They should’ve advanced to finals. Most of them or all of them are throwing fulls/kick fills/doubles/ KICK DOUBLES while some other team is over here throwing layouts and tucks..
Yes they have difficulty, but difficulty isn’t everything. They had an uncontrolled dismount on their coed stunts on the far left, and they had a bobble, in their stunts. But on top of that, their cleanliness isn’t uniform across all of their athletes. Some athletes take one or several steps back after their tumbling passes (far right at 0:22), some stick and stand. Not everyone has the same technique in their jumps (some athletes have heads down, chest forward, arm placement in toe touch doesn’t look uniform, landing with feet apart vs feet together, etc.). Additionally, this routine wasn’t very interesting at all. They didn’t have any formation changes in their elite stunt; both their two mans and their pyramids were centered in the very back of the mat; and the routine just felt like skill after skill without anything eye catching. Also, this might just be a personal thing but these athletes, along with a lot of other teams, just look bouncy. It takes away from even more cleanliness the team has. I love this team’s skills, and I do think they should’ve placed higher than Swooshcats in the standings after Semis (I think Blacklight was 5th in the US and Swoosh was in 4th, only top 3 in the US make Finals.) However I just think they need to work on having team uniformity, which will increase their execution scores.
Also, another thing i just noticed from watching it again, the pyramid section also lacks in technique. Spacing issues on the one and a half ups (one group is on line and one group is on quarter panel). The pyramid flips are also *INCREDIBLY* low. None of the bracers have their arms extended to get the flipping athletes in an extended position (two-and-a-half high is what they call it I think). Almost none of these pyramid skills Blacklight performs are above the bracers' chests (I.E: The three flipping skills at 2:05 should be MUCH HIGHER than that).
Um. Now that I look back... they should've made it
They should’ve advanced to finals. Most of them or all of them are throwing fulls/kick fills/doubles/ KICK DOUBLES while some other team is over here throwing layouts and tucks..
Yes they have difficulty, but difficulty isn’t everything. They had an uncontrolled dismount on their coed stunts on the far left, and they had a bobble, in their stunts. But on top of that, their cleanliness isn’t uniform across all of their athletes. Some athletes take one or several steps back after their tumbling passes (far right at 0:22), some stick and stand. Not everyone has the same technique in their jumps (some athletes have heads down, chest forward, arm placement in toe touch doesn’t look uniform, landing with feet apart vs feet together, etc.). Additionally, this routine wasn’t very interesting at all. They didn’t have any formation changes in their elite stunt; both their two mans and their pyramids were centered in the very back of the mat; and the routine just felt like skill after skill without anything eye catching. Also, this might just be a personal thing but these athletes, along with a lot of other teams, just look bouncy. It takes away from even more cleanliness the team has. I love this team’s skills, and I do think they should’ve placed higher than Swooshcats in the standings after Semis (I think Blacklight was 5th in the US and Swoosh was in 4th, only top 3 in the US make Finals.) However I just think they need to work on having team uniformity, which will increase their execution scores.
Also, another thing i just noticed from watching it again, the pyramid section also lacks in technique. Spacing issues on the one and a half ups (one group is on line and one group is on quarter panel). The pyramid flips are also *INCREDIBLY* low. None of the bracers have their arms extended to get the flipping athletes in an extended position (two-and-a-half high is what they call it I think). Almost none of these pyramid skills Blacklight performs are above the bracers' chests (I.E: The three flipping skills at 2:05 should be MUCH HIGHER than that).
why didn’t they make finals
What a scam, they for sure should have made it
robbed.