Shorts From Glo Batte Of The Year Final Audience Wished Didn’t End

On Saturday, April 30, 2022, the Glo Battle of The Year came to an end with a fitting final.

Here are shorts from the event the audience wished didn’t end.

….Giant Pillars Scream “Dance Battle”

About 17 giant pillars inside the Convention Centre of the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos venue of the Glo Battle Of The Year final scream the message of what was happening.

They were wrapped from “head to toe” in massive posters telling what was happening – Glo Battle Of The Year Nigeria.

Not a single pillar was left “undressed”.

….Making The Audience Seductively At Ease

That was the ambiance. It made the audience seductively at ease, particularly the V.I.P arena.

The lightenings were “bedroom nice”, just enough to see your way around at the V.I.P and interchanging colors without being “in your face” at other parts of the hall.

…..Why Your Name Is Important

The name you chose for self or business is very important. And one of the crews in the contention for the grand prize of the Glo Battle Of The Year came so far but ended what up what it named self – Outsiders.

It was expelled from the competition via disqualification of its own making.

The crew wanted a beat different from what was given to other competitors.

Members opted for an act of rebellion by wasting one of their allocated three minutes just looking at the audience and walking off stage.

The crew failed to grab the second chance given by the audience who clamored for its return on stage.

It did a dejavu of the first act and judges aided group members to live up to the name of their crew via disqualification – Outsiders!.

…Level Playing Field For Dance Crews

All the dance crews had the same number of members – six each.

And they batted with the same beat.

It was the attempt to change the beat for their “bout” that aided the disqualified crew to live up to their name – Outsiders.

….Teni, Simi Made Audience Hunger For More

Do2tun – Oladotun Ojuolape Kayode – the energy god introduced Teni and Simi for a joint performance.

The audience went wild in great anticipation. But it turned out a breezy performance.

Makanaki and Mama Adejare came on stage for a walk through the stage duet that started with the moment they stepped on stage and ended with when they walked off- without a pause in between.

Brief, exciting, and very daring. It left the audience hungering for their next performances.

….When Judges, Audience Towed Different Paths

The decision over who won the BGirl Final went two different ways.

The audience had their winner and the judges picked theirs.

According to the audience, BGirl Vicky was the unofficial winner while the judges announced BGirl Cruxy as the official winner.

As usual in such cases, the audience was swept away by the entertaining moves while the judges factored in technicalities.

……When The Winner Thought He Lost

For the Finale of the BBoy dance category – the winner thought he had lost and walked off the stage!.

Lil Dan defeated BBoy Whirlz to clinch the overall spot. But he thought he lost when the judges announced the result and walked off stage leaving the “vanquished” BBoy Whirlz to enjoy the “handshake” reserved for the winner from the representative of the sponsor Globacom.

Shouts of “where is the winner?”, “Where is the Winner” gave Lil Dan the true picture and saw him clamber back on stage in delight.

….How Six One Nine Foretold Their Winning

The eventual winner of the dance crew Final foretold winning the competition.

619- went home with N9miion among other prizes including a car gift – squared against 11-all stars.

It was an engagement filled with unexpected drama and suspense and a very prophetic move by 619.

The crew members displayed a “champion” belt as part of their dance gimmicks against their competitor during the contest.

After all “said and done”, They were named winners by the judges to the applause of the audience.

Both teams gave a very good account of themselves and made the last battle for the dance crews’ crown worthy of the tag “Final”.

…Basket Mouth Turned On Himself
Bright Okpoucha, the comedian who survived industry gang up to become one of the most formidable players in his sphere of operations was one of the stars of the night but inadvertently turned the joke on himself.

In his bid to crack the ribs of the audience by leveraging on biblical characters, the comedian lived up to his name “Basket Mouth” via a “leaked memory” with the declaration “You know Samson and Goliath” to a roar of corrections from the audience and quickly threw him, “that one na David and Goliath and this one na Samson when woman cut him hair” (That is David and Goliath, this one is Samson that a woman cut his hair”…He ended up regaining and improving on his reputation as a master of his game before exiting the stage.

….The Longest Break

The longest interlude at the event that led the audience in great anticipation by the noise right from the beginning to the end was less than 10 minutes. And the reason was understandable, the judges wanted to get it right in collating the results for the quarter-final of the Crew Dance challenge. All the crews were invited on stage and sent back for the “suspense-filled and longest break” to determine their fate.

…Why The Over 4hr Event Seemed Just Started When It Ended

The Glo Battle Of The Year Finale was an over 4hrs event but when it ended, it seemed it has just started.

The organizers deployed a major strategy – each episode of the show lasted between 3 to five minutes and they were back to back.

There was only one break in the chain which lasted less than 10minutes for the judges to compile the results of the Dance Crew challenge quarter-final engagements.

Sticking to the script was such that highly anticipated singers Simi and Teni spent barely two minutes in their joint outing while individually Mama Adejare stuck to 3 minutes with Makanaki getting an extra two based on audience reaction.

…Teni Surpassed Expectations

Even a killjoy would have jumped into the fray of the excitement when Teniola Akpata, the singer simply known as Teni the entertainer let loose her monstrously popular song – Billionaire during her solo performance.

The audience lapped it up. And helped her gained her an extra two minutes on Simi who performed earlier.

Her performance got the audience across all age grades on their feet.

And the dancers amplified Teni’s outing beyond comparison.

They danced like they were the audience with joy on their faces and free flowing movements across the stage like that of favorite footba team having an amazing time on the pitch.

…Energy god “caged”

With the sticking to the schedule and allocated time on a tight leash, the energy god -Do2tun – was left with plenty of unused power.

Oladotun Ojuolape Kayode – that’s his real name – the anchorperson usually bustling all over stages displaying unbridled energy with all shades of entertaining antics and hues of dance steps fought hard to keep still as he abided by the script and belting out “Let the battle begin” in announcing different chapters of the Glo Batte Of The Year Finale.

…And Davido Gave A Fitting End

Davido the “We rise by lifting others” enthusiast gave a curtain drawer performance.

His performance was…well, a quick trip to Glo T.V App and myglotv.com will tell you this and more.