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Podcast: Ballroom State of Mind
Episode: 18. Uncontested Rounds
Description: You might be tempted to think of uncontested rounds as a waste. You might think they don't count and that the first place win isn't real. I want to push back on that. There are ways to think about uncontested rounds that will serve you much better.
First, consider that if you are dancing uncontested that it means no one else you age, at your level was willing to show up and do the hard thing of competing. This makes you a rarity in this case. If another team doesn't show up for a match, and you...