After a long wait, at last this year’s R 16 eliminations came
at the same place as that of last year’s. Uijeongbu city. This city is one of
the nearby cities of Seoul, and surrounded by beautiful lush green mountains.
It was 14th June, initially I was not willing to attend this event
as the place is too far from Ansan but then my friend and another K supporter,
Arsalaan Ansari, was also selected for this and we both decided not to miss
this one. It took more than 2 hours just on subway to reach there, we took taxi
as we were getting late. After having tickets we waited for the grand event to
start. The stage was all set and the all the participants were ready to give
their best.
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First round was of Popping, there were 8 Dancers competing
against each other. I personally like this style of dancing and try not to miss
this segment. Among this the judges short performances are always worth seeing
and you get satisfy that these judges are capable enough to judge and decide about
each performer. There were three judges, Popbong, Popkun and Super Dino
(China). Hoan won the hearts in his very first performance and then J one was
also very impressive in the end the Poppin DS won the competition with his some
very technically accurate popping moves
Next was the solo Locking dance battle, this hip hop style of
dancing moved the spectators and we enjoyed the music and atmosphere. There was
a female judge for it also named Yukari from Japan. Her judge performance was
also very impressive. There were some really good locking dancers in the
competition like Luffy, Rebel, the lady Luna, but the battle was won by Loking
Khan, who was consistent yet very diverse till the end.
The next round was the real team b boys free style dancing. There
were 5 judges: Physicx (Korea), Snake (Korea), Katsu (Japan), Menno (Netherlands),
and Venom (USA). There was proper scoring of different categories and so the
judging the close competitions were not so easy. There were many of new crews
and groups. Honestly speaking I missed the last time winners Morning of Owl.
The level of dance and synchronization was not there for a couple of groups
being there, yet all others were very competitive and professional. TG breakers
and Fusion MC were good as well as the Drtifters Crew but The Goonies and Gamblerz
Crew were the best for me, and so Gamblers Crew won this time R16 Eliminations
Korea.