Flip of Canada at Hip Hop International World Hip Hop Dance Championship Preliminaries – Junior Division held at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, NV. The event took place on Wednesday, August 7, 2013. Photo by Sthanlee B. Mirador_HHI / Pacific Rim Photo Press.

Your 2013 Junior World Hip-Hop Dance Championships Junior Preliminary Top 18 crews moving to the Semi-Finals on Friday, August 10 at the Red Rock Resort and Casino

(rank, score*, crew)

17. 6.91 – Sweet Addiction of Mexico
16. 7.07 – Block Rockin Beats of Russia*
15. 7.07 – Junior Brooklyn of South Africa*
14. 7.08 – CNC of Canada
13. 7.15 – Brat Pack of New Zealand
12. 7.25 – ICONic Jr of United States
11. 7.30 – Dreamchaserz of Canada*
10. 7.30 – Lil Phunk of the United States
09. 7.34 – Umka RU of Russia
08. 7.43 – Hysteria of New Zealand
07. 7.63 – CKC of New Zealand
06. 7.73 – Rascals of the United States*
05. 7.73 – TZ Crew of Thailand*
04. 8.04 – Next Junior of Japan
03. 8.41 – J.B. Star Junior of Japan
02. 8.49 – Flip of Canada
01. 8.62 – Shinyy-T of Japan

Defending Champions Bubblegum will join these top 17 to battle it out during the semi-finals

*Tie score, broken by the performance score.
**Scores add up to a possible 10 with 8 judges scoring.  4 judges for skill and 4 performance judges.

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By Peter Gonzaga

Las Vegas, NV – Originally thought of as a surprise top three crew in the semi-finals of the adult division of the 2012 Hip Hop International World Hip Hop Dance Championships, Philippines‘ The Crew took home the gold for the island nation as Neutral Zone of Mexico took silver and Academy of Villains took the bronze medal to round out the top three in the finals held at the Orleans Arena this past Sunday, August 5, 2012.

It was a long road for the gold medal winner as they did not expect to win gold. After their addition of the “mid-air moonwalk,” during the semi-finals, the judges and audience were swayed to consider The Crew for gold medal status. Strong finishers Neutral Zone and Academy of Villains were crowd favorites from the very beginning.

In the varsity division, Japan’s Sol-T-Shine took home the gold while Sorority of New Zealand took silver and Japan’s J.B. Star Varsity received the bronze medal.

For the junior division, Bubblegum of New Zealand won the gold giving them a back to back win from the year before. Taking the silver was Flip of Canada and the bronze went to Onizawa Ikka of Japan.

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By Peter Gonzaga

Las Vegas, NV – It was no surprise that New Zealand and Japan ranked high in the world junior preliminaries of the 2012 Hip Hop International World Dance Championships. Taking the top spot is current world junior division winner Bubble Gum of New Zealand. Following closely behind them is Flip of Canada. We’ll have to see if the Flip with take Bubble Gum and chew it to move to the top spot during semi-finals coming tomorrow.

Pacific rim reigned as Rascals of Hawaii took third place while Japan’s Onzaka Ikka and J.B. star took 4th and 5th place respectively. The U.S. highest placed crew is Minotics at 9th Place and Las Vegas’ very own Prodigy at 11th place.

The following is the list of the top 12 moving on to the semi-finals:

1. Bubblegum – New Zealand

2. Flip – Canada

3. Rascals – USA

4. Onizaka Ikka – Japan

5. J.B. Star – Japan

6 . Fresh 2.0 – Canada

7. Tao – Japan

8. Cookies N Cream – Canada

9. Miniotics – USA

10. Khaos – New Zealand

11. Prodigy – USA

12. Superkidz – U.K.

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