World Hip Hop Dance Championship: Adult Division Finalists Announced

What an insane, amazing night. The stage was afire with blazin' performances--for hours and hours and hours! It seemed the hotness would never stop.

Eventually, however, the battle had to come to a close and the scores all tallied.

Only the twelve top-scoring crews will advance from tonight's incredible preliminaries to Sunday's finals competition.

Advancing to the finals (final scores listed below):

PHILIPPINE ALLSTARS (Philippines): 8.69

Philippine Allstars

*Thanks to fotog Melissa Rodriguez for the above photo! See video of the Allstars' performance here.

NEUTRAL ZONE ADULTS (Mexico): 8.61

Neutral Zone Adults

SWEET & SOUR (New Zealand): 8.60

Sweet & Sour

PHYSICAL FUNK (Germany): 8.32

Physical Funk

R.A.F. CREW (France): 8.28

R.A.F. Crew

POREOTICS (United States): 8.27

Poreotics

ROCK 8 COLLABO (Canada): 8.16

Rock 8 Collabo

SOREAL CRU (United States): 8.10

Soreal Cru

TMC (New Zealand): 8.07

TMC

BLACK SOUL COMPANY (Mexico): 8.06

Black Soul Company

JOYCE & THE BOYS (Singapore): 8.04

Joyce & the Boys

KABA MODERN (United States): 8.03

Kaba Modern

STREET4ONE (The Netherlands): 7.95*

Street4One

All additional standings and scores:

JUSTICE CREW (Australia): 7.94
ODYSSEY (New Zealand): 7.91
T-DA CREW (Japan): 7.89
ABC (Columbia): 7.87
STOP REQUESTED (Italy): 7.83
24K (Canada): 7.82
BEATPHONIK (Australia): 7.81
PERIDOT (United Kingdom): 7.77
UNITED DANCE (Russia): 7.63
XVIBE (The Netherlands): 7.59
DE VERTIGO (Spain): 7.57
ECLECTIK (Trinidad & Tobago): 7.53
ZENITH DANCE CREW (Australia): 7.50
TOYBOXX (United Kingdom): 7.50
XTREME SOUL STYLE (Canada): 7.43
D-SAME (Switzerland): 7.36
REMIX (The Netherlands): 7.34
H CREW (Italy): 7.34
SPOKO (Poland): 7.32
SPIRIT DANCE SUPREMACY (Mexico): 7.29
SNATIT (Switzerland): 7.29
ZETTON (Japan): 7.22
YESSAI SQUAD (Italy): 7.21
VERSION ONE (South Africa): 7.17
CRAZY STEPS (Germany): 7.07
F.C.A. DUNKAN (Columbia): 6.99
RELEASE (South Africa): 6.97
CRUELLE (Trinidad & Tobago): 6.92
MAJESTICS CRU (South Africa): 6.88
ACTION DANCE (Brazil): 6.58
MONTEVIDEO MAGNA CREW (Uruguay): 6.56
SKYD CLASS (Austria): 6.42
THE QUALITY DANCE (Columbia): 6.22
CLASS X (Denmark): 6.14
WOMANS WORK CREW (Germany): 6.03
KOLORZ (Switzerland): 5.66
XTREME BREAKERS (Trinidad & Tobago): 5.25

*In our error, we accidentally omitted STREET4ONE from our first print of the finalists list. Good luck to them in the finals!

All photos courtesy of Master Shots and Hip Hop International. Please do not use without citation.

Adults on the Floor

An incredible 50 teams will hit the stage tonight in pursuit of a spot in the Adult Division of Sunday's World finals. Adult prelims began at 7pm this evening and nobody's leaving until the last step is stepped...

Competing now:

WOMANS WORK CREW (Germany)
POREOTICS (United States)
XVIBE (The Netherlands)
XTREME SOUL STYLE (Canada)
PERIDOT (United Kingdom)
T-DA CREW (Japan)
SPOKO (Poland)
UNITED DANCE (Russia)
CLASS X (Denmark)
NEUTRAL ZONE ADULTS (Mexico)
KOLORZ (Switzerland)
PHYSICAL FUNK (Germany)
YESSAI SQUAD (Italy)
ODYSSEY (New Zealand)
ROCK 8 COLLABO (Canada)
KABA MODERN (United States)
THE QUALITY DANCE (Columbia)
SOREAL CRU (United States)
DE VERTIGO (Spain)
STREET4ONE (The Netherlands)
BEATPHONIK (Australia)
RELEASE (South Africa)
ACTION DANCE (Brazil)
SWEET & SOUR (New Zealand)
BLACK SOUL COMPANY (Mexico)
TMC (New Zealand)
MONTEVIDEO MAGNA CREW (Uruguay)
ZETTON (Japan)
H CREW (Italy)
TOYBOXX (United Kingdom)
ABC (Columbia)
MAJESTICS CRU (South Africa)
SKYD CLASS (Austria)
D-SAME (Switzerland)
ECLECTIK (Trinidad & Tobago)
JUSTICE CREW (Australia)
REMIX (The Netherlands)
24K (Canada)
ZENITH DANCE CREW (Australia)
R.A.F. CREW (France)
F.C.A. DUNKAN (Columbia)
STOP REQUESTED (Italy)
CRAZY STEPS (Germany)
VERSION ONE (South Africa)
SNATIT (Switzerland)
JOYCE & THE BOYS (Singapore)
CRUELLE (Trinidad & Tobago)
SPIRIT DANCE SUPREMACY (Mexico)
XTREME BREAKERS (Trinidad & Tobago)
PHILIPPINE ALLSTARS (Philippines)

These competitive performances will be followed by showcase performances by JOSH & JEREMIAH - ALLSTARS and BEATIN HEARTS.

Head Judge: Natasha Jean-Bart
Judiciary Director: Ian Levia
Skill Judges: Luther Brown, Benito Deane, Devon Marlink, Dennis Danehy
Performance Judges: Shane Sparks, Jesselee Santos, Denyse Nagee, Margherita Vasselli

Good luck to everyone in the Adult Division!