IDSF World Standard Championship - results

Katarzyna · Nov 14, 2005

Chris Stratton · Nov 14, 2005

No, but I'm not suprised for that flavor of event.

What's more interesting is that there is only one English couple in the whole listing you posted.

Katarzyna · Nov 14, 2005

btw, there is only 1 english couple that represented UK from looking at all the results. Wonder why...

Chris Stratton · Nov 14, 2005

illness maybe? wonder who the other couple from the selection event was?

the whole two couples per country thing reflects international politics so much more than actual dancing concerns

SDsalsaguy · Nov 14, 2005

Have the Karabeys ever beat Arunas and Edita at a major event before?

Katarzyna · Nov 14, 2005

SDsalsaguy said:
Have the Karabeys ever beat Arunas and Edita at a major event before?

I was thinking the same thing ?

Katarzyna · Nov 14, 2005

Just checked dancesport info... they tied once in 2000 and once in 2001. Never beat them

Ithink · Nov 14, 2005

Go Karabeys! I really like this couple so I am glad they've moved up in the rankings...

SDsalsaguy · Nov 14, 2005

Must be rather disapointing for Arunas and Edita though... and I can't imagine the Boyces would be too thrilled eietehr. Oh well, such is DanceSport...

Katarzyna · Nov 14, 2005

SDsalsaguy said:
Must be rather disapointing for Arunas and Edita though... and I can't imagine the Boyces would be too thrilled eietehr. Oh well, such is DanceSport...

Boyces often place 7th where the final has 7 couples so not a big change for them...

nevsky · Nov 14, 2005

Katarzyna said:
Boyces often place 7th where the final has 7 couples so not a big change for them...

The worlds were held in Germany. In Germany, mind you. So it's not too surpizing that the things turned out the way they did - Karabeys placed ahead of Arunas/Edita and the second german couple ahead of the Boyces.

SDsalsaguy · Nov 14, 2005

Good point nevsky.

Chris Stratton · Nov 14, 2005

Under the IDSF distribution of judges rules, how strong would the geographic home court advantange be?

But I think there's also something of a systemic advantage which may play a larger role - the IDSF is based on the German approach to ballroom dance competitions, and if you've trained in a country that uses that model you'd fit in well.

Merrylegs · Nov 14, 2005

Chris Stratton said:
Under the IDSF distribution of judges rules, how strong would the geographic home court advantange be?

But I think there's also something of a systemic advantage which may play a larger role - the IDSF is based on the German approach to ballroom dance competitions, and if you've trained in a country that uses that model you'd fit in well.

How much does the "home town advantage" play into this? I've always thought that if you're playing in your home field (football, baseball, ballroom,etc.) then you'll have more people cheering you on, you'll dance better, the judges will wonder who is being cheered on and notice you and so on, and so on.

HF · Nov 14, 2005

BTW a 45 min summarisation of the event was shown in our (german) first TV channel on last sunday, 4:00 pm. I never noticed a ballroom broadcast on such a good timeslot.

And - the level of the dancing was really amazing ...

IDSF World Standard Championship - results

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