Unfortunately, Denis Margalik ARG just barely missed the TES required to go to senior Worlds. Chih-I Tsao TPE who also hoped to go, also missed it big time. That means that the maximum number of male skaters in senior Worlds will be 31 (only!).
It is very surprising that only 1 out of 4 Canadian single skaters managed to make top 24. I cannot remember such a performance by Canadian skaters for some time. Hope all four will not get discouraged.
Is Shoma's score the highest ever SP score for JWC?
Yes, by a lot. Joshua Farris and Jason Brown had the highest SP (75.84) and FS scores (159.09), respectively, at JWC 2013. They kept those records until JGPF this season. Sota Yamamoto broke the record with a score of 76.14 and Shoma Uno broke the FS record in winning JGPF with a score of 163.06.
And then Shoma broke Sota's record with his score today of 84.87. For the record, Shoma's PCS at JGPF was 34.14 (vs. 38.06 at the SP in this event). So yeah, a huge boost since then.
That's a quite big jump up.Also, here are the individual components:
Short Program
Free Skating
Looks like the judges were very excited at Four Continents. Lol Probably the "senior event vs. junior event" mindset...
I don't hold this view at all (as you probably know).
gallavich said:And is it ok for people to do that to Russian ladies? They seem to get it 10x worse, from what I've observed. I mean, they all get picked apart over tenths of points whenever someone else's fave is "robbed." I can't bring myself to care that much or I wouldn't enjoy this sport at all.
Zero quad in both short and long programs. Those marks were a bit shocking.