Bhangra Blowout 17 RESULTS

[Manjot]

VCU!

congrats to all teamss!!

 

[Pooja]

Some comments...

UVA: I loooved this routine! And I know some people are not a fan of the black vardis but personally I like em, and they were very nice outfits. Anyways, the routine was very energetic, entertaining, and the mix was siiiick please post!! I was just so pumped this whole routine. Khunda part and Jhummar were awesome. Energy level was so consistent with everyone! Dhamaal song was cool, what is it? This was VCU's real competition last night.

Wolverine: some really strong dancers!!! manu - you're siiick. Reaaallly liked this routine and the vardiyan were absolutely beautiful! Great execution of moves...loved the fast jhummar. I don't really know a critque to give...it can only get better from here...

Rutgers: The routine was very slow for me, they have some strong dancers but I wanted to see more creativity.

Rochester: Impressed with the creativity with moves, and the fact that it's such a diverse team was awesome! This team is going places people.

NYU: Was happy to see that you are making the transition to more traditional sets...but y'all still have lots of work. There were some creative parts but I feel the basics need to be strengthened (execution of traditional moves) before you can incorporate that creativity. Guys are much stronger, some girls were really weak. Did not like the vardiyan but they're not yours anyways so oh well. People were having issues picking up props. Re Jhummar, so many more moves you guys could have used besides basic and some interesting steps...! I question the choice of song for the mela scene...too slow...it seemed like something was messed up there. Some parts were really clean, like when you did the move kicking your leg side to side, everyone was in sync. Kenchi jumps got weak at the end. It's a good start so keep it up but your competition is fierce so you've got a long way to go! Hallelujah to two things: jodis, and everyone dancing the whole time

Cornell: I wasn't so entertained with this routine...it was lack luster. And what was with the Wizard of Oz thing? Really no rhyme or reason...

Drexel: Blue jodi is sick! Green jodi...the guys were looking really tired to me at times. I liked DDA better!!! It was really clean, liked the mix.

VCU: I'm yearning to see something brand brand new from them! Some cool formation ideas, and their execution of moves is the best out of any team there for sure. But it was a typical VCU set, clean, energetic, creative formations, great execution.

I wish YPA or some of the other collegiate Canada teams could come...that would have been SICK.

Overall things I noticed: Lots of creative Phumaniya, some sick mixes. RDB/Nindy Kaur suck (although they did get the general crowd dancing). These artists are a real waste of money, sorry. The acoustics are sick and sound/lighting people were awesome. Bikram can Singh (pun intended).

My placings:
UVA/VCU*
UVA/VCU*
Wolverine

*I feel that VCU's dancers have a greater execution of moves, but I personally was more entertained by UVA's routine last night.


Oh also - CAPITAL FUNK IS SICK AS HELLLLL.

 

[Love]

Damn...VCU is straight up dominating this season

 

[crimsonNcream]

Congrats to all the placing teams!

I onle watched the very "well" lit videos in the video section i just wanted to say cannot wait to see Wolverine Bhangra perform again and hopefully in person soon

 

[Gurbir23]

is that three in a row now for vcu ?....burgh...elite...blowout?...or is there more =O

 

[adivish91]

I was there RDB was good, VCU, UVA and Drexel deserved to win they were phenomenal.

 

[ramzfan91]

Some comments...

UVA: I loooved this routine! And I know some people are not a fan of the black vardis but personally I like em, and they were very nice outfits. Anyways, the routine was very energetic, entertaining, and the mix was siiiick please post!! I was just so pumped this whole routine. Khunda part and Jhummar were awesome. Energy level was so consistent with everyone! Dhamaal song was cool, what is it? This was VCU's real competition last night.

Wolverine: some really strong dancers!!! manu - you're siiick. Reaaallly liked this routine and the vardiyan were absolutely beautiful! Great execution of moves...loved the fast jhummar. I don't really know a critque to give...it can only get better from here...

Rutgers: The routine was very slow for me, they have some strong dancers but I wanted to see more creativity.

Rochester: Impressed with the creativity with moves, and the fact that it's such a diverse team was awesome! This team is going places people.

NYU: Was happy to see that you are making the transition to more traditional sets...but y'all still have lots of work. There were some creative parts but I feel the basics need to be strengthened (execution of traditional moves) before you can incorporate that creativity. Guys are much stronger, some girls were really weak. Did not like the vardiyan but they're not yours anyways so oh well. People were having issues picking up props. Re Jhummar, so many more moves you guys could have used besides basic and some interesting steps...! I question the choice of song for the mela scene...too slow...it seemed like something was messed up there. Some parts were really clean, like when you did the move kicking your leg side to side, everyone was in sync. Kenchi jumps got weak at the end. It's a good start so keep it up but your competition is fierce so you've got a long way to go! Hallelujah to two things: jodis, and everyone dancing the whole time

Cornell: I wasn't so entertained with this routine...it was lack luster. And what was with the Wizard of Oz thing? Really no rhyme or reason...

Drexel: Blue jodi is sick! Green jodi...the guys were looking really tired to me at times. I liked DDA better!!! It was really clean, liked the mix.

VCU: I'm yearning to see something brand brand new from them! Some cool formation ideas, and their execution of moves is the best out of any team there for sure. But it was a typical VCU set, clean, energetic, creative formations, great execution.

I wish YPA or some of the other collegiate Canada teams could come...that would have been SICK.

Overall things I noticed: Lots of creative Phumaniya, some sick mixes. RDB/Nindy Kaur suck (although they did get the general crowd dancing). These artists are a real waste of money, sorry. The acoustics are sick and sound/lighting people were awesome. Bikram can Singh (pun intended).

My placings:
UVA/VCU*
UVA/VCU*
Wolverine

*I feel that VCU's dancers have a greater execution of moves, but I personally was more entertained by UVA's routine last night.


Oh also - CAPITAL FUNK IS SICK AS HELLLLL.

Uva dhamaal is Pange - prabhijit singh

 

[rajkaran]

oh lord, I'm not even going to get started on what I think haha

Congrats to all the teams that performed!

 

[Italianguy]

Good show! Congrats to VCU!

Congrats to all the competing teams!

Le congratulazioni di lavoro impressionanti!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope to see everyone in Boston in november.

 

[MPElive]

It was a pleasure meeting everyone in Washington, DC this weekend. I am amazed to see how far have Co-Ed Teams come in terms of traditionality. Keep up the good work and if any teams need further feedback, they can PM me here on facebook.

Big shoutouts to Aman, Yesha and the whole BB committee for pulling off a great competition. Everything ran smoothly throughout the weekend minus the lighting at the venue. It was certainly artistic but not recommended for a bhangra competition. Then again, there's not much the committee could do. Good Luck next year.

The pictures from the competition and the afterparties are now up on www.MPElive.com

 

[aman dhaliwal]

i thought the show was really boring this year but yea,, vcu deserved there 1st here but i thought wolverine should of won second place i was really impressed by them

 

[zagreus]

I was impressed by the passion of UVA. i personally felt they wanted it more than vcu, just my opinion on that.

and wolverine was far better than fusion, and manu...damn it, you're too good.

 

[Hattpichay]

It was a pleasure meeting everyone in Washington, DC this weekend. I am amazed to see how far have Co-Ed Teams come in terms of traditionality. Keep up the good work and if any teams need further feedback, they can PM me here on facebook.

Big shoutouts to Aman, Yesha and the whole BB committee for pulling off a great competition. Everything ran smoothly throughout the weekend minus the lighting at the venue. It was certainly artistic but not recommended for a bhangra competition. Then again, there's not much the committee could do. Good Luck next year.

The pictures from the competition and the afterparties are now up on www.MPElive.com

Awesome! Only two pictures of Drexel.

 

[MPElive]

Awesome! Only two pictures of Drexel.

My apologies.. our photographers had to wait 15 minutes to get thier press passes and were not able to capture Drexel or the first exibition act with DC's Metro Punjabi Academy.

 

[Amit]

And what was with the Wizard of Oz thing? Really no rhyme or reason...

The rhyme and reason is because we didn't want to look like all the other teams. We wanted to bring something different to entertain the audience. But thanks for your opinion.

 

[Sundeep]

And what was with the Wizard of Oz thing? Really no rhyme or reason...

The rhyme and reason is because we didn't want to look like all the other teams. We wanted to bring something different to entertain the audience. But thanks for your opinion.

hahahaha i love when VCU uses the whole joker thing, everyone's like oh shit that was hot (nd it most definitely was). but then whenn other teams at blowout start using gimmicks, they're like...wtf was that?? it was lame.. buttt actually i agreed with amit. i thought the gimmick was something different nd the tin man whoever he was was a SICKKK SICKKK locker.

lmao people cant even deny this fact.

andd props to cornell for an entertaining sett.

 

[mafzal]

cornell: i thought the wizard of oz was really random, maybe if they were U of Kansas or something it wuda been better, lol, but besides that the rest of the set i really liked it. the crowd actually cheered on the old school jugni (it was dull crowd), i think everyone loved it. props for girls using shykke. i recall that the khunda song could have been more pump tho. overall rlly clean and i was watching the pink jori alot. def enjoyed the performance and i thought u guys would have placed - i'm sure it was just hard to choose with uva/drexel giving great performances too

 

[Jeeti]

I just think the biggest problem with the wizard of oz thing...was the lack of explanation to the whole idea..

when vcu did it..there was kind of a flow to the whole thing...all the way through...

in the case with cornell, it was kinda just randomly bringing different characters from the wizard of oz onto the stage..although the lion dude started doin some crazy flips and stuff at the hand which was sick...tin man could pop lock like a beast too as Sundeep mentioned.... Just my advice though for future performances..attempt to explain it better and it will maybe work.

 

[Sundeep]

I just think the biggest problem with the wizard of oz thing...was the lack of explanation to the whole idea..

when vcu did it..there was kind of a flow to the whole thing...all the way through...

this is true.

 

[Kartik]

I just think the biggest problem with the wizard of oz thing...was the lack of explanation to the whole idea..

when vcu did it..there was kind of a flow to the whole thing...all the way through...

this is true.

Yea that was definitely an issue, we wanted to stay away from making it too much of a theme and really wanted to focus on having a straight set from start to finish. In order to do that we couldn't introduce characters or develop it as much as might be done on a fusion or raas team. In the end we got positive feedback from the judges and the crowd seemed to enjoy the intro and ending so part of the goal was achieved.


It was difficult to leave it open ended and not really explain it much more, but we felt that expanding on it would have taken away from the bhangra aspect of the set which is what is ultimately important to us. The lack of explanation was a sacrifice I'd be willing to make for that kind of crowd response in the very beginning of the dance. Really appreciate the constructive feedback from you guys though.