Originally Posted by peeve:
“As has already been pointed out, neither Mikey nor Danniella entirely missed the required element, so a 0.5 deduction would not have been appropriate. Mikey did a slightly better job of it, but overall a worse performance.
However, this week, despite the judges marking Danny higher in the main part of the show, the hat was dropped twice during the skate-off and so those fumbles could not be ignored. They had no choice but to save Kieron.
And why is Emma getting it in the neck for 'hypocrisy' and not Robin?”
Or, put anoher way, Daniella's routine minus nothing because she did the spin is worth more than Mikey's, including a better spin, the way the maths pans out. In Kieron and Danny's case Kieron's first round 5 stays 5 on Emma's mark whilst more than one error takes Danny's performance down from a 5.5 to below a 5.
There are issues - the hat is droppable and can be skewered whilst the microphone stand is not and hasn't the same accident factor - on the other hand though the hat lends itself to more moves .
Pity for Danny, but that's the way it is. When you're in a very tight skate-off, you can't afford mistakes, especially not mistakes you don't recover from.
