Re: 2002/03 Strategy - Sasha Cohen
Well we were in row 18 or 19, and it was still great! But higher up than that, I don't know. And what with the powers that be taking 4000 seats in the lower bowl, and then the tours getting such a big number of them, I feel grateful that we did as well as we did. If you need the wheelchair seats, you can't get down to the 10th row-you have to be able to negotiate the stairs.
Joe, I wouldn't be surprised because that's where I was, looking down into the K&C and the media. And I wonder if that's one of the reasons why both of us thought Tim edged out Plush in the LP. We had the same physical point of view on the competition. Plush's presentation was aimed at the judges, completely away from us, so his technical problems were more starkly obvious, and the presentation differences muted. The TV had the same point of view as the judges, because most of the cameras were set up dead behind the judges. I understand that Elvis commented on the very judgecentric presentation Plush did, and when I got home, and managed to get a copy of the TV coverage, the Tim/Plush difference was not as clear, except when I looked for the problems that I already knew were there.
By the way, did you notice that Dick and Peggy don't watch the competition live on the live broadcast events; they just watch the monitors? I was surprised!!
dpp
(I wasn't sad, this emoticon is the only one who looked cold...)
