With the reveal of the coveted RUMPUS themes, students and faculty alike start to place and rank the different houses and their themes, along with their chances to win. RUMPUS, an annual competition between the six houses, will take place on January 24 and 25.
Here, we will rank the houses based on their chance of winning and how their theme will transfer over to lip sync and gameday. Since I am a Cooper Day Leader, Cooper will unfortunately be excluded from this as to avoid bias.
5. Summerbell: Walk Of Fame
Summerbell is down this low for a few reasons. First and probably the most prominent is the fact that they won last year. Back to back champs is not impossible, as we’ve seen it many years ago with Summerbell themselves, Moser and Neville. However, in the more recent years, we have seemed to gravitate towards a new winner every year. We saw this last year when Summerbell won, but many believed that Moser should’ve taken home the gold, but they had won the year previous to that.
Their theme is mediocre in my opinion, as it’s common and overdone, seeing as girls’ house Regester has a similar one. Their lip sync will most likely be a bunch of boys in sunglasses and one “star” who the dance is focused around. Their songs will be up beat but I highly doubt that the Summerbell leadership will be able to choreograph a dance to keep up with that and to win them the title. Their gameday signs according to their theme will be boring, in my opinion. It will just be pictures of themselves, hyping each other up.
4. Regester: Reg Productions
Thinking about Regester and where to place them, I came to this spot. One reason being their similarity to Summerbell, not only in theme, but possibly costumes. They have the opportunity to go out of their comfort zone and do crazy costumes from different movies and really take their lip sync to the next level. But throughout my four years, I’ve never seen a hugely wild lip sync production from Regester.
I also put them lower because of their performance last year, which you might not count as fair. They scored a whopping 17 points, one of the lowest in RUMPUS history. Whether the blame goes to leadership, poor theme execution, or the wrong people on the wrong games, their track record isn’t looking great. However, I do believe that their gameday signs could be entertaining. Editing themselves, or others, on to different popular pop culture figures in movies could make for a good laugh.
3. Moser: Moser Murder Mystery: The Tail of the Tiger
Moser is scoring this high simply because of the creativity of this theme. In the more recent years, it has become common to repeat themes from previous years, but just twisting them slightly. Moser’s originality and creativeness is great but the key to winning will be pulling off a lip sync that both ties in their theme while also not making their performance too skit-like.
Moser is always a pretty solid house when it comes to lip sync, so I am excited to see how they play this out. As for their costumes and gameday ideas, I am out of luck. Will someone be dressed as the tiger? A cop? Detective? Random bystander? The options are truthfully endless which also makes it difficult for the dancers.
2. Thornwood: Twood On Track
Thornwood is the most consistent house when it comes to lip sync, I believe. This theme is no different as you could probably imagine. If they mix their music correctly and their choreography keeps up with it, then their chance of winning is huge. Their costumes can be really fun and cute, including reds and checkered boards.
1. Neville: Gentleman
Neville is scoring at the top because again, they are always pretty consistent in their performances, and this year is no different. The theme, like Moser’s, is incredibly original and can be great if executed well. With their group of leaders this year, this theme fits them as the theme itself is pretty silly. Again, same thing as Moser, they’re going to have to bridge the gap between a skit and actual dancing. But overall their chance of performing well is high.
Check back to the official RUMPUS Scoreboard in January for the official rankings.