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Matt Rivers & Maliwan Diemer won the smooth Rising Star taking first in all dances, second went to Enzo Zappia & Stephanie Betts and third went to Victor Tkachenko & Yulia Lukine who also took third in all dances. Fourth place went to Igor Afonkin & Meaghan Anderson, fifth was awarded to Nick Haklin & Sarah Ford and sixth was Przemek Fokt & Katt Baumgartner. The competition started early in the evening and the other events were placed between the rounds allowing for the official 20 minute breaks the professionals need between rounds.
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The Open Professional ShowDance was also an eye opener with a number of couples doing death defying lifts and bringing the crowd to a roar at times. First place went to Alyenedrov Tsoroken & Maria Wheeler who presented a routine with so many difficult maneuvers that sometimes we wondered how they got through it in just stamina alone. Second went to Dmytrii Goncharov & Tetiana Lutsenko who also had some very hard lifts and third was awarded to Senzo Makhaye & Agnieszka Strojek, leaving the final placement of fourth for Stanislav Revin & Oleksandra Ponomarova.
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- Alexander Zarek & Julia Vaysfield Alexander Zarek & Julia Vaysfield
- Dmitrii Chopenko & Valeria Khrapak Dmitrii Chopenko & Valeria Khrapak
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The Professional Rising Star Rhythm was a 6-couple final and here there was a tie for first place when adding the marks, a rule ten was applied and the winners were Alexander Zarek & Julia Vaysfield 2,1,1,1,3. The runners up were Victor Tkachenko & Yulia Lukine 1,2,2,2,1. If you count all the marks they each ended up with 8 marks total, but then with Rule 10 applied we had a winner. Third went to Alex Olivares & Rebecca Avila.
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The Professional Rising Star Latin was a 4-couple final here the winners were Dmitrii Chopenko & Valeria Khrapak 2,1,2,1,1. In second place were Dmytrii Goncharov & Tetiana Lutsenko 1,2,1,2,3; third were Senzo Makhaye & Agnieszka Strojek 3,3,3,3,2.