Popular sports competition (dancing)
The popular sports competition (BSW) is a tournament usually organized by dance sports clubs . It is a team or, more rarely, an individual competition, in which dancers compete who want to prepare for tournaments in accordance with the dance sport regulations of the German Dance Sport Association (TSO des DTV) or who do not want to take part in them. The team experience and the joy of musical movement are the main motives for participation. The clothing must be commercially available, i. H. Specially tailored clothing is prohibited (with a few exceptions) and will result in disqualification.
Framework
The organizer of a BSW tournament has the opportunity to set many of the framework conditions. Mostly these are age restrictions, the exclusion of "correct" tournament pairs from certain or all classes as well as the selection of dances and team strengths. Different standards have been established depending on the federal state (regional association of the DTV).
A team consists of at least three, rarely two pairs. The upper limit is usually five dance couples. The tournament result is a ranking of the teams. The individual evaluation of the pairs is not published, but is mostly given to the teams concerned.
Dancing is compulsory, optional, and rarely a group dance . Compulsory dances are those dances that the organizer has determined that every couple must dance this dance. In contrast to this, the dancers can choose one or more elective dances from a pool of given dances, depending on the specifications. Group dances are sometimes included as part of the competition at children's BSW tournaments. Each team then individually shows a previously practiced choreography , the evaluation of which is incorporated into the tournament result.
A BSW tournament usually consists of three compulsory and two elective dances from the standard or Latin area. Slow waltz , quickstep and tango as well as cha-cha-cha and rumba are popular compulsory dances of the organizers, the elective dances often include the other ten tournament dances but also fashion dances .
Scoring system
The performances are usually assessed by three judges from different clubs by giving a rating for each pair in each dance. The best possible rating is a 1, followed by 1½, 2, 2½ and 3. Technique, musicality and pair harmony are assessed, while the choreography is of little importance.
The conversion of the individual evaluations into the team result follows different modes depending on the organizer's specifications. Usually the team result is determined with the score per dance. In each compulsory dance, the three best pairs of each team are rated. The same principle applies to elective dances, whereby a comparison must be made here of completely different dances, since not every couple danced the same elective dances.
Another possibility is the evaluation of the best couples over all dances. This is based on the ratings of team tournaments of the German Gymnastics Federation . Here, the ratings per pair are summed up. The three best couples on each team are then summed up with all of their dances.
In some regional associations, BSW tournaments are also organized, in which, after a team tournament with the best six couples in the tournament, a final round with open valuation is danced in the same way as the tournaments according to the DTV TSO.
The evaluation of individual tournaments is much more inconsistent. Usually the sum of the ratings is determined for each pair, with which a ranking list can be established. This ranking list is published in some associations, while others convert the valuation sums into placement categories between one and four (e.g. in the North Rhine-Westphalian Dance Sports Association) in order to do justice to the idea of mass sport. In still other associations (e.g. in Hamburg) tournaments are carried out analogous to the TSO of the DTV with hidden cross-scoring, elimination rounds and open final-round scoring.