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For us the only two couples challenging for first with two very different styles of Smooth were Travis & Jamie and Aleksandar & Alexandra. Travis & Jamie’s style is more playful and correct while Aleksandar & Alexandra tend to be more intense. In the end Travis & Jamie were awarded their first crown in this Trifecta the Open Professional Smooth Championship and Aleksandar & Alexandra also took the runner-up spot with a majority of seconds. Kharyton & Anastasiya Khomenko for us were also easy third place finalists, they are very agile and move with ease, they only need to cement their own style to many of the dances and they could easily challenge for higher placement.
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In the Best of The Best, third was awarded to Dimitry Nikishken & Olena Shvets Nikishkin who won the professional Rhythm this evening, but here it was a very mixed bag of marks from 2nd to 5th place marks were awarded to them 3,5,2,2,5,2,5,3,3. As you can see the judges did not know what to do with this, and what seemed to be a mambo to “I’m a Survivor.” Fourth went to Andriy & Amanda Besyedin who won the Professional Latin earlier. Their marks were also slightly mixed 4,2,5,4,3,4,3,4,5. And in fifth place were Igor Mikushov & Valeriia Belozerova 5,4,4,5,4,5,4,5,4.
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Third overall in this interesting Rhythm result was awarded to Ivan Sovetov & Valeria Mkrtchian 3,4,3,3,3; fourth went to Dymytri Gorcharov & Veronika Shapar 4,3,4,4,4; Miroslav Randelovic & Dakoda Pizzi were in fifth place overall 5,5,5,6,6 and Andrew Nikitchenko & Tara Fanzo took sixth 6,6,6,5,5.
In the Professional Ballroom Igor Mikushov & Valeriia Belozerova won all dances and four of them with a majority of firsts. In the quickstep they did require second or better marks to win this dance. For us it was clear from the semifinal that this couple would easily take first place. But the other couple to also impress us and as you will see the judges, from the start was Dan Malov & Anna Bohachova who placed second in all dances. This couple have wonderful floorcraft missing a lot of the usual collisions that happen in this style and so we were able to appreciate their work from the start.
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Andriy & Amanda Besyedin won the Professional Latin. They were placed first in all dances. In the first two dances Andriy & Amanda had to depend of seconds and better to win, but as the competition went on the judges got a lot more confidence and they won the R,P,J with a full majority of firsst from the judges. Second on this Latin heat was awarded to Ilya Maletin Anna Oblakova. I have to say that their choice of costumes was great here, the color was very appealing and there was nothing to distract you from their performance, in our book they should get the best dressed couple of the comp.
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One of the biggest heats of this weekend of dance was the Amateur Latin that started with a very large quarter-final. It was particularly wonderful to see the champions, Vadim Pidhoretskyy & Ruby Castro on this occasion making a comeback from what we thought to be a disastrous performance at the United States Amateur National Championships in Provo, Utah the week before. On this outing for us they were back on form and won the championship and all dances quite easily, three of the dances with a majority of firsts and the cha cha and jive with second or better marks missing the majority by one mark in both dances. On this outing they were totally on from start to finish we were a little surprise that anyone would mark them second, both Vadim & Ruby were in top form and ready for this performance.
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Idan Daich & Anastasia Sinyauskaya from Canada took fourth in all dances. We felt them to be a lot better in the earlier rounds, but in the final they lost some steam. Fifth overall was awarded to Oskar Krimus & Shayna McDonald 5,5,5,6,6, and sixth went to Kristers Smits & Shelly Umansky 6,6,6,5,5.
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Congratulations for another very successful Championship!