Thursday, March 25, 2010

Preview from the pressbox: Chris Trondsen reports on ABDC5's Magic Challenge taping

This episode was one of the hottest of the season.  There were so many must see moments. The first was the opening number.  The stage and backstage was completely decked out like never seen before and all four crews danced together.  Not only danced together, but did it very well.  You will also see one of the judges up on stage dancing along with the crews!

The bottom two crews facing off was especially hard this week.  This season has four amazing crews in the top four, all with strong fanbases.  So there was no clear cut crew to go home.  Out in the audience, they had it so that there were sections each rooting for a certain crew.  The stage manager would tell all the Hype fans to cheer and hold up their signs, and then the camera would pan on them.  Then the Poreotix fans to hold up their signs and cheer, and they did it.  And so on. It was similar to that backstage.  You had different members of press cheering for different crews and that was not changed when the bottom two were announced.  Press was pretty split.   

When the judges had to make the decisions, JC felt that he didn’t think that these were the two crews that really deserved to be in the bottom.  Lil’ Mama agreed and all the judges said they loved these two crews and that it was the hardest decision of the season. When they announced who went home, many people were disappointed but I think it was expected after seeing the two crew’s who battled it out’s performances


Click here to read the rest of Chris's report, including the on-stage fan dance contest, the judges, and the celebrities in the audience. Thanks Chris!