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Ubisoft and Electronic Sports World Cup to Host First Global Just Dance Competition

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This is it folks, those hundreds of hours spent in-front of the television playing Just Dance, and subsequent days of muscle pain as a result of it may finally provide something more than a high score and satisfaction… and could win you a trip to Paris for a dance-off with other Just Dance elites.

Ubisoft and the Electronic Sports World Cup have announced a partnership to turn Just Dance(ing) into an official ESWC discipline, making it the first casual video game to enter the ESWC line up.

The Electronic Sports World Cup is a worldwide competition that starts locally with national qualifying rounds and culminates in a World Final designed as a live show. Qualifiers for the Just Dance World Cup will take place between June 24th and September 21st online and around the world at gaming events. The competition is open to anyone and there are three ways to qualify:

  1. On World Dance Floor, the online multiplayer mode in Just Dance 2014 which allows players to compete against each other’s performances. Qualifying sessions are scheduled for July 13th, July 20th, July 27th, August 3rd, August 31st, September 7th, September 14th and September 21st.
  2. Through Just Dance TV, players can submit their best dance recording through the in-game Autodance feature
  3. In-person at specific ESWC and Ubisoft events. Details on these will be released at a later date.

The top twenty Just Dance players will be flown to Paris Games Week to compete in the Grand Final of the Just Dance World Cup from October 30th to November 1st, 2014. During the Final, performances will be appraised on score and style of the dance by a jury and submitted to online voting.

Matthieu Dallon | Founder of the ESWC

For the 11th edition of the ESWC, we are very proud to widen the definition of eSport with Ubisoft. Competitive gaming has to welcome all kind of players, has to be developed in partnership with the games publishers, and has to showcase the most advanced technologies which link the body to the game. For ESWC, Just Dance is the perfect medium to reach those goals.

Jean-Baptiste Pennes | Senior eSport Manager at Ubisoft

As soon as you put Just Dance on a stage the crowd starts dancing spontaneously. This is really inspiring to us and reflects the fact that dancing is a show as it brings people together. Competitive gaming shares the same goal, so we decided to partner with ESWC and create an official discipline with a very accessible show for everyone to feel the thrill of eSport.

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