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The 17th Annual Absolute Dance Regionals in Region 7 is set in Season 1 from "I'm So Excited" to "Winner Takes All". The competition takes place in 2015.

The SNR Network coverage of the event is hosted by Chuck Anderson, alongside Stacey Tookey.

The winner is The Next Step Dance Studio.

History[]

Twenty-four teams compete at the event, each team must receive an official certification of participation to be confirmed as competing.

As the winner of the previous three Regionals events, Elite Dance Academy are given special perks and are able to skip the line when registering.

Format[]

Twenty-four studios compete in total, and each round features one-on-one competition between the featured studios; two teams perform a ten-person dance, and the team with the higher score moves on. This means that twelve teams are eliminated in the first round, six are eliminated in the second round, and finally, in the quarter-final round, three are eliminated. Since four studios must compete in the semi-finals to ensure that two teams remain, a wildcard is chosen from the previously eliminated teams with the highest scores. The wildcard position is not necessarily given to the highest scoring losing team, but instead the studio who the judges believe most deserves it. The four teams are reduced to two, who compete one-on-one in the finals with a new group dance, and one of them wins the competition. The scores of the dances are announced in every round except the finals.

Competitors[]

Rounds[]

  1. Italicized teams are the victors
  2. (The numbers in brackets are the scores)
  3. The underlined team is the wildcard team

Round One[]

This round takes place between "I'm So Excited" and "Fancy Footwork."

  • Seeds Street Crew (88) vs. Body Bump Dance (83)
  • The Next Step Dance Studio (86) vs. Annex Dance Academy (84)
  • Confidance vs. CDC[Note 1]
  • Shimmy Shenanigans (83) vs. Twist and Shout (84)
  • Dance Inc. (86) vs. Dance Capoeira (85)
  • Elite Dance Academy (91) vs. Step/s in Time (81) 
  • Art & Soul Dance Company vs. Snake Arms Studio 
  • Dance Troupe (unknown) vs. Allegro School of Dance (83)
  • Dance Core vs. Dance World
  • Alcoba Dance Studio vs. The Dance Company

Unknown results[]

  • Move to Groove vs. Move It Move It
  • Kick Up Your Heels vs. Jump 4 Joy

Round Two[]

This round takes place in "Fancy Footwork."

  • The Next Step Dance Studio (87) vs. Allegro School of Dance (82)
  • Elite Dance Academy (89) vs. Twist and Shout (85)
  • Art & Soul Dance Company vs. Unknown
  • Seeds Street Crew vs. Alcoba Dance Studio
  • Confidance vs. Unknown
  • Dance Inc. vs. Dance World[Note 2]

Round three[]

This round takes place in "Fancy Footwork."

  • The Next Step Dance Studio (84) vs. Dance Inc. (85)
  • Art & Soul Dance Company (unknown) vs. Elite Dance Academy (94)[Note 3]
  • Seeds Street Crew (88) vs. Confidance (unknown)

The Next Step is awarded the wildcard spot over Art & Soul and Confidance, taking them into the semi-finals. [Note 4]

Semi-Finals[]

This round takes place in "This Is How We Do It."

  • Elite Dance Academy vs. Dance Inc. 
  • Seeds Street Crew (91) vs. The Next Step Dance Studio (93)

Finals[]

This round takes place in "Winner Takes All."

  • Elite Dance Academy vs. The Next Step Dance Studio

The Next Step Dance Studio's Regionals Team[]

  1. Chloe
  2. Eldon
  3. Emily
  4. Giselle
  5. James
  6. Michelle
  7. Riley
  8. Stephanie
  9. Tiffany
  10. West

Trivia[]

  • Most of the dance studios that compete in this competition are real studios in Ontario.
  • Alcoba Dance Studio, a studio never shown performing, may have been named in reference to Alejandro Alcoba, the story coordinator for Season 1 and 2 of The Next Step.[2]
  • According to a large banner over the main entrance of the venue, the 17th Annual Regionals in Region 7 takes place from Friday to Sunday, though no month or dates are given.

Gallery[]

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To view the Absolute Dance Regionals/17th Annual Absolute Dance Regionals (Region 7) gallery, click here.


Notes[]

  1. According to the scoreboard, Confidance is in the same bracket as The Dance Company and CDC is in the same bracket as Alcoba Dance Studio. However, the Regionals announcer later proclaims that as a result of Confidance’s win, CDC has been eliminated. Presuming that Alcoba and The Dance Company competed against each other instead of the actual studios in their brackets, the scoreboard shows that The Dance Company is eliminated, meaning Alcoba would have advanced to the second round.
  2. Dance Core is shown to have been eliminated in the first round, meaning that Dance World must have advanced. Since they are in the same bracket as Dance Inc., they are presumably eliminated by them in the second round.<ref> "Fancy Footwork". Wikia. Retrieved on February 6, 2021.
  3. It is unclear why Elite Dance Academy faces Art & Soul Dance Company in this round, as if the pairings had progressed the way the scoreboard indicates, they should be competing against Confidance. Equally, Art & Soul should be facing the studio that Confidance actually competes against, Seeds Street Crew. However, it should be noted that even if the brackets for this round had matched the ones on the scoreboard, it would not have affected the ultimate lineup for the semifinals, as the winners and losers are still distributed correctly.
  4. It should be noted that the wildcard spot was not given to the studio who lost with the highest score but the studio the judges felt deserved the spot.

References[]

  1. Staff - Confidance Studio - Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge. Confidance Studio. Retrieved on January 2, 2016.
  2. [1]. iMDB. Retrieved on March 26, 2020.
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