Fanscapeis attending this week's ABDC taping and wants the crews to answer questions from Blogging Best Dance Crew readers! This is your chance to help us 'get it right' and let the crews tell you what you need to know!
Submit your questions in the comments section. Guidelines:
They're not sure which crews they'll interview, so you have a MUCH better chance of having your question used if it pertains to ALL crews, not just your favorite
Keep it simple -- something that can be answered in 30 seconds or less
This is video, so questions that require visual responses (e.g., dance steps) are cool
Thanks to all of you who submitted entries on which crews will be in the top 4 at the end of this season, in the order of their elimination. If you want to change your vote, here's your weekly chance. UPDATE: I'm going to pull this post until after this week's show airs, to give everybody the same chance. See you soon
Jim Cantiello releases his latest Detox about America's Best Dance Crew Week 2. Think of it as ham on wry. On hand to further confuse the commentary are ABDC Season 1 crew ICONic acting as Jim's dancing camerapeople. Oh, if only this man's brain could be harnessed for good...
Tamara at Zap2It reviews the performances and the fashion. She adds: "I got to go to the taping and when Mario said it was a tough decision, it was. The judges talked about it for a good chunk of time. During the down time, Do-Knock from Supercr3w and one of the Jabbawockeez lead the audience in some dances. It was good times." Wish I had been there, Tamara!
Mia at Ningin critiques the dances, giving her biggest praise to Beat Freaks ("these girls are just beyond") and Quest:"I can only say holy snap; did I just see the guys sliding on their heads and then back flipping over their peers?... I actually thought it was a special effect and had to rewind it nine times!"
BDCMOVIEZ is back, outspoken as ever. It's a 3-part broadcast. Here's part 1; click to watch Part 2 & Part 3. As he says, "Lighten up, it's just Youtube."
I spoke by phone with Boxcuttuhz on Wednesday January 21, after the taping where they were eliminated. Listen in as we talk about why they feel they were eliminated, what they' re most proud of during their time on America's Best Dance Crew, their favorite crews, and what's ahead for the crew. For more on Boxcuttuhz, tune into Extra this weekend (no, they are not interviewed by Mario Lopez).
Okay, time to enter your votes for The Elimination Challenge for next week: Which crews will be in the bottom 2? Who will be eliminated? Enter each week and the person with the highest cumulative score for Season 3 will win an ABDC crew shirt of their choice and size (up to $35 retail).
Last week, NOBODY got all three points. And, the season goes on for 7 more weeks, so it's anybody's game. Enter NOW -- here are the rules and details. Entries will be accepted until midnight, Monday January 26.
We're sorry to see the Boxcuttuhz go. In their two weeks on America's Best Dance Crew, they showed humor, finesse. and great choreography. They brought a theatricality to this season that will be difficult to match.
This post is only for positive comments about Boxcuttuhz. If you want to negative comments about them or about other aspects of ABDC, please leave them in our Week 2 Party Room.
The voting is now open for The Fit Challenge from now until 6am Eastern time. If you didn't like what happened this week, make sure it doesn't happen again! You can vote online here. They will probably have the videos online by 11pm West Coast time, to aid in your choices
The party room for America's Best Dance Crew Week 2 is now open! Share your predictions, impressions, frustrations, hates and loves. TBone will moderate this reader forum, while NancyT live-blogs and does play-by-play in a separate BABDC post (just below this post). So, if you want to share your comments with other viewers, leave them here.
After the show is over: Give us your reactions and don't hold back. Kick butt, name names.
At 10pm, I'll be watching America's Best Dance Crew and live blogging the facts as I see them. So tune in at 10 and feel free to read along!
Even though this software gives readers the option of sending me comments, please post most of them on the separate Party Room post instead (unless you REALLY want me to see your message real-time). Reason: with this software, reader comments must be manually inserted by me and I'll be busy enough between the TV and the keyboard. You can also leave comments about my commentary, of course. But wouldn't you really rather be watching the show and arguing amongst yourselves?
This week, Salima Koroma (UCLA, Daily Bruin) and her cameraperson Michelle Kim (UCLA) attended the Week 2 tapings for America's Best Dance Crew as field reporters for BABDC. Here's her written report (with a teaser!) We'll post her videos in the next few days. Thanks Salima!
"I was able to drop by the set of America's Best Dance Crew this week,and it was probably the most exciting, chaotic event I've ever been to. All the crews were hanging out, having fun, and getting pumped up backstage for the show to begin. The episode's theme was to incorporate a specific dance move into the choreography.This week's installment of ABDC was in two words: vividly vibrant. Almost all the crews were rocking their bright oranges, reds, fuchsias, and highlighter greens with a kind of wild abandon. Luckily enough for me, I blended in just fine with my multi-colored FUNK shirt (and since I was blending in so well with my bright shirt, I strongly contemplated running on stage with the extremely colorful Beat Freaks [see above], but I figured that since I didn't know the dance moves, I had to bail on that plan)."
Click here to read more of her report and interviews and see more crew photos (Salima is right about those insane costumes). And -- Salima told me that the elimination will be a SHOCKER to many ABDC fans. So watch tonight and get ready to re-vote in our Top 4 contest tomorrow!
He thinks that the season 3 crews are more well rounded than the Season 1 crews, and have benefited from watching the first two seasons of America's Best Dance Crew
TGIT! Celebrate and watch ABDC's Fit Challenge with us tonight! The Party Room (aka Critics Corner) opens at 9:30pm (East Coast time) and stays open all night long for everyone who wants to comment about America's Best Dance Crew Season 3 Week 2 (or any other related topic). After the show, let us know what you thought -- What did you think of the challenge? Which crews need are all-stars and which need to go to the showers? Sarcasm and emotional outbursts are always welcome!
At 10pm, I'll be doing live play-by-play for those of you on the West Coast or have other reasons you can't or won't watch at that time. And, early tomorrow morning, please vote in our polls on the best and worst performances of the evening. And, week 2 of the Elimination Contest will be on-line tomorrow. Join us! Graphic credit: MTV
Our readers have spoken on the best and worst performances of America's Best Dance Crew Week 1:
Quest was the overwhelming favorite, receiving 41% of the 742 votes for best performances. Runners up were Beat Freaks (28%) and Boxcuttuhz (9%)
GOP was voted the weakest performance, getting 34% of the 603 votes for worst performance. Runners-up: Ringmasters (19%), Team Millennia (13%), Fly Khicks (12%)
We'll have the Week 2 polls on-line early on Friday morning, so come back and vote!
According to MTV Remote Control, "Dynamic Edition's Cara Petrunich fainted during a commercial break. Her crew was slated to dance next, but the routine was put on hold so Cara could regain her composure after the sudden collapse." Probable cause: overheating due to warm costumes plus excitement.
We hope that it didn't aversely impact Dynamic Edition's performance and that Cara is feeling okay today. Photocredit: MTV
Pacific Rim Video interviewed several crews before the Week 2 taping of America's Best Dance Crew. Here's their Quest video. Highlight: Quest members would like a dance challenge where crews have to 'trade' skills (e.g., steppers have to do clogging). The crew they'd like to trade with: Ringmasters and their contortionist moves!
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?
PopWrap interviewed JC Chasez. Read it here. Among the highlights:
"I don't consider this [America's Best Dance Crew] to be reality TV because it's more of a talent competition"
"Once I heard the crowd inside the theater yelling and screaming for the crews, I knew we had something special"
On the question of what makes a good challenge: "Each one needs to be creative and multi-diminensional...if you stick one thing on someone, they can overcome that in a matter of seconds, but these routines are more than a minute long, so there needs to be more to them"
About a possible NYSYNC reunion tour: "I know nothing about one."
Fanscape is attending this week's ABDC taping and wants the crews to answer questions from Blogging Best Dance Crew readers! This is your chance to help us 'get it right' and let the crews tell you what you need to know!
