The Manhattan Amateur Classic Championship is a DanceSport competition hosted annually in the Manhattan/New York. The MAC is qualifying event for USA Dance National DanceSport Championships.
The Blackpool Sequence Dance Festival covers Classical, Modern and Latin Sequence Dancing. The format has changed over the years and 2009 saw the 60th anniversary of the Championships held in the Empress Ballroom, Winter Gardens.
The Blackpool Junior Dance Festival is the world's first and most famous annual Ballroom Dance competition for young dancers (Juveniles and Juniors) of international significance, held in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens of Blackpool.
The 8-day Blackpool Dance Festival, also known as the British Open Championships, is the world's first and most famous annual Ballroom Dance competition of international significance, held in the Empress Ballroom at the Winter Gardens of Blackpool, England since 1920. It is also the largest ever Ballroom competition: in 2013, 2953 couples from 60 countries took part in the festival.
The BDF Star Championships (originally known as The Star Championships) is a competition hosted in England, currently organized by the Ballroom Dancers' Federation. It used to be one of the most prestigious events of its time, supported by the Star Newspaper from 1925 to 1931. In 1938, the event was resumed. However, it never reached its former level of prestige again.
The Baltic Grand Prix is a sanctioned 3-day Latvian Dance Sport Federation competition, recognized by the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF). Hosted in Riga, Latvia, organized by Aigars Svars.. The 2017 Baltic Grand Prix includes various WDSF sanctioned events such as the WDSF World Open, WDSF International Open, as well as WDSF World Championships.
The Mid-Atlantic Championships is a sanctioned USA Dance three-days competition hosted annually in Maryland (USA), around the months of February. The Mid-Atlantic Championships is a qualifying competition for the USA Dance National DanceSport Championships in Baltimore, MD.
Arif Göktuğ Karacalıoğlu is a head of DanceSport technical commission in Turkey, licensed Adjudicator, member with World DanceSport Federation and organizer one of the most prestigious competition "Metu Open" in Ankara, Turkey.
The METU Open is a sanctioned 2-day Turkish DanceSport Federation (TDSF) competition, recognized by the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) since 2009. A WDSF World Ranking Tournament, the METU Open is hosted in Ankara, Turkey by the Middle East Technical University (METU) DanceSport Club, where the head of the competition's organization committee is Arif Göktuğ Karacalıoğlu.
The American Star Ball Championships is a sanctioned by National Dance Council of America tree days competition, hosted annually in Atlantic City (USA), around the middle of May. Organized by 4-time World American Rhythm Finalist Ilya and Amanda Reyzin and Igor Litvinov.
