Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Quarterfinals
Several staff members moved a long table and three chairs to the platform, and the three judges appeared and sat on the judges' seats. When the audience saw www.biquge.info pen, there was a burst of cheers. Because of the appearance of the judges, it means that the competition is about to start.
The three judges for this competition are still Piper Hugo, Mary Jane and Santos Pérez who were interviewed in the last "Riptide" primary. In fact, there are not only three judges in the whole competition, but a total of seven, except for the producer Piper Hugo, who participates in the judging of each competition, and the other two professional judges are held by six people. In the first round of the competition, each person will judge twice, in the second round, each person will judge once, and in the final, all seven people will participate.
During the primary, it was the judge Piper Hugo who called the shots, and the main competition was accompanied by a moderator. After the three judges were seated, a stout black man walked to the middle of the field in front of the platform with a microphone and announced loudly: "Guys, the third competition of the first round of the "National Street Dance Competition" is now officially started!"
"Oh yes!" the audience screamed excitedly when they saw that the main drama had finally begun.
"Today's duel between the two sides is the "dark blue tomahawk" from Miami..."The host pointed to his left-hand side, and saw more than a dozen people wearing dark blue main color costumes, dressed in very hip-hop, walked out of the audience, came to the middle side of the venue, and waved to the audience as they walked, mobilizing the audience's emotions.
"And the "rapids" from Calabasas!" the host pointed to his right hand again.
"Come on!" Xiao Yao and the team members high-fived and fisted one by one, and then watched them walk to the other side of the middle of the field.
"Ha, did you come here from the renovation site?" As soon as the people from the "Torrent" came out, several people from the "Deep Blue Tomahawk" pointed to the pile of white ash on their bodies and laughed. Paul didn't say anything, just gave them a disdainful look.
"Today's game is a two-team dance, which starts with "Riptide". Now I announce, the game begins!" the host raised his right hand and waved it downward, and then withdrew from the middle of the field and disappeared into the audience.
The music on the scene was changed to a rhythmic background music that had already been notified to the two teams.
"Knock, knock, knock!" A dozen members of the "Riptide" dance team walked towards each other with neat and heavy steps like an army marching right. When they walk, the range of their swing arms is very large, and with each step, the hand on the other side of the foot is clenched into a fist and hits the shoulder on the other side, and the footsteps and the sound of punching the shoulder are very consistent with the drum beat of the background music, which is full of momentum. What's even more imposing is that with each punch they hit their shoulders, a puff of white dust was shaken off their clothes and floated into the air. More than a dozen people moved in unison, and more than a dozen clouds of dust were raised in the air at the same time, and the scene was quite spectacular.
The audience has never seen this kind of scene, and they were immediately shocked by their creativity. Even the people of the "Blue Tomahawk" on the other side of the middle of the field were a little wide-eyed when they looked at this scene.
Hip-hop competitions are not just about neatness and scenes. After reaching the center of the field with a powerful opening, the players began their performance. Single movements, double movements, and multi-person coordinated movements began to be displayed in turn, including the regular hip-hop dance movements that the audience had seen, and there were also some novel and interesting new moves.
"Hey, that's my signature move, kicking the wall backflip!" After seeing Paul and TJ cooperate to make a wall backflip that caused the audience to scream and cheer, Raymond also pulled Xiao Yao and screamed excitedly.
"Yes, yes. Xiao Yao smiled excitedly and nodded, and said "yes" twice before continuing to say to him, "Otherwise, why do you think I brought them to see you parkour?"
The people of the "Blue Tomahawk" team were also a little surprised and curious after seeing the new moves of "Riptide", they didn't expect that hip-hop could still be played like this. Although they also want to see more new moves of "Torrent", this is a competition after all, and they are fighting. The game was only six minutes long, and "Riptide" had been on the pitch for more than a minute, and if they didn't show up to take over the game, they would be completely out of action for the game.
Seeing the end of a group action in "Rapids", the men of the "Blue Tomahawk" forcibly rushed to the center of the field and forcibly started their performance.
"Blue Tomahawk" can enter the top 16 of the main competition, and its strength should not be underestimated. They are a well-known dance group in Miami, and if you talk about the difficulty of the movements, their performance in the first section is better than the "Riptide", but in terms of the overall visual effect and the novelty of the movements, it is much inferior to the "Rapids". Therefore, the cheers and screams of the audience in this first part of their performance are obviously not as good as "torrents".
The whole time of this fight dance is about six minutes, normally speaking, the two sides perform three rounds each, and each team performs in about one minute, of course, no one on the scene to time this minute, it all depends on the experience of the players on the field, at the right time, find the gap between the opponent's actions and take over the venue from the opponent's hands.
The "Blue Tomahawk" performed for about a minute, and the "Riptide" people rushed back to the center to take over the venue. And their performance in the second paragraph also gave everyone a stunning appearance.
After rushing into the middle of the field, Paul and TJ directly bowed down and stretched out an arm each, so that Zhou Jingyi's feet stepped on their hands separately, and then the two of them worked together to throw Zhou Jingyi up. When the "Blue Tomahawk" was performed just now, Zhou Jingyi had already quietly grabbed two handfuls of flour from her pocket and pinched them in her hands. After being thrown into the air by Paul and TJ about two meters into the air, Zhou Jingyi, who was in the air, straightened her right leg, bent her left leg against her right leg, and then raised her head and chest, and waved her arms straight up from both sides, slapping her head on the top of her head.
With this action, a semicircular arc composed of white dust also appeared in the air above Zhou Jingyi, wrapping Zhou Jingyi's entire upper body in it, so a very designed picture appeared in the air. Seeing what looked like a close-up slow-motion scene from a movie, the audience screamed again.
Zhou Jingyi, who fell, was caught by the team members, and then the entire team shrunk into a ball. With a heavy drum beat, the whole team exploded outward like a flower. The players in the outer circle jumped out at the same time, and the people in the inner circle leaned back in the direction of the outside, only Zhou Jingyi, who was in the center of the flower, suddenly stood up, and raised her right leg straight to the height of her head, and appeared again in a posture of standing a horse.
Then, Zhou Jingyi maintained this shape unchanged, fell straight forward, and slapped it on the ground with a "snap", causing the audience to exclaim.
In the beginning of the second paragraph, the previous performance of "Blue Tomahawk" was already killed, and after the scattered team members started their own actions again, the cheers and screams of the audience never lowered.
Halfway through the match, Mary Jean and Santos Pérez on the judges' bench were already talking to each other.
"It seems that I insisted on being the judge of the 'Riptide' race, and I made the right decision. Mary Jane whispered to Santos Pérez, "I was really surprised by the team that impressed me in the primaries. ”
"Me too," Santos Perez nodded with a smile.
Even if the fight didn't fit the storytelling model of their primary, they still put a lot of thought into the stage effect. Look at the white ash on their bodies, it's like a special effect in a movie, it's too graphic. Mary Jane continued, "And the image of the girl in the air just now is not only cool, but also beautiful. I'm going to take a picture of it and make it for the cover of my next album. ”
"It's not just the effects, but the movements are great. Santos Pérez commented from another aspect, "There are a lot of new moves that I haven't seen in hip-hop before. For example, the backflip that I did after kicking on the human body just now was much higher than what I could do by jumping on the spot on flat ground. And many of the new moves are different design ideas and styles, not like they were created by one person, they are really a very creative team. ”
After this game, the results were announced directly, and there was no comment from the judges, but the two seemed to have a lot of feelings that were not vomiting and unhappy, so they regarded each other as their confiding objects.
"I decided that in the second round of the competition, I still have to be the judge of this team's participation. Mary Jane said firmly.
"Well, count me in. Santos Pérez agreed.
"I said you two," Piper Hugo, who was sitting on the side, finally couldn't help it, "this game is not over yet, and the results have not been announced, why are you thinking about the next one?"
"Isn't that already obvious?" said Marie Jane, glancing at Piper Hugo, "Santos and I are clearly on the side of the 'riptide', and if you look at the audience's reactions, the last two minutes can be considered "garbage time". If you dare to announce that "Torrent" has been defeated and eliminated, you will be 100% bribed by the "Blue Tomahawk", and I will go to the media tomorrow to break the news, saying that your show is shady. ”
"Wow, old friend, do you want to be so cruel to me?" said Piper Hugo, "shocked".
"I'll ask a private investigator to investigate you. Santos Pérez added unwillingly.
"Ok, I'm afraid of you. Piper Hugo shook his head helplessly.
The judges began to whisper, and they also reflected from the side that the outcome of this game was already doomed. Xiao Yao, who was paying attention to the situation on the judges' bench, began to talk when he saw the second performance of "Blue Tomahawk", and then combined the performance of the two teams, he guessed that this game should have been won. The third performance of "Blue Tomahawk" was basically impossible to turn the tables, so Xiao Yao pulled the nearest Paul and made a gesture of pressing down with both hands.
Paul saw Xiao Yao's gesture, nodded, and beckoned his teammates around him to gather around and whisper orders. The scene environment was very noisy, and Xiao Yao couldn't enter the venue and walked to Paul's side to talk. If you use the words you say, it is estimated that you have to shout very loudly to be heard by Paul, but this is not easy for the audience to hear, for fear of arousing the audience's disgust, so he uses gestures instead. And the meaning of Xiao Yao's gesture is: press the third performance, just perform normally, and you don't need to take new actions out.
As the live music stopped, the dance fight between the two teams also came to an end.
The host who stood in the center of the venue again didn't sell anything, and after a long "The winner is...", he directly reported the name of "Torrent".
"Torrent" successfully passed, eliminated the opponent, and entered the quarterfinals of the "National Street Dance Competition". (To be continued.) )