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As always, Sunday here at Desert Classic is reserved for juniors and in fact, this is one of the largest junior days of the year.
Congratulations to Igor & Irina on their continued success with Desert Classic!
Smooth Dominates the Night Friday
The Open Pro Smooth definitely dominated the night yesterday.
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The Open Scholarships in the Pro-Am Ballroom brought out some very good dancing. Hernandez w/ Oreste Alitto won the A - 1,1,1,2,1; Ling Ma w/ Edgars Gasjuns won the B - 2,1,2,1,1; Annie Chan w/ Christian Radvan won the C - 1,1,1,1,1; Linda Gill w/ Roman Malkhasyan won the S1 - 1,1,1,1.
Stay tuned for the reports from today and this will include the 20th Anniversary Desert Classic show.
Doing it Desert Style!
Once again it’s great to be back at the Desert Classic and the stunning JW Marriott, Desert Springs.
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Desert Classic is off to a strong start. Yesterday was the first day, but we have already seen the the pro-am Smooth and Latin divisions and all 4 Pro Rising Star competitions.
As is often the way nowadays, the RS Smooth was the largest of the 4 styles, beginning with a full semifinal. The win went to the fast-rising Tykhon & Yana Zhyvkov. They won all dances but it was not without a tussle with the runners-up, Stephen & Elisa McCann who were 2nd in all. Tykhon & Yana won only the foxtrot with a majority of first places (6 from 11). The waltz went to a tiebreak between the two couples. 3rd in all fell to Maksim Leonov & Anastasia Zhuchenko; 4th were Ilia Sydorenko & Tatyana Kuts 4,4,4,5; 5th Slava & Jessica Stefanov 5,6,6,4; 6th Nikoali Kralev & Julianne.
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Przemyslaw Modryskski & Magdelena Zybura won the RS Latin. We felt this was an easy win, but in fact they won only 3 dances 1,1,2,1,2. No couple had a majority of 1st places in any dance. Runners-up were Ivan Khudoliy & Alisa Seleznova 2,2,1,2,3; 3rd Joseph & Alexandra Hopwood 3,3,3,3,1; 4th Denis Podolski & Oksana Kalinuka 4,4,4,4,4; 5th Mattia Bielli & Taisha Hughes 5,5,5,5,5.
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Stay tuned for more from Dessert Classic with the Open Pro divisions beginning tonight.