I’ve been a huge fan of Kaba Modern since their debut on America’s Best Dance Crew a little over a month ago. After their sick performance on premiere night, I actually had them as the clear favorites to win the title.

But after five weeks of intense competition between the crews, my thoughts on the best have changed. Although I’m still a huge fan of Kaba and I wish them all the best in the show, I now have the Jabawockeez as the favorites to win with Kaba Modern at a very close second.

The reason for the change you might ask? Well, I still feel that Kaba has the better isolations and pay more attention to the detail of their moves than Jaba. However, the Jabbawockeez have put on a much larger repertoire of moves than Kaba Modern and this was very evident in their last performance which paid tribute to the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Jaba’s performance of “Pretty Young Thing” was much more entertaining than Kaba Modern’s “Thriller” and when the voting polls opened up, I put all biased opinions aside and voted for the best performance of the night which I thought clearly belonged to the Jabawockeez’s.

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