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FEU desires to construct a snowman, NU goes out of this world, and UE solves a yearning for spaghetti because the extremely anticipated UAAP Cheerdance Competitors kicks off this December 1 for Season 87
MANILA, Philippines – The UAAP is bringing a festive begin to the final month of 2024 because the Season 87 Cheerdance Competitors (CDC) fires away on the Mall of Asia Enviornment on Sunday, December 1.
Sandwiched between the heated Closing 4 wars of the lads’s and ladies’s basketball tournaments, the annual CDC gives — as UAAP treasurer Bo Perasol put it — a “respite” for sports activities followers earlier than the primary half of the UAAP calendar involves a spectacular shut earlier than the vacations.
Main the eight-team cost is the defending champion FEU Cheering Squad, which has revealed its theme centered across the large hit movie sequence “Frozen” of Disney in a bid for CDC title No. 5.
“So far as defending [the title] is worried, we’re not likely targeted on that. Our focus is to hit the routine. That’s the one premise,” stated FEU head coach Randell San Gregorio in Filipino within the pre-competition press convention on Wednesday, November 27.
“If we win, thanks. If not, it’s okay too, so long as the run that the staff labored on these previous six to eight months is executed utterly. After all, we solely do that every year. There’s no bounce-back like different sports activities with their subsequent video games. Our subsequent sport is subsequent yr.”
Nipping as at all times on the heels of Morayta’s greatest cheer group is the NU Pep Squad, decided this yr to ship its loyal followers on an intergalactic journey with an “NUniverse” outer area theme and return to Earth with a primary place-tying eighth CDC title so as to add to its legendary assortment.
“For us with the NU Pep Squad, we nonetheless stick with our program and our system. We nonetheless imagine in its effectivity,” head coach Gabriel Bajacan stated in Filipino.
“By the years, NU has nonetheless had nice performances. We imagine our program is able to successful championships sooner or later and this Season 87.”
The UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe, aiming to win the ever-elusive ninth title after a bronze end in Season 86, reloads for the brand new yr with a “Batang 90s” (90s Children) nostalgia trip, whereas final yr’s fourth-placer Adamson Pep Squad goes down a considerably comparable path with a “Karaoke Medley” theme.
The UP Pep Squad — one other eight-time champion lengthy in search of a file ninth crown — opted to remain shrouded in thriller when requested for its theme, however hinted that it could “warmth up the chilly MOA Enviornment” with its efficiency.
UE, in the meantime, primarily mixed UST’s Batang 90s aptitude with Adamson’s festive karaoke temper as its Pep Squad goes for a Sexbomb theme, harkening again to a Filipino golden age of novelty tv and music — which incorporates the lady group’s widespread “The Spaghetti Tune.”
The La Salle Animo Squad, already in game-face mode within the press convention with black and white hair, revealed its theme to focus on chess themes, repeatedly referring to sport phrases like “the ultimate transfer” and “checkmate.”
Lastly, the Ateneo Blue Eagles — ever hopeful to interrupt out of a bottom-two streak now at 10 straight CDCs — stated that it could try to inform a “story of the universe” and “be limitless” by its efficiency.
As the previous few years have confirmed, although there are title favorites, no squad is a certain lock to win the coveted CDC championship. All that’s left now’s watch the enjoyable and really feel the fun unfold. – Rappler.com
