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I previously posted a poll asking for people to vote for their favorite dancers from the SYTYCD top 20. We’ve had almost 3000 votes on the poll and the results of the poll are quite interesting. Take a look at this chart of the voting results and below it I’ll add some commentary on the results.

First, I have to of course point out that this poll includes all of the SYTYCD season 5 top 20. Paris and Tony are already gone, but even that’s interesting. Paris was the least popular person and so I guess that’s why no one has come to the site complaining about Paris going home. Tony on the other hand was more popular than Paris, but still was near the bottom.

I’m not surprised at all that Asuka and Vitolio are near the bottom. After their first performance that makes a lot of sense. Ashley for some reason has never been popular. Maksim doesn’t have the looks he needs to be more popular (see Dmitry).

I should mention that the voting results are probably a little bit skewed in Jeanine Mason’s favor since I’ve had a lot of people coming to my site after searching for Jeanine Mason’s name. That said, you have to give Jeanine credit that a lot of people are searching for her name on Google. If they didn’t care about her, they wouldn’t be searching.

Anyone who thinks that Evan doesn’t have a great shot at winning this season is crazy. This poll shows that. Phillip seems to have a nice fan following thanks to his previous performances on the show.

I’m a little surprised that Caitlin Kinney actually got more votes than her partner Jason Glover. I would have thought for sure that he’d be more popular than Caitlin (even if I’m obviously bias to Caitlin myself).  Although, from the looks of it Kayla Radomski is quite popular herself.

Another surprise for me is Pono Aweau sitting in the middle ground. I would have thought he’d be a bit more popular than that. Maybe it will just take some time for people to get to know him. Although with that said, I think he could potentially rub people the wrong way.

All in all, I feel pretty good about these poll results predicting which people will make it to the top 4. We might see one or two people shift a little, but the top slots do seem to be some of the best dancers and the most popular ones as well.

I’ve already created a poll for people to vote for their favorite SYTYCD individual dancers (since at the end of the day it is about the individuals). However, even more important at this point is which of the top 20 couples are going to be placed into the bottom 3 and have to dance for their life tomorrow night? Place your vote now for the couples you think will be in the SYTYCD bottom 3 tomorrow night (yes, that means you’re voting for the worst couples from tonight’s SYTYCD top 20).

Someone asked me to post the numbers that people can use to vote for their favorites from the So You Think You Can Dance top 20. Your wish is my command. If you’re on the west coast, then this will also reveal the partners for the SYTYCD top 20.

Jeanine Mason and Phillip Chbeeb 1-888-TEMPO-01
Asuka Kondoh and Vitolio Jeune 1-888-TEMPO-02
Karla Garcia and Jonathan Platero 1-888-TEMPO-03
Randi Evans and Evan Kasprzak 1-888-TEMPO-04
Paris Torres and Tony Bellissimo 1-888-TEMPO-05
Caitlin Kinney and Jason Glover 1-888-TEMPO-06
Janette Manrara and Brandon Bryant 1-888-TEMPO-07
Ashley Valerio and Kuponohi’ipoi “Kupono” Aweau 1-888-TEMPO-08
Melissa Sandvig and Ade Obayomi 1-888-TEMPO-09
Kayla Radomski and Maksim “Max” Kapitannikov 1-888-TEMPO-10

Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help you enjoy SYTYCD even more. Also, don’t forget to vote for the SYTYCD top 20 and check out the SYTYCD top 20 music.

So You Think You Can Dance is so unique since it’s kind of a team competition, but it’s also an individual competition as well. So, in this poll you can vote for the individual dancer that is your favorite. You can vote for the couples on my other So You Think You Can Dance top 20 poll which I’ll post after tonight’show.

I was searching around for some videos of Pono Aweau from before So You Think You Can Dance and I came across this little gem. Turns out Pono Aweau somehow did this little music video with Miss Hawaii USA Jonelle Layfield to the song “So Much Betta” by Janet Pono doesn’t appear until a little while in, but it’s interesting to see him in this video:

Also, Pono Aweau’s dance group (and also Mark Kanemura’s group) performed at the Miss Hawaii 2008 pageant as well. You can’t see any faces, but it gives a little idea of where Pono comes from:

Fans of Pono Aweau will also enjoy this video of Pono dancing at the 24-VII Danceforce Studio to “Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand

Check out this video showing all of the pictures from the So You Think You Can Dance top 20:

We’re finally to the top 20 of So You Think You Can Dance 2009. The wait is over. I’ll be updating this page with all the So You Think You Can Dance top 20.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 Top 20
SYTYCD Season 5 Girls
Janette Manrara
Kayla Radomski
Paris Torres
Jeanine Mason
Karla Garcia
Caitlin Kinney
Melissa Sandvig (naughty ballerina) (maiden name is Melissa Watson)
Ashley Valerio
Randi Strong-Evans
Asuka Kondoh

SYTYCD Season 5 Boys
Vitolio Jeune
Pono Aweau
Ade Obayomi
Jonathan Platero
Brandon Bryant
Tony Bellissimo
Maksim Kapitannikov
Jason Glover
Phillip Chbeeb
Evan Kasprzak

Not in the So You think You Can Dance top 20
Dianna (sp?)
Brandon Dumlao
Henry Rivera
? asian girl
Alex Wong
4 dancers not named
Deana Brickley
Ryan Kasprzak

Let us know what you think of the SYTYCD Season 5 top 20 in the comments.

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The good people over at SYTYCDism have created what seems to be the most complete list of the So You Think You Can Dance top 32 that I’ve found so far. Nice work Trandrew! Check out the list and please contribute if you know of any corrections to the So You Think You Can Dance Top 32. I’m going to mark in bold who I believe will be in the So You Think You Can Dance top 20. I can’t wait to find out the real SYTYCD top 20 results tonight.

Boys:
1. Philip Chbeeb
2. Tony Bellissimo
3. Ricky Sun
4. Maksim Kapitannikov
5. Brandon Bryant
6. CJ Tyson
7. Alex Wong
8. Pono Aweau
9. Evan Kasprzak
10. Ryan Kasprzak
11. Jason Glover
12. Brandon Dumlao
13. Henry Rivera?
14. Ade Obayomi
15. Jonathan Platero?
16. Vitolio Jeune?
+ Geo Smith?

Girls:
1. Caitlin Kinney
2. Paris Torres
3. Kayla Radomski
4. Janette Manrara
5. Asuka Kondoh
6. Jeanine Mason
7. Paula VanOppen
8. Melissa Sandvig
9. Karla Garcia
10. Pauline Mata
11. Randi Strong-Evans
12. Danielle Peig
13. Ashley Valero
14. Diane Vaden
15.
16.

Also, here’s the solo montage video from last night as well that highlights many of the So You Think You Can Dance top 20 hopefuls.

I found this quick news article about Pono Aweau representing Hawaii in the top 20 of So You Think You Can Dance. I guess that means this is a SYTYCD spoiler huh? Oh well, it’s fun to get to know a little more about Pono Aweau

Aweau will fly to Las Vegas on Tuesday to make the next cut, and be one of the 20 finalists.

“It’s not even an option to not get this to not win it I’m going in for the kill it’s a battle it’s a war and I’m gonna come out the victor,” he said.

Donning less hair but full of determination, the 23-year-old dancer from Kailua already has plenty of local support.

He’s a member of the group 24-7 Dance Force, which gave him a send off on Sunday.

Judges were impressed enough to compare Aweau to Mark Kanemura, who was also from 24-7 Dance Force, and made it to the top six in last year’s show. He’s also been an inspiration for Aweau.

“Seeing him up close and seeing him do it you just don’t think that you can and then because we are so close he’s a really good friend of mine it made me think oh if he can do it oh I really could.”

Aweau says the dancing bug bit him when he was a fifth grader at Kamehameha Schools.

It’s always fun for me when people come from Hawaii since I lived there for a couple years. Just reading the news kind of takes me back. Ok, no one cares about me. Let’s get to the show tonight already!!