Why does the AFNJDC not maintain Solo and/or Dual Exhibition competition?
Primarily, the AFNJDC competition is designed to find the finest AFJROTC drill team in both Armed & Unarmed Overall competition. Schools historically have not been in favor of counting solo and/or dual points towards the overall scoring totals, therefore the competition would have little event value. And the only option that makes feasible sense is to eliminate the knockout competition to maintain a solo & dual competition. We do not feel this is a good solution as the solo & dual competition would have very limited participation from each school (whereas knockout maintains almost 100% cadet participation). The knockout drill gives all cadets an event to participate within just prior to the start of the Awards Ceremony, while also allowing our score tabulators time to finalize, total and prepare all of the scoring from the eight different drill events that have competed throughout the day.
