Few months ago I proposed a theory that the California Raas teams fail to perform well at national level (BOB). It turns out that I was right one more time. Winner of GWA (Garba with attitude) did not win at BOB Chicago. It was Penn state that won. Why? Again the judges in California are out of touch with the national level of judging. They tends to disregard the basic connection between the old Raas and the new Raas. The result is that teams that win GWA consistently fail to win BOB.
I don't know who the judges were at BOB Chicago. I bet they they were more traditional judges. Having watched the Penn State video (Thanks youtube,own some shares of Google and have done well over the years) I had predicted that if the judges were traditional, they would win. As some one from Berkeley team had mentioned, they did have great "moves" but remember Raas is not an African American phenomenon. It is Indian. "Moves" do matter but over all flow takes precedence.
Ineresting tit bit: Of all places Iowa had a Raas competition right in late March. Now I know that Iowa is in the middle of no where. If Raas madness starts there in March, there is something big going on that most Americans don't know about. It is called Raas !
In summery, GWA need to revamp its judging, so that California teams win nationally.
I am not sure if any one really reads the rantings of this old man as I have not gotten much feed back lately, so I will probably kill this blog unless some one out there responds. Since this blog may die, I thoought I would post my picture so that you can connect my name to my face. Please don't beat me up or Taunt me when you see me at the next dance competition!
Berkley team, you were good, but you were too off the wall to win B.O.B. If you need help next year, my son is free and willing to travel! (He sneaked into the Iowa competition even though he is not in college. Never mind how that happened!)
I don't know who the judges were at BOB Chicago. I bet they they were more traditional judges. Having watched the Penn State video (Thanks youtube,own some shares of Google and have done well over the years) I had predicted that if the judges were traditional, they would win. As some one from Berkeley team had mentioned, they did have great "moves" but remember Raas is not an African American phenomenon. It is Indian. "Moves" do matter but over all flow takes precedence.
Ineresting tit bit: Of all places Iowa had a Raas competition right in late March. Now I know that Iowa is in the middle of no where. If Raas madness starts there in March, there is something big going on that most Americans don't know about. It is called Raas !
In summery, GWA need to revamp its judging, so that California teams win nationally.
I am not sure if any one really reads the rantings of this old man as I have not gotten much feed back lately, so I will probably kill this blog unless some one out there responds. Since this blog may die, I thoought I would post my picture so that you can connect my name to my face. Please don't beat me up or Taunt me when you see me at the next dance competition!
Berkley team, you were good, but you were too off the wall to win B.O.B. If you need help next year, my son is free and willing to travel! (He sneaked into the Iowa competition even though he is not in college. Never mind how that happened!)
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The truth is that even if BOB had "california style" judges (whatever that means) Berkeley would still not have won B.O.B. They really sucked it up at BOB, and they had a very sub-par performance. I did not see them at GWA, but apparently they were lights out good there. So atleast at this BOB, the lack of "california style" judges had no impact on Berkeley not winning, cuz honestly they just did not do well by any "style"
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