*This is a spoiler if you have any desire to watch the U.S. intermediate dance competition on demand without knowing the results.
OK, here we go.
So you're going along, very calmly, watching the final flight of intermediate free dances. You have no expectations whatsoever because you already know Tkachenko & Kiliakov won and they were very cute & little when you first heard about them two years ago. Plus you have opted to just watch the final five teams because you have never watched a dance competition quite this low before, and you are in a hurry to get to the novices.
You sit through one little team, with a girl selling it like Barbara. Then another one that makes at least a couple awkward errors and still manages to come out on top. (Which tells you that you made the right choice skipping to the final group). And then you see IT.
It just pops out at you from moment one. PERSONALITY. She's a little Maia. He's a young Evan. They're skating to Soul Man and Jailhouse Rock. And they are DANCERS.
Avonley Nguyen & Maxwell Gart.
Fan-frigging-tastic!
When you go back to look up the results, you find out they actually WON the free dance. Awesome. Go find them on Ice Network. They are wearing blue/black costumes and skate third from the end. It's totally worth it.
OK, here we go.
So you're going along, very calmly, watching the final flight of intermediate free dances. You have no expectations whatsoever because you already know Tkachenko & Kiliakov won and they were very cute & little when you first heard about them two years ago. Plus you have opted to just watch the final five teams because you have never watched a dance competition quite this low before, and you are in a hurry to get to the novices.
You sit through one little team, with a girl selling it like Barbara. Then another one that makes at least a couple awkward errors and still manages to come out on top. (Which tells you that you made the right choice skipping to the final group). And then you see IT.
It just pops out at you from moment one. PERSONALITY. She's a little Maia. He's a young Evan. They're skating to Soul Man and Jailhouse Rock. And they are DANCERS.
Avonley Nguyen & Maxwell Gart.
Fan-frigging-tastic!
When you go back to look up the results, you find out they actually WON the free dance. Awesome. Go find them on Ice Network. They are wearing blue/black costumes and skate third from the end. It's totally worth it.