Original Dance Start Order

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Ice Dancing - Original Dance

Tango

Starting Order

StN. Name Nat. Current Rank Points

Warm-Up Group 1

1 Katherine COPELY / Deividas STAGNIUNAS LTU 24 23.46
2 Christa-Elizabeth GOULAKOS / Eric NEUMANN-AUBICHON GRE 29 19.18
3 Nicolette Amie HOUSE / Aidas REKLYS LTU 28 19.25
4 Olga AKIMOVA / Alexander SHAKALOV UZB 22 24.20

Warm-Up Group 2

5 Barbora SILNA / Dmitri MATSJUK AUT 25 23.12
6 Anastasia GREBENKINA / Vazgen AZROJAN ARM 21 25.04
7 Grethe GRUENBERG / Kristian RAND EST 23 23.72
8 Laura MUNANA / Luke MUNANA MEX 27 20.30
9 Zsuzsanna NAGY / György ELEK HUN 26 22.19

Warm-Up Group 3

10 Anna ZADOROZHNIUK / Sergei VERBILLO UKR 17 26.92
11 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 18 25.76
12 Kristin FRASER / Igor LUKANIN AZE 16 28.07
13 Melissa GREGORY / Denis PETUKHOV USA 11 30.83
14 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN 19 25.61

Warm-Up Group 4

15 Alexandra ZARETSKI / Roman ZARETSKI ISR 13 28.85
16 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 12 28.91
17 Nozomi WATANABE / Akiyuki KIDO JPN 15 28.46
18 Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander GAZSI GER 20 25.56
19 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 14 28.59

Warm-Up Group 5

20 Marie-France DUBREUIL / Patrice LAUZON CAN 1 38.96
21 Albena DENKOVA / Maxim STAVISKI BUL 2 37.42
22 Jana KHOKHLOVA / Sergei NOVITSKI RUS 6 33.32
23 Isabelle DELOBEL / Olivier SCHOENFELDER FRA 4 37.20
24 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA 10 31.15

Warm-Up Group 6

25 Tanith BELBIN / Benjamin AGOSTO USA 5 37.17
26 Sinead KERR / John KERR GBR 8 32.09
27 Oksana DOMNINA / Maxim SHABALIN RUS 3 37.29
28 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 9 31.45
29 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 7 33.29

Not sure what to think of the make up of those two final flights. Certainly will be interesting to watch it all shake down.

 

[1795]

crossing my fingers for a clean and sharp tango from Del/Sch

 

[rain]

I think V/M's start order definitely plays in their favour. The judges will have seen the very top performances and will have to see the comparable quality of this young team. Their OD has been a good one for them all season. I'm not sure what to think about D/L's start order....could be good for them.... the first of the top contenders they can set the bar. Will be interesting with Denk/Stav directly following.

This is going to be a nailbiter with the scores so close.

 

[Jasper]

I think V/M's start order definitely plays in their favour. The judges will have seen the very top performances and will have to see the comparable quality of this young team. Their OD has been a good one for them all season. I'm not sure what to think about D/L's start order....could be good for them.... the first of the top contenders they can set the bar. Will be interesting with Denk/Stav directly following.

This is going to be a nailbiter with the scores so close.

I agree and I actually think V/M's and D/W's tangos are better than most of the veteran teams, if not all of them! They totally out-skated B/A and D/L in the OD in 4CC, they just didn't get the scores from the judges. But I do think they will be very close to the Top 5 (along with K/N, F/S, G/P, and K/K) after the OD and I think these two young teams will be the best in the world (not by the judges' standards - they won't let go of Dom/Shab) by the time Vancouver comes around.

 

[jayta]

I definitely hope it goes to their benefit! V/M's tango is by far superior to several of the 'top teams'. I love it because it actually feels like a tango. Scott is such an amazing male lead. He 'gets' dance and the feel for these ballroom dances. It's such a rarity.

As for D/W, I have heard everyone rave about their tango and I never understood why. I have nothing against this team. I think they are amazing ice dancers. But to me, they aren't 'tango' material. And it doesn't necessarily get across and the choreography to me for this OD for them is weird because I don't see a lot of the 'tango' moves and holds. Maybe it's just me. I highly prefer their FD to their OD.

But I definitely think that V/M and D/W are the wave of the future. I love watching them skate.

 

[dancindiva03]

I hope to see a lot of movement in the OD and FD. A lot.

 

[iloveaxel]

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I believe CCTV5 will carry ice dancing OD live from 10:00 PM EST tonight.