To ME it would seem that there had to be some sort of dealings since the Canadien skaters were better than the Russian pair in the long program on Monday night...but just because it seems that way doesn't make it so. It IS a very subjective thing. Please let me know, was it the artistic marks that put the Russians over the top? Or simply the ordinals? Does anyone know?
On a thread yesterday someone posted the scoring. Two of the judges that gave the Russian pair the first place ordinal, actually had given the same combined (technical + artisitc) scores for both pairs. If tie ordinals were possible, then the Canadian pair would have gotten 4 first places, the Russian pair 3 first places, with two judges giving first place ties.