Entertaining Children

   Chapter 210

  Several staff moved a long table and three chairs to the platform, and then three judges appeared and sat on the judging seat. When the audience saw it, there was a burst of cheers. Because of the appearance of the judges, the competition is about to start.

  The three judges for this competition are still Piper Hugo, Mary Jane and Santos Perez that they met in the primaries last time. In fact, the entire competition is not only the three judges, but a total of seven. Except for the producer Piper Hugo, who participates in the judging in every competition, the other two professional judges are held by six people. In the first round of the race, each person will judge two games, and in the second round, each person will judge one game. In the final, all seven people participated.

  In the primaries, it was the judge Piper Hugo who gave the order, and the main match was accompanied by a host. After the three judges took their seats, a sturdy black man walked to the middle of the field in front of the platform with a microphone and announced loudly: "Guys, the third round of the first round of the "National Street Dance Contest". Now it's officially started!"

   "Oh yeah!" The audience screamed in excitement after seeing the main show finally started.

"Today's matchup is the "Dark Blue Tomahawk" from Miami..." The host pointed to his left hand and saw a dozen or so people dressed in dark blue costumes and very hip-hop dressed up from the audience. I walked out, came to the middle side of the venue, and waved to the audience while walking to mobilize the audience's emotions.

  "And the "torrent" from Calabasas!" The host pointed to his right again.

   "Come on!" Xiao Yao and the players clapped and fisted one by one, and then watched them walk to the other side of the middle of the field.

   "Ha, did you come here from the decoration site?" As soon as the people from the "torrent" came out, the people from the "Dark Blue Tomahawk" smiled and pointed at the piles of white ash on their bodies. Paul and the others didn't talk to each other, but gave them a disdainful look.

  "Today's game is a two-team dance, starting with "Trap" first. Next, I announce that the game will begin!" The host raised his right hand and waved downwards, then he withdrew from the middle of the venue and sank into the audience.

  The live music has changed and replaced it with a rhythmic background music that has already been notified to the two teams.

  "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The dozen or so members of the "Rapid Stream" dance team walked toward each other with tidy and heavy steps like an army. When they walked, they swing their arms very sharply. Every step they took, the hand on the side different from the foot was clenched into a fist and hit the shoulder on the other side. The sound of footsteps was very consistent with the sound of punches on the shoulder. It happened to fall on the drum beat of the background music, and it seemed full of momentum. More imposingly, with each of their fists hitting their shoulders, a burst of white dust was shaken from their clothes and floated into the air. The movements of a dozen people were neat and uniform, and a dozen groups of dust were raised in the air at the same time. The scene was quite spectacular.

  Where did the audience have seen this kind of scene, they were surprised by their creativity the first time. Even the people on the other side of the field with the "Blue Tomahawk" stared at this scene.

  Hip-hop competition is more than neat and beautiful. After coming to the center of the venue through a shocking opening, the players began their performance. Single-player actions, double-action actions, and multi-player actions began to take turns. There are not only the conventional street dance actions that the audience has seen, but also some novel and fun new actions.

"Hey, that's my signature move, kicking the wall backflip!" After seeing Paul and TJ working together to make a wall kicking backflip, the audience screamed and cheered, Raymond also pulled Xiao Yao and screamed in excitement. Tao.

   "Yes, yes." Xiao Yao smiled excitedly and nodded, before saying "yes" twice before saying to him, "Otherwise, why do you think I want to take them to see you parkour?"

  The people of the "Blue Tomahawk" team were a little surprised and curious after seeing the new actions of "Ripple". They didn't expect that street dance could still be played like this. Although they also want to watch more new "torrent" actions in their hearts, they are after all competitions and they are fighting dances. The game lasted only six minutes, and "Ripple" had been performing on the court for more than a minute. If they didn't show up to take over, their game would be completely lost.

   Seeing the end of a group action in "Rapid Current", the "Blue Tomahawk" people forcibly rushed to the center of the venue and forcibly started their performance.

  "Blue Tomahawk" can enter the top 16 of the race, and the strength is naturally not to be underestimated. They themselves are a well-known dance team in Miami. If you talk about the difficulty of the action alone, their performance in the first stage is worse than that of "Ripple", but whether it is the overall visual effect or the action In terms of novelty, it is far inferior to "torrent". Therefore, the cheers and screams of the audience in their first segment of the performance were obviously not as good as the "torrent".

The total time for this dance fight is about six minutes. Normally, each team will perform three rounds. Each team will perform for about one minute per round. Of course, no one on the scene will time this minute. It depends on the players on the field. Our experience judges that at the right time, find the gap between the opponent's actions and take over the venue from the opponent's hands.

  The "Blue Tomahawk" performed for about a minute, and the people from the "Rapid Current" rushed to the center again to take over the venue. And their second performance also gave everyone a stunning appearance.

   After rushing into the middle of the field, Paul and TJ directly leaned down and stretched out one arm, allowing Zhou Jingyi's feet to step on their hands respectively, and then they both exerted their strength to throw Zhou Jingyi up. When the "Blue Tomahawk" was performing just now, Zhou Jingyi had quietly grabbed two handfuls of flour from her pocket and pinched it in her hand. After being thrown about two meters into the air by Paul and TJ, Zhou Jingyi, who was in the air, stretched her right leg straight, bent her left leg against her right leg, then raised her head and chest, and her arms were swung straight up from both sides. He slapped on the top of the head.

  With this action, a semi-circular arc composed of white dust also appeared in the air above Zhou Jingyi, wrapping Zhou Jingyi's entire upper body in it, so a very design scene appeared in the air. Seeing this scene resembling a close-up slow motion scene in a movie, the audience screamed again.

  The fallen Zhou Jingyi was caught by the team members, and then the whole team shrank into a ball. With a heavy drum beat, the entire team exploded outward like a flower. The players in the outer circle jumped to the outside at the same time, while the people in the inner circle leaned back towards the outside. Only Zhou Jingyi, who was in the middle of the center, suddenly stood up, raising her right leg straight to the level of her head. Qi's height appeared again in the posture of a standing horse.

  Next, Zhou Jingyi kept this shape unchanged, and fell straight forward, "slapped" to the ground, causing the audience to exclaim.

At the beginning of the second paragraph, the previous performance of "Blue Tomahawk" was already killed in seconds. After the scattered players did their own actions, the cheers and screams of the audience did not lower. Over.

  The game on the field was only halfway through, and Mary Jane and Santos Perez on the judging stand had begun whispering discussions.

"It seems that my decision to insist on being a "Ripple" judge is very correct." Mary Jane whispered to Santos Perez, "This team that impressed me in the primaries really gave I was pleasantly surprised."

   "Me too," Santos Perez smiled and nodded.

"Even if this fight dance is not suitable for the kind of storytelling mode of their primary election, they still put their minds on the stage effects. You see that the white gray on them is almost like a special effect in a movie, too There is a sense of picture." Mary Jane continued to comment, "And the picture of the girl in the air just now is not only cool, but also beautiful. I want to shoot it as the cover of my next album. ."

"Not only the effect, but their movements are also great." Santos Perez commented from another aspect, "There are a lot of new movements that have not been seen in street dance before. For example, the one that kicked the body just now. The height of the backflip performed on top and back is much higher than that of jumping in place on flat ground. And many new actions are different design ideas and styles, not like created by one person, they are really creative Of a team."

  After the game, the results were announced directly, and there was no comment section for the judges, but the two seemed to have a lot of unpleasant feelings, so they regarded each other as their own object of confession.

   "I have decided. In the second round of the competition, I will still be the judge of this team's participation." Mary Jane said firmly.

   "Well, count me." Santos Perez agreed.

   "I said you two," Piper Hugo who was sitting aside finally couldn't help but said, "This game is not over yet, and the result has not been announced. Why are you thinking about the next one?"

"Isn't the result obvious?" Mary Jane glanced at Piper Hugo and said, "Santos and I are obviously on the side of the "torrent". Look at the audience's reaction. Finally, Two minutes can be regarded as "garbage time." If you dare to announce that the "torrent" is defeated and eliminated, you are 100% bribed by the "blue tomahawk". I will go to the media tomorrow and say Your show is shady."

   "Wow, old friend, would you like to be so cruel to me?" Piper Hugo said "shocked".

   "I will ask a private detective to investigate you." Santos Perez added unwillingly to be lonely.

   "OK, I'm afraid of you." Piper Hugo shook his head helplessly.

  The judges began to chat in a low voice, reflecting from the side that the result of this game is doomed. Xiao Yao, who was concerned about the situation on the judging stand, saw the second stage of the "Blue Tomahawk" performance, and the judges began to talk. After combining the performance of the two teams, they guessed that the game should have been won. The third stage of the "Blue Tomahawk" performance is basically impossible to turn around. Xiao Yao pulled the nearest Paul and made a gesture of pressing down with both hands.

  Paul nodded when he saw Xiao Yao's gesture, and he greeted his teammates around him and whispered. The environment at the scene was very noisy, and Xiao Yao could not enter the venue and walk to Paul to speak. If you use spoken words, it is estimated that you have to shout loudly to be heard by Paul, but this is not easy for the audience to hear. For fear of arousing the audience's disgust, he uses gestures instead. And the meaning of Xiao Yao's gesture is: press it in the third stage of the performance, normal performance is fine, no new movements are required.

  As the sound of live music stopped, the dance of the two teams also came to an end.

  The host who stood in the center of the venue again did not sell anything. After a long "winner is...", he directly reported the name of "Rapid".

  "Rapid Current" passed the level smoothly, eliminated the opponent, and entered the quarterfinals of the "National Street Dance Competition".

  (End of this chapter)