You should have seen Trinity when it was revealed that Status Quo got the most votes on America’s Best Dance Crew. He hit pause on Tivo and nearly screamed, “What?!” It was a shocking turn of events, yes.

Trin, for the record, has been pulling for the JabbaWockeeZ from the beginning. More and more, I’ve leaned toward them, especially since the other team I liked, Kaba Modern, seemed to lose steam with each new challenge. Below is my favorite performance from the JabbaWockeeZ to date, the Broadway challenge.

But if I had been a judge, I would’ve said something along the lines of, “screw the votes, Status Quo obviously didn’t bring it.” Their performance tonight was disjointed and all over the place? And their encore performance was, ironically, clownish. If I was a dancer and I was able to build my own performance from the ground up with costumes, customized music and all that jazz (ba-rum bump!), it would be way more slick than what they produced.

JabbaWockeez deservedly goes on to the finale, plus, they brought a tear to my eye with their tributes to the member of their crew who died recently, Gary Kendell. But you know what? Kaba Modern really broke it down on their last performance. They totally took advantage of having the only girls left in the competition (they played groupies when “Bye Bye Bye” came into the mix), their dancing was tight and made sense.

Unlike Status Quo’s routine. *sigh*

A few other notes: I spent 30 minutes Google JabbaWockeeZ to figure out what movie their name was derived from. You would think Jabba the Hutt and Wookie and think it was Star Wars right? Not so much. I actually got it wrong — their name was derived from a character in Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass, the Jabberwocky dragon. Very appropriate, I think.

Also, I’ve been checking out JabbaWockeez and Kaba Modern‘s pages on Facebook and all the different comments and discussion threads. Folks, let’s not get racist here. This is not blacks vs. Asians. We are not a bunch of Kenneth Engs here. Maybe the phones blew up for Status Quo? Maybe the producers wanted it to be East Coast vs. West Coast? Who knows. But dude. I don’t want to see what should be a fun dance show degenerate into another discussion by haters about how one ethnicity is supposedly better than another.