Competition #5: Hall of Fame in Ontario (Days 2 & 3)

Welcome back! So in this blog I’ll be combining Saturday and Sunday’s competitions.

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So on Saturday, we woke up at 7:40 for the first solo. My sister decided to stay in the hotel and live stream the competition. My mom and I went downstairs to eat lunch and then drove to the competition. Unfortunately I missed the first solo, which I was pretty bummed about, but I came just in time for the second one.

Three more solos went and then there was a break before the duets, during which I watched some of our competition. The duets and the trios went on. This competition was a pretty emotional one because it was the last competition of the season, which meant that we were saying goodbye to some of the dances we’ve been performing for a little less than a year. We all tried to give our dances the proper send off.

After the awards for the solos, duets, and trios (results will be posted below), there was a 4-hour break before the groups. In that time, we went back to our hotel room, relaxed (got some Starbucks which is always a plus) and finally had to get ready to go on.

We got back extremely early so my sister and her team could run their dance before they went on. The first group went on and after that it was chaos. People were running back and forth, trying to change makeup and hair and get their costumes on.

One dance I will talk about in a little more detail than usual is “Imagine”. It was the first Select Group from our studio, which means people were selected specifically for that dance. They had been competing and performing the dance for over a year and this competition was their last time dancing as a group. I am extremely proud to say that “Imagine” had a great send off with not only a costume award, but also a First Place in their division and a Platinum (the highest you can get). It was very emotional, but since there were more dances, everyone had to suck it up and go on.

Everyone was frantic trying to get makeup and cuts done (our dance is about a natural disaster), but my dance finally went on around 8:30 that night. It was one of the best we had ever done and we were rewarded with Platinum! It’s the highest award our team has gotten and we figured that all these High Golds had been leading up to this award.

Awards started around 9:45. Here are the results from that day in no particular order (range from High Silver, Gold, High Gold, Platinum [I made a mistake in the last post; there is no award after Platinum for our category]):

• Twelve High Golds
• Two All-star Awards (invitation to Nationals in Las Vegas)
• Three Platinums (ME!!!)
• Entertainment Award
• Costume Award
• Platinum      
• Four 1^st Place Awards

And the songs performed to that day (these aren’t all of them, but I don’t know all of them… sorry):

• ·      “Every Heart” – Sara Haze
• ·      “This Is My Now” – Jordin Sparks
• ·      “Alegria” – Cirque Du Soleil Francesca Gangnon
• ·      “Maniac” – Flashdance Michael Sambello
• ·      “Flying Without Wings” – Ruben Studdard
• ·      “Uptown Funk” – Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars
• ·      “She Works Hard For The Money” – Donna Summer
• ·      “I’ve Got The Music In Me” – The Kiki Dee Band
• ·      “Stranger” – Active Child
• ·      “Clap Snap” – Icona Pop
• ·      “California Dreamin’” –San Andreas Sia

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I woke up on 8:00 on Sunday morning, but decided not to go down to the competition until the second dance and live stream the first one. I watched the first one in the morning but my sister and mom were still sleeping and they were running so far ahead that I just watched it at the hotel.

Then we drove home and I missed the other two little groups, but I’m sure they did great.

List of Awards Received:

• ·      Gold
• ·      High Gold
• ·      Two Platinums
• ·      Two 1^st Places
• ·      6^th Place

And a list of songs:

• ·      “Father” – Demi Lovato
• ·      “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Lorde
• ·      “Run the World (Girls)” – Beyoncé
• ·      “Dancing In the Street” – David Bowie & Mick Jagger

That’s it for this week. Thanks for reading!