If there’s one big thing that I always look forward to during the fall semester, it would definitely be the Lip Sync competition that takes place every year during Homecoming weekend. While most schools feature their own version of Lip Sync during their Homecoming, UConn goes all out for sure; Gampel Pavilion is packed with literally thousands of students that come to watch the competition. UConn has a different theme each Homecoming chosen by the Student Board of Governors (SUBOG, who run all major events on campus) and this year they picked ‘Game on UCONN’.
The Lip Sync competition featured over a dozen groups consisting of most of UConn’s Greek Life and all of its Cultural Centers. It’s always up to the group to adapt their performance to the year’s theme however they like. I, of course, always root for the Asian American Cultural Center–because you can always expect an amazing show when it comes to AsACC. We chose to base our dance off the idea of the Ouija board, but there were other board game influences too with the other groups. For example, the Puerto Rican and Latin American Cultural Center (PrLACC) chose the ‘Operation’ game, and the Rainbow Center chose to use ‘LIFE’ as their game.
I starting going to Lip Sync during my freshman year, when AsACC brought home the first place trophy, and I couldn’t have been more proud cheering on my group. If there’s one campus event where you get to see UConn’s diversity in full force, it’d be the Lip Sync competition, where everyone shows their pride for their own cultural group or fraternity/sorority.
Each group’s performance is rated based on their originality and creativity, their overall dancing and lipsyncing routine, and their UConn pride. While AsACC did a FANTASTIC job, we only came in third place =(. PrLACC came in first, followed by the Rainbow Center. I pretty much loved all of their performances though, can’t say I didn’t leave entertained!
Below I’ve posted a video of AsACC’s performance Saturday night. Thanks to Quynh for the link!
