2016 Skate America Men's SP

[Krunchii]

Wow J5 just J6'd everyone, they're very conservative with their marks and stingy on the GOEs haha, it's the same judge who was supposed to be J6 yesterday for pairs and didn't show up

 

[Li'Kitsu]

The judges would most likely have given Jason the lead if he got that spin.

Interesting.

What surprised me more... is that Jason got the 4T ratified. As in, no UR call. IMO it should have been called... that said, Shoma for example didn't get any deduction for having absolutely zero steps before his 4F, so he 'got away with one' too.

 

[shiroKJ]

In what universe? :rofl2:

Anyone in the top 10 can be a threat to Yuzuru He's not exactly the king of consistency In fact no one is safe, all the men in the field are capable of a complete meltdown, meltdowns not even PCS can save.

 

[mcq]

Both Jason and Nam got an invalidated spin

Wow, if he had it Jason would be ahead of Shoma. Not commenting on PCS but the GOE of the top 3 look alright to me. Not sure about Jason's 4T need to watch again if it should be < or not.

 

[berry8]

In your dreams, maybe.

Just expressing my opinion...
I just wanted his exquisite gala program to be morphed into a SP... That was matchless perfection

 

[shiroKJ]

What surprised me more... is that Jason got the 4T ratified. As in, no UR call. IMO it should have been called... that said, Shoma for example didn't get any deduction for having absolutely zero steps before his 4F, so he 'got away with one' too.

:giveup: Why bother with steps when the judges just don't care?

The tech panel was stern with the ladies last night so they had to even it by being lenient this time around.

 

[Meoima]

Shoma's 4F takeoff has not improved at all: http://i.giphy.com/3o7TKJs5F0reh3xR0A.gif

 

[Li'Kitsu]

Yuzuru's SP is quite horrible this year

Oh, it's okay, you probably just didn't see anything because of the white costume. It does make things quite difficult

 

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Anyone in the top 10 can be a threat to Yuzuru He's not exactly the king of consistency In fact no one is safe, all the men in the field are capable of a complete meltdown, meltdowns not even PCS can save.

All of this.

I don't understand the hubris. There's a reigning two-time world champ and his name isn't Yuzuru Hanyu.

 

[HanDomi]

Yuzuru's SP is quite horrible this year

I actually think it will be fantastic once he skate it fully commited

 

[karne]

I'm a bit surprised that the spread between Jason and Nam is a large as it is. I'll have to wait and see the programs but, from the reports, it sounded like Nam skated very well.

Nam lost a spin too. Also, no disrespect to how hard Nam has obviously worked to get back to this point, but there's light years between him and Jason on the second mark.

Uh oh, Adam got a costume violation (oops), no point deduction though

No he didn't, one of the judges pressed the button, that's all. A majority of judges have to press the button for the actual violation to happen.

Not so sure about Kovtun...

Why not? Sure Brendan fell on the quad, but he was otherwise clean and the program was nice. Kovtun was a mess, two invalid elements, and he's only four points behind? What a joke! If Brendan had two invalid jumping passes his score would be down in the 50s.

 

[SarahSynchro]

Damnit, I missed the entire men's short! :ddevil: Looks like I missed a lot.

 

[berry8]

Seems commentators are in agreement. The commentator in the emission I watched said she believes Shoma will beat Yuzu's records and it's a shame they're so close in age.

Maybe it was the same one

 

[ruffledgrouse]

There are literally dozens of you.

We are legion

 

[MaiKatze]

Liked Shoma the best, but he made some unfortunate mistakes. It looked like there was something on the ice, maybe a little hole or something which his blade got caught up in. All in all the placements are okay-ish, nothing to get worked up about. I hope that Boyang will come back in the long though. Watching this made me realise I don't really like it when skaters have no quad. 6 years ago it might've been okay, but nowadays...you need them.

 

[Li'Kitsu]

:giveup: Why bother with steps when the judges just don't care?

The tech panel was stern with the ladies last night so they had to even it by being lenient this time around.

Yeah I know, but it really annoys me...

Not as if the guys needed a harsh tech panel with all the invalid elements here. Strong, independent men need no tech panel to screw them up...

 

[andromache]

No he didn't, one of the judges pressed the button, that's all. A majority of judges have to press the button for the actual violation to happen.

My money is on cranky judge number 5.

 

[shiroKJ]

Oh, it's okay, you probably just didn't see anything because of the white costume. It does make things quite difficult

Excuse me, he's just so good, he becomes the ice.

Now that's mastery at its finest.

 

[Yatagarasu]

Shoma's 4F takeoff has not improved at all: http://i.giphy.com/3o7TKJs5F0reh3xR0A.gif

Well. That's not a mess at all. :noshake:

 

[berry8]

Why not? Sure Brendan fell on the quad, but he was otherwise clean and the program was nice. Kovtun was a mess, two invalid elements, and he's only four points behind? What a joke! If Brendan had two invalid jumping passes his score would be down in the 50s.

I meant I would have scored Brendan higher than Jin B.