First of all, congrats to Mao for her good performance!
Seriously. How many times do we have to hear that Mao "only" landed 3, or 4, or 5 clean triples after some great performances like GPF or this one? Some people ignore every other positive aspect of her skating, even when she gets some of the highest base values in competitions. Why does she always receive so much criticism when she's not absolutely perfect? You can bet that even if she is absolutely perfect, many people here will come and say she can't jump, she had ur, was overscored and so on...
When she lands 5 triples and has 2 mistakes, ok, she was not good, but some posters say she landed 2 clean triples and was atrocious. When she lands 5 triples and has 1 mistake, people say she skated like it was 1982, even if most skaters were even worse. When she lands 6 triples, but has 2 <, she only landed 4 triples. When she lands 6 triples, but has two mistakes, she only landed 4 clean triples. ***?? Clean triples is the only thing that matters in figure skating?
Not to mention some sick posters who post criticism and offenses to Mao like, 10 times every day. This is tiresome.
Thank you, this discussion is getting ridiculous. And these are some of the same people who were defending Patrick Chan and talked about "this is figure skating", not "figure jumping", and now all of the sudden all that matters is the number of "clean triples" and only clean triples. It was a good skate with SIX triples and two small mistakes and it deserved a big score. Mao's PCS were even almost the same she gets at international competitions, unlike 76 that Karolina got at her nationals. The reaction here is sick.