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Barre Tab: S4, E27 - No More Crybabies

  • Absolutely! Put her in. We need a win!! 45
  • No, it wasnt fair to the other girls 533
  • 2025-07-26
  • 578 votes
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Should Abby have put Maddie, even if she didnt the ALDC would have lost?

Comments

Lemon50lime

Huh? What does this mean 😭

Mindi Kruse

Even Kenzie says in an interview later that she agrees with Christi. I felt so bad for the girls this week.💔

Megan Q

I had to look up the episode lol. Abby had MacKenzie, Tea, and Sarah compete solos, but added Maddie last minute to beat Ava.

Lemon50lime

Ahh okay. I think the grammar is just not making sense “should Abby have put Maddie,” like put Maddie where? The sentence just doesn’t make sense lol

Dingbat Henry

As sick as it sounds I believe it was simply to spite an 11 year old (Ava) and take away any chance of her feeling good about herself by winning, it had nothing to do with “the ALDC reputation”

Hannah Kachur

I think it was a really bad example to set for the girls, like “It’s okay to hurt your friends (or in this case your sister) as long as you get us a win.” And idk I just don’t like that. Felt so bad for Kenzie in this episode

Shari Pearson

By Abby putting Maddie in all the time it is hurting the self esteem of the other girls. The girls should be made to feel they can win and give it their all.

Elizabeth

Oh absolutely. The dance teacher is sick

Blue Jai

Yes, I’m sorry but these other teams will hold onto a win like a Draw 4 UNO card. I can only imagine how insufferable Jeanette would be. The problem is that Abby rarely gives other girls a chance to shine (without producer intervention). If every girl had a great dance and chance to win a title more often, this wouldn’t be Mackenzie’s one moment and it wouldn’t feel like it was snatched away to the same extent.

Allison Bryant

I don’t know how that was possible if it wasn’t for the show because you can’t just add an entry an hour before. It had to have been already entered

Shreky homecky

She shouldn’t have entered Maddie. Unfair for all of the girls competing solos and just another reason for Kenzie to feel awful about herself. If I were her, I wouldn’t particularly care about losing to Ava without Maddie in the mix but losing to Ava with Maddie there is Abby giving the message “you suck and this is just another reason why your sister is better than you”.

Joshua Dabney

I think that the way Abby handled the situation and adding Maddie in “last minute” was extremely unprofessional and a terrible example for the girls, but I can understand why she would want to put in an older dancer because Mackenzie and Tea’s solos weren’t really difficult enough to compete with eleven or twelve year olds in the first place! At this point, I think Jeanette would’ve gone insane (even more so than she already was) if Ava beat everyone at the ALDC, and we wouldn’t hear the end of it for months lol. There’s no way that production and Abby didn’t know that Ava was competing, so Abby should’ve just put Maddie in from the beginning, or added her ASAP and told Mackenzie and Tea that their placement from this competition wouldn’t matter for Nationals and that she’d only be assessing their performance itself. That would be too logical though, of course Abby had to screw everyone over at the last minute instead of being transparent from the start.

Lauren C

Maddie used to be my favorite when I watched this show as a kid. But rewatching as an adult… omg I can’t stand her

jayla

don’t forget maddie was an 11-12 year old girl at this time just doing what she was told. all of those girls were great little girls and i don’t think its fair to say you can’t stand maddie because of this. i also don’t think any of the moms would have agreed then or now. certainly, i don’t think abby should have put maddie in the comp, but all those girls were just trying to still do what they loved while tainted with the fear of cameras and abby and doing something wrong

Garret (aka Alabama)

It was absolutely ridiculous, and good on you Christi for standing up and speaking up for Mackenzie. It is so insane to me that Abby has the gaul to say Christi is jealous of Melissa’s kids when Christi has defended Mackenzie several times now. I realize Melissa was just trying to save face and not add to the “conflict” but the other moms were completely justified in telling her that she was taking away from Mackenzie’s moment. Even though Mackenzie ultimately would have lost to Ava, at LEAST she would have gotten the satisfaction that her dance teacher and her own mother had enough faith in her to maybe beat her. Hard lesson that you have to learn so young that your mother and dance teacher don’t have faith in you.

Allyson Montgomery

mackenzie always deserved better she was always compared and it showed on her face

Sarah Madigan

Drink for contradictions!! Abby said she put Maddie in to beat Ava but has said in the past it’s good for kids to lose. If Kenzie would have gotten second to Ava then it could have pushed her to work harder next time. Instead by putting Maddie in, it just probably ruined her confidence and made her feel not good enough.

Audriana

It just doesn’t even prove anything. In theory, Abby wants her girls the slaughter everyone, but when only one girl is continuing to win, it doesn’t really prove that her studio is the best, it just looks like one is beating everyone despite her mediocre training.

Kay

Seeing as these competitions were made for the DM show at this point, Id say production knew Ava was going and had kept it quiet - we didn’t get any message on twitter or calls saying they were going, we know they were involved in picking who got solos so they deliberately didn’t tell Abby that Ava was attending, had Abby known at the start of the week Ava was going to be there, Maddie (or even Chloe) would of been entered to start with. Production kept it from Abby on purpose to bring the drama to competition. The three competing were good dancers but wouldn’t have been able to hold their own against Ava. Production was going for a Ava wins or Abby enters Maddie storyline for drama.

Kay

As the competitions were set up by production, production 100% knew Ava was going as they picked who attended and as we never got any ‘messages’ during the week that she was attending, I’d say it was kept from Abby and the moms. Abby reaction to me appeared like she was pissed and didn’t know, if she had known at the start of the week, Abby would have fought for an older dancer to compete and she would of been entirely focused on betting Ava. Production wanted either Ava to win or Abby to enter someone else - otherwise it wouldn’t have been allowed.

Kay

These comps were fully set up as dance moms comps by production at this point. Production would pick and choose who could compete and not, production knew Ava was going to be there. I’d say Abby didn’t.

Emily Sullivan

it’s not even that it wasn’t fair to put maddie in, they were already the youngest in the division anyways. it was just a way for her to show everyone that maddie is the best and no one can defeat her. shoving it in everyone’s faces

StevieWayne16

I see no reason to dislike Maddie as a child. Or any of the girls. It’s extremely difficult being middle school aged, never mind having it televised.