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World Vs. British!
For the first time in almost 50 years we believe the World Champions danced against the Open British (Blackpool) Champions last night!
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Students from the BYU University are here. Two formation teams under the direction of Curt & Sharon Holman were the uncontested winners in both the US Ballroom and US Latin Formation Championships and BYU students also dominated the Open Amateur American Smooth.
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Nick & Viktorija Retain World Title
Nick Cheremukhin & Viktorija retained their World Smooth title last night here at Embassy Ball.
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Smoothly Done!
Last night it was the turn of the pro-am Smooth style dancers to determine who would be the World Champions.
In the Open Categories we saw 5 champions crowned – 4 from the USA and 1 from Australia.
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Last night we also saw the first of the professional divisions with the RS categories in Rhythm and Ballroom. The Rhythm was the larger, danced over 3 rounds.
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The World of Pro-Am
The NDCA World Pro-Am Championships started yesterday at the Embassy Ballroom Championships with the Rhythm Category.
With the exception of the Senior 2 World Championship, all heats were packed and well attended.
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The evening concluded with a very exciting NDCA World Pro-Am Cabaret Championship, this was a competition between a lady Natasha Namen and a gentleman student Jake Mazhar. This two pro-am competitors were very accomplished and it must have been an agonizing decision for the judges. In the end Natasha partnered by Craig Smith won leaving second place to Jake w/Yulia Besarab. Congratulations to these very accomplished pro-am couples! It’s moments like this where you are glad not to be making a decision.