The second season of Sirasa Dancing Star premieres on 31 October, with 36 crews competing in a hip hop–only format and a points-based league round replacing straight elimination. It airs at 8.30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays on Sirasa TV.
NewsFirst reported the line-up at 3.39 p.m. Colombo time on Wednesday. Hundreds of performers auditioned in an islandwide search, and 36 teams came through several rounds of auditions to reach the competition.
The format change
Season two is given over entirely to hip hop. The filing does not say what genre rules the first season ran under, and this desk is not inferring one.
The structural change is the live league round. Instead of eliminating a team each week, crews accumulate points across the season, and the highest scorers at the end of the league secure places in the final. The season runs to seven episodes including the grand finale, with six teams reaching that finale and one crew taking the title.
Those figures reconcile: seven episodes less the finale leaves six league episodes, across which the 36 crews compete for the six final places.
Judges not named
NewsFirst describes the panel only as a line-up of figures from the dance and entertainment industry and names none of them. It gives no judge, host or prize details, and does not say how points are awarded or how many crews perform per episode.
A note on sourcing. This announcement comes from News 1st, which sits within the Capital Maharaja Group alongside Sirasa TV, the channel broadcasting the programme — the same relationship this desk has disclosed before on Maharaja media announcements. The report is a programme announcement by a sister outlet rather than independent coverage, and no newsroom outside the group has filed on it. The scheduling details above are checkable against the broadcast; the promotional characterisations in the original have not been reproduced here.
