DWTS S26: All-Athletes Edition! (i.e. the DWTS thread for NOT yammering about what happened 24 years ago)

[Firedancer]

Jenna and Adam are such a great match! So cute! All 10s!!

 

[my little pony]

is tonya dancing in white socks?

 

[floridaice]

nice gymnastics moves

 

[Sylvia]

Brief clip from Adam/Jenna's Jazz routine (he does an Axel): https://twitter.com/watchdancetv/status/998720465534377989

Freestyle time!

1st up - Tonya Harding and Sasha Farber – “I Will Survive”

 

[floridaice]

is tonya dancing in white socks?

just white/beige shoes -- couldn't they have died them to match her dress?

 

[screech]

I love that that freestyle was a celebration of Tonya. High energy - huge kudos for the gymnastic moves!!! And starting with a solo? Great job!!!

 

[Debbie S]

I assume all 3 will get 30 for their freestyle so it will come down to votes?

 

[Sylvia]

Tonya/Sasha's scores: 10 10 10 = 30

2nd up - Josh Norman and Sharna Burgess – “Walk on Water” by Thirty Seconds to Mars
3rd up - Adam Rippon and Jenna Johnson – “Scooby Doo Pa Pa” by DJ Kass

After the freestyles, ONLINE VOTING for a short time: https://dwtsvote.abc.go.com

 

[tony]

That was amazing from Tonya. She keeps surprising me.

 

[screech]

So for different results:

Tonya needs less that 6k votes to overtake Josh and get second place. To win she would have to get that 6k AND get 23k more votes per million votes cast than Adam.
For Josh to win, he would need for Tonya to NOT get that 6k votes and he would need 17.4k more votes per million votes cast to get past Adam and win.

 

[BaileyCatts]

30? Really? Uh, no. 10s are for perfect, and that was not perfect. But everyone will get straight 10s even if they fall down in the Freestyle so it really doesn't matter. Kinda showed why they stacked the deck with Tonya only getting straight ballroom dances and never anything fast like Cha Cha, Salsa or Jive, because she couldn't do those. There as a lot of sloppiness in those fast portions of that dance.

 

[meggonzo]

30? Really? Uh, no. 10s are for perfect, and that was not perfect. But everyone will get straight 10s even if they fall down in the Freestyle so it really doesn't matter. Kinda showed why they stacked the deck with Tonya only getting straight ballroom dances and never anything fast like Cha Cha, Salsa or Jive, because she couldn't do those. There as a lot of sloppiness in those fast portions of that dance.

She did do a quickstep week 2, and that was probably her best dance

 

[BaileyCatts]

Which was still what I call traditional ballroom dances.

 

[screech]

Once again, the judges are blind to Josh's shortcomings. A lot of repetitive movement, a lot of standing moments, though the section in the triangle formation was great.

Was Tonya perfect? No. But IMO she was far better than Josh in both rounds.

 

[Inessence]

30? Really? Uh, no. 10s are for perfect, and that was not perfect. But everyone will get straight 10s even if they fall down in the Freestyle so it really doesn't matter. Kinda showed why they stacked the deck with Tonya only getting straight ballroom dances and never anything fast like Cha Cha, Salsa or Jive, because she couldn't do those. There as a lot of sloppiness in those fast portions of that dance.

Adam got a lot of contemporary and freestyle dances as well. Lucky.

 

[nimi]

Perfect scores for Tonya and this? Uh...

 

[BaileyCatts]

Adam had Cha Cha, Quickstep, Contemporary, Jazz. More variety than 4 straight ballroom dances.

 

[miav9]

So basically a perfect score means nothing for these freestyles haha

 

[BaileyCatts]

Nope. It never does. Everyone (almost) always gets straight 10s for the Freestyles.

 

[Sylvia]

Tonya & Sasha 8 9 9 = 26 + 30 (freestyle) = 56
Josh & Sharna 9 9 9 = 27 + 30 (freestyle) = 57

Adam (in an ugly wig) & Jenna with fans as props – “Scooby Doo Pa Pa” by DJ Kass

After the freestyles, ONLINE VOTING for a short time: https://dwtsvote.abc.go.com

 

[floridaice]

someone call 911 for Johnnie Weir

 

[BaileyCatts]

That lighting for Adam was really distracting.

 

[tony]

Yeah, the lighting was really distracting and the majority of the time it seemed like a lot of armography and standing around. But Adam gets the movements and the timing perfectly.

That said, I think Tonya was best in this round.

 

[floridaice]

no one else on this show could have done this dance. Carrie Ann better not give that a 9

 

[screech]

I did not love that.

 

[miav9]

Twitter reactions are very mixed

 

[Sylvia]

Tonya & Sasha 8 9 9 = 26 + 30 (freestyle) = 56
Josh & Sharna 9 9 9 = 27 + 30 (freestyle) = 57

Adam & Jenna 30 + 9 9 10 (freestyle) = 58

ETA: Thank goodness for Adam's Jazz number - I'll re-watch that one for sure!

 

[screech]

I'm worried that freestyle might cost them the trophy.

 

[BaileyCatts]

Well, I see the Judges have set this up for Tonya to win.

 

[Debbie S]

I did not love that.

Neither did I but it shouldn't have been scored lower than Josh. If Josh got 10s, Adam should have too.