Intergalactic Lindy Hop Open

3rd Annual Lindy/Blues Jack & Jill Contest
                        Monday May 19 & Thursday May 22, 2008

Prizes sponsored by:
HopToTheBeat's Beantown Camp (June 26th-July 3rd, 2008)
Dancing Feats' Swingin' New England (Nov 7th-9th, 2008)
Joe & Kathy Mahoney's New Year's Dancin' Eve

Judging provided by Steve and Rebecca host of
Wicked Lindy (August 15th-17th, 2008)
Boston Tea Party (May 26th-29th, 2009)



Prelims on Monday, May 19th at Monday Night Practice
Finals on Thursday, May 22nd at the Stomp

For directions to both places click on the Monday and Thursday links.



Please join us for the third annual Intergalactic Lindy Hop Open. We'll be running two preliminary contests again on Monday, May 19th: We'll have finals on Thursday night, May 22nd, during the BIX kickoff dance at the Stomp. All finalists will get free entrance to the Stomp.

Registration and Fee

Sign up will be between 9pm - 10pm on Monday, May 19th at Monday Night Practice, with both prelim contests run promptly after registration closes at 10pm.

Entry fee will be $5 per contest per individual, paid on the day of the event. Money collected will be distributed as prize money.

Prizes

This year we have sponsorship as well as prize money. In the lindy hop competition,
  1. First place will each receive, along with prize money, a gift certificate to Beantown Camp for $50 off of registering for the Weekend or Extended Weekend or $100 off if registering for the Week or Whole Shebang.
  2. Second place contestant will each receive, along with prize money, a $25 gift certificate off a weekend pass to New Year's Dancin' Eve.
  3. Third place contestant will each receive prize money.

In the blues competition,

  1. First place will each receive, along with prize money, a gift certificate for $50 off of a weekend pass to Swingin' New England.
  2. Second place contestant will each receive a $25 gift certificate off a weekend pass to New Year's Dancin' Eve.
  3. If there are enough competitors in this division, we will also award prize money to second and third place, if not then third place contestants will receive a gift certificate to Monday Night Practice.

Judging

This year we have an excellent list of judges both Monday and Thursday night. Prelims will be based on individual dancing and connection with each other. We will rotate follows after each song until all judges have enough information to make their decisions. Songs will range in tempo from slow to fast for lindy hop to various forms of blues/jazz for blues.

Finals will be based solely on partnership between the randomly selected couples. Winners will be announced on same night as finals are run (Thursday) and result will be posted the next open Monday (June 2nd).

Note that winners of this regional contest are not only responsible for providing their own transportation to the finals of the Intergalactic competition near Betelgeuse in the Constellation Orion, but that the organizers are not responsible if any of the finalists are in any way ingested by a hostile lifeform, whether part of the competition or not...Good luck!