America's Best Dance Crew

[JabarR]

Who are your fave crews (besides the 5 champs) from ABDC?

[JabarR]

Mine are:

Champs

JabbaWockeeZ

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Super Cr3w

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We Are Heroes

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Others

Status Quo

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Beat Freaks

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Swagger Crew

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[X-Ray]

What happened to "besides the 5 champs" ?

The Beatfreaks ... would have won it if they had come out with a stronger final performance. Then again, Quest Crew's final was banana and would have been hard to top even by the likes of Jabba.

Kaba Modern the team that should have been up against Jabba in the finale.

Blueprint Cru was sick. They should have won it over Poreotix.

Supreme Soul. Sick. Went home too early. Could have won any of the later seasons.

Fanny Pak. Should have been in the finals. Could have won seasons 4 or 5.

[JabarR]

Originally Posted by X-Ray

What happened to "besides the 5 champs" ?

That meant, you can mention the champs as well as other crews. BTW, Quest Crew sucks!!!!!!!

[Incrediblejeff]

When the new season start?
besides the champs
Fanny Pack
Jungle Boogie
Strikers All Stars
Rhythm City
Kabba Modern

[superhero]

HAS ANY one heardof beat one crew studio beat Societies? ther on american got tlant they said they tried out for americn best dancecrew. they were really good just wondering if any one heardof them? they had marhtorn on vh 1 cannel couple weekes ago.

[JabarR]

ABDC returns in April!!!!!!! I hope they'll another Champions For Charity as well as a special where they'll give crews from the past a second chance to win.

[JabarR]

It's official!!!!!

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[JabarR]

Here are the new crews for this season:

I.Am.Me Crew


787 Crew


Instant Noodles


ReQuest


Phunk Phenomenon


Jag6ed


Street Kingdom


FootworkINGz


Eclectic Gentlemen


Iconic Boyz

[JabarR]

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[KenK]

Just going off of the performances posted, as a whole I'm not overly impressed. Measured against the winners from the first three seasons (even the runner-ups), I don't know how much I can expect from any of them.

I.Am.Me Crew: Crews like this usually have the easiest time adapting to whatever a given challenge calls for. Especially if their own style isn't enough to save them. B-


787 Crew: I get the feeling they'd be better on the large stage. They seemed to really have to restrict themselves on the smaller stage in the video. B

Instant Noodles: These guys honestly bored me to tears. D+

ReQuest: Here's the thing with these girls, they're not very complex, but their choreography is solid, and their ability to be as in sync as they were with their moves, for such a large crew, I thought that was very impressive. Between that and a history of some female crews lasting longer than expected based purely on sex appeal, I can see them getting pretty far. That fall at the beginning, though, that sh** can't happen on the show.B+

Phunk Phenomenon: I don't have much of an opinion on them. I know they won't win! B-

Street Kingdom: Outside of the areas its known for, no one cares about krumping anymore. I know I don't. C

FootworkINGz: They better tighten up their choreography for the show. Some of the dudes were slower than others, and some of the moves just looked sloppy. C+

Eclectic Gentlemen: Their video never gave me a good enough impression of them. All that editing and crap was annoying.

Iconic Boyz: This is kind of tough. Bringing in a younger crew like this screams "gimmick".

[JabarR]

Originally Posted by KenK

Just going off of the performances posted, as a whole I'm not overly impressed. Measured against the winners from the first three seasons (even the runner-ups), I don't know how much I can expect from any of them.

I.Am.Me Crew: Crews like this usually have the easiest time adapting to whatever a given challenge calls for. Especially if their own style isn't enough to save them. B-


787 Crew: I get the feeling they'd be better on the large stage. They seemed to really have to restrict themselves on the smaller stage in the video. B

Instant Noodles: These guys honestly bored me to tears. D+

ReQuest: Here's the thing with these girls, they're not very complex, but their choreography is solid, and their ability to be as in sync as they were with their moves, for such a large crew, I thought that was very impressive. Between that and a history of some female crews lasting longer than expected based purely on sex appeal, I can see them getting pretty far. That fall at the beginning, though, that sh** can't happen on the show.B+

Phunk Phenomenon: I don't have much of an opinion on them. I know they won't win! B-

Street Kingdom: Outside of the areas its known for, no one cares about krumping anymore. I know I don't. C

FootworkINGz: They better tighten up their choreography for the show. Some of the dudes were slower than others, and some of the moves just looked sloppy. C+

Eclectic Gentlemen: Their video never gave me a good enough impression of them. All that editing and crap was annoying.

Iconic Boyz: This is kind of tough. Bringing in a younger crew like this screams "gimmick".

Good grading. But you never mentioned anything about Jag6ed.

[JabarR]

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[KenK]

Originally Posted by JabarR

Good grading. But you never mentioned anything about Jag6ed.

Their video wasn't working while I was watching the others. But from the looks of the other vid, we'll have to see how versatile they can be. Granted I applaud their athleticism, 'cause that takes a lot of skill.

[Slushy]

JabbaWockeeZ and The Beat Freaks.

[JabarR]

Get to know some of the competitors

I.Am.Me Crew

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787 Crew

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ReQuest

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Street Kingdom

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[JabarR]

Whose gonna watch this Thursday?

[JabarR]

Here's a sneak preview of tomorrow night's season premiere

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[JabarR]

Whoever's gonna watch tonight, post your thought here.

[JabarR]

ABDC 6 begins now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JabarR]

Eclectic Gentlemen has been eliminated

[KenK]

I'm happy they've acknowledged that Omarion was a TERRIBLE judge last season, and I love that their approach this season was to go to one of the winners from a previous season. Although I think D-Trix made a mistake in giving Street Kingdom TOO much credit. It's a problem in a competition like this where you have to be careful about setting a precedent. Whether the main dude created Crumping or not, you can't make the implication that you're not in a position to judge them. You HAVE TO JUDGE THEM! To say nothing of the fact that this first performance from them, from a standpoint of judging them on the specific dance form, I've seem far better examples of crumping. Even if I was a die-hard fan of crumping, I'd have been disappointed with that routine.

[JabarR]

I thought I Am Me turned the place out.

[KenK]

Originally Posted by JabarR

I thought I Am Me turned the place out.

Out of the first five, I think they're the main competition. They've got a good blend of styles, and their tutting is definitely more elaborate than we've seen from other crews that specialize in that.

I worry about ReQuest, 'cause while I still think they're a fantastic crew, other crews have them beat on certain complex moves. There's always gonna be a level of favoritism towards the crews that do a certain degree of b-boying, but also advance gymnastic-type moves (flips, back handsprings, etc.), and ReQuest doesn't seem to do any of that stuff. And it's a shame, 'cause I'll give them points for being a very clean, intricate, energetic crew. And I loved that they really spared no expense, so to speak, with their performance last night. They used the whole stage, they nailed the theatricality, the had fun with certain portions, like makin' the doe-eye faces when they were doing the robot/doll moves, things like that are very difficult, 'cause those transitions have to be 100% smooth. A good judge will catch instances where it may fell more "start-stop, start-stop" (it's what I love about J.C. as a judge, 'cause having to do all that choreography during his N'Sync days, he's probably had choreographers offering up all the same criticisms and comments he's given out over five previous seasons). You don't have time to SEE what your crew mates are doing, you have to KNOW what their doing without you seeing them.

Which just angers me even more that Street Kingdom seemed to get such a blatant pass from the judges. They might as well told them you guys are safe right after their routine! Way wait for the official elimination portion of the episode?!?!

[JabarR]

Originally Posted by KenK

Out of the first five, I think they're the main competition. They've got a good blend of styles, and their tutting is definitely more elaborate than we've seen from other crews that specialize in that.

I worry about ReQuest, 'cause while I still think they're a fantastic crew, other crews have them beat on certain complex moves. There's always gonna be a level of favoritism towards the crews that do a certain degree of b-boying, but also advance gymnastic-type moves (flips, back handsprings, etc.), and ReQuest doesn't seem to do any of that stuff. And it's a shame, 'cause I'll give them points for being a very clean, intricate, energetic crew. And I loved that they really spared no expense, so to speak, with their performance last night. They used the whole stage, they nailed the theatricality, the had fun with certain portions, like makin' the doe-eye faces when they were doing the robot/doll moves, things like that are very difficult, 'cause those transitions have to be 100% smooth. A good judge will catch instances where it may fell more "start-stop, start-stop" (it's what I love about J.C. as a judge, 'cause having to do all that choreography during his N'Sync days, he's probably had choreographers offering up all the same criticisms and comments he's given out over five previous seasons). You don't have time to SEE what your crew mates are doing, you have to KNOW what their doing without you seeing them.

Which just angers me even more that Street Kingdom seemed to get such a blatant pass from the judges. They might as well told them you guys are safe right after their routine! Way wait for the official elimination portion of the episode?!?!

Let's see what the other 5 crews can bring to the table, but I can tell you right now, Jag6ed will be the next ones to be eliminated. I kinda feel bad that Eclectic Gentlemen were eliminated.