For what it is worth, while Bob and John was slow looking going in, he also had a very nice pattern which suggested he was ready to move forward. The question was how much. I know Robespierre wrote about this on the Ragozin board pre-race, but I think the same analysis could have been reached using Thorograph -- he was slow but ready to make a forward jump.

All of that being said, I know nothing about figure making and I have no idea how to evaluate the performances. So I cannot say anything about what he may or may not have run. That is why I pay figure makers for their figures. I feel they can evaluate performances better than me (at least Thorograph and Ragozin can -- the others I do not even look at so I have no idea).

As they use to say in law school, the mills of the gods grind slow but they grind fine. We'll discover the answers eventually.