More than 6,000 people had come to Volkswagen hall in Brunswick / Germany on November 26th 2011 to see the best 19 teams of formation standard dancing in the world. It really was a spectacular event again. Starting at 2 p.m. with the first rounds we saw fantastic formation standard dancing teams from all over the world. First time the Ulaan Sarnai – Red Rose team from Mongolia had come the long way from Asia to join the competition. And they achieved a good place in the midfield.
Of course all the World Formation Champions in standard section of former years had come to Brunswick to win back the title. So we had several aspirants for the title this year again such as titleholder ST Lotos Jantar Elblag from Poland, 1. TC Ludwigsburg from Germany and Vera Tyumen from Russia of course.
Andreas Neuhaus, Master of Ceremony, managed to create a sportive fascinating atmosphere in the hall during the whole afternoon and especially in the evening session when German TV broadcasted live from the event.
The formation teams achieved to enhance their performance and the audience gave it back with frenetic applause to all teams. With eagerness the camp-followers from the different countries waited to see their teams. When the formation team of Braunschweiger TSC came in to demonstrate “Immortallity” the audience in Volkswagen hall was blustering. They followed the new fantastic choreography, created by Rüdiger Knaack, chief trainer of the BTSC for more than twenty years, and they gloried in the fantastic music going along with the new choreography. It was a risk to try with a complete new choreography, but Rüdiger Knaack and his fantastic Formation A-Team were lucky to win the title with six out of seven 1st places at the end. The whole audience thanked Rüdiger Knaack and the outstanding dancing Formation A-Team of BTSC with standing ovations for minutes.
See the team of Braunschweiger TSC A-Team -1st place –
Who would win 2nd place? The seven adjudicators did`t find a team for 2nd place. Due to the skating system there was no chance to distinguish between the teams from Poland and Russia. So titleholder ST Lotos Jantar Elblag from Poland and Vera Tyumen from Russia had to share 2nd place.
See the team of ST Jantar Elblag / Poland – 2nd/3rd place –
See the team of Vera Tyumen / Russian Federation – 2nd/3rd place –
4th place was given to 1. TC Ludwigsburg, the former world formation champions of 2009 and 2007. The team had performed excellently too, but this evening ST Lotos Jantar Elblag, Vera Tyumen and of course the A-Team of BTSC were ahead of them.
See the team of 1. TC Ludwigsburg / Germany – 4th place –
We should not forget Impuls Cheliabynsk from Russia, who achieved 5th place, and the team of TSC Univers Minsk from Belarus attaining 6th place. These two teams performed excellent too, but they had very strong competitors. Nevertheless it was a great pleasure to see their wonderful dancing.
See the team of Impuls Cheliabynsk / Russian Federation – 5th place –
See the team of TSC Univers Minsk / Belarus – 6th place –
Next year, the best team of formation dancing in standard section will gather in Ludwigsburg again to find the World Formation Champions Standard. We wonder if the “rule” we be still working.
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