Here is the exact performance on the very 1st day of the competition at World Cup Portimao 2009. I was there for this competition as the choreographer of coarse and was able to watch everyone! What is important is that "mrs. Thing" was not there and the "new" person selected for the "throne" is from Poland - which kind of explaines the high scores for Poland! No? The Spanish team did an awesome job on the first day with 5 hoops and I was so proud of them, because we changed the choreography only 5 days before that and it is a VERY difficult choreography to begin with! Although Spain had Originality in both routines and they were described, submitted and shown to the panel of judges the day before the competition... it was all REJECTED by the panel as Original elements!!! So the competition started... Russia had bad drops...Japan was pushing to be on the podium , but with Belarussia doing some big drops, Spain was looking good! ...Until - The 0.750 dedu