Originally Posted by crispih:
“how can craig and the judges say Kara's dance was as good as mats - she was weak on tumbles and forgot which way she was going at the end.”
Quite easily. Matt had a routine made up of random pointless gymnastics moves and still had errors and timing mistakes. Kara had a properly choregraphed dance routine with more dancing more content and more difficulty and made errors and over ran a bit. He gets 7 for a mess that could never get a 10 even if performed perfectly . She gets 9 for a routine thats stuffed with too much difficulty for even a 10 routine, but which was performed with errors. You do the right sort of routine and you make errors trying for too much difficulty and you get rewarded for it.
Pamela's mark from Craig made sense too. There wasn't anything new or that difficult there, but it flowed and looked like a standard dance. She made fewest errors doing it, but she has to lose 1 when the difficulty level wasn't high anyway.
Its pretty much impossible to mark much better than that with 3 widely different dances and 3 lots of questionable, over ambitious or safe choregraphy. Even if they had 3 better choreographers, there's probably not much time to do better when you have too much to do this week.