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The 2009 IDSF World Latin Championship has finished with the new Champions Alexei Silde and Anna Firstova (see picture on the left by Attila Völgyi) winning the title for Russia.
Second place went to Zoran Plohl - Tatsiana Lahvinovich (basically a local couple as they only recently represent the neighboring Croatia), 3rd to the other Russian couple Andrei Zaitsev & Anna Kuzminskaja.
Full results can be found here.

While the finals results, according to our ratings, can be considered a fairly predictable result (perhaps apart from the inclusion of the Italian couple), the nerves can get the better of anybody. Apparently, it did not happen to Alexei and Anna - they told the IDSF Communications Director Heidi Götz afterwards:
"We were fairly confident about our own performance, but we didn’t know how the marks would turn out. We only hoped that all our hard work this year would pay off."  

The quote, by the way, is taken from the blog of the event - that is right, IDSF and the organizers did an excellent job in terms of handling the media and public communications.
The treatment our staff received is commendable, both in terms of access to the venue and information as well as Internet connection - and of course treating every channel through which the dance loving public can be kept informed is very important nowadays.
But they went a step ahead and used IDSF's blog for the event which a communication team updated with quality content throughout the competition. Perhaps the only slight glitch was the omission of some reference to this blog from the competition's official webpage.
We would like to congratulate the organizers and IDSF as this is an exemplary inclusion of the public, a great example for many organizers.

Of course the local public was not left out either and attention was paid to the details - such as good lighting, a dynamic schedule full of entertainment including the Slovenian Standard Champions Luca Bussoletti and Tjasa Vulic, a grand opening ceremony including both a competitors and a judges oath, wheelchair dancing (see picture) etc etc.
The crowd seemingly appreciated this treatment and reacted with cheering and applauding loudly supporting their favourites throughout - it must have been great dancing in this atmosphere!

Our two photographers will be uploading their pictures as they are processed so expect more content to come up - as always.