Post #378691 by The Gnomon on Wed, May 7, 2008 7:54 AM

Well, I was wrong about it coming down to Mario and Kristi. But Kristi is hanging on and has always (in skating) been a fierce competitor to the end. Aside from that I'm pleased that my girls are both still in it.

On the special show preceding the 100th show with eliminations, top ten of the past five seasons, I disagreed with the judges' choices in ranking. Once again political. All ten were the recipients of perfect 30's. I suppose to rank somone as top shelf and then see America turn around vote them out, made the judges want to tell America how stupid it is to not agree with them. I think that's why some of the highest of the top ten (including #1) were people who were eliminated in spite of the judges' glowing assessments. I'm not sure if Ellio was the best, but he could have been (definitely not the low rank of #5). He did that same routine twice in his competition and he nailed it both times.