Popular sports tournament (dancing)

Popular sports tournaments are dance tournaments based on the guidelines of the Professional Association of German Dance Teachers (BDT). They are primarily aimed at dancers in dance schools .

There are also the popular sports competitions of the German Dance Sports Association (DTV), which have a similar objective.

Both types have in common that, unlike the regular DTV tournaments , they do not have fixed starting classes. Rather, the couple dances at a popular sports tournament of the BDT at the beginning in a so-called screening round, in which it is decided in which performance group they will participate in this tournament.

Course of a mass sports tournament according to BDT

In the screening rounds, each couple does each dance and is judged by the judges. Based on the ratings, the pairs are then divided into various so-called rows. The best in each case reach the M series (master series) followed by A, B etc. If there is little participation, all participants dance in the M series.

A separate competition is then held in each row. If more than seven couples dance in a row, which is usually the case, an intermediate round is carried out in which only the best couples in the respective row reach the final round. If there are fewer participants, all pairs of the row concerned take part in the final round, in which the judges give their recommendations for placement.

The attraction of this system is that each dance couple is allowed to dance at least twice (viewing round and the first round in the row assigned to them).

Dances

Usually Latin American dances , standard dances and Discofox are danced and each is rated separately.

In the Latin American and the standard dances, two dances are usually danced for the children and young people and three dances for the adults / seniors, with one dance being added to the final round of the M series except for the children.

In the Latin area these are Cha-Cha-Cha , Rumba , Samba and Jive . In the standard range, there are slow waltzes , tango , quickstep or foxtrot and Viennese waltzes . Rumba and tango are not danced by the children and only danced in the final round of the M series by the youngsters. Samba and Viennese waltz are not danced at all by children or young people, and by adults / seniors only in the final round of the M series.