congratz to eberyvun of tha placing teamz !

who is vancouver bhangra

Quote from: bhang-this on November 29, 2009, 01:22:02 AM

who is vancouver bhangra

I think they were the pcac boys

i thought the pcac junior boys were now nachde shokeen

PCAC...Good Job Boys and Girls 

any reviews???

Quote from: Meistro on November 29, 2009, 02:14:11 AM

some team from BC should name themselves Canuck Bhangra....that would be sickkk

hahah!!!! STRAIGHT UP MAN!!!!! that would be awsome!! BTW Canucks won tonight against edmonton oilers!!! 7-3!!

yeaaaaaah !

WOAHHH Congrats PCBCA

Congrats PCAC

Alright I just want to say congratulations to all the teams that placed including my boys on Vancouver Bhangra and PCBCA and PCAC girls. Also every team did an amazing job and put forth a very good effort, every team brought it.

I just want to bring up a couple points about VIBC Next that probably won't have me coming back.

1. Every team after the intermission had their CD skip. Now I don't know what the hell was going on but for example PCBCA had about 30-45 seconds of their whole "chite suit" routine skip. When you're supposed to be a big time competition promoting bhangra you can't possibly make that kind of mistake. I saw 4 or 5 teams who's CD's skipped. Not only that but 2 teams had to redo segments of their routine.

2. I was sitting in the balcony, being a bhangra guy I like to see all the formations and you can always see the facial expressions regardless where you're sitting at the Bell Centre. Unfortunately for some teams all you could hear were bass drops. Now i've been to Bell Centre for MANY competitions and this was the first time that I could not hear the music. You couldn't even get a feel of the routine because there was no power coming from the speakers. Cmon man like you're not going to have practice to music you can barely hear right? I know for the teams that since the speakers were on stage that they could hear the music fine, but very poor effort on VIBC Next to have the volume up.

3. DELAY DELAY DELAY! There were only about 9 teams I think or 8 yet the show started probably around 5:45 6:00 and ended at 9:30. Having DNA come out was an awesome idea, Manpal did a great job getting the crowd ready for the competition. However the hosts delayed so much on everything. Then towards the end A-Slam came out. Now I like A-slam dont get me wrong. But for this competition I think they were semi-inappropriate. They did 6 song performances. Almost took about 20 minutes. And that was AFTER having 2 teams redo segments. You guys get what I'm getting at.

4. Now i've been involved with Bhangra and the scene for 6 years in Surrey. As well I've been dancing for 13 years. I know some people younger then me that have WAY more bhangra knowledge then me and are much better dancers. Why was Guriqpal Kullar from PANJ a judge? He's been dancing for maybe 3-4 years, learns from youtube videos and honestly like I said there were probably 20-30 people in the audience that I know who 20x more knowledge then him when it comes to bhangra. When I asked a member of VIBC (who is one of my closest friends) she said it was "the youth judging the youth". And that the jugdes weren't confirmed until the day of the competition because they had a difficult time finding judges. I think if you're supposed to be the the largest and more bad ass competition in BC then you should at least know who you're picking as judges. I know a lot of people aren't going to side with my on this but the youth judging the youth? Thats a load of crap.

5. Just so no body thinks that I'm jealous of Guriqpal (because from previous encounters with PANJ i know how sensitive they are) I was suggested to be a judge but the VIBC committee said I'm affiliated with one of the teams. Now VIBC got one part right which was I'm affiliated with a team, but out of the 8 teams there i've coached, or danced with at least 6 of them. So even if they had given me the offer there's no way I personally could have accepted it based on the fact that there's always a bias factor.

All these problems will have me NOT coming back to VIBC next. I didn't go to VIBC's events last year and probably won't this year either. Unless I see some intense improvement. A competition needs to have everything perfect. It's a good thing my girls team had to drop out.

Well I got a class to teach. I guess I'll just wait for everyones opinions on this.

OOO and congrats to PCBCA!!! i heard they was sick, and that they deserved first...but there cd skipped as well good thing they didnt accept the second place trophy..i wouldnt of either if my CD skipped 4-5 times and one time for more then a whole minute...skipping their entire gimmick. but still managed 2nd!! good shit guys keep it up