UAAP Cheerdance Competition

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UAAP Cheerdance Competition is the annual event of Philippine Athletic Association in the Philippines to perform cheerdancing. The UAAP Cheerdance Competition is now part of the tabulation to determine the UAAP's Total Championship. The order of performance is determined by drawing of the draw before the competition.

Prior to the announcement of the winner and after all the teams are done, the recap is displayed during the broadcast. Only the Top 3 are announced at the end of the competition. The UAAP Chefance Competition 2015 is the most accomplished UAAP event with a record-breaking 25388 spectators.

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Participants

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Rules

The rules of competition have been revised for years since its inception. The following is based on the latest rules compiled in 2012.

Basic rules

1. One official team per UAAP member university
2. 15-25 Eligible UAAP students
3. A maximum of 5 claimers/props, with all black outfits
4. Up to 2 substitutes 12 hours before the main competition

Performance

1. A routine must exist
   • Shouting school shouting instantly. Any action, pyramid, and uproot done during a cheering routine will be judged under the joyful category of each element.
   • Dance Routine
   • Stunts (Lifting and Rejecting)
   • Tosses
   • Pyramid
   • Tumbling (standing and running)
2. A maximum of 7 snare and 12 bass drums if the venue is Araneta Coliseum; 5 meshes and 6 bass drums if the place is the SM Arena
3. Cheerleading may not show outside the 15x20 meter performance boundary line

Judge

Prior to 2009, the panel of judges consisted of representatives from 8 UAAP member schools and representatives of credible gymnastics organizations. In 2009, the UAAP replaced the panel of judges with representatives from various cheerleading, dance and gymnastics organizations.

In 2013, different ways to draft a panel of judges were created. A single judge is assigned to every element in cheerleading criteria. For dance criteria, four judges are given the task of assessing this specific criteria.

Criteria

Criteria for judging vary from year to year. In 2008, the criteria were changed to a more cheerful cheer point system, providing maximum scores for each cheerleading element and/or dancing. For the 2013 edition, the criteria are divided into two: the cheerleading and dance criteria. Cheerleading criteria are divided into four elements (falls, actions, throws, and pyramids) with a maximum of 100 points for each element, while the dance criterion, which has a maximum of 100 points per number of judges for dancing, is subdivided. into four sub-criteria (effectiveness, choreography, engineering, and execution) as a whole.

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Sponsors

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Results

Every season, the host school for the UAAP Cheerdance Competition may or may not be different from the league's middle school host.

Note:

^ a - UAAP Board suspends competition when a member of UP Filipiniana has an accident during training.

^ b - In 1998, UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe did not participate in the competition.

^ c - De La Salle University was suspended from league in 2006.

^ d - Instead of the average score of the five judges, the ranking frequency system is used in rating and declaring the winners for UAAP 2012 Competition Cheerdance. In the case of NU and UST, NU was declared runner 2 as 3 out of 5 judges voted NU as the 3rd placer while 3 out of 5 judges chose UST as the 4th placer despite a higher score of UST (85.56) than NU (85.16 )

^ e - Performance-based assessment used in criteria: 400 points for cheerleading elements and 400 points for dance elements; for a total score of 800. The score shown here is the equivalent percentage (ie Actual Score divided by 800 then multiplied to 100).

^ f - University of the Philippines missed UAAP Season 79 Cheerdance Competition

^ g - Far Eastern University and National University completed the fourth tied competition.

Group stunts division

In 2011, UAAP introduced the Stunt Group Competition.

More Awards

Stunner Awardees

Sponsor Award

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Championship table

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UP-UST competition

Event chronology

No other competition in cheerdance competition except for UST-UP competition.

UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe won the first three years of competition from 1994 to 1996. During those years, UP was used to send his own dance troupe, Dance of the Philippines Dance UP and in the first edition of the contest, UP did not make it to the top three while the UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe ruled the highest. In the 1998 season, UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe did not compete and instead joined the 1st Lipton Cheering Cup Competition . Also in that year, the UP formed a new army, called the UP Varsity Pep Squad, as an official delegate for the competition to replace the Philippine Dance Dance.

The rivalry between the two teams started in 1999 when the UST came back to reclaim the title after years of their absence. However, they only occupy the second position behind UP Pep Squad. In 2001, UP Pep Squad matched the record of three UST winning streaks.

In 2002, UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe regained the title while UP Pep Squad finished third. The next three years have UST Salinggawi Dance Group in first place and UP Pep Squad as runner-up. In 2006, UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe received their eighth title through five consecutive wins that set the highest score in the history of the competition while UP Pep Squad finished third in the year.

UP Pep Squad regained the title in 2007 and earned their fifth title in 2008, with UST as the second placer. Purpose UP Pep Squad of the second peat-peat was not realized in 2009. That year, UST failed to enter the top three for the first time. In 2010, UP regained the title while UST returned on the podium finish third. UP has three more peat after winning the 2011 and 2012 editions - the same years when UST failed to enter the top three again.

Both UP and UST won slant slant from 2013 to 2015. In 2013, UST has the lowest rank and occupies the seventh position. In 2013, UP was never placed outside the top three while UST failed to get podium ratings four times in five years.

In 2014, UST successfully rejoined the podium in third place while the UP came second. In 2015, after nine years, UST defeated the UP by winning second place while the UP came in third. By 2015, both teams have identical championships in eight. The UP, though ousted, is by far the most established team having lived on the podium for 20 consecutive years.

In the 2017 edition, UP came back from a one-year hiatus but failed to get into the top three. The UP Pep Squad is in 6th place with eternal rivals UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe second place.

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Controversy

Questions were raised on the results of the 2015 Cheerdance Competition after NU Pep Squad won despite several mistakes including falling on their elevators and pyramids. This is different from UP runner-up and UST running clean programs. The UAAP community in social media is furious especially because of their unbelief of ratings and allegations of bias and corruption. NU claims that their stunts have a higher level of difficulty compared to other teams. Because of this, UP filed a formal complaint for cases detailing some of the assessment inaccuracies but remained unresolved with UAAP officials. In response to unresolved issues and focus on international competition, UP Pep Squad decided to pass the 2016 competition.

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See also

• UAAP Street Dance Competition
• NCAA Cheerleading Competition
• List of club championship domestic presence: UAAP Cheerdance Competition in a global context.

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References

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External links

• UAAP Official site cheerdancing coverage

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