Competition results of PDOers

[ZPomeroy]

nah i wasn't in it, but i did see u guys dance it! ur DP was the guy that was sitting next 2 u in the presentations isn't he? if it was then i saw u dance but didn't realise it :S

[Lioness]

Haha, yeah that's him.

[SwingWaltz]

Lioness, when I first saw you on the floor, I wasn't sure whether it's you or not. You look very different to the photo you sent me. You looked beautiful yesterday!  Then I searched up your number in the book and confirmed that it's you!

Zac, I couldn't recognise you at all. I saw someone with afro, but his is dark brown. So I didn't think that was you. Did you see me dance?

We came 1st in Adult level 2 New Vogue, came 2nd in Adult level 3 New Vogue which was in the evening program, and came 3rd in Adult level 2 Standard. 

[ZPomeroy]

nah i didn't get to see u SwingWaltz, i was looking out but unfortunately i had to leave because of family, when the photos are put online i'll stick one in the aussie thread! congrats on the great results!

Zac

[Lioness]

Thanks Swingwaltz. I'm not so good with photos.

[elisedance]

Congrats Zac.

We just made finals of both USA Dance national and NDCA Natioanl open amateur standard - 4th in NDCA nats, and 6th in USA Dance Nats.

you guys are really on a roll!  great to have a couple on board that we can be groupies for

[elisedance]

Its useful, if you want to put your results in context, to also list the number of competitors.  I will always write 1/2 couples or 32/36 . 

I try to be brutally honest with my results - bad results are bad ones and thats OK we all have them but only by sharing those can we see the progress - and progress will happen....

[Lioness]

I'm not entirely sure about the number of competitors I had, but I think it would have been above 10 most of the time. maybe 12-15.

[emeralddancer]

i'll share mine from the weekend this was at the Crown International Championships (Australia)
Bronze best Gent Cha Cha - 1st
Bronze best Gent Merrylin - 2nd
Bronze best Gent Waltz - 2nd

Zac

Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dream a little dream]

Congrats Zac.

We just made finals of both USA Dance national and NDCA Natioanl open amateur standard - 4th in NDCA nats, and 6th in USA Dance Nats.

Congratulations, standarddancer (and partner!). 

[Lioness]

We've just come back from a competition today. I ended up with a heck of a lot of firsts, 2 seconds, and two thirds. One of those firsts was a mass solo merrilyn, with about 25-30 people in it. DP ended up with mostly seconds I think, then first, then thirds. He kept getting beaten by our two new boys, who have both had dance training prior to ballroom.

[QPO]

We've just come back from a competition today. I ended up with a heck of a lot of firsts, 2 seconds, and two thirds. One of those firsts was a mass solo merrilyn, with about 25-30 people in it. DP ended up with mostly seconds I think, then first, then thirds. He kept getting beaten by our two new boys, who have both had dance training prior to ballroom.

He needs good instruction. 

[elisedance]

We've just come back from a competition today. I ended up with a heck of a lot of firsts, 2 seconds, and two thirds. One of those firsts was a mass solo merrilyn, with about 25-30 people in it. DP ended up with mostly seconds I think, then first, then thirds. He kept getting beaten by our two new boys, who have both had dance training prior to ballroom.

Sounds odd to me to have different results for yourself and your partner, I mean do they look at half of the couple   Obviously you change partners but can you describe how this works (sorry if I missed it elsewhere or just don't remember)? 

[Lioness]

Sounds odd to me to have different results for yourself and your partner, I mean do they look at half of the couple   Obviously you change partners but can you describe how this works (sorry if I missed it elsewhere or just don't remember)? 

At our level they judge the boys and girls seperately. We're still medallist. Once you get up to registered they judge as a couple.

[QPO]

Sounds odd to me to have different results for yourself and your partner, I mean do they look at half of the couple   Obviously you change partners but can you describe how this works (sorry if I missed it elsewhere or just don't remember)? 

At our level they judge the boys and girls separately. We're still medallist. Once you get up to registered they judge as a couple.

Not always true, they also have  competitions where they judge registered couples individually, you both have a number and they do one round judge the man, and then he rolls up his number and then they do it again and judge the women.

I think their idea is that one part of the partnership may be more dominate that the other and at least the individual can have success rather than the couple never winning anything because of the weakest link.