World Latin Dance Cup

This few days we went to the 6th Annual World Latin Dance Cup, which will be the biggest salsa and Latin party tournaments in the world. Organized by Albert Torres, organizer of this Los Angeles Salsa Congress and lots of other salsa occasions, the WLDC has grown every year and attracts over 1000 competitors from about the world.

However, i will be disappointed to say this 12 months was the worst World Latin Dance Cup i've attended. And I state this as somebody who has a giant value for Albert along with his group for efforts into global salsa community additionally the considerable amount of work which they put into organizing this gargantuan event.

I must say I appreciate most of the work their team puts into this occasion, but frankly, the 2015 World Latin Dance Cup had been many defectively arranged salsa event I have ever before attended. And from the things I have heard off their attendees and rivals, I’m not the only person whom believes therefore.

Below is my experience of the 2015 World Latin Dance Cup, and where in fact the occasion went wrong. I have tried to hold this post constructive, and included ways the organizers can improve future activities, but my apologies if some of my frustration comes through. Hopefully Albert and his group takes this comments and not repeat exactly the same errors for future activities.

Ahead Of The Event

The 2015 World Latin Dance Cup had been a mess before it also began. To provide some framework, the web site for WLDC (worldlatindancecup.com) didn’t even occur before end of Summer. Meaning before Summer, there was clearly no website where potential competitors could find any information regarding the event.

Even after the internet site ended up being put up, it was nonetheless difficult to book tickets for the occasion for most months. Rivals had to email and PayPal Albert Torres right being create the event. Can you envisage a huge selection of competitors PayPaling one function organizer? Not quite a scalable system.

The site has also been never ever up to date. Really the only location that regular updates were published to had been on Twitter. The organizers for the occasion don’t appear to realize that the conventional post by a Facebook page only hits 2.6percent of one's fans. That means that at 28, 000 fans, the standard revision published to the WLDC Twitter web page just reaches 700 people. Facebook posts may also be difficult to read through and navigate.

This was problematic as the information on the event kept switching and it was impractical to keep up with. This became a major concern once the occasion routine was totally altered monthly ahead of the occasion. At the conclusion of October, I e-mailed Albert in regards to the event schedule since it had not been posted anywhere. He reacted because of the routine, which was later on published toward web site in the middle of November.

After that, virtually per month prior to the occasion, the schedule ended up being completely changed. By then, many rivals, including nearly all my teammates, had currently scheduled their non-refundable plane tickets. Because of the last-minute schedule modification, many competitors could not allow it to be over time with their competitors dates, which later became a massive problem.

Recommendations:

The planet Latin Dance Cup needs an up to date website, duration. This is actually the 21st century and individuals discover information on occasions through internet sites. Having an up-to-date site for a meeting with this scale is important. Men and women need to be capable sign up for the big event through an online site, maybe not via e-mail.