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The Home Team Wins

13 August - Stuttgart, GER © Roland

Simone Segatori and Annette Sudol, who represent Germany and the Dance Club Astoria Stuttgart, went on to win the 2016 GrandSlam Standard Stuttgart final convincingly, outscoring their closest opponent in all five dances and with 191.64 to 187.44 in the total tally.

The first and second runners-up were the Lithuanian couples Evaldas Sodeika - Ieva Zukauskaite and Vaidotas Lacitis - Veronika Golodneva, respectively.

Maybe the atmosphere at the Beethoven Hall was not quite as electric as it was on the previous night, when the finalists in the GrandSlam Latin Stuttgart swept the spectators off their seats time after time. There are two possible explanations for that: maybe the audience had already exerted itself cheering during the Boogie Woogie final that preceded the one in Standard. Or could it have been the absence of a closely fought battle at the top - like the one between Simone, Annette and their perennial Russian opponents Dmitry and Olga that made last year's final so memorable - that kept the public in the stands more subdued?