Twerk From Home aims to become the UFC of exotic dance, with a cryptographic impulse

Joe Mahavuthivanij, the co -founder and CEO of Twerk From Home, or TFH, must be the Twerking Dana White through the legitimation and cultivation of exotic dance sport.

The first tournament of the organization bounces in Action on Saturday, since a group of dancers headed towards the final with a $ 10,000 Grand Prize. He TFH The event will feature dancers from all over the world, fighting on Twerk-Offs face to face through its web cameras, hence the brand “from home”.

Meanwhile, spectators will vote with their wallets buying “gifts” for the best dancer. Each penny of those gifts will go directly to the dancer, said Mahavuthivanij, and the individual with the greatest amount of gifts will win the battle.

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TFH will organize weekly live broadcast Events until October 4, when the Grand Final will take place.

Mahavuthivanij told him Decipher that TFH’s idea came from meeting exotic dancers in Las Vegas and trying to understand the challenges they face. Some of the obstacles, he said, were around “legitimacy and professionalism”, and wanted to fix that.

“Seeing UFC legitimizing and professionalizing combat sports,” said Mahavuthivanij: “I thought, maybe there is something we can combine here and take advantage of their learning. Ultimately, I threw all these crazy ideas into a crazy ideas. [blender]And outside the other side, this crazy idea came to turn this into an online battle. “

The mixed martial arts faced a treacherous path to where it is today, with the UFC now seeking to organize a Event at the White House. In fact, MMA was once prohibited in 36 US statesWith Senator John McCain calling him “human rooster fights.” He took the UFC adding Weight classes, prohibiting certain techniques and instituting judges, as well as the creation of the Unified martial arts rules“Nephore that sport had some sense of legitimacy.”

TFH, however, will not have its competence officiated by judges. Rather, the winner will be decided by the audience, which Mahavuthivanij will anticipate will be composed mainly of men, which will give a new meaning to the phrase “Human cockfight”.

“We see how this can be transmitted as a popularity contest, at least at this stage. This is how we are potentially thinking about it,” said the founder. “We are not necessarily pioneers in this type of model. If you look like programs such as [“American Idol”]The audience sends text messages and choose who they want to see move on. They involve their audience; It is an interactive experience. “

Of course, there are already exotic dance and twerking contests.

International Twerk Champions Includes a series of local competitions that led to a International battle. There are multiple style categories, such as heels twerking, and are judged by Twerking teachers. This is done because the average spectator may not understand what constitutes an impressive movement: the same reason why sports such as rhythmic gymnastics in Olympic Games require qualified judges.

Mahavuthivanij argued that international Twerk Champions is too irregular, has limited awards and a small audience. Its objective is to promote TFH at a level that sport has not yet seen when organizing regular events.

Even so, what the Twerk International Champions on TFH has are the appropriate judges: Mahavuthivanij expects to iron that over time with expert comments. That should help “educate people” about what to look for, he said, what could provide the competition with additional depth and help avoid simply a content based on appearance or popularity.

“Once people begin to understand what they should be looking for, we can begin to evolve at that next level of objectivity versus strictly subjectivity,” added Mahavuthivanij.

Exotic dancers face immense stigmatization in society, said the CEO, and hopes that TFH can expand beyond twerking to other niches after this first tournament. He explained that many dancers have their bank accounts closed, an epidemic that has swept the sex work industry too. For that reason, TFH is offering dancers the option to receive a cryptography payment.

“While I have been building this, if I am sincere, I have experienced a lot of that same stigma that they face every day,” said Mahavuthivanij Decipher. “This is something that has been here forever, and will continue to be here. And I think it’s time to provide legitimacy for it.”