DIANA: This week, we are entering Memphis, Tennessee.
Memphis, Tennessee has some of the best dance teams around
and some of our biggest rivalries.
These week's competition is just a stand battle.
For the stand battle, you have Dynamic Diamond Dolls, Prancing
Tigerettes, Dancing Cloverleafs, Golden
High Steppers, and the Diva's of Olive Branch for competition.
So out of all of those names that I gave y'all, which
one stands out the most?
Prancing Tigerettes.
DIANA: Prancing Tigerettes.
They're the team that when I see their name on the roster,
I'm like, OK, we need an extra practice this week.
Start with the left foot, one, hey, hey, hey, and pause,
jump, leap, [inaudible].
Kayla is the captain.
Kayla is in charge of making sure the routines are
thrown properly.
She's making sure that she doesn't repeat stands.
And then also, she has to make sure that the girls
are following her.
Come on, y'all need to get focused.
It's gotta be way harder than that.
It's too soft. It's too cute.
Y'all are like this.
If it comes down to two teams, and they
can pick because both team's stands are really good,
they're going to take off points where they can.
Meaning if somebody missed a head snap, whoop.
Cause Tigerettes gonna do this.
Whap, whap, pow!
Y'all gotta have one to come right behind.
You got to have one.
This is going to be one that's a good end.
You have to be able to make sure that each one of the girls
is hitting the same spot at the exact same time.
If you have it, you'll perform.
If you don't, then you won't.
Five, push six, seven, eight.
1, 2, 3, 4, and roll.
Come on Crystianna, seven, and eight.
Hip, hip, wrong way, [inaudible]..
[music playing]
Sunjai, you not ready.
Have a seat back there.
Crystianna, you gonna join her if you don't dance full out?
MOM: She cut my baby.
GROUP OF MOM'S: Yep.
Diana pissed me off, clearly.
I felt like Sunjai got cut before she even have a chance.
I think she go way overboard.
But that's her.
She's not going to change.
Y'all daughter's are performing. Mine isn't.
And I want her to perform.
Oh, baby, you don't pay to perform, baby.
DIANA: I need for y'all to be focused, ready, confident
in every stand that you throw.
So just be ready, because I expect for y'all to kill.
Going into a competition, knowing
that we already have certain biases against us,
it doesn't intimidate me.
It more so motivates me.
There is no room for error.
This needs to be a knockout.
ANNOUNCER: There will be six teams battling today.
Each judge has been selected by one
of the teams that is challenging in this battle today.
DIANA: The rivalry between The Dancing Dolls
and Diva's of Olive Branch is one that is almost nonexistent.
I'm not really concerned.
And The Dancing Dolls should move on to the next round
with the Tigerettes.
DANCER: When the Diva's of Olive Branch
first stepped out, in my mind I was like,
I just need to kill this.
I was thinking, get through to them.
Then straight to Tigerettes.
I'm thinking, they not together.
It's kind of thrown together.
And the captain just stopped and was like, choking on it.
Like what?
No, no, you don't do that.
You [inaudible].
WOMAN: Those are The Dancing Dolls that I know, diva's.
Put your tail between your legs and walk on out.
[music playing]
DIANA (VOICEOVER): Even despite all the intense tension
and everything that's going on in the room,
Dancing Dolls ate them up.
ANNOUNCER 2: Can you do the math?
We got three and three.
DIANA (VOICEOVER): Looking at the scores, it's a tie.
We're going to have to go again.
ANNOUNCER 2: Judge number seven.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, judge seven?
Where does judge seven come from?
There's six teams.
So why are there seven judges?
ANNOUNCER 2: Drum roll, please.
Diva's of Olive Branch.
The rules said, six judges, six teams, six judges.
Every team was supposed to submit a judge.
And if something changed, I should have been notified,
going into all this prior to.
This [bleep] happens.
It happens to the best.
Next week, all I can say is it's on.
And from here on out, we don't lose no more.
You make a mistake in practice, you cut.
You come to practice late, you cut.
You talk [inaudible], you cut.
This is what it's going to take in order to be good,
not just in dance but in life, period.
We'll be back.
And when we come back, beware.