It's the first wave of spring breaks across Illinois! And with St Patty's Day around the corner, we give ourselves a PAT on the back for running Illinois' only statewide, cross-organization dance team honor list. And being 8CA's Celebration Month, we spotlight 6 teams that didn't quite make it to Bloomington, but they were close. And we look at what you do with that close-but-not-quite season ending: is it fuel? A badge of honor? Or something to move on from without thinking too much about it? And if you're a non-qualifier, would you rather be just a little behind the cutoff, or way off the pace? As usual we have the toe-dripping (as opposed to deep dive) variety of topics: typed versus audio critiques, team banquet locations, and what's the criteria for hanging up a postseason banner.