World Hip Hop Dance Championship: Junior Division Finals - Complete Scores

Here it is, folks. The official final standings for the World Hip Hop Dance Championship, Junior Division Finals:

1. LIL PHUNK BOYZ (United States): 7.79
2. MONSOON! (Japan): 7.67
3. FRESHH (Canada): 7.50
4. DE JA VU (New Zealand): 7.48
5. KANI KREW (New Zealand): 7.25
6. RNG (United States): 6.88

Congratulations to all of our incredible finalists!

World Hip Hop Dance Championship: World Finals 2009

The Medals have been announced!!!

Ladies and Gentelemen, these are the new World Champions of Hip Hop Dance:

JUNIOR DIVISION:

Bronze: FRESHH (Canada)
Silver: MONSOON (Japan)
Gold: LIL PHUNK BOYZ (United States)


VARSITY DIVISION:

Bronze: KANA BOON! (Japan)
Silver: IRRATIK (Canada)
Gold: REQUEST (New Zealand)


ADULT DIVISION:

Bronze: JOYCE & THE BOYS (Singapore)
Silver: NEUTRAL ZONE ADULTS (Mexico)
Gold: R.A.F. Crew (France)

What an incredible night! Many huge congratulations to every single one of our performers!

World Hip Hop Dance Championship: Toni Basil to Accept Living Legend of Hip Hop Award

The brilliant and beautiful Toni Basil arrived at the World Hip Hop Dance Championships this weekend--received by the welcoming embraces of some of her oldest and fondest friends, like dance giants Don "Campbellock" Campbell, Boogaloo Sam and Tony GoGo.

Basil will be the first (but certainly not last) woman to receive the prestigious "Living Legend of Hip Hop" Award, which she will accept onstage at tonight's World Finals.

We sat down with the dancing queen for a hot minute while she shared a little bit about awards, memories, locking, The Lockers, and sneaking a teeny bit of Boogaloo into the now-iconic video for her 80s mega-hit, "Mickey."




We're intrigued. Can you spot the Boogaloo?

World Hip Hop Dance Championship: B-Boy Battles Winners Announced

In 1st place... USA's UNDERGROUND FLOW!

In 2nd place... USA'S KNUCKLEHEAD ZOO!

In 3rd place... Mexico's RHYTHM INVADE!

Congratulations to all of our competitors!

Hair Apparent [VIDEO]

One thing's for sure... the attendees of the World Hip Hop Dance Championship aren't shy--especially when it comes to their perfect, clever, creative (and sometimes curious) coifs.

What can we say? These dancers look good. See what we mean...

Thank you to our sponsor Paul Mitchell for helping care for our dancers' hair!

World Hip Hop Dance Championship: Popping Battle Results

An awesome, hours-long Popping battle took place this afternoon, the best of the best showing what they had on the legendary competitive dance floor.

After much deliberation, the winners were chosen:

In 3rd place... DUMBO

In 2nd place... JENNIFER VIAUD

And the champion popper, in 1st place... MARIE POPPINS!

Other fine competitors included:

ROMY RAMOS
MICHAL KACZOROWSKI
A-BOOGIE
TRISTAN GRAY
MIGUEL ECHAVE
GCINA NKULA
SHUBADOO
GIZMO
MARC MOJICA
KA LAM PANG
LIZ LEE
CRAZY CRESH
ELISA DI MAIO
KENNEDY MAO
MONSTAPOP
NATALIE McPARLAND
RYUZY
KAORI HIMURO
LOCO YOKO
BOOGIEWALKER
SOUHAPOP
YOUSSEF IDERDAR
CASEY CANO
ALPH-ALPHA
LEE PUTMAN
ABRAHIM JARMAN
RAJ QUIROS
HENRY CHAU
POPPIN' C
SHOCKWAVE
GRILLZ
AYUMI SAYAKI
TETRIX
KIMIRON RAMPARAS
JOEL GISPERT
NATALIA ANDREEVA
SPRIGHT
CAN NGUYEN
HIP HOP LADY

Thank you and congrats to all of our contenders!

World Hip Hop Dance Championship: World B-Boy Battle

Who will come out on top?? B-Boys duking it out now...

Crews from the United States:

KNUCKLEHEAD ZOO
ZIRCLE ONE CREW
7-0-ZOO
WE BURN 4 FUN
RUNAWAY TRIBE
FURIOUS SOLDIERS
STYLISTIC KINGS
UNDERGROUND FLOW
ALASKAN ASSASSINS
BLOW UP KINGS

Crews from around the world:

SKB (Australia)
XTREME BREAKERS (Trinidad & Tobago)
SAHARA MILITANTS (Morocco)
NOW OR NEVER (Canada)
KADETS DEL TOKE (Mexico)
NORTH FLAVA (Mexico)
JUSTICE (Australia)
CRAZY PHYSICAL FUNK (Germany)
RHYTHM INVADE (Mexico)

...Results to come! Stay tuned.