Every year during Super Bowl weekend in celebration of Easter Swing, SSDC hosts the annual Seattle West Coast Swing tradition of Easter Swing Ticket Tournament featuring:

• Workshops with WCS professional Champion Brandi Guild

• Potluck & social dancing with DJs Koichi and Sunshine

• Two competition divisions:

  1. Newcomer/Novice

  2. Intermediate+ (Intermediate, Advanced, & All-Star)

• 1st place couple wins Easter Swing event pass & hotel night each

• 2nd-5th place couples win cash

• Two giveaway ES passes - one for competitors and one for non-competitors

• More raffle prizes - scroll below!

Event Details & Location

Washington Hall, 153 14th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Saturday February 1, 2020, 12:45 - 11:30 pm

Mini-Intensive & workshop with Champion Brandi Guild

• 12:45- 1:00 pm Check In & Warm Up

• 1:00 - 4:00 pm Mini-Intensive: Quality of Movement

• 4:00 - 5:00 pm Workshop for Pattern Junkies

Potluck & Social Dance

• 5:00 - 11:30 pm

• Please bring something to share and RSVP here: Ticket Tournament Potluck

  DJs: Koichi Tsunoda & DJ Sunshine

  MC: Aaron Farance

Ticket Tournament Competitions

• 5:00-6:00 Competition Registration

• 6:30 Newcomer/Novice Prelims

• 7:00 Intermediate+ Prelims

  • Semis and Finals will be at the discretion of the Chief Judge

  • Newcomer/Novice will be run as a strict Jack and Jill following the standard formats. Prelims, Semis, if needed, and finals. There will be rotations in preliminary rounds where follows and leads are judged and advance individually – random draw for finals partner – where they are judged as a couple. Anyone with less than 16 WSDC Novice points will compete in this division.

  • Intermediate+ will be judged All-American style – couples advance together and are then re-sorted in each round. All competitors with 16 Novice WSDC points or any higher level points will compete in this division.

  • Anyone wishing to petition up or down must do so in writing to the Chief Judge prior to 6 pm on Saturday

  • Contests are non-gendered

  • Chief Judge: Wren Newman

  • Competition Rules

Prizes

1st Place in each division will win Easter Swing 2020 Weekend Passes and 1 night stay at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue
Cash prizes for lead and follow:
2nd $40
3rd $30
4th $20
5th $10

Giveaway Passes:

1 Weekend Pass drawing for Competitors

1 Weekend Pass drawing for Non-Competitors

Pricing

Cash or credit card accepted at the door. It saves to be an SSDC Member and we honor affiliated swing dance club memberships too!

Mini-Intensive: Quality of Movement (does not include workshop, dance, or competition)
$75 Members
$85 Guests/Non-Members

Workshop for Pattern Junkies (includes Social Dance)
$30 Members
$35 Guests/Non-Members

Social Dance & Competition Entry Fee:
$10 each
$20 dance + comp

VOLUNTEER: Sign up to volunteer for at least an hour on Saturday! We need helpers for set up and decorating, registration, food table maintenance, and tear down and clean up.

TICKET TOURNAMENT ATTENDEES ONLY Special Easter Swing Offer: SSDC Members receive a great discount off Easter Swing Weekend Pass. Prorated membership fee is only $20 and valid through June 2020. Members must be present to show proof of membership and pay at Ticket Tournament 2020 to receive this deal.

TICKET TOURNAMENT 2020 RAFFLE PRIZES (& more!)

• 1 giveaway ES pass to rest of the competitors and 1 giveaway ES pass to those, who choose not to compete

• A Weekend with Jordan & Tatiana 2020 Mini-Intensive admission,

• Marine Lauren dance shoes 50% coupon

• 2 vouchers for brand new Easter Swing swag

• 3 winners Easter Swing 2018+ older swag with new #Laurbucks stickers

• 2 winners Seattle Swing Dance Club (SSDC) workshop admission

• 2 winners SSDC dance admission