Mar 2 - White sorority wins Sprite step competition; Black sorority complains and then wins

ATLANTA (AP) — After days of controversy over a white group's win in a step competition, sponsor Coca-Cola said Thursday the second-place team will share top honors.

Coca-Cola said in a statement that a review of the scoring from Saturday's national contest revealed a "scoring discrepancy" that it declined to explain. This is the first year of the Sprite Step Off, but step contests are typically dominated by black sororities and fraternities.

Step is a historically black art form of rhythmic stepping and clapping. A YouTube video of the winning performance by a group of Zeta Tau Alphas from the University of Arkansas generated hundreds of comments, some of them inflammatory.

Coca-Cola said Thursday the Alpha Kappa Alpha team from Indiana University, whose members are black, would share first place and would also receive the same $100,000 in scholarships that the Zeta Tau Alphas won.

"Because the scoring discrepancy cannot be resolved and due to the extremely narrow margin between the first and second place winning sororities," the company decided to declare co-winners, the company statement says.

The national offices of both sororities said they were proud of their members and declined to comment on the Internet controversy.

The Sprite Step Off was created to award scholarships, Coca-Cola said. The tournament began in September with a series of regional qualifying rounds around the country. Six sororities competed in the national final in Atlanta Saturday. Six fraternities also competed among themselves

Co-winners named after step show result causes controversy, sponsor cites scoring discrepancy - latimes.com

:sad34: tell them b**ches to take the L in stride, just salty cuz white girls out stepped them

i say that is bullsh*t. some of us black people complain and b*tch about the most trivial sh*t. it's more things to be worried about than some step show.

Heard about this. They asked my homeboi team to step but wouldnt let them compete because they wasnt greek

Side note....them hoes could get the D

I was at the show two weeks ago...and those girls really won because they were white

their steppin was on point but it was extremely basic...however the fact that they defied the stereotype of awkward white dancing made the crowd go wild...myself included

it's just when u think of STEP u think of NPHC Frats and Sororities...that's why they mad...Mighty Q's, Alphas,Sweet Nupes,Sigmas, and the Iota's I've Never Seen A Iota BTW....AKA's, Deltas, Sigma Gamma Rho's,Can't Forget about Them Zeta's...

Get 'em Uncle Ruckus..............

damn I really need 2 find footage so I can show ya'll what I saw at the show

those girls could only do basic things....but because people thing whites can't dance it was given praise...they were average in skill compared to the rest of the competition but played on their race and underdog status to hype the crowd

if anyone else is in Atl and was there help me out cuz most online vids have been deleted due to copyright infringement

da snowbunnies look good??

they're stacked yea..had on all leather and matrix type costumes

pics and vids

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2010/0301...astep1_600.jpg

ur right the akas from indiana should have won i think everyone was cheerin for the white girls cuz they were white girls steppin

<<<aka

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=016C4sUj5_8<<<<white girls

poor sportsmanship at its finest! coke-a-cola must of been scared of its image to turn it around like that... everything has to be racially motivated when a group of white/black kids compete!

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I didn't say s**t about aka's don't jump 2 conclusions now

How was the contest judged ? Was it based on crowd response or was there a judging committee that scored it ? Cause if more people cheered for the white girls than the black girls.....where's the discrepancy ???

lol they went in!

They prob had a point Id be shocked to see some white girls steppin and s**t.