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- Dec 3, 2011
I think they got thee top five exactly right, although I was rooting for Grant Hochstein to get a medal.
About the judges looking perplexed, that's one of the features of the IJS. The judges just put in their marks in the appropriate boxes and don't know until it's over who they scored for the win.
THIS.
If Adam had won by 20 points with all three skating exactly as they did, I think people could cry shenanigans. He didn't. It was a very close competition--less than 4 points between first and third place. And that is easily explained. No sane person could have scored Adam lower in PCS especially Transitions (seriously--there was a point in Nathan's program where he stood still for a moment--that is not a transition element), Choreo, and Interpretation than the other two. There's where he made up the difference between himself and Max from the short . Then you look at levels. Max lost to Adam on the step sequence because he only achieved a level 3 there while Adam got level 4. Likewise he beat Nathan on spins where Nathan had level 3 where Adam had level 4 again.
The good news for Max and Nathan is that they should be able to correct those levels and help themselves before Worlds. The PCS may not be so easy. But perhaps this competition can be a wake up to both and their teams to pay attention to these details.