Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Bravo! to Improvements for ABDC Season 3

MTV made two helpful innovations for America's Best Dance Crew: linking performance videos to the MTV.com voting page while fans can STILL vote, and having bottom crews battle to the same music. Description:
  • Performance videos on-line tied to voting: A few hours after the show airs in NY (after it ends on the West Coast perhaps), video clips of the performances are on-line on the MTV voting page. This gives access to performances for those unfortunate people who couldn't watch the show at air time but still want to vote. It is also a useful reminder for those people who want to 'vote right'
  • Elimination challenge with crews performing to the same music: Before the show, all the crews were given the same 'elimination' master mix. The crews have time to prepare a 30-second routine to this mix and then perform the routine if they face elimination. This added challenge allows judges and viewers to compare the crews 'apples to apples'. It also reduces the handicaps that some crews faced in past seasons when they were assigned music that wasn't as appropriate to the challenge as the songs given to other crews
Readers: Do you have other CONSTRUCTIVE suggestions for MTV on improving the show or the voting process?