14/10/2017
Roma Open 2017
Important annoncement:
Dear Audience we apologize to announce the suspension of the event-competition ROMA OPEN 2017 (originally scheduled for June 2017 and later deferred to December 2017), due to the failure of FIDS to grant the "World Open License Standard and Latin".
We have valid reasons to complain about the determination (or lack of determination) of FIDS regarding our request for the World Open License assignment, because right now we are unable to know the reasons for which the refusal was opposed to get the “WDSF World Open License”.
For this reason, we have instructed a lawyer to assess the existence of violations of National laws, including our Italian Legal constitution, as well as the rules of the international and national Sport regulations (CIO-WDSF and WDSF-FIDS) statutory and regulatory FIDS.
In our view, such a situation is causing a serious damage to our dancesport system by facilitating immutably certain organiser instead of others (inequalities of treatment / violation of the formal and substantive equality principle with financial and economic consequences for those who had matured relying on the possession of objective and subjective requirements, including investing resources in view of the realization of the event); and, worse, affecting the ranking system for athletes (the score awarded for a 'World Open' competition is higher than that attributed to an “WDSF International Open Competition' or 'WDSF Open Competition').
Due to all of the above, we are sorry to announce that the ROMA OPEN Event is currently suspended, as we do not have the WDSF "World OPEN International License" that we requested, even if we’ve reached all the parameters requested Fids for the assignement of the WDSF Licenses for the Season 2017.
We also inform you that we will run a WDSF International Event (together with some collegues) in the same dates we planned the competition next December 2017.
We will let you know about all the future developments.
Thank you for supporting us!
ROME OPEN - Organizers