How is it possible for 2 skaters' scores to be exacly the same?!

Nationals concluded today. No mention of Bowman's death. They did commemorate him there apparently, but no on-air message, which was a shame. Rightfully, the focus was on the melodrama of the Evan Lysacek/Johnny Weir rivalry, but just acknowledging it and doing a 5-minute celebration of his skating would have been nice.

Anyhow, on to the skating...I am so thankful American Men's skating has come back around; oh to be proud of strong, consistent, amazing skaters again! I do like both guys for different reasons, but must say I'm glad Evan won b/c Johnny's attitude and Russophilia are quite obnoxious AND even though Johnny's performances were perfect, he didn't have the quad in the short program and his "Love and War" long program was not as striking as Evan's Tosca (one of my favorite pieces of music). Evan's performances were clean, just kinda of bobbly on his landings, plus he had a quad in each program. Because they sensationalized the rivalry so much, it was so crazy (unbelievable really) that on top of it for them to have identical scores (Lysacek won b/c hen won the long program).

Due to recording issues, I wasn't able to see the pairs, but heard about the proposal of Baldwin to Inoue (can probably check this out on you tube, however). Not a fan of ice dancing, I was hugely impressed with the couples. They made it look less like, well, ice dancing. And the women's (girls), was OK. There were some good performances, but I just wasn't as impressed as I was with the quality of the men. I think it was overshadowed by the fact that the rules aren't aligned with that of the world championships, so b/c the winners of nationals are so young, NONE of them are going to worlds (well maybe the 3rd 4th and 5th place winners). How anticlimactic is that?