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BATH WINTER FRIENDLY 2019
On Saturday 30th November, BULABDS rallied together for their first comp of the year at Bath university. We took along a big team including 14 beginner couples! After a lovely, cold, 6am start for the coach we arrived at the comp ready for the day of dancing. The Bath team did a wonderful job of presenting the founders hall in their sports complex, with a nice big floor perfectly fitting our ballroom routines and plenty of place for practising and chilling between rounds. After a quick practise and costume change we began with the ballroom rounds.
The beginners were the first to take to the floor and represent Bristol, which is very daunting but they all smashed it and danced their hearts out. We are proud of all of you for being so professional and dancing fabulously! It was a phenomenal achievement to have at least one of our beginners couples in every final. We also had finalists in Intermediate Ballroom and Latin and Advanced Ballroom and Latin events showing how strong the Bristol team is!
Special shout out to our finalists: ⁃ Ruth & Nicole, Georgia & India in Beginner Ballroom ⁃ Kiryl & Vanda, Michael & Beth in Intermediate Ballroom ⁃ Xander & Izzi in Advanced Ballroom ⁃ Xander & Izzi and Kiryl & Vanda in Intermediate/Advanced Viennese Waltz as well as ⁃ Robin & Harriet, Lottie & Wawa, Aaron & Iona in Beginner Latin ⁃ Marcus & Maria, Kiryll & Vanda in Intermediate Latin ⁃ Steph & Alasdair in Advanced Latin ⁃ Marcus & Maria and Steph & Alasdair in Intermediate/Advanced Samba.
Finishing with the team match, Bristol did a fabulous job with our A team coming second overall! It was a long day but every dancer did an amazing job of representing the club and showing all the skills you’ve been working so hard on in recent months. Now time for a well deserved rest over Christmas so we are all ready to go and smash our next competition in February! GO BRISTOL! Keeeeep dancing!
Beginner Waltz
2nd Ruth Jennings & Nicole Bird
6th Georgia Bailey & India Ayling
Beginner Quickstep
4th Ruth Jennings & Nicole Bird
Intermediate Ballroom
1st Kiryl Zlobicki & Vanda Sigel
3rd Michael Stevens & Beth Grimes
Advanced Ballroom
3rd Xander Ferencz & Izzi Williams
Intermediate/Advanced Viennese Waltz
2nd Kiryl Zlobicki & Vanda Sigel
4th Xander Ferencz & Izzi Williams
Beginner Chachacha
6th Robin Stallard & Harriet Bramwell
Beginner Jive
5th Lottie Deveraux & Wawa Chen
6th Aaron Huxley & Iona Robinson
Intermediate Latin
1st Marcus Nguyen Ngoc & Maria Karagkouni
5th Kiryl Zlobicki & Vanda Sigel
Advanced Latin
6th Alasdair Peachey & Steph Ovenden
Intermediate/Advanced Samba
4th Marcus Nguyen Ngoc & Maria Karagkouni
6th Alasdair Peachey & Steph Ovenden Bristol
Team Match
1st Bristol A (Waltz)
3rd Bristol C (Waltz)
3rd Bristol A (Chachacha)
4th Bristol A (Quickstep)
2nd Bristol B (Jive)
4th Bristol A (Jive)
Overall ranking: 2nd Bristol A
Full results here.
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WARWICK VARSITY 2018
Beginner Waltz
3rd Peter Adams and Jenna Buxton
4th Emmie Meredith and Jade Carter
6th Eleanor Weaver and Mei Lin Roberts
6th Emma Narbett and Maria Sianchuk
6th Marie Di Nardo and Sophie Brown
Beginner Quickstep
5th Peter Adams and Jenna Buxton
6th Emma Narbett and Maria Sianchuk
8th Marie Di Nardo and Sophie Brown
9th Eleanor Weaver and Mei Lin Roberts
Intermediate Ballroom
1st Kirill Zholbitskiy and Monika Stanislovaityté
4th Michael Stevens and Beth Grimes
6th Henry Fuller and Natalia Denysyuk
9th Arjuna Mendis and Mary Kirii
Advanced Ballroom
3rd Xander Arthur and Izzi Williams
Ex-student Ballroom
9th Alexandra Diaper and Phoebe Charlesworth.
Open Foxtrot
4th Xander Arthur and Izzi Williams
Beginner Chachacha
3rd Peter Adams and Jenna Buxton
4th Marie Di Nardo and Sophie Brown
6th Emmie Meredith and Jade Carter
7th Ed Braddock and Shona Higgins
9th Eleanor Weaver and Mei Lin Roberts
9th Emma Narbett and Maria Sianchuk
Beginner Jive
3rd Ed Braddock and Shona Higgins
4th Eleanor Weaver and Mei Lin Roberts
5th Peter Adams and Jenna Buxton
6th Marie Di Nardo and Sophie Brown
7th Emmie Meredith and Jade Carter
Same Sex Latin
6th Jovana Milosevic and Aleksandra Bladyko Poroslo
8th Jade Ward and Andrea Mcarthy.
Intermediate Latin
2nd Kirill Zholbiskiy and Monika Stanislovaiyte
5th Michael Stevens and Beth Grimes
8th Nikos Styl and Claudia Martin
Advanced Latin
3rd Alasdair Peachey and Steph Ovenden
5th Xander Ferencz-Arthur and Izzi Williams
Ex-student Latin
6th Alexandra Diaper and Phoebe Charlesworth
Open Paso Doble
6th Alasdair Peachey and Steph Ovenden
7th Xander Ferencz-Arthur and Izzi Williams
Warwick Challenge
2nd Bristol
Team match division 1
1st Bristol A
7th Bristol B
13th Bristol C
Team Match division 2
1st Bristol D
Full results here.
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SOUTHERN FRIENDLY
On 28th January 2017 BULABDS competed, and hosted the Southern Friendly dance competition. We would like to say a massive well done to everyone who competed! We had some amazing results and had lots of people reaching or almost reaching the final!
Congratulations in particular to our finalists:
Kimi & Tara – 1st Place Beginner Quickstep,
Kimi & Tara – 2nd Place Beginner Waltz,
Alex & Izzi – 1st Place Intermediate Ballroom,
Alex & Izzi – joint 3rd Intermediate/Advanced Foxtrot,
Xander & Martha – 3rd Place Intermediate Ballroom,
Xander & Martha – 6th Place Intermediate/Advanced Foxtrot,
Chris & Grace – 6th Place Intermediate Ballroom,
Marcus & Milada – 2nd Place Advanced Ballroom,
Peter & Katie – 6th Place Advanced Ballroom
James & Claire 2nd Place Beginner Cha Cha,
James & Claire – 3rd Place Beginner Jive,
Vladimir & Claudia – 6th Place Beginner Jive,
Peter & Katie – 1st Place Intermediate Latin,
Peter & Katie – 3rd Place Intermediate/Advanced Samba,
Alasdair & Steph – 2nd Place Intermediate Latin,
Alasdair & Steph – 2nd Place Intermediate/Advanced Samba,
Xander & Martha – 6th Place Intermediate Latin,
Xander & Martha – 5th Place Intermediate/Advanced Samba,
Also congratulations Bristol A who WON THE TEAM MATCH!
We would like to thank: the Team Captains for their hard work to make sure all the entries were sorted and for everyone who helped the comp run smoothly – also thanks to the coaches for their amazing teaching and their support as without them we wouldn’t do so well!
And of course Patrick and Beth’s amazing comparing!
