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DanceSport, a competitive form of ballroom dance, is commonly organized into two main categories with 10 recognized competition dances: International Standard Dance, including Waltz, Viennese Waltz, Foxtrot, Quickstep, and Tango, and International Latin Dance, including Rumba, Cha Cha, Jive, Samba, and Paso Doble (; ). As a representative aesthetic sport, DanceSport provides a distinctive intersection between athletic performance and artistic expression, where aesthetic experience contributes pragmatic value to the development of sport (; ). Like other aesthetic sports, such as gymnastics and figure skating, DanceSport requires performers to pursue competitive effectiveness through technically controlled movement while maintaining aesthetic quality as an integral condition of performance excellence (). This dual demand makes standardized assessment central to the institutional development of DanceSport. Competitive outcomes not only determine dancers' success (, p. 214), but also shape training, education, governance, visibility, and public legitimacy (, p. 84). Therefore, recent discussions have highlighted the challenge of assessing dance performance in ways that are both rigorous and publicly legitimate (; ). Compared with many competitive sports, DanceSport assessment is more subjective and multidimensional. It involves not only measurable technical qualities, such as accuracy and control, but also aesthetic judgments related to interpretation, expression, presentation, and appearance (). Debates surrounding within the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) illustrate this tension: while sportification can enhance visibility and institutional recognition, it may also risk subordinating aesthetic distinctiveness to standardized athletic criteria (). However, Figure skating offers a relevant comparative case among aesthetic sports. The International Skating Union (ISU) judging system separates technical elements from program components and supports technical scoring through video replay, demonstrating how technical objectivity and aesthetic evaluation can be integrated within a standardized framework (). Its institutional legitimacy provides a valuable reference for understanding how aesthetic sports can balance competitive credibility with artistic values. Since the early twentieth century, DanceSport competitions have relied on judge-based adjudication, and their assessment systems have evolved through the interaction of organizations that promoted different visions of competitive ballroom dance (). Within contemporary DanceSport governance, the WDSF has played a central role in codifying competition rules and adjudication principles. WDSF-based technical documents indicate that International Standard Dance and International Latin Dance differ substantially in movement structure, body posture, rhythmic organization, and partner relationship, although they are often evaluated through a broadly shared set of adjudicative criteria. summarizes these differences and shows why DanceSport assessment cannot be reduced to a single generic scoring model.