The competition remained popular "well into the twenty-first century".
[4] The first competition happened on a four-day Halloween weekend in 1998 at the Playboy Resort (Vernon Township, New Jersey) and was produced, in part, with the aid of Boogie Dance Productions, a New York-based dance promoter.
It was chronicled in the Year in Pictures edition of Life Magazine[5] as a first-of-its-kind event promoting Lindy Hop and its sister dances at the time - tap, jazz and blues dancing.
It hosted an international audience of dancers who came to be part of the first event since the extended Swing Era to concentrate on Lindy Hop.
[6][7] The main divisions included Classic, Strictly Lindy, Blues, and American Showcase.