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Whoa. That really does not sound right to me. However, the judges make these decisions, and if it's in favor of the skaters, I guess I wouldn't argue.
I would probably feel disappointment. Really, you work hard to make your program passable and then oops, the judges barely watch the real performance, just the warm up. It doesn't seem fair to me.
On the other hand, what was the best solution, assuming additional ice time was not available? Turn away the last couple skaters and tell them to come back next session?
Having more available dance partners would have helped - they can do double and even triple and quadruple flights if you had enough partners.
Add a tester, I may be hesitant to partner someone I've never skated with for tests though...
I've seen a partner substituted when the original partner was pretty significantly off time (a freestyle coach who was taking a few students through the preliminary dance tests) - all his students had to reskate their dances with one of the dance partners that was there for other skaters. The judge let them have another warm up and I think they all passed in the end.
Could a female ice dance be recruited on the fly to partner female dance testers? The rulebook says it has to be the tester's own same sex coach right?
How frustrating and can't imagine the post-test drama. Wonder how the students managed in practice. Could a female ice dance be recruited on the fly to partner female dance testers? The rulebook says it has to be the tester's own same sex coach right?