It would be interresting to see more renowned choreographers today to do their choreo together with the skater.
Aliona overshadowed Danil imo. His turns were sloppy,
and Aliona was sleek and modern. She truly has great skating skills. Choreographers usually have great skating skills that are on a different league from most active competing figure skaters, but I think she had him beat there.
If fans of skaters not nominated all boycotted, there would be no point of an award show. Seems maybe this will be the one and only time they do it. They can’t nominate every skater, and some fans got very very offended this year and it seemed to really impact their lives. I hope the ISU stops doing this for the sake of the fans
It depends sometimes choreographers don't even show it, but they just tell you what to do or they have a skater to show it for them, like Lori Nichol, Tarasova also was like that.
if someone got very offended by this because their favourite skaters didn't win, i think it's their problem and they should seek for help rather than ISU, no offense.
The nominees were chosen by either fans or coaches or federations depending on the category so they were all involved in the process.
... give something to all federations involved.
It's really not possible or very low odds to do it at 5 ft 8 in tall ladies figure skating. Guliakova is almost as tall as Masha and she does a 3A in training but until she does it in a competition it doesn't count. Physics plays a role in all of this because it's harder to rotate your arms and legs the taller and longer you are and the thicker and wider you are.Do we know if Masha ever trained a quad or a 3A? IMO, being taller or wider (though masha wasn’t wide at all) doesn’t necessarily mean a quad or 3A is an impossible feat; you may have to work a bit harder but I believe it’s possible. Tall Guliakova trained a 3A. Not-tall-but-not-tiny-either Midori and Tonya trained 3A.
To be very honest, the decision process was very unclear to fans. I mean, they said who was involved, yeah, but there are literally 0 information on details, such as "skater A got X fan votes, and then coaches thought this, and federations though that, and then each decision had a weight W, so the final result is ... "
I actually quite understand why man fans are upset - because there was literall 0 transparency.
Specifically to me, quite a few decisions - both on nominates and actual awards - there seem more political rather than based on figure skating, to give something to all federations involved.
Excellent points. There will never be a perfect awards show. I don't like anything the ISU does so I don't like their load show to begin with.
By the way I haven't seen you in ages it seems like years. welcome back Moriel.
Yikes that that... thing Bates was wearing beat Shcherbakova for best costume. Anna Shcherbakova's costume changes got +20k upvotes several times on Reddit and millions of views but okay then.
Just because your costume has a gimmick doesn’t mean your costume is the best stylistically. In fact, I preferred Anna’s SP dress to her FS dress this season.
Just because your costume has a gimmick doesn’t mean your costume is the best stylistically. In fact, I preferred Anna’s SP dress to her FS dress this season.
The award was not named "best stylistic costume", it was "best costume". Anna's "gimmick" was very popular, and enhanced the experience of the program for many people. I agree that Anna's sp dress was more elaborate and beautiful, but the award didn't specify that it had to be the style that was the best part of the costume. I don't know why people think the costume change is an illegitimate thing to be nominated for or win for. Her costume added to the program in a way that no one else's this season. If people think that her costume didn't deserve to win, fine, thats their opinion, but it doesn't make the opinion that it did deserve to win invalid. I personally think that the costume change was more unique and added more to the program than any other costume did stylistically.
A sneak peek at one of Elizaveta Tuktamysheva's programs? https://www.instagram.com/p/CCglZgUHvOc/
So Aliona skates to Billie Eilish while Liza has a lyric program?
I still enjoyed Anna’s costume change, don’t get me wrong! It certainly added excitement and suspense to her program! To me, it just wasn’t as beautiful stylistically as Chock/Bates. Although I preferred Chock/Bates costumes, Anna’s costumes were also two of my favorites last season. I was a bit harsh in my last post, I just thought the costume change still did not quite compare to Chock/Bates. Again, this is just my opinion, and since I’m not on the jury, my opinion doesn’t even matter!
Edit: this is also a reply to Flanker’s post, as Anna’s costume was not ugly, it was a beautiful costume, it just wasn’t my favorite Firebird costume (I really likeD Gracie’s). Again, this is all opinion based, I just liked Chock/Bates costumes better!
Edit: this is also a reply to Flanker’s post, as Anna’s costume was not ugly, it was a beautiful costume, it just wasn’t my favorite Firebird costume (I really likeD Gracie’s). Again, this is all opinion based, I just liked Chock/Bates costumes better!
So Aliona skates to Billie Eilish while Liza has a lyric program?
Liza quite often skates to lyrical programs in my opinion. However, I don't think that this is her reals SP music. There is a cut in the middle of her performance, but the music keeps playing without disturbance, so I think it was just a "random" music overlay.2020. What more can I say?