US Nationals WAG Day 2

[RedBirdie]

That’s what I’m seeing. Wong adds a couple more tenths than Skinner.

 

[Doug1233]

I think you’re right.

Wong makes sense from the numbers I think. But only by a couple tenths. I’d take Grace instead for more experience, coming back from injury, and a mentally competent coach.

 

[Doug1233]

OMG is Skinner literally even in the conversation for the highest scoring team?

That Cheng is clutch for her. Gets her out of a lot of trouble.

 

[Passion]

Jones was at least 5th on UB and had a 15.0 on VT.

Emily Lee couldn’t break 14 on any event but VT.

 

[RedBirdie]

I’m hoping 3 more weeks gets Grace the numbers she needs to kick ass at Trials. Terrible timing to get sixty gazillion screws in your pinky.

 

[arabiandoublefront]

My argument is that Emily is closer to the girl ahead of her than the girl below her by score.

 

[Doug1233]

And she has one of the top scoring beam routines in 2021. She might petition anyway, on the basis that she could have a TINY outside shot at the +1.

 

[RedBirdie]

Sadly, yes. The Cheng is carrying her, because its not like she adds value on any other event. She’s a fall waiting to happen on beam, and god only knows what international judges will do to her routines.

 

[Doug1233]

I simply do not trust Al Fong and Wong’s routine construction. That floor in particular. It’s a house of cards. She loses that triple full and her routine is fucked.

 

[falcon9]

I gotta go with Wong.

 

[Doug1233]

Anyone else notice that Chellsie didn’t Pak down to the LB. Can she even do a Pak from a pump swing? Surely she could. She would have not only lost the D but also the HB to LB CR.

 

[RedBirdie]

National Team. Enormous

Simone Biles
Skye Blakely
Jade Carey
Jordan Chiles
Kayla DiCello
Amari Drayton
Kara Eaker
Addison Fatta
Shilese Jones
Emily Lee
Sunisa Lee
Emma Malabuyo
Grace McCallum
Riley McCusker
Zoe Miller
Ava Siegfeldt
MyKayla Skinner
Leanne Wong

 

[Passion]

 

[Doug1233]

So no Laurie or Chellsie on the NT?

It’s gotta be a kick in the nuts for Morgan that Ava Siegfeldt made the NT and she didn’t.

 

[RedBirdie]

Noticed that, too. I assume she was thinking since she fell, her was her chance to try and hit the second half. But when she missed that clear hip half, well, why bother continuing.

 

[Passion]

 

[Doug1233]

That routine is half baked. The clear hip half is a COMPLETE no-go. And I’m shocked that a Brevet judge would put it in.

It needs to hit 10 degrees of handstand, after the turn, to get C credit. Basically impossible.

There’s a reason we literally don’t see any other elite in the entire planet competing that connection, even though its worth 0.2CV.

 

[RedBirdie]

Heck, Ava Siegfeldt finished ahead of Zoe Miller and Addison Fatta and THEY got named to the national team.

 

[Doug1233]

The Top 3 completely separated themselves from the rest of the field. It’s clear they’re all locks if they stay healthy.

You could really put Simone and Jordan on AA in TF. Suni could do bars and beam. She could easily do floor (she came 5th).

You basically need a big vault and an in-built back up AAer.

MyKayla Skinner just entered the chat

 

[Jack]

Thank god Tom is an idiot and will just take the 4th ranked AA athlete.