Heavy on the meaty topics...to balance out your winter break chill vibes! What to do when the work you put in at practice does, or doesn't, show up on the comp floor and in the scoresheet. And where do those choreo changes come from -- "a ha" moments in practice, a 3AM epiphany, or while sitting down to actively plan the changes? We take a peek at scoring variability for teams that dance on back-to-back days. And at about the halfway mark of the season, do teams have enough puzzle pieces to start forming a picture of how January might turn out? We weigh whether it's better to have a hot start and risk cooling off or plateau-ing early, or starting okay-ish and growing each week with better scores. Plus: the two ways to have a marley competition, along with Norm's "unpopular marley opinion" alert.