Las Vegas
March 4 - 6, 2011

Welcome!

Dear Fellow Dancers,

It is with great pleasure and excitement that we invite you to attend the Eighth Annual Vegas Showdown, held at the Las Vegas Hilton!

Here's some info about 2010:

  • Our Team:

We welcome back Paul Holmes to the Vegas Showdown team. Many of you know Paul as a coach and judge extraordinaire,but did you also know that Paul and Maria Hansen were professional partners in the International Standard Division? Paul has many titles : British National Champion, U.K. Champion, World Cup Champion, and finalist in the World European, Open British, Open British, Open US, International, and U.K. International.

  • Our Look:

We have a new look for Vegas Showdown, on our printed materials and the home page of our website. We're excited about it, and we hope you are too!

  • Our Circuits Affiliation:
     As before, we are proud members of both the Global Dancesport Series : and the  Dancesport Series.  Come earn your points for both Series, and earn $prizes!!
    • New Events:

    We are offering three new single-dance Pro/Am events:  Bachata, Niteclub 2-step,  and Argentine Tango.

         Also new are Closed 6-Dance Challenges in American (W/T/FT/CC/R/SW)  and International (W/T/QS/CC/S/R) styles. These events will have separate Bronze and Silver levels, 2 age categories.

    As always, being a member of the Global Spectrum Series, our goal is to provide the Pro/Am Teams with ample opportunity to compete in a variety of events, with a special focus on our Scholarships, offering prize monies paying to six places. Separate Bronze and Silver, Senior, and Open Scholarships are once again on our schedule. Our featured Global event is the Open “B” 36+ Scholarships in the four styles, each paying $700 to the winners!! Click on Jackpot Information for all the details!

    • Top Teacher Structure:

    This year, we continue our “Top Teacher per Style”, so that Pro/Am teachers who dance one or two styles  have a chance to compete for Top Teacher Prize monies! $500 will go to the top Smooth Teacher, $500 to the Top Standard Teacher, $500 to the top Rhythm Teacher, and $500 to the Top Latin Teacher. The only qualification is to dance 50 entries!! In addition, we will award our Overall Top Teacher prizes, 6 places, and automatic $500 bonuses to those teachers dancing 200+ entries, and automatic $100 bonus to those teachers dancing 100+ entries. We think this is an excellent incentive for any teacher out there. Please let us know what you think!

    • Continuing attractions we hope you'll enjoy:

    Last year, we put a focus on our young adult dancers by featuring them on Saturday afternoon, so that their parents could come in a concentrated time frame and bring family members and friends to enjoy. It was such a success that once again, we'll be featuring our youth with what we're calling the “Kids Korner”.

    We'll also be bringing back our Studios Team Match. Don't think you'll have a full team? Let us know, and we'll help you out with other partial teams. Call or email us for entry forms and additional info.

    • Registration Enhancements:

    In our efforts to provide efficient, eco-friendly registration, we are again providing online registration from our website. Many of you have taken advantage of this feature since we introduced it three years ago. Simply click the button on our website, sign up for the ticket package and entries you'd like to do, and we'll email you a detailed invoice. You can make changes, additions, deletions anytime once you register.

    Also,  if you prefer, you may use our interactive PDF forms available on our forms page. You can fill up the form, save it, and email it to us. Our goal is to make the process as paper-free as possible! You may need to update your free Adobe Reader Program, do that here: Get Adobe Reader 9


    Yours in dancing and fun, 

    Maria Hansen, Mikal Watkins, and Paul Holmes

    Maria 949-633-8727

    Mikal 714-401-9091

    Paul-917-887-8492