World of Dance season 3

The third season of American reality competition television series World of Dance premiered on February 26, 2019, on NBC. Jennifer Lopez, Ne-Yo, and Derek Hough returned as the judges for their third consecutive seasons. Scott Evans replaced Jenna Dewan as the host.

Production

Show concept

In preparation for season three, handpicked competitors, being talented in any styles of dancing, from qualifying events around the nation and thousands of online submissions, are divided into four divisions:

1. Junior (groups of 1-4, under 18),
2. Upper (groups of 1-4, 18 and older),
3. Junior Team (groups of 5+, under 18) and
4. Upper Team (groups of 5+, 18 and older).

In some cases dancers who didn't apply were directly contacted by the producers or their agents.

Scoring

The judges are scoring in 5 categories. Each category is worth 20 points, with a perfect score of 100:

• Performance (20 points):
  • Effort: How many different elements put into the routine without overloading or rushing through it. What was the whole effort to dance the performance by the act.
  • Personality: How characters and personality put into the performance, in the sense of acting to stimulate emotions by the audience, telling a story or framing pictures.
• Technique (20 points):
  • Transitions: How smooth and elegant the transitions from move to move were without lacking a performance moment.
  • Cleanness: How synchronized, ordered by a pattern, precise and committed the movements were within the act.
  • Execution: How flawless the execution of the performance by the act was to the performance song.
• Choreography (20 points):
  • Difficulty: How difficult it was to perform the figures and movements by the act from judges point of view.
  • Musicality: How well pictures, figures and movements were choreographed to the sound and beat of the performance song.
  • Tricks: Are unexpected show elements included by properties, clothing or the bodies of the dancers and how well was it done.
• Creativity (20 points):
  • Originality: How unique, new, fresh and interesting was the performance.
  • Artistic Choices: What styles of dancing were shown and merged. How well was it done regarding basic dance styles and style culture, e.g. costumes, shoes. The performance song and the use of properties are artistic choices as well. How well did they fit to the performance.
  • Dynamics: How energizing and powerful the performance was and how much action was on stage.
• Presentation (20 points):
  • Crowd Appeal: How the crowd around the show stage reacted to the performance.
  • Impact: How memorable, influential and worth talking about it later the performance was.

Judges, host and mentors

Season 3 host and judges

Jennifer Lopez

Derek Hough

Ne-Yo

Jennifer Lopez, Ne-Yo, and Derek Hough returned as the judges for their third consecutive season. Access Live Co-Host, Scott Evans replaced original presenter Jenna Dewan as the host for the third season.

Dancers

Junior Team (under 18)

Act	Hometown	Dance Style	Qualifier Score	Duel Score	Cut Score	Average Score	Elimination Date	Placement
VPeepz	Manila, Philippines	Hip-Hop	90.3	92.7	98.7	93.9
Dancetown Divas	Miami, FL	Ballroom Latin	87.3	95.0	93.3	91.8
The Crazy 8's	Anaheim Hills, CA	Contemporary	93.0	93.3	92.3	92.8
JDC	San Jose, CA	Contemporary	87.3	96.0	91.3	91.7	April 14, 2019	The Cut
Elektro Crew	Gilbert, AZ	Hip-Hop	86.3	91.0	90.0	89.1	April 14, 2019	The Cut
Get Down District	Rosemead, CA	Hip-Hop	85.0	88.0	88.7	86.5	April 14, 2019	The Cut
MKAM	Alhambra, CA	Hip-Hop	89.7	90.7		90.2	March 24, 2019	The Duels
Battle Droids Crew	Antwerp, Belgium	Breaking	87.0	90.3		88.7	March 24, 2019	The Duels
West Springfield Dance	Springfield, VA	Hip-Hop	85.0	89.3		87.2	March 24, 2019	The Duels
Intention	Edmond, OK	Contemporary	87.7	87.0		87.4	March 24, 2019	The Duels
Kozmic Edge	Guttenberg, NJ	Hip Hop	83.0	-		83.0	March 10, 2019	Qualifers
Minibots	Vancouver, Canada	Popping	83.3	-		83.3	February 26, 2019	Qualifiers

Upper Team (over 18)

Act	Hometown	Dance Style	Qualifier Score	Duel Score	Average Score	Elimination Date	Placement
The Kings	Mumbai, India	Hip-Hop	97.7	99.3	98.5
Unity LA	Los Angeles, CA	Contemporary	95.3	97.0	96.2
The Heima	Seoul, South Korea	Breaking	93.7	96.7	95.2
Radiance	Los Angeles, CA	Contemporary	88.0	93.7	90.9
Exiles	Coolidge, AZ	Hip-Hop	88.0	93.0	90.5
Fuego Dance Crew	San Diego, CA	Hip-Hop	93.7	91.0	92.4
Motiv Crew	Orlando, FL	Hip-Hop	85.7	90.0	87.9	April 7, 2019	Duels
Siudy Flamenco	Miami, FL	Flamenco	86.7	89.7	88.2	April 7, 2019	Duels
Main Guys	Oslo, Norway	Hip-Hop	89.7	89.3	89.5	April 7, 2019	Duels
Style & Grace	Vancouver, Canada	Hip-Hop	85.0	88.0	86.5	April 7, 2019	Duels
Str8jacket		Hip-Hop	83.7	-	83.7	March 10, 2019	Qualifiers
The Rookies			83.0	-	83.0	March 10, 2019	Qualifiers

Upper (over 18)

Act	Hometown	Dance Style	Qualifier Score	Duel Score	Cut Score	Average Score	Elimination Date	Placement
Briar Nolet	Oakville, Canada	Contemporary	87.3	90.3	95.3	90.9
Poppin John	Farmington, NM	Popping	85.3	91.3	95	90.5
Derion & Madison	Los Angeles, CA	Contemporary	90.3	90.0	94.7	91.6
All Ready	Seoul, South Korea	Hip-hop/Ballroom fusion	88.0	92.3	92.0	90.7	April 14, 2019	The Cut
D'Angelo Brothers	San Cesareo, Italy	Tap	87.3	89.7	91.7	89.5	April 14, 2019	The Cut
Jonathan Y Jorge	Orlando, Florida & Lima, Peru	Salsa	88.7	90.7	90.7	90.0	April 14, 2019	The Cut
Denise & Josh	Toronto, Canada	Contemporary	91.0	90.0	-	90.5	March 17, 2019	The Duels
Derek Piquette	Chicopee, MA	Contemporary	91.3	89.3	-	90.3	March 17, 2019	The Duels
DD Flection	Bangkok, Thailand	Contemporary	92.0	89.0	-	90.5	March 17, 2019	The Duels
Tobias & The Eztwins	Copenhagen, Denmark & Ljubljana, Slovenia	Hip-Hop	92.7	87.3	-	90.0	March 17, 2019	The Duels
Erica & Aiden		Contemporary	84.7	-	-	84.7	February 26, 2019	Qualifiers
Skyscrape		Ballet	82.0	-	-	82.0

Junior (under 18)

Act	Hometown	Dance Style	Qualifier Score	Duel Score	Average Score	Elimination Date	Placement
Lauren Yakima	Northville, MI	Contemporary	95.7	96.0	95.9
Julian & Charlize	Manalapan, NJ & Los Angeles, CA	Hip-Hop	87.0	95.3	91.2
Moving 4ward	Toronto, Canada	Contemporary	86.3	93.0	89.7
Ellie & Ava	Woodbury, MN	Contemporary	90.3	91.7	91.0
Funkanometry	Vancouver Island, Canada	Popping	87.3	91.7	89.5
Kayla Mak	Rye Brook, NY	Contemporary/Ballet	90.3	91.0	90.7
House of Tap	Santa Ana, CA & San Diego, CA	Tap	85.7	91.3	88.5	March 31, 2019	The Duels
Aydin Eyikan	Fairfield, CT	Contemporary	88.3	90.3	89.3	March 31, 2019	The Duels
The Trilogy	Maplewood, MN	Contemporary	86.3	90.0	88.2	March 31, 2019	The Duels
Audrey & Mia	Chicago, Illinois & Seattle, Washington	Krump	86.3	90.0	88.2	March 31, 2019	The Duels
Invictus		Ballroom	82.0	-	82.0	March 10, 2019	Qualifiers

The Qualifiers

The qualifier round took place between February 26 and March 10, 2019. In a change from the first two seasons of the show, the performers needed an average score of at least 85 points to advance to The Duels round, as opposed to 80 points in Season 1 and 2.

3Table key

Key	Description
	Contestant(s) did not qualify

Contestant performances and Judges' score

Date	Name	Division	Performance song	Judges' score
				Ne-Yo	Jennifer	Derek	Average
February 26	The Kings	Upper Team	"Dhakka Laga Bukka Yuva" - A.R Rahman, Karthik, & Mehboob	97	98	98	97.7
	Erica & Aiden	Upper	"Better Now" - Post Malone	84	85	85	84.7
	Funkanometry	Junior	"Shake Your Pants" - Cameo	88	87	87	87.3
	The Crazy 8's	Junior Team	"Keeping Your Head Up" - Birdy (Don Diablo remix)	93	95	91	93
	Jonathan y Jorge	Upper	"El Anillo" - Jennifer Lopez	90	87	89	88.7
	Julian and Charlize	Junior	"The Middle" - Zedd, Maren Morris, Grey	87	88	86	87
	The Heima	Upper Team	"La La La" - Naughty Boy (ft. Sam Smith)	95	92	94	93.7
	Minibots	Junior Team	"I Can Make Ya" - Fingazz	85	83	82	83.3
	Poppin John	Upper	"Flower Duet" - Lakmé	84	86	86	85.3
	Ellie & Ava	Junior	"Cry Pretty" - Carrie Underwood	95	89	93	92.3
	D'Angelo Brothers	Upper	"People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul" - James Brown	87	86	89	87.3
	Lauren Yakima	Junior	"(I Just) Died in Your Arms" - Hidden Citizens	97	94	96	95.7
	Elektro Crew	Junior Team	"Yeah!" - Usher (ft. Lil Jon & Ludacris)	87	87	85	86.3
March 3	Kayla Mak	Junior	"Back To Me" - Daya	92	87	92	90.3
	Fuego Dance Crew	Upper Team	"Chambea" - Bad Bunny	92	95	94	93.7
	Aydin Eyikan	Junior	"In My Blood" - Shawn Mendes	89	87	89	88.3
	All Ready	Upper	"Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" - The Pussycat	89	90	85	88
	Exiles	Upper Team	"The Saints" - Andy Mineo	88	87	89	88
	Briar Nolet	Upper	"You Should See Me in a Crown" - Billie Eilish	88	86	88	87.3
	VPeepz	Junior Team	”How Low" - Ludacris	89	89	93	90.3
	Derion & Madison	Upper	"Genius" - LSD	89	92	90	90.3
	Moving 4ward	Junior	"Hold Back the River" - James Bay	86	86	87	86.3
	JDC	Junior Team	"Look"				87.3
	Dancetown Divas	Junior Team	"La Mordidita"	87	88	87	87.3
	Tobias & The EZTwins	Upper	"For You"	94	92	92	92.7
	The Trilogy	Junior	"You Say" - Lauren Daigle	87	85	87	86.3
March 10	MKAM	Junior Team	"what You Gon' Do" - Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz (ft. Lil Scrappy)	88	89	92	89.7
	Denise & Josh	Upper	"An Evening I Will Not Forget" - Dermot Kennedy	90	92	91	91
	Invictus	Junior	"New Rules" - Dua Lipa				82
	The Rookies	Upper Team	"Poison" - Bell Biv Devoe				83
	Main Guys	Upper Team	"Taste" - Tyga (ft. Offset)	89	89	91	89.7
	Kozmic Edge	Junior Team	"All The Way Up" - Fat Joe & Remy Ma (ft. French Montana)	83	83	83	83
	Unity LA	Upper Team	"Indestructible" - Robyn	97	94	95	95.3
	Str8jacket	Upper Team	"Wall To Wall" - Chris Brown				83.7
	Battle Droids Crew	Junior Team	"The Power" - Snap!	85	87	89	87
	Intention	Junior Team	"Piano Man" - Billy Joel	88	88	87	87.7
	Derek Piquette	Upper	"Remember Who I Was" - James Arthur	90	93	91	91.3
	Audrey & Mia	Junior	"Alive" - Lil Jon, Offset & 2 Chainz	87	87	85	86.3
	House of Tap	Junior	"One Day" - Logic (ft. Ryan Tedder)	85	86	86	85.7
	DD Flection	Upper	"Die Trying" - Michl	90	95	91	92
	Siudy Flamenco	Upper Team	"My Immortal" - Evanescence	87	88	85	86.7
	Style & Grace	Upper Team	"Goodies" - Ciara	87	85	83	85
	Radiance	Upper Team	"Closure" - Hayley Warner	87	87	90	88

The Duels

In each round of The Duels, two acts in the same division compete for a spot in the next round. In each division, the acts with the top qualifying scores choose their opponents, then both acts perform back-to-back, receiving feedback from the judges. The act with the highest average at the end of the duel moves on to the next round; the other faces immediate elimination. New this season, at the end of each division, the 2 highest scoring eliminated acts will face off against each other in a Redemption round. The 2 acts will dance to the same song back to back and the judges will decide who will take the last remaining spot in The Cut by majority vote.

Table key

Key	Description	Key	Description
	Contestant(s) was/were eliminated by a duel		Contestant lost their Duel, but won a Redemption Duel, advancing them to the Cut.

The Qualifiers scores

Rank	Upper		Upper Team		Junior		Junior Team
	Name	Score	Name	Score	Name	Score	Name	Score
1st	Tobias & The EZTwins	92.7	The Kings	97.7	Lauren Yakima	95.7	Crazy 8’s	93.0
2nd	DD Flection	92.0	Unity LA	95.3	Ellie & Ava	92.3	VPeepz	90.3
3rd	Derek Piquette	91.3	Fuego Dance Team	93.7	Kayla Mak	90.3	MKAM	89.7
4th	Denise & Josh	91.0	The Heima	93.7	Aydin Eykin	88.3	Intention	87.7
5th	Derion & Madison	90.3	Main Guys	89.7	Funkanometry	87.3	Dancetown Divas	87.3
6th	Jonathan Y Jorge	88.7	Exiles	88.0	Julian & Charlize	87.0	JDC	87.3
7th	All Ready	87.3	Radiance	88.0	Audrey & Mia	86.3	Battle Droids Crew	87.0
8th	Briar Nolet	87.3	Siudy Flamenco	86.7	Moving 4WARD	86.3	Elektro Crew	86.3
9th	D’Angelo Brothers	87.3	Motiv Crew	85.7	The Trilogy	86.3	Get Down District	85.0
10th	Poppin’ John	85.3	Style & Grace	85.0	House of Tap	85.7	West Springfield Dance Team	85.0

The Duel Picks

Opponent selection proceeded according to rank within each division. Briar Nolet defeated Denise & Josh in the Upper Redemption Duel to advance. The Dancetown Divas defeated MKAM in the Junior Team Division Redemption Duel. Kayla Mak defeated House of Tap on the Junior Division Redemption Duel. Exiles defeated Motiv Crew in the Upper Team division.

Table key

Key	Description	Key	Description
	Contestant(s) was/were eliminated		Contestant lost their Duel, but won a Redemption Duel, advancing them to the Cut.

Contestant performances and Judges' scores

Date	Division	Name	Performance song	Judges' score
				Ne-Yo	Jennifer	Derek	Average
March 17	Upper
		Tobias & the EZTwins	"Do Your Thing" - Basement Jaxx & Metropole Orkest	90	83	89	87.3
		D'Angelo Brothers	"Tutti Frutti" - Little Richard	89	90	90	89.7
		Denise & Josh	"More" - Billy Lockett	89	92	89	90
		Jonathan y Jorge	"Me Enamoro Mas de Ti" - Tony Succar	90	91	91	90.7
		DD Flection	"Shutter Island" - Jessie Reyez	90	88	89	89
		Poppin John	"Who Am I (What's My Name)?" - Snoop Dogg	91	92	91	91.3
		Derek Piquette	"You Found Me" - The Fray	89	89	90	89.3
		Derion & Madison	"Awoo" - Sofi Tukker	91	88	91	90
		All Ready	"Who Let the Dogs Out?" - Baha Men	92	93	92	92.3
		Briar Nolet	"Come Fly With Me" - Ruelle	87	90	94	90.3
March 24	Junior Team	VPeepz	"Tambourine" - Eve	92	92	94	92.7
		Battle Droids Crew	"Party Up In Here" - DMX	90	90	91	90.3
		Get Down District	"When I Grow Up" - Pussycat Dolls	89	88	87	88
		Intention	"Quarter Past Midnight" - Bastille	87	88	86	87
		MKAM	"M.A.A.D. City" - Kendrick Lamar	92	88	92	90.7
		Elektro Crew	"Dangerous" - Busta Rhymes	93	90	90	91
		Dancetown Divas	"Gangsta's Paradise" - 2WEI	96	95	94	95
		JDC	"Who You Are" - Jessie J	98	95	95	96
		The Crazy 8's	"Peanut Butter Jelly" - Galantis	94	92	94	93.3
		West Springfield Dance	"The Twilight Zone" - Figure feat. Hatch	92	89	87	89.3
March 31	Junior	Ellie & Ava	"Because Of You" - Kelly Clarkson	90	92	93	91.7
		Audrey & Mia	I’m Better - Missy Elliot	91	89	90	90
		Kayla Mak	Paint It Black - Ciara	90	90	93	91
		Funkanometry	Betta Watch Yo Self - Problem	92	91	92	91.7
		Aydin Eyikan	Youngblood - 5 Seconds Of Summer	91	89	91	90.3
		Moving 4Ward	Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol	94	93	92	93
		Julian & Charlize	New Level - A$AP Ferg ft. Future	96	96	94	95.3
		The Trilogy	Perfectly Wrong - Shawn Mendes	89	90	91	90
		House Of Tap	Kiss Kiss - Chris Brown (ft. T-Pain)	92	89	93	91.3
		Lauren Yakima	Escalate - Tsar B	97	95	96	96
April 7	Upper Team	Fuego Dance Crew	"Just A Little Bit" by 50 Cent	93	91	89	91
		Siudy Flamenco	"She Bangs" by Ricky Martin	90	89	90	89.7
		Unity LA	"Hurts" by Emilie Sande	96	97	98	97
		Style & Grace	"King's Dead" by Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future and James Blake	88	88	88	88
		Exiles	"Manolo" by Trip Lee feat. Lecrae	95	93	91	93
		The Heima	Natural by Imagine Dragons	99	95	96	96.7
		Radiance	"God Is a Woman" by Ariana Grande	93	95	93	93.7
		Main Guys	"X Gon Give It To Ya" by DMX	90	88	90	89.3
		Motiv Crew	"Win" by Jay Rock	90	91	89	90
		The Kings	"Malhari" by Vishal Dadlani	100	99	99	99.3

The Cut

Table key

Key	Description
	Contestant(s) was/were eliminated

The Duels scores

Rank	Upper		Upper Team		Junior		Junior Team
	Name	Score	Name	Score	Name	Score	Name	Score
1st	All Ready	92.3	The Kings	99.3	Lauren Yakima	96.0	JDC	96.0
2nd	Poppin John	91.3	Unity LA	97.0	Julian and Charlize	95.3	Dancetown Divas	95.0
3rd	Jonathan Y Jorge	90.7	The Heima	96.7	Moving 4ward	93.0	The Crazy 8’s	93.3
4th	Briar Nolet	90.3	Radiance	93.7	Ellie and Ava	91.7	VPeepz	92.7
5th	Derion & Madiosn	90.0	Exiles	93.0	Funkanometry	91.7	Elektro Crew	91.0
6th	D'Angelo Brothers	89.7	Fuego Dance Crew	91.0	Kayla Mak	91.0	Get Down District	88.0

Divisional Final

Table key

Key	Description
	Contestant(s) was/were eliminated

The Cut scores

Rank	Upper		Upper Team		Junior		Junior Team
	Name	Score	Name	Score	Name	Score	Name	Score
1st	Briar Nolet	95.3					VPeepz	98.7
2nd	Poppin John	95.0					Dancetown Divas	93.3
3rd	Derion & Madison	94.7					The Crazy 8's	92.3

Ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of World of Dance season 3

No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)
1	"The Qualifiers 1"	February 26, 2019	1.4/6	6.26
2	"The Qualifiers 2"	March 3, 2019	1.0/4	4.18
3	"The Qualifiers 3"	March 10, 2019	0.8/4	3.49
4	"The Duels 1"	March 17, 2019	0.8/4	3.73
5	"The Duels 2"	March 24, 2019	0.8/4	3.33
6	"The Duels 3"	March 31, 2019	0.7/3	3.24
7	"The Duels 4"	April 7, 2019	0.7/3	3.24

External links

• All full episodes can currently be watched on NBC World of Dance website, but only officially within the United States due to geographical restrictions
• World of Dance season 3 at IMDb
• World of Dance season 3 at TV Guide