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EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (1:54)

Gymnastics journalist and (now) broadcaster extraordinaire Blythe Lawrence joins us to talk all about the European Championship!

• WOMEN
  • MELANIE DE JESUS DOS SANTOS – she is the official queen of Europe, and the happiest person about it is Coline Devillard in the stands
  • Alice Kinsella’s rollercoaster meet, where no British women fell on beam
  • Maria Paseka’s Cheng. We have a necessary emergency therapy session about it. 
  • The rise of the new Italian seniors, Ukraine, and Belarus (!) 
  • Just talking about Eythora for a long time because WE NEED TO
• MEN
  • Russian dominance and Nagornyy’s dethroning of Dalaloyan
  • Dalaloyan almost fell on a man wipe in the FX final. You know, the important stuff
  • MARIOS succeeds with execution
  • Breaking down the insanity of that vault final, moment by moment
  • Updates on the Dom Cunningham injury and Oleg’s current status
• The REAL stories of Euros (47:14)
  • Luba got the scoop behind Nekrasova’s unitard from Baku
  • Spencer starts an entire sub-podcast about Nicola Bartolini’s tattoos, and it’s going to be long.
  • The usher kids and the couches and the hand holding—a deep dive
  • Lankin’s Wakanda Forever
  • Pauline Schäfer’s double turn save
  • What do we do about Alice D’Amato’s bars walking?
  • We tackle the issue of Luigi the Monkey, the bananas, and Melanie

NCAA NATIONALS PREVIEW (1:11:34)

• Remember: GYMCASTIC FLIPPING FOUR AFTER PARTY LIVE SHOW PRESENTED BY TUMBL TRAK, Saturday April 20th, 8:00 CT – everything you need to know, including what types of “cowboy dancing” Spencer will not be doing
• We announce the winners of the ticket giveaway
• Semifinal preview – Assessing every team’s chances to advance from the semifinal of death and the semifinal of life
• Team final preview – Jessica makes the argument for Oklahoma; Spencer makes the argument for UCLA
• Individuals preview – Who might actually win the titles, who has already won the titles in Jessica’s heart, and who should bring a bonkers upgrade just cuz
• (1:40:31) USAG Nationals – Lindenwood wins the team title, and there was a feelings thing that happened with UIC
• NAIGC Nationals is “like I opened a secret door into an underground group of people who get the purpose of gymnastics.”

GYMTERNET NEWS (1:14:06)

• L10 proposal to get more event qualifiers to nationals
• Mark Cook is retiring
• When the phone sex operator is the hero of the story
• Lou Anna Simon can’t recall
• Reminder: The deadline to Take Legal Action in USA Gymnastics Sexual Assault Cases is April 29, 2019

FURTHER READING

• National Championship Preview: Semifinal of Life
• European Championship – Event Finals Day 2
• National Championship Preview: Semifinal of Death
• European Championship – Event Finals Day 1
• European Championship – All-Around Finals
• European Championship – Women’s Qualification
• European Championships – Men’s Qualification
• Things Are Happening – April 9, 2019
• Onward to Fort Worth!

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TICKET GIVEAWAY: Plus, we’re giving away 2 pairs of tickets!

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Deadline: Sunday, April 14th at midnight (PST).

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NCAA REGIONALS (9:20)

• It all went to plan…until it didn’t
• Oregon State 
  • A forensic investigation, with historical reference points, of the Florida beam disaster and elimination
  • Artistic gymnastics alert: Denver coach Linas Gaveika’s bars performance
  • Oregon State’s magical beam levitation, and How To Give Birth Under a Double Layout: The Regional
• LSU
  • Brace yourself: MyKayla Skinner fell on bars, ending a streak of 161 consecutive hit routines
  • Auburn’s amazing semifinal performance, the injury to Sam Cerio, and the delicate politics of covering gruesome injuries—plus a shoutout to Ella Douglas, who had to go on floor right after that
  • Lexy Ramler and Ivy Lu. Done. 
• Michigan
  • From the lack of television coverage, to this regional being behind a paywall, to the unreliable and nonexistent live scores, we have a serious access problem for regionals that needs to be fixed
  • Alabama is eliminated. This will be the first national championship without Alabama since 1982, the first year women existed
  • Kyla Ross got three more 10s, meanwhile Taylor Houchin got zero 10s, and we have a problem with that
  • Penn State got two individuals qualifiers to nationals and we’re taking all the credit. Sorry, gymnasts
• Georgia
  • Spencer calls for a judging intervention after this preposterous regional
  • Oklahoma recorded the highest road score in NCAA history, and Cal and Kentucky both set program records while being eliminated
  • Shoutout to Alma Kuc, Emi Watterson, and Cal’s best bars rotation ever en route to the strongest performance to be eliminated from any regional final
  • Marissa Oakley’s 10 was a thing of beauty and a joy forever, and Rachael Lukacs BROUGHT IT
  • Um. So. We need to talk about some leotards
• Gymnasts are ninjas — regionals edition
  • Erin Castle (Iowa) – Vault
  • Hannah Cohen (George Washington) – Bars
• What we still need to work on with this new regionals format, including meet timing and schedule, team distribution, and those stupid team prisons—now even stupider than ever!

TOKYO WORLD CUP (1:29:10)

• Morgan Hurd won the AA title by less than a tenth over Ellie Black, proving she is a sorceress on vault and beam, while also debuting her new floor routine. We interpret. 
• Ellie Black and Asuka Teramoto were on fire, though Teramoto’s true meet highlight had nothing to do with gymnastics
• Sam “Consistency” Mikulak hit an entire meet, including HB, to take the all-around title
• Plus, Giarnni Regini-Moran beat Kenzo on floor, why we’re excited to be concerned for Kenzo’s safety, and while we’re definitely not excited to be concerned for Bart’s safety

GYMTERNET NEWS (1:40:00)

• Former gymnastics coach in Brazil, Fernando de Carvalho Lopes, banned
• Everyone is pulling out of Euros, even Mustafina
• Gymnastics coach Jerry Reighard not fired from CMU, has two weeks to respond to investigation findings
• Shawn is having a baby
• FIG Parkour World Cup series set to begin
• Marz + TRUTH = yes.
• Flippin’ 5K Race & Festival (1:49:43)

FURTHER READING

• Onward to Fort Worth!
• Regionals Live Blog – Regional Finals
• Regionals Live Blog – Round 2
• Regionals Live Blog – Round 1

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Regionals Preview (3:30)

NCAA Regional Championships begin this Thursday with the new play-in meets and end on Saturday, when the 8 teams advancing to nationals will be decided. Spencer gives the rundown of what to expect—while trying to fit in as many SYTYCD, Madonna, and Laura Linney references as possible. You know, gymnastics content.  Schedule here. 

Interviews Galore!

Sarah (of the Shire) Brown (8:12)
In her second season as head coach at Penn State, Sarah Brown joins us to talk about her time at GAGE, what it’s really like there, and what happens if you’re not turned out in the airport. Plus, the changes she tried to institute at Penn State after taking over at a program in turmoil, how transferring during her own college career informs her perspective on the athlete experience now, when we’re going to see a four-element beam series in the Penn State lineup (spoiler: it’s never), and whether Jessica is still allowed to call her Sarah of the Shire. 

Lieve Olivera (49:31)
Lieve Olivera was a Brevet judge from 1985 to 1996. She judged at world championships and world cups, has owned her own gym, was the media liaison at the 2000 Olympics, and has authored articles and given presentations on controversies in judging. So we obviously need to talk a lot about college gymnastics—the differences between college and international, how judges go about trying to reconcile their deductions with the need to rank routines, how best to improve college gymnastics judging, and the deductions she would have for an example routine. PLUS, behind the scenes stories about what happened in 2000 after the vault debacle and after Raducan was stripped of her medal.

Nick Ruddock (1:19:36)

Nick was a national coach for British Gymnastics who worked with everyone fro Ellie Downie to Amy Tinkler. He is now a consultant who has worked with 18 federations around the world, including Japan and the Netherlands (drink!). He emphasizes an athlete centered approach for longevity and high performance. Each year he shares his knowledge via GymCon which you’ve heard Jessica talk about one million times. Jessica asked him all of her burning technical, cultural and code questions.

FURTHER READING

• Regionals Preview Part 4: LSU Regional
• Regionals Preview Part 3: Michigan Regional
• Regionals Preview Part 2: Georgia Regional
• Regionals Preview Part 1: Dual-or-Die
• GIFCap: Superstars of Gymnastics

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MEET NEWS

• Birmingham World Cup (2:11)
  • Why did everyone fall on everything? Try the crazy spotlight lighting! Measure your lumens, yo!
  • Aliya is the champion and is going to Euros now—called it!
  • Riley McCusker is the women’s team answer to Sam Mikulak
  • …and the FIG still can’t tell any of the Chinese gymnasts apart. Great.
• Superstars (or Stuperstars) of Gymnastics  (14:54)
  • Jessica loved it and Spencer was like [sigh]—obviously
  • We discuss Danusia’s new vault family, Simone stealing the show with the best line of the night, Ellie Black going ALL IN on this craziness, Casimir Schmidt’s pink broccoli boxers, how Laurent was one of the celebrity judges, Jessica’s feelings moments, and more
• NCAA Conference championships (43:24)
  • LSU beats Florida in an intense SEC Championship that came down to floor
  • Denver almost beat Oklahoma at Big 12s, you guys
  • The three-way AA tie in the Big Ten made Jessica’s dreams come true, though the camera work…didn’t
  • UCLA won Pac-12s as both UCLA and Utah broke 198. We discuss the 10s and the “coincidental” change in Ohashi’s floor music
    • Plus, is the one-routine-at-a-time, 2.5 hour format of Pac-12s working? 
• Regionals! (1:11:44)
  • George Washington and Lindenwood claim the last two spots on a dramatic final day. We discuss the heartbreaking finish for UIC and the beautiful Cinderella story of Lindenwood gymnastics
  • The regionals draw—what are the juiciest matchups to watch, and how did the committee screw up the team distribution? Oh, in several ways!
• Doha Apparatus World Cup (1:25:00)
  • The day the Australia broke
  • High bar is fulfilling all our hopes and dreams for this qualification method
  • NINA!
  • Jade Carey, Maria Paseka’s best-ever Amanar, and the race for the Perfect 90

FURTHER READING

• 2019 Regional Championships Draw
• Conference Championships Live Blog – March 23, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – March 22, 2019
• Things Are Happening – March 22, 2019

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ATHLETE ASSISTANCE FUND

(2:30) The Athlete Assistance Fund has partnered with the New York Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children to provide child sexual assault prevention training to national gymnastics programs. We discuss what the Athlete Assistance Fund is and what this partnership is going to do. We will continue to support Saving Our Survivors Fund via our store. 

COLLEGE NEWS

• (10:03) The Miss Val farewell meet was as extra as you knew it would be
  • The Valorie Kondos Field Floor was unveiled. We have some other ideas for coach-naming tributes
  • Jessica tells us about what we didn’t see on TV, and it involves flash mobs and ice sculptures and math problems
  • We’ve been given a challenge to talk about college meets without discussing the judging. Jessica accepts the challenge. Spencer passes.
  • Why that ridiculous roller coaster of a meet was the perfect tribute to Miss Val
  • Madison. Ward. Sessions.
  • But that broadcast, you guys…
  • Kyla got a Perfect Fall 9.500 from one judge. Has anyone ever scored a Perfect Fall before? Should it be possible?
• Other college developments including Cal’s program-record score of 197.575 and Bridgeport upping the game for next season in terms of celebrations
• (49:53) We announce the Pac-12 Championship ticket winners.
• (50:15) Regionals Watch: Who’s in, who’s out, and who desperately needs a score at conference championships this weekend

ELITE NEWS

• (55:06) Stuttgart all-around world cup
  • Simone wins with “downgrades,” Ana Padurariu is a dream, Elisabeth Seitz upgrades back to the DTY for the first time in forever, and Aliya’s beam features wobbles on everything except her acro series because of course
• Stuttgart team challenge
  • Brazil is coming for all your titles, and Andrade scored 56.932 (!) in the all-around
  • (1:02:08) Jessica provides a moment-by-moment art-historical interpretation of Eythora’s brilliant beam routine
• Baku
  • Jade Carey unleashes her Cheng upon the world and wins vault in a field that was RIDIC
  • Spencer breaks down the qualification rules, including what happens if two people tie for a spot, and what happens if Jade Carey wins more than one event
  • Floor competition brought us the BODYSUIT LEO HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
  • Controversy on beam: Anastasia Bachynska loses the bronze medal because her coach was on the podium. We have many problems with this.
  • Emma Nedov is the real deal, and Jessica and Spencer basically get a divorce while trying to compare Tingting and Li Qi.
  • Man-notes about high bar (eeeeee!) and the return of Yang Hakseon.

GYMTERNET NEWS

• Gymnastics is for grown-ass women
• Nassar Accusers Sue U.S Olympic Committee For Failing To Prevent Sexual Abuse
• OU men’s gymnastics 111th straight win
• Japan submits bid for 2023 Worlds — yea or nay?
  
• The AAI Award Finalists are in — who’s winning?
• (1:41:09) British Championships update from Katie Steele

FURTHER READING

• Final NQS Scenarios
• Sunday Live Blog – March 17, 2019
• Not Remotely Live Blog – Stuttgart Women’s All-Around
• Saturday Live Blog – March 16, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – March 15, 2019
• Things Are Happening – March 15, 2019
• Spring 2019 Elite Schedule
• Only the Best – NCAA Week 10

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MEET NEWS

• (2:30) L’International Gymnix — the Montreal floor strikes AGAIN
  • We break it down moment-by-moment, try to get a redo for special Belgians, and discuss Alyona Shchennikova almost tumbling into some dude
  • Kara Eaker wins the AA, Shchennikova does the best DTY she has ever done, and what happens when a front tuck on beam is too high to function
  • Lilly Lippeatt’s WOW floor combo
• (19:18) Russian Nationals!
  • Luba from Gymnovosti is here to fill us in on all the goodies from last week’s Russian Championship of Splats—who won, who fell, who won AND fell
  • Who made the European Championships team (for now), and why it wasn’t Aliya despite ALIYA
  • The returns of Paseka and Eremina, how Daria Belousova made Jessica into a prophet, and the most important news of all—our annual Tatiana Nabieva update
  • What happened to Artur Dalaloyan on the men’s side, Nikita Nagornyy’s near sweep, and that time the Rodionenkos retired Kuksenkov without his permission because of course they did
  • All the horrible things Valentina said this time
  • (47:18) Liubou Charkashyna, president of the FIG Athletes Commission, said American abuse survivors are in it for the money. Well fab.
    • Meanwhile the FIG suspended a coach for behavior toward an athlete for the first time (we think)
  • That time Aliya gently ushered a furry out of the way

(54:59) GYMTERNET NEWS

• Rebeca Andrade’s bars routine is everything
• USAG is now using professional security as chaperones for the women’s team
• Jessica has homework assignments for our listeners
  • The Treatment from Terrible, Thanks for Asking 
  • Rachel Haines’ book Abused: Surviving Sexual Assault and a Toxic Gymnastics Culture
  • Leaving Neverland on HBO
• The Landis haven’t been paid from Doha, GreatCoach.com has a full list of banned coaches, 2 MSU trainers lied to police, and the Michigan AG has taken over the Geddert investigation
• The coaching news out of Bowling Green and Central Michigan 

(1:21:42) NCAA

• • A rankings update (DENVER?!) and the race for the evening sessions at conference championships. Plus, the important ranking echelons in the new postseason format—and who’s on the cusp of missing out
  • All the scoring records (and there were a lot) broken this weekend
  • The senior day 10: Sweet or condescending?
  • Nothing is a deduction anymore: The UCLA/Stanford meet

FURTHER READING

• Ranking Watch: Week 10
• Sunday Live Blog – March 10, 2019
• Saturday Live Blog – March 9, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – March 8, 2019
• Things Are Happening – March 8, 2019
• Team-by-Team Scoring Records
• Only the Best – NCAA Week 9

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• Men’s Program Clarification (4:55): Paul Ruggeri is the new athlete representative on the USAG Board of Directors.  Steven Legendre is still the athlete advocate representative for the men’s team.

THE MEETS!

American Cup – Women (7:39)

• LEANNNEEE WONNNNG THE END
  • Fact-checking Jessica’s feelings, brought to you by Uncle Tim (!!!!)
  • Why someone needs to get Armine a Spotify subscription
• Kim Bui is a bars NINJA and Jessica has a plan to get her an Olympic medal
• Grace McCallum will do Grace McCallum every single Grace McCallum for Grace McCallum points. How she rode being Grace McCallum to the E-score title
• TIE FOR BRONZE between Black and Murakami
  • There were four whole world-medal-level gymnasts at the top of their games fighting for medals. At AMERICAN CUP. You guys.
• The true winner of the meet: the NBC trio’s Night of Honesty during commercial breaks (27:45)

American Cup – Men (32:42)

• MATH NERD RAGE: Spencer discusses how Moldauer and Mikulak really should have tied, except the FIG doesn’t know how to math good. It’s the strongest he’s ever felt about anything.
• Moldauer did Moldauer, and Mikulak did Mikulak
• Jessica scores Ma Yue’s stick celebration and has a theory about Bart’s performance that involves Bambi

Jesolo – Seniors (50:17)

• Sunisa Lee is HERE! She won the AA with 56.466—WITH A FALL
• In which we learn what led Jessica to scream “THEY’RE DOING IT” in the middle of a Best Buy and then start crying. 
• Ting Ting for silver. We break down her NCAA-performance floor routine and her most glorious beam 
• Emma Malabuyo took bronze as the most consistent competitor of the whole meet, making us forget all about the back problems of 2018
• Qi Qi is everything, and Italy has one allowable bars composition, but it’s AMAZING

Jesolo – Juniors (1:07:10)

• AHHHH KONNOR MCCLAIN AHHHH
  • She won the junior AA title and proved an understanding of slapstick comedy far beyond her years
• Everyone is obsessed with Guan Chenchen on floor
• We have a moment about the Russian juniors. More like seven moments (1:11:46)
  • Vladislava Urazova won the hairstyle award again — and also like the AA silver or whatever
  • Elena Gerasimova’s fantasy gymnastics video game beam routine is EVERYTHING
  • Viktoria Listunova is the people’s floor champion and has set a new standard for getting into a wolf turn position

NCAA  (1:20:51)

• Perfect 40 Watch
  • What kept Kyla “Kayla” Ross from a Perfect 40 on Sunday, and a discussion of whether she will get it before the end of her career
  • We have national championships sign plans involving one Brenna “McDowell.”
  • When your floor routine makes your coach break into a spontaneous college salute, you know it was a win

FURTHER READING

• Ranking Watch: Week 9
• Sunday Live Blog – March 3, 2019
• Saturday Live Blog – March 2, 2019
• Elite Live Blog – American Cup/Jesolo
• Friday Live Blog – March 1, 2019
• Things Are Happening – March 1, 2019
• National Team Rankings – March 2019
• Best NCAA Team Scores

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NCAA NEWS

• How to get your early release tickets for our live show at NCAAs.
• A little something called the UCLA/Utah meet. We have many thoughts about how crazy the internets are being about MyKayla Skinner and newspapers. Also gymnastics isn’t cotillion, and you all got overscored.  (10:22)
• The Carol Address. An email about the sudden phenomenon called bias in judging (which just started now) was sent to the NCAA judges this week. We perform a dramatic reading.  (24:10)
• By popular demand, the Oklahoma fish net leotard discussion (27:35)
• Trinity Thomas went to national team verification directly after the Florida meet. We discuss what the elite program can do to encourage more athletes to do both college and elite at the same time. (29: 47)
• A shout out to Sarah Finnegan‘s right leg for its unwavering support during these troubled times. 
• Crack or correct: The trouble with DIII scoring, when this Y1.5 gets 9.600. Plus Natalie Wojcik’s make-up 10 and the inconsistent application of “form forgiveness” in evaluating DTYs. (40:44)

MELBOURNE WORLD CUP (47:38)

• Vanessa Ferrari returned with a new floor routine that has Jessica soaring to the heavens. Plus, missed opportunities presented by the small women’s field, how China is cleaning up and coming for all your spots, Chris Remkes and the 6.9 D, our new favorite beam dreams, and a rundown of all the events, EVEN MEN’S. 
• OLLY HOGBEN Interview (1:12:22). Jessica chatted with our favorite Olympic Channel maestro about how he went from drama teacher to gymnastics commentator extraordinaire, unintentional dismounts, puns, and other genius rules for being a kind commentator.  

THIS WEEKEND (1:36:47)

• Clear your schedules! No lives please! This weekend you have American Cup, Jesolo, the Nastia Cup, and UCLA/Oklahoma. We discuss the announcement of the US rosters for Jesolo and Gymnix following national team camp. 

FURTHER READING

• NCAA Week 8 Rankings and RQS Update
• Saturday Live Blog – February 23, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – February 22, 2019
• Things Are Happening – February 22, 2019
• Gymnastics GIFs For All Occasions
• All-Time NCAA All-Around Leaders

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LI LI LEUNG (1:38)

• The new USAG President and CEO is Li Li Leung formerly a vice president at the NBA.
• We evaluate whether or not she is the right choice for USAG (another *cough* marketer *eye roll* and of course analyze, her actual gymnastics.
• Here are some of the former junior elite and University of Michigan gymnast’s routines FX, BB.

NCAA NEWS (19:40)

• Crack or correct 
  • The mega-controversial Georgia/Kentucky meet
  • A perfect 9.950 from Sarah Finnegan, and what should have been one from Sarah Shaffer
  • The latest UCLA 10s from Kyla Ross and Katelyn Ohashi
• Gymnasts are NINJAS (37:40)
  • Anna Warhol‘s epic vault save
  • Jessica pens a love ode to her new wife, Rachel Borden of Illinois 
• Womp womp news 
  • The Toni-Ann Williams injury that’s NOT FAIR
  • Spencer takes issue with UCLA’s alleged pride meet
• Safety (59:45)
  • The NCAA responds to our questions about safety and equipment failures

GYMTERNET NEWS (1:06:19)

• Dan Purvis announces his retirement
• GYMNASTICS IS FOR EVERYONE, screams Jessica
• Utah Gymnastics: Red Rocks Retrospective
• Kenzo can do a piked Arabian double to a punch front double full. OF COURSE!
• Gymnastics Canada launches probe after former coach acquitted in sex assault trial
• The Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals will be made from recycled electronics, a.k.a. our chance to get excited about the 2020 opening ceremony

WINTER CUP (1:16:53)

• Day 1 and the WINTER CUP OF SPLATS – we relive the best falls
• Who made national team? Was it based on reality and results, or…nah? 
• Kensley and Spencer discuss NT snubs (Levi Anderson! Eddie Penev!), the epic importance of athletic goggles, tired old pommel horse narratives, and what the point of having a points system is if you just ignore it because it’s so dumb  
• What is the criteria for being sent to individual Olympic qualification world cups? (Spoiler alert: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) 

CHRISTY LINDER AND DEANNA HONG

• We talk to Christy (1:56:33) and Deanna  (1:39:43) about becoming a professional photographer/videographer in gymnastics, what they’ve learned on the job, the specific coverage challenges gymnastics presents, how to be athlete respectful, and how we stop gymnastics articles from choosing the WORST photos of leaps.  

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FURTHER READING

• Monday Live Blog – February 18, 2019
• Sunday Live Blog – February 17, 2019
• Saturday Live Blog – February 16, 2019
• Friday Live Blog – February 15, 2019
• Things Are Happening – February 15, 2019
• Only the Best – Week 6
• Week 6 Ranking Notes

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