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- Feb 19, 2010
Yes, Alysa was mildly overmarked. The problem is, some skaters are worse less than the sum of their parts - does that make sense? Ie, technically, Alysa's combo was fully rotated... but it was small, covered little ice, had little flow in and out. She can evidently spin fast enough to squeak out the rotation where a couple others can't. But her skating skills are nowhere near the others. Edges aren't nearly as clean. Posture not in the same universe. In other words, to the naked eye, she gets it done and looks like. But look a little deeper, and it's not hard to find the flaws.I don't see how Alysa was overmarked. She skated clean with a 3-3 in the second half. Her PCS of about 32 was nothing to write home about. And Karen is pretty much out of it, barring some disasters, so her scores are kind of irrelevant.
That said, I think that Sakomoto, while clearly the best, had pretty weak spins tonight. Certainly not worth generous GOEs. I also felt that Young whom I normally love, was weaker than normal in (eg) spins, extension, etc. Just looked a little rougher than normal. Didn't convince me as she has in the past. Also deserved the rotation calls.
I'm not a huge Karen Chen fan, but I wouldn't put her and Alysa close in terms of PCS. Karen at least has good edgework and basics, plus good coverage and speed.