Ralph Macchio is from my neck of the woods. I was very impressed with him.
As I watched Kirstie, I was so jealous that someone as fat as me could move like that. Of course, she probably had dance classes when she was younger and Ralph must have had some training to enable him to move like he did in The Karate Kid movies.
As for the others, I thought that Hynes Ward (who I never heard of before) was quite good as well.
I, for one, will not miss the melodrama of last season's Bristol Stomp...