The Competition and Events
The competition normally occurs in February / March each year. There are individual competitions during the day in ballroom, Latin, rock'n'roll, offbeat and the Team Match. This is an annual event running since 1962 and hosted by different UK member universities.
For the Latin and Ballroom Events students are divided according to experience: Beginner, Novice, Intermediate and Advanced. Ex Students are also able to compete in some competitions. In lower ranking competitions dress restrictions apply. Beginners are encouraged and there is the "Best Beginners Team Trophy" which presented to the university with the most successful beginners overall. Other individual returnable trophies available:
- The Timur Olegovich Gulinskiy Advanced modern Trophy (In memory of a Leeds Dancesport Student who died whilst studying in 2000)
- The Novice Modern Trophy
- The Intermediate Modern Trophy
- The Far’s Advanced Latin Trophy
- The Novice Latin Trophy
- The Intermediate Latin Trophy
- Ex-students ballroom trophy
- Ex-students Latin trophy
- The Dance Basics best Beginners’ Trophy (awarded to the Beginner couple finishing highest over all four Beginners’ events)
- The Choice of London Rock ‘n’ Roll Trophy
- The Edna Murphy Shield (presented to the most promising couple, as decided by the Chairman of Adjudicators)
- The Far’s Dance Best Newcomer Trophy (awarded to the couple who receive the highestmarks in the team match and who have never competed in an IVDC team match before)
The Offbeat Competition is a "Fun" team "freestyle" even - the university can enter a 3 minute routine in any dance style. Interpretations vary from fun routines such as "The Full Monty" to serious high quality street dance routines. The Offbeat Winners Shield is presented to the winning team.
The most important event of the competition is the team match, which pits teams of 32 dancers from each member university against each other (These are split into teams of 8: A, B, C, D). This competition has undergone a drastic overhaul in recent years following innovations by Alistair Braden whilst at Bristol University. The team match is now a 2 division system that ranks all universities entered, instead of the traditional team match. The following Team Trophies are awarded at IVDC:
- The EADA Overall IVDA Champions Trophy (presented to the university placed first in the overall rankings)
- The Choice IVDA Overall Runners-Up Trophy
- The Far’s Dance A-Team Winners Trophy
- The Choice IVDA A-Team Runners-Up Trophy
- The B-Team Winners Shield
- The IDTA B-TEam Runners-Up Trophy
- The C-Team Winners Shield
- The IDTA C-Team Runners-Up Trophy
- The D-Team Winners Trophy
- The IDTA D-Team Runners-Up Trophy
- The EADA IVDA Division 2 Winners Trophy
- The Choice IVDA Division 2 Runners-Up Trophy
- The IVDA Challenge Trophy (presented to the highest-placed university composed entirely of teams in division 2
The trophies held in the highest regard is the EADA Overall trophy and the A team trophy.
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