Actually, there seems to be some problem this year because Chock/Bates had also quite some downgrade in their SD debut last week at CoC.
3 on partial step seq
3 on the pattern
2 on the non touching
Ok those are all step sequences, traditionally harder to get level 4 but on the pattern the top teams managed to get level 4 on the first outing, plus the level 2 for a team whose rather good in the SD. I was surprised by that score.
Weaver & Poje had a level 3 on the rhumba at the Autumn Classic.
Cappellini & Lanotte had a level 3 on the rhumba at the Minsk Challenger.
Gilles & Poirier had a level 2 on the rhumba at the Autumn Classic.
Stepanova & Bukin had a level 1 on the rhumba at Finlandia.
(And Bobrova & Soloviev had a level 3 on the rhumba at Cup of China, though they had 4s at their previous 2 outings).
The assistant tech specialist at Cup of China has been at the U.S. Classic the last two seasons and almost never gives higher than a level 2 footwork sequence there.
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