After Monday’s final performance episode of Dancing With the Stars, there wasn’t much doubt about who would win the Mirror Ball Trophy. Sure enough, 27-year-old Nyle DiMarco, a deaf model/actor who dedicated his final, stunning dance to the deaf community, walked away with the win on Tuesday night’s finale.

The judges adored DiMarco from the start. He was clearly the front-runner through the season, though he locked up the trophy in the finals with the final dance Monday.