What is the Strictly Come Dancing Sambathon? 'Chaotic' contest returns to live show

Strictly Come Dancing’s Sambathon week is yet upon us, which means we’re successful for an evening of excitement, glitter, and a batch of bota fogos.

The remaining Strictly stars - Montell Douglas, Sarah Hadland, Pete Wicks, Tasha Ghouri, Chris McCausland, JB Gill and Jamie Borthwick - volition instrumentality to the ballroom this Saturday (November 23) for the high-energy dance-off alongside their partners.

It’s the archetypal clip since 2018 that the Strictly producers person decided to bring backmost the often chaotic creation week.

After their main creation connected the show, the couples volition each execute simultaneously to impressment the judges with their samba moves and get the astir points.

It means the ballroom volition beryllium full, and the stars volition request to propulsion retired each the stops to marque their samba skills basal retired among the remainder of the cast.

Dance-a-thons were a staple diagnostic successful past Strictly seasons, but they’ve not ever gone to plan. For example, successful 2018, during the Lindy Hop-a-thon, method difficulties threw the judges disconnected and led to them announcing the incorrect results.

But it looks similar this year, the squad is ready. Here’s everything you request to know.

Strictly dance-a-thons are radical challenges, wherever the couples each creation astatine the aforesaid clip portion trying to gain other points from the judges.

It resembles what accepted ballroom and Latin creation competitions would look like, wherever determination are often galore participants connected the level astatine the aforesaid time.

Throughout the Strictly seasons, determination person been galore variations: similar the Lindy hop-a-thon, the Quickstep-a-thon, and a Walz-a-thon. However, the contention was scrapped aft Season 16.

As its sanction suggests, a Samba-thon involves each the remaining contestants dancing the samba, a high-energy Latin American creation that originated successful Brazil.

Following their main performances, each the stars volition travel unneurotic to instrumentality portion successful the Samba-thon alongside the remainder of the cast.

They’ll each creation astatine the aforesaid clip earlier the judges destruct them 1 by one. The archetypal mates eliminated volition person 1 point, portion the 2nd gets 2 points and truthful on.

The victor of the Samba-thon is the mates that remains past connected the floor, and they’ll person 7 points.

These points are added to the wider scores of the night, truthful could dramatically interaction the scoreboards.

Strictly’s 2018 dance-a-thon was chaotic, to accidental the least.

Even the authoritative Strictly relationship admitted that things didn’t spell to program backmost then, precocious penning connected societal media: “The past #Strictly dance-a-thon was a blistery mess, truthful it tin lone get amended from here, right?”

Although the amusement went smoothly, the contented was with the judging afterwards.

Head justice Shirley Ballas’ tablet appeared to freeze, truthful she couldn’t work the scores arsenic she’d planned - and they had nary prime but to edifice to pen and paper.

Ballas past named Ashley Roberts and Pasha Kovalev archetypal - adjacent though she was really meant to beryllium saying who came past successful the competition.

Other blunders followed, but the squad primitively managed to robust things out. Let’s anticipation this year’s rendition goes a small much smoothly.