ABDC S5 Weeks 6-8 submitted by LEY

Hello all! It’s been awhile, but I’m back with yet another recap of ABDC. We’ve got a lot to cover so let’s get started.

Last time we wrapped up the lousy Music Video Challenge and headed for the Lady Gaga Challenge. This entire season has held a bunch of firsts for the show and this week proved to be no exception. Because of a glitch in the phone votes, all of the previous week’s votes were thrown out so no one would be eliminated that week. However, the judges would grant the crew with the best performance of the night immunity against the following week’s DOUBLE elimination. I was sadly disappointed only in the fact that this meant that Saltare (who royally screwed up the week before) would not be eliminated. In the end it was a great challenge and the crews did well, specifically Blueprint’s performance to “Bad Romance”. They knocked it out of the park and were granted immunity.

The Disco Challenge
It seemed at first that this would be really cheesy, but proved to be pretty intense. Each crew had to mix the seventies vibe with a signature dance from the era as well as add one lift to the performance. Unfortunately, the votes from last week were piss poor. In the first safe/bottom reveal it was against Saltare and Static Noyze, with SN being sent to the bottom three. WTF!? Even more shocking was the fact that Jungle Boogie and Heavy Impact were also sent to the bottom three, but Hype 5-0 was safe. Again, WTF?

Blueprint – Decent job, but nothing stood out

Saltare – messed up again in the ropes and on one of their lifts

Poreotix - Rocked the stage! More importantly, JC mentioned that since the regionals he has been slowly losing interest, but this performance won him back.

Hype 5-0 – meh

Heavy Impact – They did an awesome job, however they did perform like it would be (and was) their last

Static Noyze – It was kinda obvious that they would be sent home. Enrique, the crew member who threw out his back earlier in the competition, started having problems again and did not dance in their final routine. I will note that the lift in their routine was outstanding!

Jungle Boogie – Performed a solid number that saved them from elimination. I was completely amazed when I saw Roqi, their lone female member, do the lift instead of one of the guys.

The Usher Challenge
I was really excited about this one and for the life of me cannot understand why or how this was never a challenge in the previous seasons.

Jungle Boogie – First safe crew (no surprise) and had to incorporate glides to “Love in this Club”. JC had some negative feedback right off the bat, whereas Lil Mama and Omarion praised the crew for rep’n the ATL. I will back up JC on this, they are halfway through the competition and the bar has to be raised and the judging has to be a bit stricter. None the less, the freeze frame peel out was awesome and JB received a standing-O from the audience.

Poreotix – Looked to top last week’s stellar routine and stay in JC’s good graces while having to perform a portion of their performance to “Yeah” in reverse. What can I say… THEY KILLED IT!


Hype 5-0 – Had to use roller sneakers for their number to “You Don’t Have to Call”. All in all they had some good and intricate moments and a decent performance.

Blueprint – Back in the bottom two, AGAIN. They had “Hey Daddy” with their challenge to incorporate a freaky hand segment similar to that in the video. They did a good job and pulled of their challenge well. I really feel bad for this crew though, they are constantly in the bottom. They are the cleanest crew on the show and have a lot of versatility. However, they really don’t have many stand out “moments” in their performances and because they are from Canada they don’t have much of a fan base. Maybe it’s because we’re America (fuck yeah!) and we still have a grudge from losing the hockey game at the Olympics. Regardless of the reasons, this crew does not deserve to be in the bottom every damn week. (side note: “These colors don’t run…they DANCE!” - T. Jones)

Saltare – Had to add a fight segment into their routine of “Caught Up”. Despite the judges noting on some small intricacies I failed to catch in the performance, it was overall stagnant. Clearly, Blueprint was the hands down victor and Saltare was sent home! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Now we have come to the finally four: Poreotix, Jungle Boogie, Blueprint, and Hype 5-0. Unfortunately next week is the Magic Challenge (did they not learn anything when they had the “Illusion Challenge” in season 3?). All that I can predict is that Poreotix will be the first safe crew, everything else is up in the air. Blueprint is a good crew, but they never get the votes and Jungle Boogie is a personal fav of mine, but Hype 5-0 has this rapidly growing fan base that popped up overnight. It’s anybody’s game now! See ya next week!