SYTYCD – McPhee’s All-Star Picks
I have watched every episode of SYTYCD Seasons 1-6 including Canada, the U.K. & Australia (of course). But since this only for the U.S. I’ll post my American faves. Maybe during the week I’ll post the rest I think I may just leave out the U.K. one since there’s only been 1 season so far.
I started watching this show when Season 2 premiered here in Australia in 2006 (we didn’t get Season 1 I don’t know why) and have been watching it since then. I watch the episodes via internet before it’s shown in Australia since we are like a season behind we didn’t get Season 6 here due to low ratings and bad time changes. I have managed to get Season 1 of the internet. But Seasons 2, 4 & 5 are my fave seasons so far of the American version
This is a very hard choice so I decided to limit down to Top 3 of boy and girls but I had to choose my faves. So here they are:
Season 1: Guys Blake McGrath, Craig DeRosa & Artem Chigvinsey
Season 1 Girls: Melody Lacayanga, Ashle Dawson & Snow Urbin
Season 2 Guys: Travis Wall, Ivan Koumaev & Dmitry Chaplin
Season 2 Girls: Allison Holker, Natalie Fotopoulos & Heidi Groskreutz
Season 3 Guys: Neil Haskell, Hokuto “Hok” Konishi & Pasha Kovalev
Season 3 Girls: Lacey Schwimmer, Lauren Gottlieb & Jaimie Goodwin
Season 4 Guys: William (Will) Wingfield, Stephen “Twitch” Boss & Mark Kanemura
Season 4 Girls (This one is soooo hard so I picked 4): Katee Shean, Kherington Payne, Courtney Galiano & Chelsie Hightower
Season 5 Guys (once again a hard choice): Brandon Bryant, Ade Obayomi, Evan Kasprzak, Kupono Aweau & Phillip Chbeeb
Season 5 Girls (once again a hard choice): Kayla Radomski, Melissa Sandvig, Janette Manrara & Randi Evans
Season 6 Guys: Jakob Karr, Legacy Perez & Billy Bell (am I allowed to include him? I loved this guy!) if not I’ll pick Phillip Attmore (we need a tap dancer)
Season 6 Girls: Kathryn McCormick, Ellenore Scott & Noelle Marsh
Nice to see you kept it to the 10 all stars;-)
Wow, that’s an amazing group of dancers on there. All so amazingly good looking too. Wow!
Umm I honestly don’t get the Danny omission He is, imo, one of the most gifted and mesmerizing dancers out of all the seasons.
@Lilith this is true Danny is talented but his personality sucked.
My favorites so far is :
US Season 1 : Ryan and Snow
US Season 2 : Benji, Heidi and Natalie
US Season 3 : Lacey (my all time favorite personality and dancer) and ofc Hok.
US Season 4 : Joshua and Katee
US Season 5 : Janette and Jeanine
US Season 6 : Legacy
AUS Season 1 : Jack, Rhys and Kate
AUS Season 2 : Talia, Amy and Penny
AUS Season 3 : Jessica H and Don
CAN Season 1 : Nico
(season 2 sucked so bad I couldn’t watch).
@Amanda and Lilith
I think Danny is technically gifted but I’m not sure if his own performance will overshadow the other dancer. I mean Blake was an amazing dancer but he danced so outstanding, all my attention was focused on him. It’s great as a soloist but to have a chemistry with your partner will be difficult to pull off, especially if he has to change every week. Blake is a choreographer in any case so he might guest choreograph instead of partner.
I miss S3 Sara Von Gillern. She can do tap too 🙂
@Amanda I honestly think the whole “sucky personality” was blown waaaay out of proportion. Yeah, he was an introvert and a bit restrained, not all smiley and bubbly all the time, but I didn’t get “arrogant” from him the way the judges did. Idk, I think he is brilliant in his style and one of the better partners among the contemporary dancers throughout all seasons.
@Christine Well, there will be a bit of an overshadowing in all the couples this season, given the “stars” are way more experienced and popular. It all sounds a bit unfair to the newbies, but we’ll see.
I was stuck on choosing Danny and didn’t know whether to choose then I realised I added more dancers in Season 4 & 5 and it came upon me that I should’ve chosed Danny but I was running late for dance class and I didn’t have the time to add him but yes Danny is definitely my pick also in the S3 guys. I didn’t see any trouble in him at all.
i too have watched all english speaking seasons, and with the addition of danny, i heartily concur with the majority of your choices. i also included gev, as he was one of my fav bboys, and he translated to other genres very well., especially with courtney.
i didn’t have a no winners rule, so benji was in the mix for me. he is as brilliant in his way as danny or billy in theirs.
funny, neither of us picked nick. and while i didn’t have too many adds, i could have pared your list down, for me, with ease. by 10
I had winners picked out and then I realised that Emilie had her own rules not to include them so I thought it would’ve been fair without them as well.
Nick, Benji, Joshua, Jeanine & Russell were going to be my picks as well