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Reposted from the Shibs thread:
After looking at the protocols, I think there is something to be said that the Shibs' PCS is actually very close to Chock/Bates and Cappellini/Lanotte (with the Shibs beating Chock/Bates in PE and INT), but more importantly out of the 7 elements (I'm not counting the Twizzles as Madison had an uncharacteristic mistake there), the Shibs received higher GOE than C/B on the Curve Lift and the Rotational Lift, and the same GOE for their diagonal step sequence with the maximum GOE allotted for their curve lift with the one judge's score of a "2" being dropped. The Shibs also beat C/L on 4 of the 8 elements in GOE and tied for their diagonal step sequence.
If only they got level 4s for both Pattern dances and the level 4 for their spin, they would have won silver here with the same performances (of course relying on Chock's Twizzle mistake) with GOEs and PCS being the same. Even with just one level 4 pattern and the level 4 spin that they received all season, they would have beaten C/L (I'm not going to consider his Twizzle mistake in the SD because they got really great GOE with it despite that mistake) and lost the silver to C/B by 0.03. All very good things despite their 4th place finish. I think that the Shibs can perform their dances better and be more on point with the elements.
One thing they should change is their last choreographic lift. They lost 0.34-0.77 in GOE to the top three teams here, and consistently scored lower on that than the top 3 GPF finishers in the GP series. That's construction related issue that needs to be fixed along with making sure Maia drills the Ravensburger and not losing a level for their dance spin that they received in the past. And if they can improve their linking footwork and movement score by adding one, two, or a few more transitions in the beginning (since they're bit behind the top 3 there compared to their other PCS that are quite close to C/B and C/L) then it'll be even better. That may even lead to the judges closing the gap with W/P in PCS (not beating them). Last season their PCS in relation to W/P and C/B seemed seriously unreachable, but this season it looks very attainable (though looks and actually being attainable are different things).
After looking at the protocols, I think there is something to be said that the Shibs' PCS is actually very close to Chock/Bates and Cappellini/Lanotte (with the Shibs beating Chock/Bates in PE and INT), but more importantly out of the 7 elements (I'm not counting the Twizzles as Madison had an uncharacteristic mistake there), the Shibs received higher GOE than C/B on the Curve Lift and the Rotational Lift, and the same GOE for their diagonal step sequence with the maximum GOE allotted for their curve lift with the one judge's score of a "2" being dropped. The Shibs also beat C/L on 4 of the 8 elements in GOE and tied for their diagonal step sequence.
If only they got level 4s for both Pattern dances and the level 4 for their spin, they would have won silver here with the same performances (of course relying on Chock's Twizzle mistake) with GOEs and PCS being the same. Even with just one level 4 pattern and the level 4 spin that they received all season, they would have beaten C/L (I'm not going to consider his Twizzle mistake in the SD because they got really great GOE with it despite that mistake) and lost the silver to C/B by 0.03. All very good things despite their 4th place finish. I think that the Shibs can perform their dances better and be more on point with the elements.
One thing they should change is their last choreographic lift. They lost 0.34-0.77 in GOE to the top three teams here, and consistently scored lower on that than the top 3 GPF finishers in the GP series. That's construction related issue that needs to be fixed along with making sure Maia drills the Ravensburger and not losing a level for their dance spin that they received in the past. And if they can improve their linking footwork and movement score by adding one, two, or a few more transitions in the beginning (since they're bit behind the top 3 there compared to their other PCS that are quite close to C/B and C/L) then it'll be even better. That may even lead to the judges closing the gap with W/P in PCS (not beating them). Last season their PCS in relation to W/P and C/B seemed seriously unreachable, but this season it looks very attainable (though looks and actually being attainable are different things).
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