First off, just would like to thank WAHEGURU for giving us the oppurtunity to compete and win and share the stage with such talented dancers. Also thank you to the organizers, atinder, andy, opinder, etc. Made the weekend so relaxed and helped us out with everything we needed, so thanks.
The mixer was cool, kinda like a akand path kinda feeling, where everything was sitting on the ground on the white chaddars, cramped together listening. Except instead of kirtan their was music
Kinda went long with all the singing and one or 2 boliyan were dirty and made all the girls teams (atleast the ones that understood) feel ackward, kinda wanted to leave right then but we stayed for the roti.
Rehearsal ran smoothly, everything was mostly on time. No problems with rides or anything. The only problem that i had was that i clearly wrote out all our lighting requests and timings on a piece of paper and gave it to the stage manager. They had said no curtains so we asked for a blackout. At the actually comp, they had curtains so the teams could set up, which is understandable, but our front line started right at the corners of the stage, so we needed those curtains removed and the black out just like we asked for it. So i went up to the stage manager, 30 secs before our music kicked in, and he completely denied me giving him the lighting and timing requests. Kinda got angry that I was even calling him out on it. Which is funny cause they got all the rest of our lighting requests on point, but yet denied me giving him the lighting requests to begin off with.
Overall things were run smooth, most of our girls are vegetarian so they brought us vegetarian pizza, kinda didnt mind sharing a small room with the girls, Especially
smd you guys were sooooo awsome and friendly to hang out with. All the teams were mostly friendly and everyone kinda hung around together since all the hotel rooms were on the same floor.
The competition itself was pretty good, good choice of hosts. They kept the audience engaged. Didn't see all the teams but looked like most teams were qualified and brought something to the table.
Sucks what the outcome was, Bhangra Masti really shouldn't of tied NJ and SGPD. What are judges for? They could of taken an extra 5 mins and broke the tie. I think it would of changed how the teams acted. Although, I wish both teams were more professional when it came to accepting the money and trophy. I mean RPD didnt when 1st, SIAC won 3rd, you didn't see them making a scene publically. But to each their own, I don't know how I would feel about a tie for first if it would have happenend to us.
Bhangra Masti was a great comp and well organzied for having soo many teams. Congrats to all the teams and a job well done to everyone that made the comp happen.
