The Dance Hall 13: When You Dance on the Ice and Your Feet Twizzle Twice, That's Amore

[Colonel Green]

Who saw THAT coming?

I was expecting it. Cizeron didn't come back to be second, and Chock/Bates ascended to the top more by outlasting everybody ahead of them than anything else.

Gilles & Poirier are going to need another mistake from Fear & Gibson to stay in third after the free, based on how the judging went.

Sad for Lim & Quan.

 

[Orm Irian]

All I care about is that R/A had fun and did well. And, hopefully, that someone posts the video of their RD and it stays up long enough for me to see it, because I'm not signing up for yet another streaming service just to watch the Olys even if it is free.

 

[shuilee]

Will USA judge finally be on the Free Dance panel? USA wasn't chosen in the RD today, and wasn't chosen in TE RD or FD either.

Is there a random draw for FD, or is there a rule that USA judge must be in the Free Dance panel (because she wasn't on the panel for RD)?


Today was the worst possibly judges draw for Chock & Bates. No USA judge, but there was FRA & CAN judges. In hindsight, I should've known C&B would be wuzrobbed.

 

[Peepsquick]

Will USA judge finally be on the Free Dance panel? USA wasn't chosen in the RD today, and wasn't chosen in TE RD or FD either.

Is there a random draw for FD, or is there a rule that USA judge must be in the Free Dance panel (because she wasn't on the panel for RD)?


Today was the worst possibly judges draw for Chock & Bates. No USA judge, but there was FRA & CAN judges. In hindsight, I should've known C&B would be wuzrobbed.

How is it a 'wuzzrobbed' situation? there is not even a point between C/B and FB/C ...

 

[Andrea82]

Will USA judge finally be on the Free Dance panel? USA wasn't chosen in the RD today, and wasn't chosen in TE RD or FD either.

Is there a random draw for FD, or is there a rule that USA judge must be in the Free Dance panel (because she wasn't on the panel for RD)?


Today was the worst possibly judges draw for Chock & Bates. No USA judge, but there was FRA & CAN judges. In hindsight, I should've known C&B would be wuzrobbed.

USA (Janis Engel), Italy (Isabella Micheli), Spain (Marta Olozagarre) and Georgia (Elena Khmyzenko, represented Russia until last year) will be in the Free Dance panel. 45 minutes before the FD they will draw which 5 judges of the RD will join them.

 

[Vagabond]

Chock & Bates usually do better relative to their top competitors in their Free Dances than in their Rhythm (or previously, Short) Dances. I am pleasantly surprised that their score is so close to Fournier-Beaudry & Cizeron's.

 

[Tesla]

I honestly think Chock/Bates would be happy with the silver medal, if that’s what they get. They didn’t have to do both segments of the Team Event.

 

[Ikari]

Gilles & Poirier are going to need another mistake from Fear & Gibson to stay in third after the free, based on how the judging went.

The mistake needs to be quite obvious, the pull for F/G to medal seems to be fairly significant. Sigh. Judges still love F/G, but I feel they need new material. Their party act is getting bit stale by now.
I suppose Italians can forget about medalling, especially as "they got one already, mission accomplished!" They would have needed truly magnificient rhythm dance to place 3rd with comfortable margin, and that was not it.

Seemed to me team competition had taken the best edge off from Chock/Bates. Literally. (sorry about that...) It was bit tight performance. I was not surprised they didn't get over 90 today.