Open to dancers of any skills level - enter as a lead, follow, or enter for both roles! The sky is the limit!

How it works: Leads and Follows sign up individually and are randomly matched to a partner for each round of this competition.

Prelims: couples will dance in heats to a minimum of three songs of three different tempos (medium, fast, faster or ~ 180bpm, 200bpm, 230bpm).

Final: finalists will dance a warm-up all-skate dance and will have one spotlight to DJ-ed music, then a final all-skate. Final tune will be approx. 230-250bpm.

Open to dancers of all levels who are able to dance both roles.

You will need to showcase switching so it’s not about one song in one role etc… We’ll be looking at your skills in making switching seamless and fun but aso your proficiency in leading AND following. These are all important skills you’ll be judged against.

Prelims: switch dancers will start in whichever role they wish with the idea of switching as much or little as you like noting this is part of what you’ll be judged against. There will be 3 tunes (medium, fast, faster)

Final: finalists will dance a warm-up all-skate dance and will have one 1min30 long spotlight to live music, followed but a final all-skate - approx. 210bpm for final.

We love new dancers, we want to celebrate you, and this year, you’ll get the chance to enter a mix&match competition made FOR YOU!

You will be matched with an advanced dancer as a leader or follower, and compete in front of your peers. All for fun and to show us what the new generation of dancers brings to the part.

How it works: this competition is really dear to our hearts. We need our new and long-term dancers to be celebrated, and this is why we’re dedicating a whole new competition to them.

To qualify, you will need to tick (most of) those boxes: 1) you have been dancing less than 4 years OR have never made it into an advanced stream at workshop weekends; 2) you are registered in the Level 1 (intermediate) stream; and 3)  you have never made finals in ANY balboa competition.

Prelims: Amateur dancers will be matched with each other. Couples will dance in heats to a minimum of three songs of three different tempos (medium, fast, faster)

Final: finalists amateur dancers will be matched with an adnvanced dancer of the other role. You will dance a warm-up all-skate dance and will have one 1min30 long spotlight to live music, followed by a final all-skate - approx. 210bpmfor final.

This competition could take place at ANY TIME during the weekend. Find yourself a partner, and showcase your pure balboa to fast, faster, faaaaster music.

While not an "official" competition, we want to keep it fun and if you're up for a challenge, listen to the announcements throughout the weekend. Think of it as an underground unofficial type comp, where everything could happen.