Introduction
The tournament is organised twice a year, once during the Pentecost weekend and once in autumn. The tournament always starts on Friday and finishes on Monday. Although each ETDS is organised by a different party, the structure remains fairly constant: on Friday evening, the blind date program takes place, in which dancers that do not have a partner can try to find a nice dancing partner. On Saturday, the ballroom tournament for the “breitensport” (explained below) takes place and the Latin-American tournament for the open class. On Sunday, both classes dance the other discipline. Everyone goes home in the morning of the Monday after, or sometimes late on Sunday.
The organisation of each tournament is in the hands of a different participating university. The tournament takes place in the city of the organising university, and the location changes each half year to another European city. So far, the tournament has always taken place in either Germany or the Netherlands, but the 49th tournament (Pentecost 2013) is scheduled to take place in Norway.
Although the primary focus of the ETDS lies in organising a tournament of a high level, the event also aims at creating a social event where dancers from all of Europe can meet each other. This is stimulated by the possibility to blind date and by respectively organising a themed festival and a gala on the Saturday and Sunday evening of the event.
Often, the sleeping accommodation is a locale gym.
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