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Jackie Wong noted that Matteo needs a little over 242 to beat Nikolaj's total score, and with him only scoring 80 in the SP, I'm honestly not sure Matteo has a 161-162 FS in him right now. This is going to be brutal. ETA: missed the comment above mine that basically said the same :)

It's funny because given everything we saw this season, there's no way they could have actually used this RD in international competition, given it's as far away as it can be from the "dance party" vibe the skaters are forced to do.

2 weeks ago, when Piper (and Cizeron) criticized the judging and the system and how they were made to feel like juniors, she got nothing but support from pretty much everyone here and was applauded for using her voice. This time, she's heavily criticized for how she (and her coach, and her...

What I find off-putting about how G/P, and in the past G/F, act is that they both choose to put the blame on their fellow teammates and their coaches, and both teams have enough experience to know just how destructive it is, given how little control all of them have. They know that the criticism...

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The problem is, they all feel empowered enough now to go around and spread this "IAM are manipulating the scores" theory. I'm the first to say that this season of ice dance has seen some highly questionable judging, but that's on the judges. And so far we had Charlene publicly reposting ig...

The Chinese judge had G/P 3rd, he also falls into the category of "countries whose best teams train in IAM", so why didn't he join the manipulation? The Canadian judge also had them 3rd btw, and you'd think he would have them above FB/C with their fall, but even he didn't feel the need to give...

Carol Lane has been retweeting a lot of posts saying G/P were robbed and blaming IAM of manipulation and such. It's safe to say that skaters and coaches are so done that they are holding back much less than before.

I second James Hernandez, his jawline alone should make him a frontrunner tbh

Apologies, but that's a terrible reasoning to why it's acceptable for the current head of the IDTC and the Skate America technical controller to give feedback to a team during the competition he will be judging them in, and of course, without extending that courtesy to any other team that is...

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I don't think they are necessarily blamed, it's just that the last spot was between L/L and Z/K, who had the same number of points, but Z/K had a gap of just over 8 points in total score from L/L, and that's perceived to be due to the judging shenanigans we have been seeing through this entire...

Z/K are 23/24 vs. CPom 25/24, hardly too old to be shoe-ins for 2030. I also don't think the Browns are a yes, their ceiling seems to be much lower than the rest of the mentioned teams (though I love their uniqueness).

I think we should separate between the "my favorite team WUZROBBED" cries and the "ice dance is becoming unwatchable due to questionable judging" cries. Granted, there's plenty from both kinds, but the ones on FSU I feel are mostly the second type, and it's hard to deny we've been seeing a lot...

Hard not to side-eye the FD judging at Finlandia, the entire dance event has been utterly ridiculous.