On-site operations features include judge handheld/browser scoring, remote viewing for MCs and deck captains, barcode ticket/pass scanning, network data exchange, and multi-computer data entry.

Pricing

The text discloses only two optional modules: the web creation feature costs $100; the online entry feature costs $100, but it requires purchasing the web creation feature as well. As a result, online entry costs a total of $200 on top of the normal registration fee. The normal registration fee is not stated in the text, so pricing transparency is limited.

Pros and Cons

Its strength is the depth of its vertical focus. It covers many of the granular workflows involved in organizing dance competitions, including NDCA/USABDA numbers, studio confirmation sheets, heat sheets, result sheets, award points, and paperless on-site operations. The drawbacks are also clear: it relies on older technologies such as RTF, MAPI email, FTP, CGI, and PERL, and deploying online entry or a local LAN server may require technical staff. Permission controls, security compliance, modern APIs, and cloud collaboration capabilities are not disclosed.

Who It’s For

COMPMNGR is best suited to professional dance competition organizers, registrars, scrutineers, and organizations that regularly run ballroom dance competitions. If you need general-purpose event management, a mobile-first experience, a standard SaaS admin backend, or enterprise-grade compliance capabilities, it should be evaluated carefully.

Access from China

The text does not provide information about access from mainland China. Since its core is local software and its online features depend on either the user’s own server or Douglass Associates servers, real-world availability needs to be tested. Its current status is unknown.