2009 Big Apple Dancsport Challenge Results and Video

Last weekend Tracey and I competed at the Big Apple Dancesport Challenge hosted by Columbia University in their beautiful New York City campus. We competed in Gold Smooth, Silver Latin, Gold Rhythm and Open Smooth. It was our first time doing open smooth together — my first time doing open at all — and overall it went great! Results and video follow.

Open Smooth

This was the event that we were most looking forward to. Especially after under-performing in gold smooth, this was a chance to redeem ourselves. And so we did; taking second place directly behind Jason Seabury and Kailee Donovan, Tracey and I are both ecstatic with our results.

Overall Placement: 2^nd Place

There were seven couples in the open smooth event and we were shocked as to how well we placed. Walking in expecting to take dead last and walking out with scholarships, gift certificates and cash prizes, I feel that our open smooth debut went fantastically well. Full results breakdown follows.

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Gold Rhythm

Tracey and I also competed gold rhythm and placed pretty well considering that we don’t ever practice it. At this point, though, we both agree that it’s about time that we actually learn some rhythm dancing properly. It’d be a lot of fun to pick up some choreography that we can play with. Specifically, we don’t have any apart work, and in gold rhythm that’s a shame to miss.

Overall Placement: 3^rd Place

There were seven couples in the gold rhythm final and the results breakdown for said final follows.

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Silver Latin

Since we were going to be there anyway, Tracey and I decided to dance silver latin together. As usual, we didn’t get all that far; a callback or two was the most latin love we’d see from the judges this time. While it’d have been nice to do well in latin, too, we’ve really just been concentrating on smooth dancing lately, so latin has definitely taken the back seat — for now.

Gold Smooth

First thing in the morning, Tracey and I competed in gold smooth. We did much poorer in our dancing than we had hoped for, but were able to make up for it in the open rounds. Personally, I chalk it up to it being first thing in the morning; I never move quite as well in the morning as I do at night.

Overall Placement: 3^rd Place

The results breakdown below shows that actually we didn’t do all that poorly except in waltz, further corroborating the theory that morning events don’t go as well for us.

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