Great job, Vanessa+Morgan and Valentina+Ondrej!
Hope that Zhenya+Vlad can come back stronger tomorrow. But if J/C win, I won't be mad, even though my predictions will score approximately nothing
Interestingly so far non of the acts that you assumed would try to use Euros in Moscow before Olympics
to get momentum are stepping up to claim their marks, Both in the Men and here
Too bad! Ksenia and Fedor were on fire at the beginning! They really had that tango buzz going but after the fall she faded. Frankly, I get that Evgenia and Vladimir had trouble with the SBS jumps and throw but I prefer their performance. Vanessa and Morgan's elements were fierce and powerful but there was alot of scratchy and graby skating between elements that I think detracts from the overall performance. Good for Val and Ondrej! Although I think the SP music is cheesy, I look forward to their FS. I think Natalia and Alex got some hometown help with their PCs; they just don't grab me. With a 5 point spread betweren first and fifth there is potential for lots of movement!
I say, barred any disasters, J/C has this in the bag. They got both TES content and their FP is gorgeous. S/K, most definitely, won't skate clean. T/M has that god awful FS. And Z/E, no matter how clean, won't catch up with their PCS.
So congratulations, J/C. Finally.
s/k twist should never get 0 or + GOE. NEVER. that green bar lighting up in the upper left corner when they... uh... executed the element made me laugh out loud. even though it's really not funny.... oh dear