Kartik said:
This may sound bad, but at the end of the day we danced for the standing ovation rather than the points on the judges' score sheets. Don't think that we didn't bring it hard to Blowout though; our practice time went to incorporating a whole host of entertaining ideas rather than keeping it simple and clean.
I didn't get to see the videos, but I applaud the mentality here. It's easy to keep it simple and clean, but performing for an audience is about giving the audience what they want and putting on a show. Yeah, we're folk dancers... but we're entertainers as well.
Ideas didn't work out. So what? Win or lose, you tried your best. And from there, you just have fun and enjoy the weekend. You seem to be taking this gracefully, which is another thing I applaud.
Congrats to the placing teams!!