Astro Battleground 2009 Preliminary 3 & 4

Astro Battleground 2009 Preliminary 3

This preliminary consisted with crews from Team A: Street Wreckerz, Move, Shadow Emotion, La Belle Trio, Max Identity and ECX.

Contestants were required to perform a 3 and a half minutes routine with Asian music to bring out the Asian Hip Hop culture. Judges invited were Marcus Tucker from USA, Rambo from Taiwan and Bobby from Malaysia! The competition took place at the main entrance of Sunway Pyramid. It was started at 1.30pm but the place was already crowded at 12pm!

After a one and half hour of competition, it was the results announcement. 3 crews with the lowest mark will be called out to stand beside the 2 hosts, Ngan Mei Yan and Anthony Chang. The crews were Move, La Belle Trio and Shadow Emotion. La Belle Trio was announced to be the lowest team and got eliminated. Move and Shadow Emotion were required to battle with each other to remain in this competition.

After 3 moves from each side, it took judges awhile to decide which crew would stay. 10 minutes later, 3 judges pointed at Move. Congratulations to Move! However, Shadow Emotion should not give up in dancing! Hope to see you again! You guys are young and capable!

















Astro Battleground 2009 Preliminary 4

This preliminary consisted with crews from Team B: Dancologist, MJC, Twister XF, Katoon Network, Free and Wakaka Fever.

Contestants were required to perform a 3 and a half minutes routine with Asian music to bring out the Asian Hip Hop culture. Judges invited were Marcus Tucker from USA, Rambo from Taiwan and Bobby from Malaysia! The competition took place at the main entrance of Sunway Pyramid in the same day and was started at 4.30pm.

After a one and half hour of competition, it was the results announcement. 3 crews with the lowest mark will be called out to stand beside the 2 hosts, Ngan Mei Yan and Anthony Chang. The crews were MJC, Free and Twister XF. MJC was announced to be the lowest team and got eliminated. Twister XF and Free were required to battle with each other to remain in this competition.

After 3 moves from each side, it took judges awhile to decide which crew would stay. 10 minutes later, 3 judges pointed at Twister XF. Congratulations to Twister XF! However, Free should not give up in dancing! Hope to see you again! You guys are young and capable!




Katoon Network Alex and Kim.


Katoon Network Celica.


Cheese.


Katoon Network Mr Katoon Kelvin, acting as Sifu.


Katoon Network Hazmi Mimi, and stunned AD. Haha!

Katoon Network, once again, top scorer in this preliminary! Keep it up!!!

Astro Battleground 2009 Preliminary 1 & 2

27 September 2009 Astro Battleground 2009 Preliminary 1

This preliminary consisted with crews from Team A: Street Wreckerz, Move, Shadow Emotion, La Belle Trio, D-Black Gangz, Fox, Max Identity and ECX.

Contestants were required to perform a 3-minute routine with own significant dance style. Judges invited were Marcus Tucker from USA, Rambo from Taiwan and Bobby from Malaysia! The competition took place at the main entrance of Sunway Pyramid. It was started at 1.30pm but the place was already crowded at 12pm!

After a one and half hour of competition, it was the results announcement. 3 crews with the lowest mark will be called out to stand beside the 2 hosts, Ngan Mei Yan and Anthony Chang. The crews were Fox, D-Black Gangz and Max Identity. D-Black Gangz was announced to be the lowest team and got eliminated. Fox and Max Identity were required to battle with each other to remain in this competition.

After 3 moves from each side, it took judges awhile to decide which crew would stay. 10 minutes later, 3 judges pointed at Max Identity. Congratulations to Max Identity! However, Fox should not give up in dancing! Hope to see you again!


Excited and funny Rambo.







Astro Battleground 2009 Preliminary 2

This preliminary consisted with crews from Team B: Dancologist, MJC, Haru Haru, Twister XF, Katoon Network, Famous Strike, Free and Wakaka Fever.

Contestants were required to perform a 3-minute routine with own significant dance style. Judges invited were Marcus Tucker from USA, Rambo from Taiwan and Bobby from Malaysia! The competition took place at the main entrance of Sunway Pyramid in the same day and was started at 4.30pm.

After a one and half hour of competition, it was the results announcement. 3 crews with the lowest mark will be called out to stand beside the 2 hosts, Ngan Mei Yan and Anthony Chang. The crews were Famous Strike, Haru Haru and MJC. Haru Haru was announced to be the lowest team and got eliminated. Famous Strike and MJC were required to battle with each other to remain in this competition.

After 3 moves from each side, it took judges awhile to decide which crew would stay. It was a tough decision for the judges which crew to pick because it was a tight battle. After 20 minutes of discussion between the Producer and 3 judges, Judge Bobby decided to give his point to Famous Strike as he claimed that Famous Strike has more crew members that made the routine seemed more hyped while MJC was a little flat. However, Judge Marcus Tucker and Rambo pointed at MJC as they said they brought more Hip Hop elements in their routines. Thus announced that MJC would stay and Famous Strike was eliminated. Congratulations to MJC! Famous Strike will keep fighting! They knew their mistakes.






Famous Strike and Street Wreckerz Cynthia Wong.


Famous Strike getting ready.




Free & Famous Strike




Famous Strike's turn!


Standby










March!


Locking


Vogue


Hip Hop


Move, if you wanna, if you wanna, if you wanna, MOVE MOVE!






Hand stand bumping by Eric!










Vogue




House

Famous Strike, keep fighting!

Jementah Dance Competition 2009

Dance competition in Jementah, a small town before reaching Segamat in Johor. Famous Strike was informed 2 days before the competition from Move.

On Monday afternoon, they left KL to Jementah in a car of five: AD, Eric, Nic, Yvonne and Von. Half way on the highway, their car was almost out of petrol. So they had to move slow and about 5km away from Jejantas Rest House, they switched off the air-cond.

It took about 2 and half hours to reach the venue. It was held on a field. The stage was huge. There were 20 participating teams, 2 teams from KL including Project Elementz and Famous Strike.

All the participants were told last minute that they had to dance 2 rounds. Fortunately Famous Strike had 2 routines to perform. Judges involved Dennis and Chris from ECX, Maxx from Ultimaxx, Noel from Twister Genies and Wansmoof from Style From Beyond (Singapore).

Famous Strike, Twister Random, Twister Genies, Twister Spirit, Move, Shadow Emotion, Project Elementz, Fox and one JB BBoy crew managed to make it into Top 9.

Although Famous Strike did not manage to make it into Top 4, they were crowned The Best Costume and were selected in Top 8. As commented by judges, they preferred their first routine in the first round which would have made Famous Strike to be in Top 4. They got a little disappointed over their second routine as the energy dropped, compared to the other teams.

Von's purple skinny was torn in the beginning which made her movements small and unsteady. When you face difficulty during a performance, don't bother and keep moving. Don't make doubts overshadow yourself. Dance freely and make people proud of that courage.


The stage.


Top 8.


Crowned The Best Costume. The judges love the fierceness of Purple and Black. :)


2 envelopes with cash and trophies.


This is how big a torn whole could get. If you want to wear skinny in your performance, make sure it is damn stretchable! This purple skinny had been worn many times by Von in competitions and shows, and it got torn right at that time. How unlucky. :(