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. (Mexico):
8.61
Neutral Zone Adults (New Zealand):
8.60
Sweet & Sour (Germany):
8.32
Physical Funk (France):
8.28
R.A.F. Crew (United States):
8.27
Poreotics(Canada):
8.16
Rock 8 Collabo (United States):
8.10
Soreal Cru (New Zealand):
8.07
TMC (Mexico):
8.06
Black Soul Company
(Singapore):
8.04
Joyce & the Boys (United States):
8.03
Kaba Modern
STREET4ONE (The Netherlands):
7.95*
Street4One
All additional standings and scores:JUSTICE CREW (Australia):
7.94ODYSSEY (New Zealand):
7.91T-DA CREW (Japan):
7.89ABC (Columbia):
7.87STOP REQUESTED (Italy):
7.8324K (Canada):
7.82BEATPHONIK (Australia):
7.81PERIDOT (United Kingdom):
7.77UNITED DANCE (Russia):
7.63XVIBE (The Netherlands):
7.59DE VERTIGO (Spain):
7.57ECLECTIK (Trinidad & Tobago):
7.53ZENITH DANCE CREW (Australia):
7.50TOYBOXX (United Kingdom):
7.50XTREME SOUL STYLE (Canada):
7.43D-SAME (Switzerland):
7.36REMIX (The Netherlands):
7.34H CREW (Italy):
7.34SPOKO (Poland):
7.32SPIRIT DANCE SUPREMACY (Mexico):
7.29SNATIT (Switzerland):
7.29ZETTON (Japan):
7.22YESSAI SQUAD (Italy):
7.21VERSION ONE (South Africa):
7.17CRAZY STEPS (Germany):
7.07F.C.A. DUNKAN (Columbia):
6.99RELEASE (South Africa):
6.97CRUELLE (Trinidad & Tobago):
6.92MAJESTICS CRU (South Africa):
6.88ACTION DANCE (Brazil):
6.58MONTEVIDEO MAGNA CREW (Uruguay):
6.56SKYD CLASS (Austria):
6.42THE QUALITY DANCE (Columbia):
6.22CLASS X (Denmark):
6.14WOMANS WORK CREW (Germany):
6.03KOLORZ (Switzerland):
5.66XTREME 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.
