We're back -- tune in for crew videos!

We just returned from Los Angeles. We have quite a number of videos to process and post, including several crews, Randy Jackson, and a glimpse of how crazy it is onstage after the Finale. I promise I'll have a few up tomorrow. So, bear with my computer and jet lag -- I think you'll be glad you did.

Beat Freaks Video after ABDC Finale

Beat Freaks spoke with me after the America's Best Dance Crew finale about who they'd like to tour with, the first dance moves they ever learned, the involvement in the movie "B Girl" and how their involvement might bring more respect to women in the hip hop world. Thanks to readers TiVaughn, Karen Chu, and Litisha for the questions used.

Quiz: Which Dance Crew are You?

BuddyTV has a nifty on-line quiz so that you can channel your inner dance crew. Based on questions on your dance style, your pluckiness, and your taste in Janet and Michael Jackson music, they'll tell you which America's Best Dance Crew team fits your personality.

Which America's Best Dance Crew Are You?

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Quest Podcast -- Did they think they would win?

Buddy TV spoke with Quest on Friday after the Finale. In their podcast, Quest members describe what it felt like at the finale, how they knew Beat Freaks was going to keep them on their game, and their plans.

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More Season 3 Finale recaps

• Buddy TV credits Quest's tricks as the reason they won America's Best Dance Crew Season 3
• Entertainment Weekly complains about the America's Best Dance Crew finale being tedious, the group dances being 'unmeshed' and her favorite crew taking second place
• LA Times liked the show a whole lot better than EW, and posts about a dozen video interviews taken after the finale
  

Mailbox: Lil Mama, Mario Lopez, JC Chasez

• San Francisco Fashion Examiner was disappointed at Lil Mama's non-outlandish outfit at the finale.
• New York Post talks to Mario Lopez about the Season 3 girl crews, the idea of an all-judges crew, and the America's Best Dance Crew drinking game (alcoholics- pray that Mario doesn't say 'megamix')
• TV Guide interviews JC Chasez, who won't answer which is his favorite team, which crew is the fan's favorite, or whether season consistency is better than a strong finish.
  

Photo credit: Chris Polk

Interview with Shane Sparks at ABDC Finale

Sarah R. spoke with Shane Sparks after the America's Best Dance Crew Finale about his expectations for Season 4:

We just returned from interviewing Quest!

Quest is making the rounds in Los Angeles today, but they found time to talk with Sarah and me. What a great group of guys -- one of my favorite Blogging Best Dance Crew interviews ever! I'll upload it soon. In the meantime, a quiz: Lil Mama called them the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But what comic book characters do THEY identify with?

Early Finale Reports and Video

• MTV Remote Control got first crack at interviewing all the crews, judges, and America's Best Dance Crew celebrities, just after the Finale ended. Watch all 6 clips
• Zap2It recaps the show, with a few extra tidbits (best one: did you know that the ABDC winner's trophy was a bobblehead?)

Contest winners - Congratulations Baby Boy and Jeff#1

The winners of the BloggingBestDanceCrew.com contests were:

• Top 4 Challenge - Baby Boy was the first to get the finishing order of Quest - Beat Freaks - Fly Khicks - Strikers for America's Best Dance Crew Season 3. Though there were over 200 entries in the first 4 weeks, nobody got it right until he hit it in Week 5.
  
• Elimination Challenge - There was a tie between Eddie (who went into this last week with a 1-point lead, but guessed Beat Freaks for the win) and Jeff #1. However, Jeff came closer to predicting the number of votes cast in the last week.
  

I'll contact both of you about your prizes. Congratulations!

REASONS TO STAY WITH BloggingBestDanceCrew.com

America's Best Dance Crew Season 3 is over, but BloggingBestDanceCrew.com will be here for you over the next few months. Why should you keep reading us?

• Over the next week, we'll run videos of our interviews at the finale. During the off-season, we'll try to have regularly scheduled podcasts with the Season 1-3 crews
• We'll post the latest news on America's Best Dance Crew plans, including news of any tours and Season 4 (we hope)
• We'll keep up with your favorite crews, judges, and ABDC personalities. We'll supply information on performances, workshops, meet-and-greets, films/videos, merchandise, and anything else they're up to.
• We try to get YOU in the action, letting our readers tell us what questions they want to ask their ABDC favorites, and getting ABDC readers into local hip hop dance events as field reporters
  
• ABDC may be done, but hip hop dancing is thriving. We'll provide news and videos about other dance events including World of Dance, Hip Hop International, and any international Dance Crew competitions.
• We'll run forums, contests, and polls so that you can stay connected to others who love ABDC.

So stay with us! You'll be glad you did.
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Finale - first report from the press tent

We just returned from the America's Best Dance Crew taping. My ears are still ringing and I am still scraping confetti off my shoes. That was intense!

As with last season, I watched in the press tents with BABDC reporting crew members Sarah, Michelle, Cheryl, and with members of 21 other press outlets. Though there was some laughter (especially at the Ninja Turtle comment), wild cheering (at the Quest announcement), and lots of videotaping (why would you tape a TV in the press tent?), I missed on-line blogging and chat with this site's readers. Afterwards, we waited in an area suspiciously like a windtunnel, and finally got to see the stage around 30 minutes after the show stopped taping.

Then all hell broke loose. 22 media outlets and about 14 interviewable celebrities/crews = media feeding frenzy. We tried to interview Quest, but kept getting moved aside by other larger or more persistent camera crews. Man, I should have had my NY game going more. We did get to talk on camera to Shane Sparks, Randy Jackson, Ringmasters, Dynamic Edition, Beat Freaks, Strikers, and off camera to GOP, co-producer Howard Schwartz, Fanny Pak and JC Chasez.

No major revelations (except that there WILL be a Season 4), but we'll share the answers to our reader questions soon. And, we're going to try to talk to Quest tomorrow. No promises, but here's hoping... they did smile at us!

Survey: Which group gave the best performance at the ABDC Finale?

Survey: Which ABDC winner would win in a dance-off?

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The Party Room/Critics Corner is NOW OPEN -- Join us!

The Critics Corner for America's Best Dance Crew Season 3's Finale is now open! Share your impressions, frustrations, hates and loves. Did America vote right? Were the group performances awesome or awkward? What strange things did the judges say this time? Give us your reactions to the Finale and to the season in general. We'll leave this post open and prominent, so you can comment all the way to Season 4!

ETA from Tbone: MTV is hosting an online after party with the ABDC Insider and Tim Kash featuring interviews with the crews, judges and various hangers-on. Keep your eye out for our own Nancy T! And of course the party will continue all night long right here on BABDC...

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Live play-by-play blogging of ABDC Season 3 Finale!

At 10pm, TBone will be watching America's Best Dance Crew and live blogging the facts as he sees them. So tune in at 10 and feel free to read along!

Even though this software gives readers the option of sending comments, please post most of them on the separate Party Room/Critics Corner post instead (unless you REALLY want TBone to see your message real-time). Reason: with this software, reader comments must be manually inserted and he'll be pretty busy between the TV and the keyboard.

Survey: Which was your favorite America's Best Dance Crew Season?

Surveys say: Quest wins Season 3

The BloggingBestDanceCrew.com surveys indicate that Quest should beat out Beat Freaks and win America's Best Dance Crew Season 3:

• 82% of respondents said that Quest gave the best performances over the whole Season 3 (1,238 responses)
• 88% said that Quest gave the best Week 7 performance. (1,149 responses)
  

Of course, all that is based on the idea that our respondents are similar to the people who used MTV's voting system and that there was no major difference in how often partisans for Quest vs. Beat Freaks actually voted.

What would you do to make the Finale memorable?

We know that tonight's finale for America's Best Dance Crew Season 3 will have 3 group performances and the crowning of the Best Dance Crew. That leaves at least 20 minutes to fill. MTV could run retrospectives, have some individual performances, some interviews..all well and good.

But, if you were an ABDC producer, what would YOU do? What other performances and guests could they trot out to make it a truly memorable show? What retrospective footage would you want to see (the auditions, top moments, crew candids?

Youtube Spoof of ABDC Season 3

Tonight, America's Best Dance Crew brings back all of the Season 3 crews. To adequately prepare you, Ryanandangelo perform a 2-man summary of America's Best Dance Crew Season 3 in less than 4 minutes.