Three styles - completely different and so were the players, finishing this year’s events on a very exciting note.
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Moving on to second place - all second places on this outing went to Dmitry & Olena Nikishkin and who continue to for us to have the best swing in town. We also want to point out that they stole in nearly every dance a minimum of 2 first places from the champions. The only dance where they only took one first place from Francesco & Jessa was in the bolero where Tina Gerova was the only judge to give them a first place mark.
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Fourth overall in this style went to Shane & Shannon Jensen 5,4,4,4,5; fifth place was awarded to Kevin Ubillus & Milagros Lareto 4,5,5,5,4, and sixth in all dances was awarded to Elena & Gene Bersten.
The Professional Cabaret totally brought to life the organizer’s concept of upper and lower “Egypt” with so many styles and choices for the judges and here we must say we too were left wondering who would take the double headed crown home. The overall winners were Alyenendrov Tsorokean & Yuki Haraguchi who received 5 first place marks out of the 13-panel of judges. Their routine is almost magic and the difficulty of many of their steps is palpable. However, it is not always about the difficulty or uniqueness of every step, sometime quality is very important and the couple that took second did a faultless routine with beautiful entrances and exits never giving us the impression that everything was not secure and that is very important in this style. They took second overall and three fist place marks from the winning couple and they were Brandon Baker & Chelsea Hicks.
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For the pro-ams it was a day of Latin and the results of the Open Scholarships were as follows:
Open A Latin
1. Minasyan/Way 1,1,1,1,2; 2. Ebinger/Romario 2,2,3,2,1; 3. Diassi/Kudashev 3,3,2,3,3
Open B Latin
1. White/Bartashevich 1,1,2,2,1; 2. Wright/Voronovich 3,3,1,1,2; 3. Keatley/Arietta 2,2,3,3,3
Open C Latin
1. Wright/Voronovich 1,1,1,1,1; 2. DeGasperis/Kochergin 3,2,2,2,3; 3. Peoples/Samarskiy 2,3,3,3,2
The Two Lands!
“Know the world in yourself. Never look for yourself in the world, for this would be to project your Illusion.” An Egyptian Proverb.
This year the Millennium Dancesport Championships celebrated dance and culture by choosing the theme “Egypt” and as usual Mr. Chapman, the organizer, turned the ballroom into an Egyptian Temple, celebrating their culture, their arts and their dance.
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The result in the Latin was something of a nail-biter. The win fell to Mykhailo Bilopukhov & Anastasiia Schypolina who placed 2,1,2,1,1 with the runner-up spot to Manuel Favilla & Nataliya Maiduk 1,2,1,2,2. However, the scoring was extremely tight and every dance except jive was won with the majority or tiebreak coming on “2nd or better” scores. 21 judges were used and Mykhailo & Anastasiia did get the necessary majority of 11 first places in the jive.
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With pro-am Latin occurring in the ballroom right now, the pro-am competitors have completed 3 styles so far – Rhythm, Smooth and Ballroom. Selected Open Scholarship results were as follows:
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1. Salinas/Fernandez 1,1,1,1,2; 2. Lusher/DeCamps 3,2,2,2,1; 3. Lysic/Margaryan 2,3,3,5,3
Open D Rhythm
1. Pinard/Reyzin 1,1,1,1,1; 2. Oxman/Balasanyan 2,2,2,2,2; 3. Glazner/Novikov
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1. Chou/Stefano 1,1,1,1; 2. Whiteside/Barsukov 2,2,2,2; 3. Boneo/Kosarev 3,3,3,3.
Open C Smooth
1. Eldred/Pigotskyy 2,1,2,1T; 2. Bebi/Norov 3,2,1,1T; 3. Copeland/Robatesenko 1,3,3,3
Open D Smooth (The largest scholarship division)
1. Eldred/Pigotskyy 1,1,1,3; Bebi Norov 3,2,2,1; 3. Stewart/Alanen 2,3,3,2
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1. Brutell/Zavialov 1,1,2,1; 2. Scott/Kosarev 2,3,3,2; 3. Burden/Scheppler 3,2,1,3
Open S2 Smooth
1. Luthy/Popov 1,1,1,1; 2. Klein/Gabor 2,2,2,2; 3. Fein/Lopez 3,3,3,4