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Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest
Also stepping is about innovation, creativity, and originality and some are quite pissed that ZTA brought nothing new and instead used all D9 steps in their show, even the stepping on the raised platform. Some say that if the judges were greek and not celebrities, that they would not have won doing other orgs' steps which is not looked upon favorably by those that know and appreciate stepping. So this is what all the feelings are about.
But I say congrats to ZTA. I just hope they will bring the creativity and originality next year. I think more people will respect their performance then.
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^^^THIS!
This debate is getting on my nerves already, and I just stumbled upon it last night. Both extremes of the debate are driving me insane right now.
As someone who has both created, learned, performed and judged performance routines, albeit not stepping, but ones in which the scoring categories are pretty much the same, i think ZTA performed really well. With few exceptions their timing and precision was great, they were in fact entertaining, good costumes, etc. But even before reading comments and such, I sat through almost the entirety of their routine like, "I've seen the Alphas do that, the Ques, do that, etc. etc." Their creativity in the routine was pretty much nil.
If this is in fact a successful event next year, and they participate, I agree with rhoyaltempest and hope they bring new material to the stage.