We also saw some amazing open professional championships in the Ballroom, Rhythm, Smooth and some interesting amateur championships.
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From this point on the Open Professional Latin could have gone in any direction. The overall fourth place winners were Kelvin Ong & Mariia Kozobrod 4,5,5,4,4. We found them a little frantic at times but some might construe that as having lots of rhythm. In fifth place were Kostiantyn Samarskyi & Margarita Golubeva 5,4,4,5,5. Kostiantyn is a very talented dancer but this new partnership still has lots of work to do to challenge for higher ground and sixth were Vlad Astafiev & Elizabeth Zymovets who took sixth in all dances.
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Third in this heat and in every dance was awarded to Dan Malov & Anna Bohachova. We found them a little quiet on this outing but once we found them their quality of dancing seemed to hold them clearly in this position. Fourth went to Riccardo Conte & Eleonora Filippi 4,4,4,5,5; in fifth place were Vladyslav Komelkov & Alexandra Sevastianova 6,5,5,4,4. Yuriy Nartov & Neli Petkova placed sixth 5,6,6,6,6, our only observation here is that there was so much dress sometimes it was hard to even see them from afar, and seventh position in all dances went to Ilya Golovanov & Anastasiia Kovalenko
Friday was a great night for Travis Tuft & Jaimee Tuft who won all dances easily in the Open Professional Smooth, with a huge majority of firsts in all dances. It was an even a better night for Aleksandar Vukosavljevic & Alexandra Smirnova who placed second in all dances and gave us, like Travis & Jaimee, a completely different interpretation of the four dance. It was truly a pleasure to see these two couples dance back to back so well and steal the show from all the other couples in the heat.
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It was a very solid performance for Dmitry Nikishkin & Olena Shvets-Nikishkin in the Open Professional Rhythm, they won all dances with a huge majority of firsts from all judges. Only in a couple of dances two judges abstained, but in the other three they could have won the dance with perfect marks except one judge held back. For us there was no contest here between them and the rest of the group, even sporting a golden dress that could be seen from a plane with sparkles, stones and everything in between, you could not have missed them last night.
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Saturday night also featured a show by World Finalists, Pasha Zvychaynyy & Polina Teleshova, who announced that they will be representing the USA in future events.