At bottom right are our three judges and the representative from New Line Cinema. They are (left to right) Jewel Siggs, Bill Hatton, Mark Harris and Mark Brookstein.

In all we had nine couples competing at the clubhouse that Friday night. We made sure that everybody got a chance to warm up (a couple of people located us very close to the start time so we moved the contest to 9:15 rather than 9pm. Bill Posladek did the DJ honors. While the contestants practiced he tried various tunes out to make sure everybody could dance well to them. The very fastest tunes weren't that danceable for everybody so Bill picked the medium-speed east coast tunes for the contest.

Our judges divided the contestants into two groups for the first heat, playing the same tune for each and keeping scores. After both groups danced five contestants were chosen for the final heat. Three couples were picked to go to the semi-final at the Grand Emporium Sunday January 17, 1999 (two nights later).