It is very unfortunate that politics stay play a role in placements. This was one of the reason my husband and I retired from professional dancing.
Well, I understand your point, but he puts Marcus and Ksenia above Joanna, Melia, and Melinda couples seems biased for me. They were not even close to those couples in the final a year ago. I don't say they are not good. Also, Franco couple is above Yulia and Ricardo? Hmmmm...... What can I say it's his choice......
LEN ARMSTRONG 1st MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (1.2.1.1.2) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (2.1.2.2.1) 3rd SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (3.3.4.3.4) 4th FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (4.4.3.5.3) 5th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (5.5.6.4.5) 6th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.6.5.6.6) CATERINA ARZENTON 1st RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (2.1.2.1.1) 2nd MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (1.2.1.2.2) 3rd SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (3.3.4.3.4) 4th FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (5.4.3.4.3) 5th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (4.5.5.5.5) 6th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.6.6.6.6) GEIR BAKKE 1st FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (1.1.1.2.3) 2nd MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (2.3.3.1.1) 3rd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (3.2.2.4.2) 4th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (4.4.4.3.4) 5th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (5.5.5.5.5) 6th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.6.6.6.6) ERNIE CHATT 1st MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (2.1.1.1.2) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (1.2.2.2.1) 3rd FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (3.3.3.5.4) 4th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (4.4.4.3.3) 5th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (5.5.5.4.5) 6th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.6.6.6.6) GAYNOR FAIRWEATHER MBE 1st MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (1.1.1.1.1) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (2.2.2.2.2) 3rd SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (4.4.3.3.3) 4th FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (3.3.4.4.4) 5th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (5.5.6.5.6) 6th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (6.6.5.6.5) LYNN HARMAN 1st RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (2.1.2.2.1) 2nd MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (1.2.3.1.2) 3rd FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (3.3.1.5.3) 4th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (4.4.5.3.6) 5th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (5.5.4.4.4) 6th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (6.6.6.6.5) JOHN KNIGHT 1st MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (2.1.1.1.2) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (1.2.2.2.1) 3rd FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (3.3.3.4.3) 4th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (4.4.5.3.4) 5th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.5.4.5.5) 6th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (5.6.6.6.6) BARBARA McCOLL 1st MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (2.1.1.1.3) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (1.2.2.2.1) 3rd SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (3.3.3.3.4) 4th FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (4.4.4.4.6) 5th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (5.5.5.5.2) 6th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.6.6.6.5) MONICA NEEDHAM 1st MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (1.1.1.1.2) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (2.2.2.2.1) 3rd SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (3.4.3.3.3) 4th FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (4.3.4.4.4) 5th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (5.5.6.5.5) 6th MARKUS HOMM KSENIA KASPER (6.6.5.6.6) PHILIP NICHOLAS 1st MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (1.1.1.1.1) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (2.2.2.2.2) 3rd ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (3.4.3.3.3) 4th FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (4.3.4.5.4) 5th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (5.5.6.4.5) 6th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.6.5.6.6) LASSE ØDEGAARD 1st MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (1.1.1.1.1) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (2.2.2.2.2) 3rd FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (3.3.3.3.3) 4th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (4.4.4.4.5) 5th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (5.5.5.5.4) 6th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.6.6.6.6) RICHARD PORTER 1st MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (1.1.1.1.2) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (2.2.2.2.1) 3rd SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (3.3.3.3.3) 4th FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (4.4.4.4.4) 5th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (5.5.6.5.6) 6th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.6.5.6.5) CAROL POWELL 1st FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (2.1.2.1.1) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (1.2.1.2.2) 3rd MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (3.3.3.3.3) 4th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (4.4.6.4.4) 5th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (5.5.4.5.5) 6th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (6.6.5.6.6) FABIO SELMI 1st MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (1.2.1.1.2) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (2.1.2.2.1) 3rd ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (3.4.3.3.3) 4th FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (4.3.4.4.4) 5th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (5.6.5.5.6) 6th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.5.6.6.5) SIRPA SUUTARI 1st Tie between MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (1.3.2.3.1) and FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (3.1.3.1.2) 3rd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (2.2.1.2.3) 4th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (4.5.4.4.4) 5th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (5.4.5.5.5) 6th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.6.6.6.6) SUSIE TANAKA 1st MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (1.1.1.1.1) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (2.2.2.3.2) 3rd FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (3.3.3.2.4) 4th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (4.4.4.5.3) 5th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (5.5.5.4.6) 6th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (6.6.6.6.5) BRYAN WATSON 1st FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (2.1.2.1.1) 2nd RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (1.2.1.2.2) 3rd MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (4.3.4.5.3) 4th MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (3.6.3.3.5) 5th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (5.4.5.6.4) 6th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (6.5.6.4.6) DENISE WEAVERS 1st RICCARDO COCCHI and YULIA ZAGORUYCHENKO (1.3.2.1.1) 2nd MICHAEL MALITOWSKI and JOANNA LEUNIS (2.1.1.3.3) 3rd FRANCO FORMICA and OXANA LEBEDEW (3.2.3.2.2) 4th MARKUS HOMM and KSENIA KASPER (4.4.4.4.5) 5th ANDREJ SKUFCA and MELINDA (6.6.5.5.4) 6th SERGEY SURKOV and MELIA (5.5.6.6.6)
I have marks from World Championships 2008 and some of the judges placed Riccardo and Yulia 1. and Michael - Joanna 2 or 3. (Only 16 day left to World Champs 2009!!)