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A slight disappointment was spotted from Andrei Kazlouski & Asta Sigvaldadottir as the picked up their fourth place, this is completely understood due to the fact that they too were trying hard to get to the top of this very special group. Andrei & Asta placed fourth with these marks 4,4,4,3,4. Canada took fifth place, with Ilya Maletin & Polina Mayer scoring 5,5,6,5,5. This couple always showed great technical skill but are now adding a more emotional approach. In sixth place and looking stunning as always were Manuel Favilla & Natalia Maidiuk, we are sure that by looks alone this couple deserve to be in this final, but it was not just that last night they had a fire that made you look them twice over. Manuel & Natalia placed sixth with these marks 6,6,3,6,6.
This was a phenomenal competition and we were a little disappointed in a few of the couples that had to be cut out of the final in particular Artur Tarnavsky & Anastasia Danilova who dance exquisitly in the semifinal and could have easily also made this impressive final. Another outstanding couple missing in action were Pasha Pashkov & Daniella Karagach who we saw earlier on but who did not compete in this evening’s Professional Latin Championship, we wonder if they have danced, how the competition might have been affected or the result might have changed? As we sit here on the plane heading for our United States Dance Championships, we cannot wait to see all these couples go once again head to head within a period of a week and what we will see and witness next?
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With this competition the 2018 Embassy Ball Championships concluded, our congratulations to Gary, Jason, Kristi and Brian McDonald for as always an outstanding job with this monster of an event that this year, the largest to date for Embassy Dance Championships.
Watch the videos from Embassy Ball by SuperShag here
The Rhythm of the World!
Last night at the Embassy Ballroom Championships the Rhythm peeps got their World 2018 Champions crowned and Nazar Norov & Irina Kudryashova won all dances with nearly perfect scores from the judges, making them the current World Professional Rhythm Champions once again for the 3rd time in a row.
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Fourth place in all dances went to Rudy Homm & Katya Kanevskaya who from our perspective had a wonderful night, for us they were totally the incarnation of music on the floor, and although they placed fourth we were pleasantly surprised to see that a few adjudicators awarded them second in a number of dances. Fifth place in the wonderful heat went to Oskar Wojciechowski & Karolina Holody 5,5,5,6,5, and sixth overall was awarded to Igor Mikushov & Ekaterina Romashkina 6,6,6,5,6.
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The same 2 college teams contested the US National Formation Championship, this time in the Latin style and the result was the same – BYU was the winner and UVU the runner-up.
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For the pro-ams it was a VERY full day of Latin and the finals of the 5 Open World Championships were held at the very beginning of the evening session. They were all of a very high quality and gave us the only overseas wins this year. Dancers from Russia took both the A and B age divisions.
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It’s a Smooth World after all!
Last night at the Embassy Ball Championships we crowned the World Professional Smooth Champions and once again this honor went to Nick Cheremukhim & Viktorija by winning all dances.
We also saw a terrific Amateur Ballroom Championship and the Rising Star Latin Professional Competition.
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Fourth placement overall was awarded to Roman Malkhasian & Galina Detkina with these marks 4,4,4,5 – and they also got some appreciative comments when we all “approached the bar” later in the evening. Fifth went to Yegor Novikov & Aleksandra Smirnova 5,5,5,4, and sixth in all dances went to Sergiy Samchynskyy & Yulia Besarab.
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There was another tie between two couples in this Ballroom heat for the 4th and 5th place, the couples in question were, Artur Nabor & Michelle Yiu and Mikhail Vorobiev & Natalia Kozhevnikova. In the end Artur & Michelle took fourth 5,5,4,4,4, and fifth went to Mikhail & Natalia 3,4,5,5,5, possibly another very difficult decision for this illustrious panel of adjudicators. Sixth in all was awarded to Oreste Alitto & Valeriia Belozerova.
The World Ballroom Pro/Am categories were quite impressive with huge entries in most categories but best was the quality of them all.
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The Embassy also host the US National Formation Championships in both styles. Last night it was the Ballroom and the BYU team was the winner. The team from UVU was second.
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Oh What A (Smooth) Night!
The second day at Embassy was all about the Smooth – the World Pro-Am Smooth Championships to be exact!
It was a long daytime session of pro-am smooth and then the nighttime began with the World Championships in all levels. It took until 10:30 PM to find out who the new World Open Pro-Am Smooth Champions were, and as in the Rhythm, all 5 divisions fell to the USA, although there were a couple of finalists from Russia and Canada.
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Credit to professional Max Sinitsa who had a student in all 5 finals.
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After the national anthem of the USA had played for these winners, the night was not over! In fact there were some amateur events and evening concluded with 2 professional rising star divisions, both starting with a semifinal.
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Today we will see the Pro World Championship in Smooth and all the Pro-Am World Championships in Ballroom. So stay tuned!
The World is at Irvine!
Yesterday August 29, was the first day of competition at the Embassy Ballroom Championships in Irvine, California.
And as most of you know the World Pro/Am Championships are held here as well as the NDCA World Professional Smooth and World Professional Rhythm.
Last night we had our first World Pro/Am Championships in the Rhythm divisions and some were well attended with an overall total of entries for the Embassy Ball of about 7 thousand and counting.
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We must also point out that all World Pro/Am Rhythm Champions were from the USA.
It is also quite worthy to note that the Nightclub session was moved to a venue outside the Ballroom and it went magnificently with many of the attendees having a fantastic time while doing their Salsas, Merengues, and Argentine Tangos, it was a very appropriate venue for all the nightclub attendies.