The eleminations of the competition are held in 20 different countries and national champions are selected. The world rankings are determined in the finals held in Spain. Turkey is also one of those countries. The most famous and prestigious Bachata artists are selected from those competitions. The finals of the competition are watched by 10.000 attendees at “BACHATEA WORLD CONGRESS”. Also it is streamed live to millions of viewers in social media. Competition rules and other details will be on this page very soon.

WORLD BACHATA MASTERS - RULES
World Bachata Masters Türkiye Championship *The Champions Championship* 
Date: Saturday December 9th - 2023, Istambul , TÜRKİYE
 
1 - OBJECTIVES
- Choose the couple that best symbolizes the quality bachata worldwide, we want the Champion to be a couple representing all styles and forms of dancing bachata
-Unify the highest quality bachata competitors from different countries who want to qualify in TÜRKİYE to go to the world final in Spain for the “WORLD BACHATA MASTERS” which is called The Bachata Champions Championship.
- The purpose of this competition is to collaborate and strengthen existing national and supranational competitions, working together for the highest and best development of bachata all over the world.
1.2 - HOW
- Creating and selecting a strong jury, having high-quality judges and trained judges for bachata competition. - Because to be called the World Bachata Masters Türkiye Championship, the competition has to be judged by the best judges.

INSCRIPTIONS AND INFORMATIONS
email:gurkan.surmeli@gmail.com
+90 537 616 11 64 - Gürkan Sürmeli - Organizer in Turkey
email: pablobachatea@gmail.com +(34)603281583 - Pablo Vilches - World Organizer

2 - DESCRIPTION
2.1 In the Turkish Competition, each couple will be evaluated once on a show choreography ( min 2 minutes, max 3 minutes) and once on an improvisation performance. The songs for shows must be 50% of Dominican bachata and 50% of bachata fusion.
2.2 The music must be 100% bachata songs, and at maximum 3 songs could be combined, but the styles %100 must be respected (50% Dominican, 50% fusion). The songs of shows need to be sent previously to the organization for the acceptation, till December 1th.
The dance order will be extracted by lottery and that meeting will be held during the tech rehearsal on Saturday afternoon.

3 - THE COMPETITION
The organization has the last word in any decision or unforeseen event during the competition.
Competitors Recommendations:
- Verbal expressions are not recommended during their dance, like singing the song, talking with your dance partner, verbally addressing the public or the jury, etc.
- If any eventuality happens, like a mistake in the song or the light going out, you must talk only with the general manager (sr. Pablo Vilches)
- It is completely prohibited and has penalties, that any participant or person related to him/her, has poorly educated attitudes towards the jury or the organization of the event, neither verbal nor written, during the competition or later. If the organization observes any inappropriate attitude, it can penalize the couple with their disqualification from future national and international competitions, as well as from this very competition and even withdraw the participation medal, prizes and recognitions that they had achieved.

4 -  WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
WORLD BACHATA MASTERS Türkiye Championship is the most exclusive and excluding competition. Only couples with a high quality of dance already demonstrated can participate, and their registration is for 2 ways.
1 - by invitation of the organization.
2 - by request of the couple, send a video of their most powerful show and a brief description of the couple's trajectory to bachataistfest@gmail.com, after an evaluation by the judging committee, their participation will be accepted or not.

5 - AWARDS
FIRST PLACE will receive medals and an accrediting certificate and will qualify directly to compete in THE WORLD BACHATA MASTERS, which will take place in February 2024 in Madrid. Flight, full board, and accommodation will be provided by the organization.
SECOND PLACE will receive medals and an accrediting certificate and will qualify directly to compete in THE WORLD BACHATA MASTERS, which will take place in February 2024 in Madrid. Accommodation will be provided by the organization.
THIRD PLACE will receive medals and an accrediting certificate and will qualify directly to compete in THE WORLD BACHATA MASTERS, which will take place in February 2024 in Madrid.

6 - EVALUATION CRITERIA
6.1 TIME: The couple must choose a musical interpretation time of the Bachata, (1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8) and the jury will evaluate and look for faults in the musical time, that is a failure for example when starting a trick you are dancing on time 1 and when you finish and return to the dance you start on time 3. This criterion has 100 points of the 1000 total points.
We seek that the dancers use a count from 1 to 8, but identify the time changes that the music makes and that the first musical beat is ALWAYS clearly interpreted. That is, it is okay if you dance on 2 (within counts 1 to 8) and also if you dance on 1 (within counts 1 to 8), it is wrong if you change from 1 to 2, and it is also wrong if you go from 1 to 5, because we are evaluating the interpretation of the dance and not the point of view of musical creation.
6.2 VISUAL PRESENTATION AND STAGE PRESENCE
Costume, makeup, hairstyle, shoes and accessories in general). In addition, the attitude with which the dancers are when leaving, during and when leaving the stage. This criterion has 100 points of the 1000 total points.
6.3 DANCE TECHNIQUE: This item measures the resources of the dancers, lines of arms and legs, body axes and balance, position and firmness of the torso, posture, positioning, knowledge of the figures they are presenting and the quality of execution of dance movements. This criterion has 100 points of the 1000 total points.
6.4 (FOR CHOREOGRAPHY) AERIAL MOVEMENTS (ACROBATICS AND PORTS  AND OTHERS):
Correct execution of carriages and acrobatics. This criterion has 100 points of the 1000 total points. MAXIMUM 1 AERIAL ACROBATICS AND 2 AIR CARRIAGES IN CHOREOGRAPHY. THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT ALLOWED FOR AERIAL MOVEMENTS IS 3.50 METERS.
6.5 DOMINICAN BACHATA MOVEMENTS: It is mandatory that each couple in both improvisation and choreography perform a minimum of 30% of the entire dance with international Dominican-style bachata movements, Dominican bachata movements being understood as those in which it is clearly marked. The 4 times of bachata with the corresponding hit of the hip in one of them (depending on what time the couple chooses to dance), this style is also identified with footwork and above all with the most explosive energy that must accompany the execution of this style to his music. This Item will have 300 points in the evaluation.

6.6 BACHATA FUSION MOVEMENTS: It is mandatory that each couple, both in improvisation and in choreography, perform a minimum of 30% of the entire dance with FUSION bachata movements, meaning fusion bachata movements those in which the interpretation of bachata is focus in a fusion of movements coming from urban, modern, jazz, tango, zouk, etc and fusion into bachata dance, those movements must be always connected with the chosen music. And are really important for differentiating your coreo from the other participants, showing your own personality and essence. This Item will have 300 points in the evaluation. 6.7  IMPROVISATION:
- All couples must dance improvisation, each couple individually in the order of performance drawing.
- Improvisation is considered the fact that couples are unaware of 8the music they will dance to, as it will be provided by the organization.
- Aerial movements (tricks or acrobatics) are not allowed in improvisation.
- The music for improvisation will be drawn from those selected by the jury or the organization.
- The duration of the music will be approximately 2 minutes.
- JUDGES: To take care of the transparency and objectivity of the contest, the Judges are proven specialists in what they judge, in this year 2023.

7 - GENERAL CONDITIONS
All participants, once the registration form has been signed, accept the basis of the regulation, and authorize the general organization to use their image, for promotions of the event, on VHS, DVD, JPG, WEB PAGES, etc.

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
gurkan.surmeli@gmail.com    -    +905376161164
pablobachatea@gmail.com    -    +(34)603281583
 
World Bachata Masters CEO - Pablo Vilches
WBMT Organizator- Gürkan Sürmeli