BOTY SINGAPORE JUNE 19TH

Plaza Singapura
Breakdance, breaking, b-boying or b-girling is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement have begun as a building, productive, and a constructive youth culture alternative to the violence of urban street gangs or delinquents. It is normally danced to pop, funk or hip hop music, often remixed to prolong the breaks, and is a well-known hip hop dance style. Breakdancing involves the elements of toprock, downrock, freezes, and power moves.

Today, breakdancing culture is a remarkable discipline somewhere between those of dancers and athletes. Since acceptance and involvement centers on dance skills, breakdancing culture is often free of the common race and gender boundaries of a subculture and has been accepted worldwide.

Breakdancing, in its organized fashion seen today, in a turn-based showcase of dance routines, the winning side was determined by the dancer(s) who could outperform the other by displaying a set of more complicated and innovative moves.

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Battle of the Year, commonly referred to as BOTY, is an annual international breakdancing series that began in 1990. It is a crew (as opposed to individual) competition.

Regional qualifying tournaments, also known as preliminaries, are held worldwide culminating in the BOTY International, the world finals event which was held at the Volkswagenhalle in Braunschweig, Germany for the last 20 years will see a move to Montpellier, France this year in 2010.

Battle of the Year is widely regarded as the premier b-boying tournament in the world, frequently referred to as the "World Cup of B-Boying".

Battle of the year creates "spaces for a globalization at the bottom, bringing people together across the barriers of geography, language, and race".

Benson Lee filmed a documentary on the Battle of the Year called Planet B-Boy which gives a point of view on what type of people take part in the Battle of the Year.

"BOTY becomes more and more international and that means more and more popular. So the capacity of the venues grows and every year there are some more key men in the BOTY-team. One of their aims is to integrate young and motivated people. And it's necessary to do it because it is getting harder and harder to fulfill all the claims".

Change of Direction

Here are some basics behind the idea:

Hip Hop is a participating artform the attending crowd should be integrated in an interactive and participating way into the BOTY events (eg. through b-boy circles, discussions, added club events, etc) for the future the participating b-boy crews and the attending crowd should be focussed more on the interactive component of the event than the competitive part B-Boying is considered to be a dance and not an "extreme sport"the BOTY wants to take more responsibility for the skills & future of the b-boys/girls, showing them more/new opportunities, eg. proffessional performances in the fields of theater and contemporary dance.

After having decided that the "Battle of the Year" will continue it also has been decided that something has to be changed in general as it already was predicted in the year 2000.

The new "Battle of the Year" format get´s a subline which will appear as a baseline to the existing logo. The subline is: "A Change Of Direction".

The public clearly shall understand that the BOTY from now on will be taken into domains that is has not dealt with before. The importance of evolution beyond the confines of the competition will be underlined, reaching out of hip hop community towards the cultural and professional world of dance in general.

The BOTY wishes to give all participants and winners a real chance for a future in dance, which has been impossible until today, due to the fact that the BOTY is not recognised officially by dance companies and institutions outside of hip hop community. They will not make the effort to come to us, so we have to "de-ghettoise" ourselves and reach out to make them understand how far our culture has come, and its importance to the youth worldwide as a real means of expressions, communication, and of fun and entertainment.

In the years 2001 and 2002 the BOTY included major conferences on many aspects of dancing within or without our hip hop culture, which means of course having to make parallels with the other disciplines of hip hop.

In the year 2002 there also was a conference at the german national finals and our aim for the future is to expand the conferences on our international eliminations. More than 600 people attended and participated in our conferences. Internationally known speakers like Storm, Mode 2, Break-DJ-Leacy, Wicket, Crazy, Toni L and many more were integrated.

In the year 2003 again there were different activities including warm up parties, after show parties, room for discussions and international exchange and of course the BOTY 2003 "a change of direction ..." conference. One of the main topics was the introduction of the new judging system, background and reasons for it.

Scoring Criteria

Judges evaluate the showcase round on two main elements, artistry and technicality, each of which includes several criteria. The artistry element includes theme, music, synchronicity, and choreography, among others. The technicality element includes toprock, uprock, footwork, and power moves, among others.

Qualification and Preliminaries

The champion of the world finals is always invited directly to the following year's world finals to defend their title. All other crews qualify via preliminary tournaments, although historically there have been a few instances of directly-invited crews (usually when there is no preliminary in that crew's region).

Qualification is moving towards a two-step system consisting of individual country preliminaries followed by regional preliminaries. Historically, each country had an individual preliminary and sent one crew to the world finals; however, countries have become more and more regionalized over the years.

Years prior to 2007, Asia region countries such as Korea, Japan, China, and Taiwan had their own preliminaries and sent one crew each to the world finals. BUT, starting in 2007, there is a new BOTY Asia regional preliminary that will send the top 3 finishers to the world finals. The last 3 BOTY Asia was held in Busan, Korea (2007); Bangkok, Thailand (200; and Singapore (2009) respectively.
World Finals Format

The format comprises firstly a showcase round in which all crews perform a routine of no more than six minutes in length demonstrating their ability in the different styles of breakdance. Judges rank all competing crews by evaluating certain criteria based on the shows.

Following the showcase round, the top four crews are selected to take part in a crew-vs-crew battle playoff. In the semifinals, the top-ranked crew battles the 4th-ranked crew and the 2nd-ranked crew battles the 3rd-ranked crew. The winner of each semifinal then battles each other for the championship. An award, "Best Show", is also given to the crew that had the best-scoring showcase.

Every year BOTY HQ in Germany try to feature the best and most innovative B-Boy crews from all over the world. One of our goals is to make this event as international as we can. The Battle Of The Year is a platform for B-Boys and Hip Hop culture in general and an opportunity for all participants to express themselves in a peaceful and non-racist environment.

Rules:

* After the showround there will be two semi final battles (place 2 vs. 3 and place 1 vs. 4 of the showround ranking). After that there will be one final battle between the two winners of the semi finals. Suggested time for the semi final battle is 10 minutes each, suggested time for the final battle is 15 minutes
* Crew ranking number 1 after the showround automatically wins the price for the best showcase
* The maximum length of the show is 6 minutes which will be very strictly adhered to in 2006
* We prefer to have a maximum number of crewmembers of 8 persons per crew. The local BOTY organizers only have to pay the trip (flight, train, bus, car) for 8 persons of the winning crew. Extra members of the crew have to pay their trip to the BOTY World Finals on their own expenses, they also have to pay their local accommodation in Montpollier/ France on their own expenses
* Only real crews are allowed to participate in the competition. Real crews means dancing, practising and performing together beside the BOTY
* The individual dancers are only allowed to join one national or international elimination
* Involved members of the local BOTY organisations are not allowed to participate in the competition as a dancer
* The jury should consist of 3 to 5 members, selected very carefully in close agreement with the BOTY Headoffice/ Germany. At least one member of the jury should be one of our BOTY judging team

Why a Judging System?

For most of the worldwide B-Boy and B-Girl Community the Battle of the Year is a unique and very important event. That’s why every decision made on this event has a big influence to the whole scene. The judges have a big responsibility. That’s why we were looking for equal rules of judging for every Battle of the Year event, to make the system of judging more transparent and understandable for everybody.

The following explanations will give you as an organiser, a judge or a dancer a guideline how to decide or participate at Battle of the Year events.

First of all a jury member has to be in a position to estimate a lot of different criteria. Of course not every jury member knows everything, but we claim to be open minded and willing to learn new things without forgetting the foundations. Open your eyes for developments and innovations in B-Boying.

The Battle of the Year has always been a B–Boying/Girling championship. B–Boying/Girling includes Toprock & Downrock with the sub-elements Uprock, Footwork, Legwork, Powermoves and Freezes. Other danceforms like Locking, Popping, House-Dance or even traditional elements from e.g. Capoeira or Salsa can be hosted in your show, and will have influence on the judging so far they are integrated in the whole performance in a self contained and sense full way. This means we don’t exclude Popping, Locking etc. but nobody is forced to integrate them into their performance.

On What Criteria the Judges Have to Vote

There are different criteria which will be voted from the judges. For each criterion each judge has to give points from 1 to 10. As more points the judges are giving to a crew as better the crew will stand in the ranking list. As usual the best 4 crews in the rankings will go for the final battles. During the battle there will be supplementary specific battle criteria to vote for the judges.

Show Criteria to Vote

» Synchronicity
"The state or fact of being synchronous or simultaneous"
How synchronised is the crew performing the show (if there are synchronised parts in it).

» Stagepresence
"The state or fact of being present; current existence or occurrence"
Is the crew performing in a way that doesn’t let you look at something else.
Does the crew impress thru what they’re performing.

» Theme & Music
"A subject of artistic representation. The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre"
Like description of dictionary.

» Choreography
"Something, such as a series of planned situations, likened to dance arrangements"
Does the whole show make sense.
Is there a concept which guides thru the show.

B-Boying Criteria to Vote
» Toprock
» Footwork/Legwork
» Freeze
» Powermove

No explanation necessary.
Battle Criteria to Vote
» Response
How does the crew/dancer react on what the opposite has given.

» Routines
What kind of “Battle”- routines does the crew/dancer bring on stage.

» Strategy
How the crew/dancer is planning and perform during the battle.

» Attitude
What kind of mentality brings the crew/ dancer to the battle situation.
Is there any disrespecting acting which has not to do with the battle itself. It’s not about who is going nearer to the battle opponent or who is insulting more, but it’s about who is better in B-Boying/ Girling.

» Voluntary Touching
No touching permitted!
What Are The Judges Looking At To Decide How To Vote The Different Criteria
Point of view concerning "knowledge":

» Vocabulary
"A supply of expressive means; a repertoire of communication"
How many different movements is the crew/dancer able to do.

» Innovation
"The act of introducing something new"
What makes the crew something special, different to the others.

» Foundation
"The act of founding, especially the establishment of an institution with provisions for future maintenance. The basis on which a thing stands, is founded, or is supported"
How many of the basic movements, that have been evolved in the beginning of this dance, is the crew/dancer able to do.

» Concept
"A general idea derived or inferred from specific instances or occurrences. Something formed in the mind; a thought or notion"
Do the things which the crew/ dancer is doing work together, does it makes sense. Is there a clear idea or a message in what the crew/ dancer is showing.

Point of view concerning "execution":

» Control
"Authority or ability to manage or direct"
How clean and perfect is the crew/dancer able to do the movements.
It’s not about hitting the floor and destroying the body.

» Expression
"The act of expressing, conveying, or representing in words, art, music, or movement; a manifestation"
How does the crew/dancer show his/its feelings.
Does the crew/dancer communicate with the crowd thru the movements and the interpretation of the music.

» Aesthetics
"A guiding principle in matters of artistic beauty and taste; artistic sensibility"
How good looks what the crew/dancer is doing.
Does it fits to the b-boy formula.

» Rhythm
"Movement or variation characterized by the regular recurrence or alternation of different quantities or conditions"
Does the crew/ dancer move to the rhythm.

» Difficulty
"The condition or quality of being difficult"
How difficult is what the crew/ dancer is doing.

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