[Tango-L] IV Campeonato Mundial -- how the pre-championships are organized in foreign countries

[Gabriella C. Marino]

One thing I know about the Campeonato rules in Italy, where they held  
Salon and Escenario rounds in the North, Centre and South with a  
winner for each of these areas going to Buenos Aires for the  
competition, is that if there was only one couple in the round (it  
happened) and the Argentinian judges considered them not to be  
skilled enough for the Semifinals in Buenos Aires, they were told  
they HAD to choose that couple anyway because there HAD to be a  
winning couple for the north, one for the centre and one for the  
south both for Salon and Escenario. I understand that they wanted  
everyone in the whole of Italy to have the same chance to take part  
without having to travel too far but I don't understand why they  
didn't have a final round with the three winners of the Salon rounds  
and the three winners from the Escenario rounds to send just one  
couple per category to the Semifinals in Buenos Aires. Except for the  
variety in levels, it's not that the tango in the north differs in  
style from the one in the south etc.
Also, the organizers here chose as judges Argentinian maestros who  
already happened to be in Italy at the time of the pre-championship.

Saluti,

Gabriella
Italy



On 23/ago/06, at 16:03, Janis Kenyon wrote:

> The countries represented this year are Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay,  
> Chile,
> Venezuela, Mexico, Italy, Russia, Finland (first time), France,  
> Germany,
> Spain, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Taiwan.  All except  
> Germany held
> pre-championships.  The semifinal rounds have 106 couples, of which  
> half
> will be eliminated before the final rounds on Saturday.
>
> Tango dancers from foreign countries have been investing their time  
> and
> money to come to the Campeonato Mundial de Baile de Tango for four  
> years.
> It's about time their investment pays off with foreign champions  
> this year.
>
>
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