According to sources, after last week’s Showdown by 8TV, Fly FM DJ Prem had done a little dance of his own backstage which his Rush Hour partner Jules witnessed, and told Hafiz (another fellow DJ) that Prem can’t dance. Hafiz went on to tell Prem who decided to take Jules on in a little dance showdown of their own. They got callers to volunteer themselves as part of their crew; and surprise surprise, Nuven, who is the husband of my colleague Lydia, got through! He volunteereed himself for Prem’s crew and has had a few practices.

The Prem vs Jules showdown was going to happen at the same time as the Showdown 2010 roadshow in Sungei Wang today. Lydia and Nuven invited friends to watch and support them!

So I went with my Canon EOS 7D to take photos and videos. To be honest, I didn’t even know Showdown was going to happen at Sungei Wang (shame on me, considering I’m in charge of The Dance Directory) today. I went thinking I’ll just support my friend’s husband in his own little dance competition.

The show started at 2.30pm at the Sungei Wang centrecourt. Fly FM DJ Hafiz had to work hard to try to get the crowd riled up (the crowd wasn’t very responsive) to cheer for the final seven teams of Showdown 2010. It first began with a few individuals from each team taking turns to wow the unpleasing crowd with their fantastic dance moves… and it wasn’t long before the crowd began to loosen up.

Then, each dance team went onstage to show off what they’ve got… and it was evident that each team had its own set of fans in the crowd. Every team that went onstage were greeting by screaming fans… in fact, one of the teams, HMC Phlow had their own little “hand symbol” and were duly greeted by the crowd with the symbol when they came out to perform. Even the Wakaka Crew, which was only down to two members today did a fantastic job, being backed up by another dance team.

After that, the exciting bit came on… Prem vs Jules!

Prem’s team called themselves the “Blank Crew” whereas Jules’ team was “Fly Crew”. Prem lost to Jules on a “paper-scissors-stone” contest, and his team had to go first. Dancing to a medley of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance and Michael Jackson’s Thriller, none of them were trained dancers but they all did a fairly good job. The crowd was very supportive and they especially enjoyed the team’s version of Thriller.

The Fly Crew went next, dancing to a medley of Lady Gaga’s Telephone, Kei$ha’s Tick Tock and Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance. Choreographed by one of the members who was a fitness dance instructor, the team did a fairly good job as well, with simple steps that were synchronised.

This showdown was judged by a representative from each Showdown team (except one, who somehow disappeared); and the six judges couldn’t decide so requested for a mini dance-off. The DJ played the Showdown theme song and a dancer from each team took turns to the floor to show off their individual moves, before everyone broke out into a dance.

The winners were done by a show of hands by the judges, who upon prompting by Hafiz, all pointed towards … BLANK CREW!!

Each Blank Crew member was given RM200 Echo Park cash vouchers (totaling RM1000). But Fly Crew didn’t go empty handed… they were rewarded with RM100 Ech Park cash vouchers each (totaling RM500).

At the end of the show, Fly FM had to give out five goodie bags, but they were told to hurry up by Sungei Wang as there was another event onstage immediately after theirs… so the DJs just said that they would give the goodie bags to those who shouted the loudest, or rather, first.

They asked simple questions like, “What is the frequency of Fly FM in KL?”… “What is this guy’s name?” and I was a bit frustrated because they didn’t hear me shout. Actually, I didn’t REALLY want the goodie bag, but what happened was this… because they were under pressure, they couldn’t think of questions quick enough. In a silent lull as they were racking their brains to come up with a question, I raised my hand and screamed, “JUST GIVE THE BAG TO ME!!!!”

… AND THEY DID!!!

Of course, to make it fair (they can only award bags to someone who answer questions), they just asked, “Who wants the bag?” and they directed the bag my way in response to my obvious “Me!”.

Lydia couldn’t stop laughing at how I scored myself the goodie bag.

Photos and videos from today’s Showdown are being downloaded from my camera into my computer as I’m typing. I’ll post the link once they’ve been uploaded

Me and my Fly FM goodie bag

What's inside my Fly FM goodie bag

Oooh... and I got myself tickets to the finals of Showdown 2010!