Replay: UAAP Cheerdance Competition

Channel 23 was replaying the 2007 UAAP Cheerdance Competition yesterday. I never got to watch it when it was live, and now I missed half of it. That's why I looked them up in YouTube:



In case you don't know, UP was champion, UST was 1st runner-up, and FEU was 2nd runner-up. UP's music was predominantly rock, and they employed hard moves in SYNCHRONIZATION. UST was lively to watch and looked more like a pep squad than UP, but their routines were slightly predictable. They were well synchronized and had a pretty cool domino-effect/falling down routine at the end, but they didn't have the hard-to-do moves of UP. FEU started out pretty lame, but brought down the house at the end.

NU had more of the standard routine, not too many hard moves that might have earned them extra points. Adamson had nice dance moves tucked in here and there ... also lacking in the more hard stuff that could have gotten them more points. Half of UE's routine reminded me of water ballet. Pretty rad but they lacked the "hyper" factor. They could do with more dancers, too.

Ateneo was disappointing. They were all over the place and did not look synchronized. They spent too much time setting up those pyramids, flips and tosses that you don't see much going on while they were at it. How do I say it? .... there wasn't fluidity when it comes to putting together their moves? It wasn't one smooth number, but a series of flips, pyramids and tosses? They were reportedly in 4th place if there is ever an award for fourth place. If that's true, then I guess those tosses earned them enough points.

DLSU had the pitiful mistake of having too much props and not having enough practice using them. They had a really upbeat start and was doing fine till they started pulling out those upside down, not in order letters, and banners that made a jigsaw puzzle on the floor rather than show their school logo. Scratch those props faux pas, and you can say their routine is livelier and more fun than Ateneo or UP. The cool endings still belong to UST and FEU.