Mark your date books to come out and cheer this Friday. The 2000 National University Cheerleading Championships are being held on campus and McMaster's cheerleaders will be among those contending.

Sixteen of the best teams in the country will be here to compete for the national title.
The competition takes place in the Burridge Gym in the Ivor Wynne
Centre. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the competition begins at 7:30 p.m. (Tickets will be available at the door for $6.)

The team from McMaster, which placed third last year, will be a top contender again this season.

The competition format is as follows: each team will perform their
routine twice. The routine will be no more than two and a half minutes long. The two-run total is counted as the final score. All scores will be posted on an open scoreboard and updated as the event progresses.

Schedule of Performances:

Team and performance time:

Acadia University, 7:30 PM

Carleton University, 7:35 PM

Memorial University, 7:40 PM

Simon Fraser University, 7:45 PM

University of Ottawa, 7:50 PM

McGill University, 7:55 PM

University of Western Ontario, 8:00 PM

University of Waterloo, 8:05 PM

University of Saskatchewan, 8:10 PM

Queen's University, 8:15 PM

University of Guelph Co-ed, 8:20 PM

McMaster University, 8:25 PM

Wilfrid Laurier University, 8:30 PM

York University, 8:35 PM

University of Guelph All-Girl, 8:40 PM

Brock University, 8:45 PM

Performance order of the second round will be the reverse order of the
team's placement in the opening round (16-1) at five-minute intervals.