UNSW Ministry of
Dance Society
Established 2011
7-to-smoke
MODSoc's 7-To-Smoke was the brainchild of 2017 President Kevin Dai, in an effort to bring our freestylers closer to the family. This event drew upon an existing format in dance competitions around the world, a King-Of-The-Hill Format, to allow dancers an opportunity to showcase their skills against multiple people instead of just one, as per usual tournament style battles.
Format
The format of MODSoc's 7-To-Smoke is extremely simple, we'll quickly explain it below!
1. Preliminaries:
Dancers come in groups of 8, and each person comes to the middle to do a short 30 second solo. After all 8 dancers have finished, groups are replaced with a new set of 8 and the process is repeated until the everyone has had a opportunity to dance in front of the judges.
2. Break:
After Preliminaries, dancers come to onto the floor to dance and jam for a short period of time while the judges decide on the Top 8 Dancers to compete in the 7-To-Smoke!
3. Judge Showcase:
After sorting out the Top 8 and any deciding battles to fill in the last spots if there are tiebreakers, the judges give a quick freestyle solo to the dancers and audience to express their skills and show why they were given the role of judging the battle.
4. 7-To-Smoke:
Dancers are ordered from 1 to 8, and the battle starts with number 1 going against number 2. Each battle is one round, the loser is sent to the back of the line while the winner of the round gets 1 point and stays on to battle the next person, which would be number 3 in this case. If there's a tie in judging, both battlers are sent to the back of the line. To win, one person either gets 7 points (smoking 7 people), or whoever ends up with the most points after a certain agreed upon time, e.g. 30 mins.
From then till now...
From the humble beginnings when President Kevin first organised it, we had barely enough people to make the event run at all! Our most recent 7-To-Smoke Round 3 had over 20 competitors in it's preliminaries. The growth of this event is reflective of the growth of our society's engagement with newer battlers.
The executive team also brought the winners of the previous 2 Rounds back as battle guests as a gauge of the current level of the members as well as to challenge the winners to always keep that mindset of continuous improvement in order achieve victory once again. We are extremely excited for the development of this internal event for the future, so keep updated with this page for further notices on events!