Aren't you the clever one?
I cannot take credit for that one! The lovely people in Shoma's fanfest came up with it. They have a wealth of Shoma puns, among my favourites is "Shomajesty"
Aren't you the clever one?
I just watched the slow motion replay of Jason's 4 salchow. It looked like it was between half and quarter turn under, not more than half. Surprised at the double carrot, hence, downgrade to triple.
OMG, why does he care about Jackie?
I know I really love a skater when I start thinking of music I want him to skate to.
I think I'm up to about 9873497834324 songs for him to consider so far.
Congrats to Chen who skated the best in both programs.
Congrats to Yuzu who came back strong after a serious injury. I even want to say after two serious injuries and almost two blank seasons. Because he hadn't even totally recovered from his last season's injury when he got injured again.
Congrats to Zhou who despite questionable rotations managed to land his jumps.
Sorry for Shoma.
Boyang is in top 5 so it's not so bad.
Rizzo can be the next Javier if he gets another quad.
I won't talk about scores.
Honestly even if Yuzu is healthy next season and delivers 4 quads programs, Chen seems like the chosen one now. He's now as good as Yuzu in PCS apparently and he even get better GOEs not only on jumps, but on spins and steps too.
Yuzu will need 4lz or Nessie (4A) to get back judges' love imo.
This is an odd post.
Nathan won, as you note, because he skated the best in both programs.
When Yuzu skated off the ice, he was rewarded with a World Record for the free skate and also for total score, despite a popped jump in the short.
He hasn't lost the judges' love. He was just beaten. It happens.
Yep, unfortunately.
I would never have guessed we'd have more ladies' spots next year then men's.
My english is not the best so maybe my post wasn't clear. I think that if Yuzu was clean he would have won, no doubt. The margin would have been around 10 points. And since the gap between him and Chen would have been "only" 10 points, that means that Yuzuru can't afford a mistake like a fall on URed quad for example. That's a thing that he could afford two seasons ago or even last season, but now it's a different story. Chen is closing the gap, and with the favorable circumstances he got yesterday he closed it a bit more. Judges gave him almost the same pcs than Yuzu (46 and 95) + huge GOEs, he destroyed his average GOE. I don't think that his jumps are at a level of execution that deserve those insane GOEs nor that he became the 2nd most artistic skater of the field. But he got good points when Yuzu wasn't there and it paid off. I don't see his marks suddenly deflate next season. Yuzu can get two more points on pcs if clean but i don't think there will enough gap on GOE to erase the BV gap. So basically Yuzu have to be excellent now to beat Chen. Or land harder quads without his usual quality of execution.
I cannot take credit for that one! The lovely people in Shoma's fanfest came up with it. They have a wealth of Shoma puns, among my favourites is "Shomajesty"
I’m not sure if anyone’s mentioned this. I don’t want to look through 48 pages lol.. how the heck is Yuzurus 4T3A combo not worth more than 15 pts?! He did a 3A directly from another jump.. more than half the men have issues with a 3A by it self never mind on the back end of a combo.. that beast should be worth 18