UAAP Cheerdance Competition

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Stunner Awardees

Season	Year	Season host	Person	School of origin
71	2008	UP	Frances Fleta[20]	UP
72	2009	FEU	Sari Campos[21]	ADMU
73	2010	DLSU	Nikka de Dios[22]	DLSU
74	2011	ADMU	Nesza Isabel Salvador[23]	UP
75	2012	NU	Nicolette Erica Ambulo[16]	UP
76	2013	AdU	Ana de Leon[18]	DLSU
77	2014	UE	Camille Isabel Lagmay[24]	UP
78	2015	UP	No award

Notes:

• ^a - The UAAP Board suspended the competition when a member from the UP Filipiniana figured in an accident during practice.
• ^b - In 1998, UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe did not join the competition.
• ^c - De La Salle University was suspended from the league in 2006.
• ^d - Instead of the average score from the five judges, the ranking frequency system was used in ranking and declaring the winners for 2012 UAAP Cheerdance Competition. In the case of NU and UST, NU was declared as the 2nd runner up as 3 out of 5 judges voted for NU as the 3rd placer while 3 out of 5 judges voted for UST as the 4th placer despite of the higher score of UST (85.56) than NU (85.16)
• ^e - Merit-based scoring was used in the criteria: 400 points for cheerleading elements and 400 points for dance elements; for a total score of 800. Scores displayed here are its percentage equivalent (eg. Actual Score divided by 800 then multiplied to 100).
• ^f - University of the Philippines skipped UAAP Season 79 Cheerdance Competition

Group stunts division

In 2011, UAAP introduced the Group Stunts Competition. However, only five members per school competed where Adamson Pep Squad, DLSU Animo Squad, and UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe did not participate. In 2012, six member-schools participated in the Group Stunts Competition. This includes AdU, NU, DLSU, FEU, UP, and UST. In 2014, only Ateneo did not join.

Year	Host school	Champion	2nd place	3rd place	Ref.
2011	ADMU	UP	FEU	NU
2012	NU	UP	FEU	NU	[16]
2013	AdU	NU	FEU	UST
2014	UE	FEU	UST	NU
2015	UP	UST	NU	FEU
2016	UST	NU	UST	FEU

Championship table

School	Last Championship	Last Top 3 Appearance	Rank			Total	Championship Rank
			01 !	02 !	03 !
University of the Philippines	2012	2015	8	6	6	20	1
University of Santo Tomas	2006	2015	8	5	3	16	2
National University	2016	2016	4	—	1	5	5
Far Eastern University	2009	2016	2	4	9	15	3
De La Salle University	—	2013	—	4	2	6	4
Adamson University	—	2016	—	1	1	2	6
Ateneo de Manila University	—	2009	—	1	—	1	7
University of the East	—	2002	—	1	—	1	7

UP–UST rivalry

School colors of
UP and UST

Chronology of events

The UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe won the first three years of competition from 1994 to 1996.^[3] During those years, UP used to send its own dance troupe, the UP Filipiniana Dance Troupe. In the 1998 season, UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe did not compete and instead joined the 1st Lipton Cheering Cup Competition. Also in that year, UP established a new pep squad, called UP Varsity Pep Squad, as its official delegate to the competition to replace the UP Filipiniana Dance Troupe.

The rivalry between the two squads began in 1999 when UST returned to reclaim the title after their year of absence. However, they only finished second behind UP Pep Squad. In 2001, UP Pep Squad matched the record of UST's three consecutive wins.

In 2002, UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe regained the title while UP Pep Squad finished third. The next three years had UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe in first place and UP Pep Squad as runner-up. In 2006, UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe received their eighth title via five consecutive victories setting the highest score in the history of the competition while UP Pep Squad finished third on that year.

UP Pep Squad regained the title in 2007 and garnered their fifth title in 2008, with UST as second placer. The UP Pep Squad's goal of a second three-peat was not realized in 2009. In that year, UST failed to enter top three for the first time. In 2010, UP regained the title while UST came back in the podium finishing third. UP had another three-peat after winning the 2011 and 2012 editions - the same years when UST failed to enter top three again.

Neither UP nor UST won the cheerdance tilt in from 2013 to 2015. In 2013, UST had its lowest ranking and settled seventh place. As of 2013, UP never placed outside top three while UST failed to get a podium ranking four times in five years.

In 2014, UST successfully rejoined the podium finish at third place while UP placed second. In 2015, after nine years, UST defeated UP by winning second place while UP settled for third. As of 2015, both teams have identical number of championship titles at eight. UP, despite being dethroned, is by far the most established team for having stayed at the podium for 20 years straight.

Controversy

Questions were raised on the results of the 2015 Cheerdance Competition after NU Pep Squad won despite committing multiple errors including falls on their lifts and pyramids. This is in contrast with runners-up UP and UST executing clean programs. The UAAP community in the social media was outraged mainly due to their disbelief of the ranking and allegations of biased judging and corruption. NU claimed that their stunts have higher degree of difficulty compared to other teams. Due to this, UP filed an official complaint for the case detailing several judging inaccuracies but was remained unresolved with UAAP officials.^[25][26] As a response to the unresolved issues and to focus on international competitions, UP Pep Squad decided to skip the 2016 competition. ^[27]

See also

• UAAP Street Dance Competition
• NCAA Cheerleading Competition
• List of domestic club championship attendance: UAAP Cheerdance Competition in a global context.

References

External links

• UAAP Official site cheerdancing coverage