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Dancelover26's Nationals Predictions 2026

With it being nationals season, I thought I would share my predictions! Please remember that this is just for fun and I'm rooting for everyone!

The One Nationals- Protege

Mini: Lola Bryant, Aspen Brandt, Abbey Scott, Eden Roberts, Brennyn Bishop, Emma Kleve, Emery Bourne, Haven Bolland

Junior: Melina Biltz, Madisyn Rose Amos, Asha Lee, Lainey Hess, Mila Renae, Arina Bryzgunova, Deanna Tierno, Gwenyth Woods

Teen: Victoria Martinez, Emily Polis, Mika Takase, Kinley Cunningham, Roxie Onellion, Greta Wagner, Kinsley Oykman, Amabella Tarrago

Senior: Sydney Duke, Coltrane Vodicka, Aaliyah Dixon, Gage Davis, Failenn Daley, Victoria Johnson, Lexi Godwin, Brooklyn Covington

The One Nationals- All Stars (This is hard because I don't know how much emphasis is put on ballroom)

Mini: Aspen Brandt, Emma Kleve, Lily Knopps

Junior: Madisyn Rose Amos, Stella Brinkerhoff, Lucia Piedrahita

Teen: Brooklyn Ward, Roxie Onellion, Amabella Tarrago

Senior: Kamri Peterson, Evie Richard, Riley Zeilter

The Dance Awards Las Vegas

Mini Female: Abbey Scott, Lily Knopps, Brennyn Bishop

Mini Male: I don't know any of them

Junior Female: Lucia Piedrahita, Callista Crowe, Lisbon Hendrick

Junior Male: Isaiah Santos, Jake Sato, Kyle Young

Teen: Skylar Wong, Isabella Tjoe, Regan Gerena

Teen Male: Kazuma Brailsford, Noah Nicholas Burnell, Caleb Livingston

Senior: Victoria Johnson, Cami Voorhees, Makaia Roux

Senior Male: Ian Stegeman, Gabriel Kleeman, Logan Asuncion - funny thing is they each perform their solos one after the other

Press Play AOTY

Mini Female: Sylvie Win Szyndlar, Skyla Edgar, Alexa Paul, Stella Fisk

Mini Male: Brody Schaffer, Bronson Arrivillaga, don't know the rest

Junior Female: Stella Brinkerhoff, Amaya Rodriguez, Kenzie Wright

Junior Male: Isaiah Santos, Chase Lang, don't know the rest

Teen Female: Regan Gerena, Bree Batstone, Mika Takase, Finley Ashfield

Teen Male: Santiago Sosa, Josh Lundy, Braydon Ziegler

Senior Female: Claire Monge, Taylor Morrison, Gracyn French, Lilly Allen

Senior Male: Tristan Redly, Gage Davis, Gabriel Kleeman

Press Play Specialty Solo (Kind of cheating cuz I'm making this after finals solo results)

Contemporary: Savannah Jackson, Claire Monge

Hip Hop: ???, Tristan Redly

Musical Theatre: Finley Ashfield, Chase Lang

Jazz: Regan Gerena, Aliya Yen

Tap: Asher Gooding, Matinly Conrad

Ballet: ???

Ballroom: Ceilidh McSeveney, ???

The Dance Awards Orlando

Mini Female: Lola Bryant, Aspen Brandt, Adaline Campagnuolo-Butler, Liliana Gonzalez

Mini Male: Sebastian Alvarez, Kenny Braga, don't know anyone else

Junior Female: Mila Simunic, Tinsley Wallace, Belle Marie Arauz, Navy Forrest

Junior Male: Rory Ross, Lincoln Rice, don't know anyone else

Teen Female: Anita Rodriguez, Bella Rey D'Armas, Rylie Borden, Leila Frey

Teen Male: Levi Caicco, Neo Del Corral, Gabriel Gebara

Senior Female: Giselle Gandarilla, Sam Evans, Sofia Rosella (quite literally don't know anyone else in this category)

Senior Male: Kylan Wright, Zachary Roy, Anthony Hunt

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Remember when Larkin won Mini Female 4 times in a row but no one ever said anything except how impressive and iconic it was? No one ever said "Larkin winning is gonna make people not attend Vegas anymore"

Stars just won senior male 4 times in a row and no one talked about it and there were a good amount of people upset they won teen 3 times in a row. Let’s start celebrating dancers and studios equally.

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a moment for caitlyn polis’s season because WOW i love watching her

tda top 3 press play top 10 and making the challenge at radix… and then doing groups at tda orlando… she is SOOOO amazing and im so sad i didnt find her earlier!!! she’s such a special dancer i know she’s gonna thrive at usc

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I think this is an unpopular opinion but I don’t care how many repeaters or stars winners we have. At the end of the day, if they’re the ones who come out on top after the recompete, they should win. This is nationals, it’s not “everyone gets a turn”

Me neither. Certain people and studios win a lot for a reason and the reason is that they are the best.

I think it is also funny that we get both "Stars is favoured by TDA" as well as "Anita didn't win because TDA doesn't want to give Stars that many wins" comments, like which one is it

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paisley matteson, dottie hamilton, adaline campagnuolo-butler, sebastian alvarez, and mia calles in addition to the ones you already named!

Thanks! Anon here you go

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adaline c-b as well

Omg yes I forgot about her

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which dancers are still mini next year

Funny thing about this is that normally I'm the one that's asking this question

off the top of my head, toni lange, salome rivas, kenny braga, ray zhang, alexa paul, lily knopps, luke noss, haven bolland, brenly twins are all minis and they did great this season

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lol although it probably was his parents who posted that caption, not him. but regardless, yes, he is being raised right that post is so so cute

such a cutie! i have a feeling he might take it home next year

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Cheating maybe a little? LPM brought almost every TDA instructor / judge to teach “masterclasses” at their studios. That was just OVERKILL.

I mean a lot of studios bring in TDA faculty for masterclasses or guest choreography so its not like this is unheard of

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well all I know is that some dancers should have placed differently even if they weren’t the “winner”

I mean unless you saw the entire audition process and all the solos you really don't KNOW

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Sebastian just posted “my best friend is best dancer” for Kenny 🥹

So sweet! Like getting 1st RU twice in a row must be kinda annoying but he’s so happy for his friends! These kids are being raised right

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STUDIO OF THE YEAR IN ORLANDO IN 2027 LETS GOOO

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I just know stars is gonna go ALL OUT

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Sam Fine choreographed Neo’s solo!!

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Stars alumni choreo doesn’t get talked about enough

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I’m crying why is sylvie win dancing with robots

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answering to a comment on your previous post, I think the Stars favoritism allegations aren't related to any personal relations though. Like I can somewhat understand why people would suspect that p21 is favored at press play or Mather is favored at TDA because Danny and Molly are besties and Blake is Shannon's brother. But the Stars criticisim is solely based on the fact that they win a lot.

I agree with this, stars doesn’t have any links with the faculty that are close enough for them to get favoritism allegations. I feel like most people who are mad are upset at the fact that 1. They win too much and 2. They don’t like victor and angel. I feel like winning to much is not a valid reason to be mad tho because what is stars supposed to do? Get less good? Not liking victor and angel is valid but can we maybe wait a week so that we can give all the winners their moments like we do for everyone else before we shift the focus to their teachers?

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https://www.tumblr.com/dancelover26/822539509769093120/sebastians-caption-too-funny-salome-needs-to?source=share

It's actually preferable he's not featured and maybe that's why they haven't been posting more with other kids; because Salome's fans for the most part are weirdos who always bring down whoever she's dancing with to lift her up. They seem to think of her as the best child dancer in the world and no one comes close and yes they do write that under her comments. Basically how they can only focus on her, how the other kid is ok but she's so much better stuff like that. They do it with her own team mates, even kids older than her like Belle. And if it's a teacher, they will say she's better than the teacher too. No joke, I have seen this happen.

I didn’t know she had fans like that but ig it’s inevitable if you have 2 million followers… I still want Sebastian to get move love but yeah if they collabed people might not be the nicest

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If Larkin won 5 titles a year, people would be talking about how amazing they are. But noo because it's Stars it's clearly favoritism🙄

Exactly my point. Larkin mega fans don’t come after me because I’m also a huge fan, but I know that if a studio as loved as Larkin were to win 5 titles, everyone would be THRILLED (rightfully so) and no one would be complaining. I know stars has more shadiness than some of the beloved studios, but that’s not a reason we shouldn’t celebrate the hard work their students put in any less than other studios