2016-2017 Competitive Season Review

[aheer_sunny]

Best Coed Team: Toss up between UNC and Buckeye but I was really impressed with UNC's Blowout set so I'll say UNC.
Best All Guys Team: SPD but AEG had a great year as well.
Best All Girls Team: SMD, their BAB set was dope
Best US Team: FCB
Best Canadian Team: SPD but props to NJFL, hella talent on that team.
Most Improved Team: Illini
Best Competition to Compete At: Buckeye. Hospitality and crowd were unreal.
Best Set: FCB at Burgh, wish you guys took this to more comps. UoB at The Bhangra Showdown is a close second for me.
Best Gimmick: NSG shaadi.com, one of the most creative team callouts since BK Bruin 2014
Best Team Overall: SPD
Best Mix: MOB Sydney at Bruin
Best Vardiyan: MOB Sydney's, but I also really like Spartan Bhangra's
Best Male Dancer: Canada- Jagmeet Saini from SPD U.S.- Saagar Menon from FCB
Best Female Dancer: Navu Munday from ASD

 

[angeblah]

Waiting for all the Bruin videos + Clutch

Trends that should go: The hiccup/heaving/oh-gawd-I-got-punched-in-the-stomach jhoomer step, bunch of spins leading into a hit, busting through a clump splitting at the front
Where the circuit will go: Fuller execution of steps, larger variety of moves in a set, using the back screen, more girls posting their opinions on BTF

 

[Saab]

What we knew: Canada is great
What we know now: Australia and UK are on par with US teams
What we don't know: Will they compete more, and which regions is better
Where will the circuit go: Wherever the hype team of next year takes it
Trends I want to see: More movement on stage, shorter sets with more impact, teams with clear identities, new ways of doing old things, better execution of steps
Trends that should go: Filler gimmicks, hindi songs, super spins(like above), jadhu singha in saap drops
Trends that shouldn't go: really smart tech gimmicks(nsg shaadi.com)


What I really want to see: Teams get smarter and more agile about how they organize and run their teams - teams that think through everything that they do in conjunction with making a set tend to do better and are more efficient = better performances for viewers (can't be starching paghs at 2am before a comp bro's/broettes), gimmicks with tech(alexa/siri/ok google ___), comp streaming offsetting huge losses for venue bookings(so we can have more comps)

 

[desi99]

Trend that should go: Yelling an opening sheyars on the mic with a hiphop Beat in the back. Has nothing to do with hype, it just Sounds odd and no one wants to listen to Broken Punjabi. Only a few voices can pull it off.

 

[ramv88]

Best Collegiate Team: UNC (honorable mention- buckeye)
Best US All Guys Independent Team: FCB
Best All Girls Independent Team: Have not seen one that stood out IMO
Best team in Canada: SPD
Best Mix: NSG @ Bruin 2017
Best Set: SPD @Big 10 Bhangra (this set was so much fun watching live)
Surprising team: AEG 2.0
Collegiate Team to look out for: Illini and VT Bhangra
Independent US All Guy team to look out for: RVD
Independent US All Girls team to look out for: I am really curious to see @Sherniyan Di Sarkari and @DCBC
What I would love to see more of next year: More live comps in NA Bhangra circuit
Where the Circuit is Headed-
- seeing the trend of countries traveling to other places to compete--- wish US and Canadian teams can do the same
- Bhangra is being exposed more to the world and teams are doing big things performing at NBA venues, WWF venues, government venues, etc
- more academies opening up to teach tomorrow's youth folk bhangra which is great!
- collegiate teams are actually getting better
- non-desi bhangra team being formed and did really well--- much respect @Duniya De Rang ---we would love to see more!



- Dholi Ram

 

[angeblah]

- non-desi bhangra team being formed and did really well--- much respect @Duniya De Rang ---we would love to see more!

Thank you! You definitely haven't seen the last of us...

 

[BhangraSUCKS]

Trends that need to go: ABC Bhangra in general

Trends that need to grow: ABC Bhangra in general

 

[R_Sharma]

Best CoEd Team: UNC for sure, the fact that they changed their set for almost every comp and went to as many comps as they did is insane--hope more collegiate teams start to do this because you can really see how good their set design was by the time blowout came around
Best All Guys Team: SPD, they set the standard for pure dancing and execution this year no doubt
Best All Girls Team: SMD, their Pao exhibition performance was cleaner than some of our comp performances this year lol
Best US Team: FCB
Best Canadian Team: SPD
Best Set: KPGD @ Bruin, also loved what Fauj brought to Big 10 and hope to see more of them soon
Most Improved Team: Illini, also wanna shoutout DDR here for ripping it at Big 10
Best Competition to Compete at: Big 10 because that lineup was nastyyyy
Most Fun Dancing Experience: Pao Bhangra followed very closely by Clutch City Bhangra
Best Vardiyaan: Buckeye
Best Mix: Furteelay @ Circle City, Fauj @ B10, CMU @ Blowout, NSG @ Bruin
Best Male Dancers: Prabh and Jagmeet Saini (SPD), Sumeet Jindal (KPGD/FCB), Sid Pandit (FCB), Dhir Patwa (FCB), Saagar Menon (FCB), Arun Singh (Furteelay), Naishal Patel (UNC), Sahil Dadoo (UNC)
Best Female Dancers: Tanya Talwar (CMU), Deepika (FCB/UNC), Ampal & Ashley (Alamo), Rebecca (Rochester), Manpreet Toor

 

[nakhra ae swag]

Best Coed Team: Buckeye, DRP, Cal, UNC
Best All Guys Team: FCB, SPD, NSG (most talented dancers)
Best All Girls Team: Royal Bhangra
Best US Team: FCB, NSG
Best Canadian Team: SPD
Most Improved Team: Illini, Cal, ASAP
Best Competition to Compete At: Bruin
Best Set: Fauj at Big 10, FCB at Big 10
Best Jhummar Segment: UOB at TBS, MOB Chicago all year, NSG at Bruin, Bruin at West Coast, DRP at Bruin
Best Gimmick: NSG shaadi.com
Best Team Overall: FCB, NSG
Best Mix: NSG at Bruin, Fauj at Big 10, MOB Sydney at Bruin, Bruin at West Coast
Best Vardiyan: MOB Sydney's
Best Male Dancer: Cherag FAUJ, Aditya MOB Chicago, Blue jodi for ABC at Reign of Bhangra was also swaggin
Best Female Dancer: Angela DRP, Tanya CMU