R16 Eliminations Korea 2014

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 14^th 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.

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.