a. A welcoming and inclusive category for all dancers who want to participate.
b. No restrictions to age, dance level, and prior experience.
c. All dancers regardless of teaching experience are eligible to compete in this division.
d. Meant to maintain the spirit of fun while permitting inexperienced dancers accessibility to compete with their instructors and role models.
e. Finalists are given numerical scores that add to their regional, national, or world ranking.

a. Meant to introduce dancers to the world of jack and jill competitions.
b. All ages, dance levels, and prior experience in other dances are welcome to participate.
c. To maintain the spirit of fun, dancers with teaching experience are ineligible to compete in this division.
d. Finalists are given numerical scores that add to their regional, national, or world ranking.

a. Meant for those who have just a bit more experience dancing Bachata but not a whole lot.
b. Meant for those that competed in the novice division and want to progress their competition experience.
c. A minimum of two years of Bachata dancing experience is required to be eligible to compete in intermediate.
d. Dancers are eligible to compete in this division if they have passed competition preliminaries, or made it to the finals in qualifications.
e. Dancers who have scored 20 or more points from competing in the novice division are eligible to compete in intermediate.
f. Dance instructors who have taught less than 25 public group lessons per year in the last 15 years are eligible to compete in intermediate as long as they pass preliminaries.
g. Finalists are given numerical scores that add to their regional, national, or world ranking.
h. Examples of someone that is eligible for intermediates:
- A dancer that a dance instructor or teacher occasionally has as a substitute teacher.
- A dancer that occasionally is an assistant for a dance instructor or dance teacher for a for-profit dance lesson.
- A dancer that is just becoming a dance instructor or dance teacher but part time.

a. Meant for Bachata dancers who have a good amount of dance experience, have competed in the intermediate and novice jack and jill competitions registered by Hello Bachata, or have been teaching Bachata dance classes for some time now.
b. Dancers are eligible to compete in this division if they have passed competition preliminaries, or made it to the finals in qualifications.
c. Dancers who have scored 30 or more points from competing in the intermediate division are eligible to compete in advanced.
d. Dance instructors who teach or have taught more than 25 public group lessons per year in the last 15 years before the weekend of the competition are eligible to compete in advanced as long as they pass preliminaries. These are considered "regular dance instructors."
e. Dance instructors or dance teachers that maintain a dance team within the last 15 years are eligible to compete in advanced.
e. Finalists in this division are given numerical scores that add to their regional, national, or world ranking.
f. Examples of someone eligible to compete in advanced:
- A dance instructor or teacher that teaches weekly or monthly dance lessons.
- A dance instructor or teacher that does not travel over 100 miles outside of their area of residence or travels very seldom to teach dance in a different area.
- A dance instructor or teacher that has started their own dance team and hosts regular practice or training sessions.

Our current competition format does not include an all-star division but may in the future based on national, regional, or world rankings.

Our current competition format does not include a champion division but may in the future based on national, regional, or world rankings.

a. Dance instructors, professional dance teachers, and individuals who have received compensation for teaching dance.
b. Dance instruction is their primary method of generating income.
c. Travels nationwide or internationally to generate income from teaching dance.
d. Creates dance movement as an artist and teaches others those movements.