Pooja said:
It's always hard to acknowledge a fault folks.
We have seen performances by all of these teams in the past, I don't need to see videos...there is just no way NBA/ABC deserves a placing over Heeray. Not even in anyone's dreams.
Pooja, although I, with many other people at the competition, was surprised by how Heeray (and Knightz) didn't place, I feel your generalizing comment to be extremely unwarranted. If you honestly think and look back at the years of bhangra, every team started somewhere and every team had to build themselves up.
To pigeonhole bhangra teams into categories of tiers from which they can't break out or stand a fighting chance against others is ridiculous. And that's the sort of attitude people in the bhangra community should 100% avoid-- every team deserves a chance to really step it up and get to that tier 1 level.
I mean shit, when VIBE was tier 1 (back in the day), would you say "oh I don't need to see videos, there's NO WAY a team would place over them at Bruin, I've seen them".... I mean come on, times/trends/etc change.
In ANY competition, you never know when a team might blow the audience and judges away and snag a well deserved placing, whether your prior opinion may or may not have indicated it to be 'possible'. Maybe a top contender just really messed up. Don't make generalizations like that.