2023 Xfinity Nationals Senior WAG Day 1 discussion

[Hatsumomo]

I wonder if Shilese has any upgrades in the coffers. Because if she can get a couple of upgrades and hit, she could go toe-to-toe with Simone.

 

[RedBirdie]

Bars

1. Shilese Jones - 14.900
2. Skye Blakely - 14.400
3. Simone Biles - 14.350
4. Jordan Chiles - 14.200
5. Katelyn Jong - 14.050
6. Leanne Wong - 14.000
7. Myli Lew - 13.900
8. Alicia Zhou - 13.800

 

[J175]

I think the highest scoring team tonight is Biles, Jones, Blakely, Lincoln and Sumanasekera

 

[RedBirdie]

Beam

1. Simone Biles - 14.450
2. Skye Blakely - 14.050
3. Tiana Sumanasekera - 13.850
4. Leanne Wong - 13.750
5. Madray Johnson - 13.500
6. Shilese Jones - 13.450
7. Amelia Disidore - 13.300
   8T: Kaliya Lincoln - 13.250
   8T: Sunisa Lee - 13.250

 

[navyblue]

What type of upgrades account for almost 3 points of deficit? And dont forget Simone is still sitting on 5 tenths of spotting deduction on her vault.

 

[RedBirdie]

Floor

1. Simone Biles - 14.800
2. Kaliya Lincoln - 14.350
3. Shilese Jones - 14.050
4. Kayla DiCello - 13.500
5. Nola Matthews - 13.400
   6T. Leanne Wong - 13.350
   6T. Amelia Disidore - 13.350
   6T. Jade Carey - 13.350

 

[Kara]

Right now I’ve got the same team but Wong on the team and Chiles as alternate; they’re really interchangeable right now. I’d put Wong on beam instead of Jones in Finals though.

 

[irichluck21]

after night one I have Roberson, Biles, Wong, Jones, Blakely

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

I considered that too but Wong relies on some dubious connections and Jones didn’t do full difficulty

Rich, Roberson adds .250 on VT over Blakely, based on today. In the event that one of the other four gets injured, your team is f*cked on bars in TQ if they have to count Roberson’s score. Like they’ll qualify to TF sure, but it won’t be pretty. At this point, I almost don’t see a path for Roberson at all… Wong nailing today was huge. She and Lincoln were tonight’s big winners, aside from the two superheroes at the top

 

[navyblue]

I feel like ever since the WTC put Jordan Chiles as an example of bad posture on beam, she’s cursed in international competition. Kinda shady to do that for actively competing gymnasts imo. I’d put Leanne up over Jordan for sure.

 

[Kara]

I think Jones has more scoring potential, but her inconsistency scares me.

 

[QuietColours]

Neither of them are really paragons of consistency. But that’s what we’ll learn more about on Sunday.

 

[navyblue]

The broadcast showed 13.850 for shilese on floor?

 

[Hatsumomo]

That’s the rub. She gave away at least a full point on her beam tonight, half of that being the hand touch on her acro series.

 

[RedBirdie]

Per Spencer:

The highest-scoring team after today is Biles, Jones, Blakely, Lincoln’s floor, and Sumanasekera’s beam, so that’s fun. Let’s go with it.

 

[FrolovasDoubleLayout]

after night one I have Roberson, Biles, Wong, Jones, Blakely

I used to adore you! Roberson…sigh

 

[irichluck21]

Rich, Roberson adds .250 on VT over Blakely, based on today. In the event that one of the other four gets injured, your team is f*cked on bars in TQ if they have to count Roberson’s score. Like they’ll qualify to TF sure, but it won’t be pretty. At this point, I almost don’t see a path for Roberson at all… Wong nailing today was huge. She and Lincoln were tonight’s big winners, aside from the two superheroes at the top

Roberson wouldnt do bars

 

[RedBirdie]

Lives scores show 14.05. Possibly the score was bumped up. Equally possible USAG entered the wrong score.

 

[Laura722]

I thought I saw 13.850 originally on the scoring page.

 

[YurchenkoLoop]

isn’t qualifications 4 up? Sure, only 3 count but still… she doesn’t have a release move…