carmel cleaning up and overtaking the Mid-East group as expected. might not get a Carmel-less top 3 at Dayton after all. other SWs at Mid-East a lil more iffy, but mostly better today in finals than yesterday in prelims.
for the life of me still can't figure out why fusion got smacked down after watching the IWs at both southeast and mideast. id have it fusion then fantasia then pride rn. fusion's show stands out as waaay more forward thinking and imaginative imo. takes you more places emotionally and intellectually, too. the others don't strike me as prob being cleaner than fusion, either. lots of errors today from all three of pride, paramount, and etude. verrrry interested to see what happens at the east power regional next weekend.
meanwhile in San Antonio, those A guards got smacked down HARD. don't really get it, comparing the scores from the groups at the power regionals i watched yesterday and today to the guards i saw 2 weeks ago at Austin. did they reeeally screw up that bad? methinks the judges were just way stingy. unfortunately, the tcgc a class qualifier is next week. those A guards are prob wishing they could have signed up for Dallas instead, to get the double panel. the San Antonio scores will prob handicap them at Dayton.
arcadia back up over woodlands in standings by 0.1 after trailing them by just over a point after the Manhattan Beach regional. super experienced panel seemed to kinda send a message w/ those scores, esp w/ El dorado winning effect. gotta say, i came away from watching that regional feeling woodlands should comfortably win gold at Dayton. we'll see what happens next weekend tho.
scores trending low in the world classes. + Dayton is a week earlier. yikes!!