Let’s go Tamaraws lets go, Let’s Go Tamaraws Let’s GO! That was the resounding chant that was heard all throughout the Big Dome as this year’s hosts The Far Eastern University Tamaraws captured their second UAAP Cheerdance title in the midst of a jampacked Araneta Coliseum. The Tamaraws were the last team to perform and their performance was a fitting climax to the very energetic crowd that trooped to the Big dome. The Blue Babble Battalion of the Ateneo de Manila University placed second as they edged out the defending champion University of the Philippines Pep Squad by a whisker.
The FEU Pep Squad and the Blue Babble Battalion dislodged UP and UST from the top and sit as the best Pep squad’s this year. The team that had the most disappointment was last year’s runner up the
The Blue Babble Battalion placed 2nd
The UP Pep Squad was rarin to go but unfortunately some faults ruined their near flawless presentation. The surprise team this year is the Ateneo’s Blue Babble Battalion. The Atenean’s actually had just simple routines but their timing, choreography and flawless execution earned the nod of the judges. The FEU Team had extremely high energy routines , synchonized gymnastic acts and flawless execution. Their 86% score can be considered a runaway and consensus among the judges that they really won the title hands down.
The Blue Babble Batallion
Judges this year were Douglas Nierras (director of Powerdance), Evan Alva (President, Pilipinas Cheerleading Federation), Dr. Sylvia Chua (President, Cheerleading Association of the Philippines), Joy Valenton (National Judge Gymnastics Association of the Philippines), and Ai Hasegawa (International Judge, Foundation of Japan Cheerleading Association).
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