'America's Best Dance Crew': Poreotix transforms into the champion
Poreotix, the robotic crew hailing from Westminster, Calif., became the Season 5 champion of "Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew" on Thursday night, continuing the West Coast's dominance of the show.
Runner-up Blueprint Cru was the closest the East had come since Status Quo got second in the first season. The competition was closely contested all season long, though, with no one really breaking out as the dominant favorite, much like last year's We Are Heroes-Afroborike finale. [Correction: In an earlier version, I said the We Are Heroes-Massive Monkeys finale. It was We Are Heroes and Afroborike. It was barely up, but Alex saw it, so there you go.]
From the beginning, when the crew's Taylor Swift-inspired tutting and reenactment of the Kanye West-Taylor Swift VMA moment captured the judges and viewers with their theatricality, the tick-tick-tick crew has been among the favorites. Blueprint Cru, hailing from Montreal, had a built-in obstacle with Canadian voters not helping to prop them up as East, West and South voters generally do. Their perseverance saw them through, but small missteps in their final performance, and again, Poreotix's creative overall staging and storytelling ability, were too much for them to overcome.
There will be more from the finale, including video from choreographer Chonique Sneed, later on.
Congrats, Poreotix!
-- Jevon Phillips
Runner-up Blueprint Cru was the closest the East had come since Status Quo got second in the first season. The competition was closely contested all season long, though, with no one really breaking out as the dominant favorite, much like last year's We Are Heroes-Afroborike finale. [Correction: In an earlier version, I said the We Are Heroes-Massive Monkeys finale. It was We Are Heroes and Afroborike. It was barely up, but Alex saw it, so there you go.]
From the beginning, when the crew's Taylor Swift-inspired tutting and reenactment of the Kanye West-Taylor Swift VMA moment captured the judges and viewers with their theatricality, the tick-tick-tick crew has been among the favorites. Blueprint Cru, hailing from Montreal, had a built-in obstacle with Canadian voters not helping to prop them up as East, West and South voters generally do. Their perseverance saw them through, but small missteps in their final performance, and again, Poreotix's creative overall staging and storytelling ability, were too much for them to overcome.
There will be more from the finale, including video from choreographer Chonique Sneed, later on.
Congrats, Poreotix!
-- Jevon Phillips
Dude Massive Monkeys weren't in the finals last season, it was We Are Heroes vs Afroborike.
BluPrint Cru dominated most of the season, like Beat Freaks did, but unfortunately petered out at the end. 3 times they were in the bottom 2 and all three times they crushed their competition. The judges loved them but like you said they were always fighting an uphill battle every episode. This was highlighted by Lil Mama having to comment on why they weren't getting the votes they deserved. Reminiscent to when the judges ripped the voters in Season 2 when Super Cr3w and Supreme Soul were dropped to the bottom two no?
Hats off to Poreotix for winning. Poreotix had their fans, to whom they acknowledges practically each week, and that obviously tipped the votes but you have to wonder if the Canadian fans were allowed to prop up their team like the East/West/South crews did what the decision would be.
Posted by: Alex | April 08, 2010 at 10:21 PM
Well deserved win by Poreotix, representing Orange County, take that South Park. haha. But it wasn't a defeat for Blueprint Cru, I hope we hear more about them in the future because they deserved to win just as much as Poreotix. http://www.baduku.com/abdc5
Posted by: Baduku | April 08, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Poreotix is a wonderful group w/a very unique style. From their movements to their outfits, I was always impressed. The Disco challenge was my favorite.
Posted by: Cruziiie | April 09, 2010 at 09:53 AM
i love the poreotics!!!WOOHOOO!!!!
Posted by: janayporeotix | April 13, 2010 at 05:40 PM
Poreotix deserved to win all the way. they were the best and I think Blueprint Cru
were good but not as good as Poreotix otherwise they would of won but HAHAHAHA they didn't Poreotix did.
Posted by: paulina jimenez | May 26, 2010 at 01:42 PM