NBC’s World of Dance, Season 1, The FINALE – LIVE Blog
So, who’s going to win ONE MILLION Dollars?? I suspect not who I want to win. Since I haven’t been getting my way all season, why would it start now? 🙂
Here we go. Kill it, Eva!
Each act will dance twice for a Million dollars. As Derek says – life changing.
Average score from both dances will decide the winner. Meaning they will score normally then average the two scores, I guess.
Les Twins are up first and are talking to Jennifer Lopez – and she tells them no one wants to hear about the ankle. Truth.
Can Les Twins do two dances that are different from each other? Might be obvious with two dances on one show.
They’re not that in sync – and I feel like I’ve seen most of this before. Oh they dance separately for a few steps.
Come on, Derek, it wasn’t all that. Your eyes look good with that suit, though.
Ne-yo and Jennifer giving them a tongue bath also – calling it emotional? Last week was far better.
They get a 92, 92, 95 from Ne-Yo, Jennifer and Derek respectively for an average of 93. Not that great of a score, but they’ll hose someone. Odd that Derek is the high scorer…but 95 was his go two score for everyone he felt was worthy last week.
Swing Latino is up next. Very worthy act, and one who will probably benefit greatly from winning this show.
Derek is with Swing Latino and he’s busting some amazing moves with them. He picks Conga by Gloria Estefan for them to dance to. Uh oh, they have a dancer with a broken ankle. Far worse than Les Twins, but less moaning from him.
I really like the formations they are doing. It seems much cleaner than it has been in the past. Whoa, amazing tricks. Seems in sync. One issue on that trick – almost a drop, but other than that, wow.
Derek and Ne-yo having a cardio arrest. I would have to agree. That was really good. Disagree with Derek – I think that was one of their cleaner dancers.
Scores are 91, 89 and 95 for a 91.7 – that’s fair, I think. I would have gotten them closer to Les Twins just because of the sync and the extreme difficulty.
Is Eva going last a good sign? I can hope. 😉 Ne-Yo chatting with Eva about her confidence. He picks “In the Air Tonight” for her. Quite a departure for her.
Derek is such a fan of hers, it’s cute.
She looks lovely. I prefer the original version of this song, but this version works for her. Kid can stop on a dime, with is amazing. Waiting for a big moment from her though.
Oka I like how she cocks her leg with the beat, that is cool. But I was hoping for more from her. She’s a great dancer, but not wow tonight, IMO.
Judges are giving her plenty of love. I think the special thing about her is how big she dances for someone so young. Not a fan of flails or angsty, but mostly she’s great.
Scores are a 90, 90, and a 90 for an average of 91 which puts her in third place, for now. Judges commented on the choreography lacking in Eva’s dance and I would agree with that.
Eva has to go first in the second round because she’s in last place?? That seems fishy, I think.
Eva is all in gold – and has such a great attitude.
She’s got her edge back and is doing so pretty cool moves. A little angsty. Okay that was really good. Derek is out of his chair. That was great.
JLo is giving some raves. Derek calls her a star, and I think she will be for sure, win or lose. Ne-yo calls her a beautiful monster who is ferocious. I would agree with that. Takes guts at 14 to get out there all by herself.
Shit, now I’m crying.
Scores are….95, 96 and 98 for an average of 96.3 Her average with both dances is 93.7. I forgot about that averaging part, dang it. I hope she can hold it.
Looks like Derek is going to be doing some dancing with Jimmy Fallon tonight. 🙂
Swing Latino is back on the floor. And they’re building a mountain in the back. Sync is good again…and as soon as I said that they had a little issue. And the crazy tricks keep coming. Love the huge formation at the end. These folks never give up, ever.
JLo and Ne-yo loved it. Derek is tougher on all ballroom related – he calls this one cleaner and appreciates that they risk it all.
Scores – 93, 95, and 96 for an average of 94.7. Their combined total is 93.2 – 0.5 lower than Eva, so Eva is still in the comp and Swing Latino goes home. They represented their style and their countries VERY well. Congrats to them. I hate to see them crying.
Eva versus Les Twins. David versus Goliath. Almost afraid to hope it turns out the same way.
Here we go – Les Twins.
Like the jacket with the leather stars on it. Very cool.
The mirrors are cool, but I wonder if that was there idea. Otherwise, it seems like same ole same ole. Of course it was good, but there were few special moments that were different from others of theirs.
Jennifer is drooling. But bringing Eva into it is interesting.
Scores are: 94,
97, and 93 for a average of 94.7. And they win by 0.2 points. Damn it.
Well, did the right person win? And did Eva give them a run for it or what??
And shall we take bets on how long before Les Twins are on Jennifer’s payroll?? 🙂
I was underwhelmed by Les Twins, that dance was a regression from what they did 2 weeks ago.
Great dance from Les Twins, but last week’s performance had a lot more emotion than this one. surprised Derek scored them so high.
Go Eva!!!
I liked the staging for les twins dance and overall I agreed with neyo and jlo for scoring. I would have given it a 90-92. Definitely not awful, but not the best.
I have to admit although Swing Latino are amazing dare devils, this was the messiest performance they had. They had much better synchronicity last week.
It’s a mystery why Derek is scoring Les Twins and Swing Latino so high, unless he’s willing to go even further for Eva.
Crazy dance again from Swing Latino, LOL! They always make me smile. And they never fail to give me something close to a heart attack, haha! Better transitions from trick to trick, lift to lift. Still had sync issues, though.
Wow, Eva just blew me away again!
Eva in third place…..hmm
Eva definitely has grown as a performer in the last few weeks. She definitely has it to make it big in the industry. She gives the facial expressions that match the dance and the music, which I really like.
Eva’s performance had me on the edge of my seat, wow! I hope she wins. Not overly impressed with Les Twins and Swing Latino was a tad frenetic. Go Eva!!!!
I know I’m partial, but, I would score just like Derek. lol
Well they brought her back to a decent score, but definitely beatable. Sigh. I really wanted her to win.
Eva really did come back in her second dance. How she is able to channel that fierceness and fire in her dance at such a young age is admirable and beautiful to watch. Hope she wins.
You said it. I love her fierceness and passion.
Swing Latino had some cool tricks, but, they never make me wow like Eva.
I knew the twins would win but I really wanted Eva to win. I hope she comes back next year and slays it. She brought me to tears and that doesn’t happen often.
So disappointed Les Twins were okay, but an old Michael Jackson piece is just so tired. They were the designated winners from the beginning and there was a lot of manipulation to get them there.
Congratulations Eva, you should have won.
Unfortunately it seems like it was rigged from the beginning. Les Twins are famous professional dancers, and Jennifer made sure they won, despite almost never being in sync and repeating the same moves every time. Eva should have won IMO.
Yeah, I was surprised by Derek’s first Les Twins score as well.
Dang! Was hoping Eva would eke out a win over the favored twins. Their second dance made even more obvious their sync issues. There were some cool moments in their dance but it felt the same as their dances prior to week 9. Anyway, I hope Eva comes back next season even fiercer and more passionate than ever, but without losing that sweet smile and admirable composure.
This could have been an opportunity for the show to not only reward the best performance of the night, but also inspire young kids to be humble and grateful like Eva.
Les Twins are first rate jackasses when it came to this competition, from incorporating a snapping the neck of a twin attempting to tap in a routine when the opponent is a tapper, to telling the world they are the best, to faking the severity of an injury for sympathy because they have such unlikable personalities. Such a shame.
The show was set up last week for the twins to win. Jennifer I thought you were a better person than that. You forgot where you ce from. It’s all about money. I will not watch next season.
In spite of the issues this first season, I really enjoyed the show. Top notch dancing is a joy to watch. I certainly look forward to the next season. I hope by then, the show has fixed all the issues you mentioned in a previous post, Princess H. Thank you so much to you, Mz V, and Courtney for blogging PWOD!
The end was kind of underwhelming, not bc of who won bc I love Les Twins, but there’s no trophy? No check? Nothing… I honestly LOVED Swing Latino’s first performance, more than the first one. That was a final worthy performance for me. To me it should have been them against Eva. Eva is great for being so young, but the older dancers who have more life experience, who have struggled more have a richer dance vocabulary. She did incredible and she’ll only continue to get better with the years. It’d be great to see her on sytycd one day maybe :]
I still would have LOVED to see Kinjaz and Keone and Mari, along with the ones who performed tonight, in this final…
*more than the second one
*I meant to say it should have been Swing Latino instead of Eva against Les Twins
Dang, my post is full os typos =/
Sorry.
I enjoyed all the performances and actually think Les Twins deserved the win based on their performances tonight. Eva was great but she really didnt do that much. Swing Latino was crazy, lots of content, but messy as usual. It felt like a clean slate and everyone was starting from zero. Overall a good finale Imop.
Now next season, more dancing, less editing, and I really don’t care about their story until we get to the semi’s, then fill me in. More Jenna mentoring dance wise too, kind of like Tim Gund on Project Runway.
Bob, it’s been set up all season for Les Twins to win sadly.
I agree, Cas. I love MJ but thought The Les dance was blah too.
Not even gonna bother to watch now that I know who won.And it wasn’t who SHOULD have won. In reality, Keone & Mari were FAR better than Les Twits. boring!
Well, there’s a difference between a show being “rigged from the beginning” and Jennifer simply being determined that Les Twins should win, for whatever reason. Let’s not forget that Derek gave them a rather absurdly high score on their first dance, so (this week) it can’t all be laid on Jennifer.
I think if they do add a fourth judge and make some other tweaks that she won’t be so likely to get her way next season, unless the other judges agree with her.
I also think that song choice did a lot to sabotoge Eva in the first round, by giving her an emo version of “In The Air” instead of the dramatic Phil Collins original the dynamics of her style were less pronounced and less effective. When song choice goes back to her she owned everyone. Funny how that happens.
I was disappointed with last night as well. I was hoping that the inevitable wouldn’t happen! Like Vogue said,”It’s been set up all season for Les Twins to win sadly.” Why, oh, why did JLO want them to win so much? I agree that Mari and Keone were much more creative and better technicians, as well.
Honestly, if it weren’t for Derek as a judge, I’m not sure I would watch next year. That’s not sour grapes, it’s just no fun knowing who the preordained winners are throughout the season. Is JLO going to determine the finalists every season???
Thank you, Heidi, Courtney and Vogue for this site! 🙂
Now that I’ve had some sleep to cool off and kinda sort through my thoughts I’m not as mad as I was last night. I’m still mad just not as mad.
Looking performance wise at all the contestants all 3 had one of their two dances that stood out. At least to me. For Les Twins it was their first dance and it wasn’t so much about the dancing as the staging, I was really digging the small stage thing that they did. I thought it was different for them showed at least some variety which I was willing to take anything since they have shown zero variety the whole show. Now their second dance had me saying what the hell more times than I could count. There was some really cool concepts but they were all really not well executed at all. Like the mirrors could have been cool but to me it really shined light on their sync issues. I think their qualifier is the only dance where I felt they were completely in sync and it’s kinda unfair that they got to skate all the way through to the win on subpar dancing when you had acts like The Lab, K&M, and Kinjaz who were all so in sync and in the case of the first and the last had to be in sync with a lot of people which is so hard to do.
For Swing Latino their first dance I honestly really enjoyed and I have not been a fan of them at all this season. Might have been the song that swayed me (grew up dancing around the house to that song as it played on my dads old record player) but it seemed to me for the most part their cleanest dance to date and I wasn’t having the where do I look freak out that I do during most of their dances because of so much going on. Now the second dance was back to the same old same.. me not knowing where to look and it being super messy. I appreciate what they do and how challenging the style is but.. one of the guys from the group said they were bringing something different with that last dance it felt the same as all their others to me.
Now Eva I thought both of her dances were good, but her second dance she came out and dominated. I knew after seeing the BTS video that Nabby Tabs posted of her with the rope that the dance would be killer. Her first dance was good but I seriously wonder why Neyo chose that remix version instead of the original Phil Collins version because I think it would have gone better for a contemporary.
It sucks knowing that basically the ones who scored the highest in the qualifiers ended up winning it all for doing the same thing every week. I know myself, as well as others on here in the comments and on twitter have talked about wanting a winner that showed versatility and I think some Les Twins fans were taking that the wrong way on some social media platforms. They were taking it to mean that we wanted them to do something totally out of their style. It’s been nice watching WOD to see different acts shining in their dance style something that is their element, but like K&M, Fik Shun, Eva (in the last few weeks), etc. were able to do they showed versatility in their style. They didn’t do the same old moves every week. They used costuming, music, props to make each dance different and each dance told a little story. Les Twins never really did that except with their divisional final performance and even it was subpar compared to what K&M did against them. None of K&M’s dances looked the same, each one told a different story, had fun choreography, had great costuming or props. I mean they went from telling a story about how its okay to be awkward and have rough moments to telling about how people need to pay attention to those they love instead of being wrapped up in technology to how they hit a rough patch in their marriage to their final dance being a nod to their song from their wedding and about their love.
I really hope that acts like K&M, Eva, The Lab, Kinjaz, etc. come back next season. I’m afraid a lot of them won’t because of how things went during the freshmen run. I hope that they figure out some kind of solution by either adding another judge or throwing out an outlier score so that way one judge.. coughJLocough can’t determine the winner. Last night it seemed like Derek was keeping with the 95 theme now why he kept with that I’m not sure. It probably contributed some to Les Twins winning (since Derek scored Eva a whole two points less in round 1) but I think JLo’s 97 for Les Twins second dance is what really sealed the deal. Even by Derek’s face he I think thought Eva had it before they averaged the scores. Also next season I really hope we learn more about the acts, especially since they’ll be having a longer show. And more of Jenna because she was adorable with Eva last night. Whether she’s a host or she gets moved to the judges table (which I really hope happens) I want to see more of her cuteness.
Thanks to Courtney, Hedi, and Vogue for doing the site and allowing a spot for all of us to come and talk about this show. Now the countdown begins until DWTS returns.
So true, Cas. I didn’t like Eva’s song choice either.
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Both Derek and neyo said Eva was their winner, so it’s a shame that the lesser team won. Thanks to Heidi, Courtney & Vogue for the talents they foist on us, whether it be blogging for PureDWTS or PureWOD, you’ve made them both pleasures for me. I’ve not been able to see all the shows(live in Britain, it sucks), but between Court’s impeccable Power Rankings, Heidi’s live blogs & Vogue covering all the relevant information, you’ve made this great for me. Thanks to the Pure Angels(that sounds more cheesy than I thought, Pure Angels)
I wasn’t impressed with Les Twins either! I was really rooting for Keone & Mari 🙁 Eva should’ve won though. Smh…..
Jennifer influenced the outcome, during the judging of Eva, she commented to the other judges that the chorography was lacking. I thought the judges were supposed to each have their own opinion and rating, hence the secret voting with their little touch screens. And of course the result was Eva’s first dance scoring lower than it should have. The Twins were not deserving and their routines were all pretty much the same thing with different gimmicky props to add flash to their dance. Total disappointed with the show, and with JLO for that influencing vote at the end.
Kelly B, I didn’t like when Jennifer commented on her choreography to the judges either. In a back handed way, it was like she telling them not to score her too high.