I don't think that it would be possible to do this.
My own interpretation of the idea, is more the 'lucky dip' that some competitions call it. At competitions, if every couple who knew each other 'owned up', then it'd be chaos trying to get it sorted - I bet that at least half the couples when they get lined up, know, and have danced with each other before. I can't remember when I got a complete stranger in a DWAS competition (of course, MY partner ends up doing 'dance with a weirdo').
So, it's more a 'dance with someone that you might know, but don't know you're going to dance with until it's randomly sorted out', rather than 'dance with an actual stranger'.
At the Ceroc champs in London in 2001, I was stood next to Colin from Croydon, who, when the line was moved on, ended up with his wife. He tried to swap partners with me, since he thought that he shouldn't end up with his wife. I refused, and danced with the girl I had, who was more or less a stranger. He went out in the first couple of rounds, and I got a little further than that (
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