We are finally into the National competition with the remaining 9 crews competing for a chance to be crowned America's Best Dance Crew. This is where the season would usually kick off in the past, but I'm sure due to the success of the show, we were shown 3 regional episodes before getting to this point, but this is where it all matters. The final 9 crews all performed last night without any sort of assigned challenge, which we'll be seeing in the coming weeks, so this was basically just a "show us your stuff" round. I guess it was a "Chart Topper Challenge, which was basically just having the groups use popular songs. And while some of the groups showed us exactly what they are made of, some of the other groups fell short. I was pretty disappointed in the group that the judges let go last night only because I was such a fan of them in the regional competition, but that's how this show works, if you have a bad performance you're going to be going home. So with that said, let's get to the groups. Since this is the first round I'm going to keep my recap a little shorter for each group, otherwise this post will go on for days.
First up was Hype 5-0 performing to a master mix featuring Imma B by the Black Eyed Peas. They impressed me in the regionals, but only in their battle performance and while they were pretty good last night I didn't think it was anything spectacular. Sure everyone's nervous for the first show, but their moves seemed to be a little simple and while most of their stuff was clean there were definitely a few bobbles throughout the performance. The judges didn't think they were that great either and sent them to the bottom 3 to battle for survival. Check out the other rundowns after the jump.
