[figure skating] worlds mens short
Mar. 21st, 2019 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsbythegreatone phrase mostly describes this: THANKS I HATE IT
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This is the first year I've watched while actively on fs twitter and the Yuzu fans are pissing me off. Not only that, but Yuzuru's scoring is pissing me off and it's not a good mix. I want to preface this with, I'm not mad at Yuzu obviously because he doesn't control the scoring, but there's such a weird way of scoring where Yuzuru shouldn't be so high above the people below him (or shouldn't be ahead of them), because one of his jumps was invalidated. A whole ass jump, just not counted. I think his score was really generous and he's in third because of it.
It was VERY generous compared to Shoma's. The judges weren't really feeling him today LMAO even Yuzuru, when he saw Shoma's scores come up, was like wtf why is it that low even if he fell? (He fell on his opening jump, it was UR but he still got points for a jump.) He barely made the final warm-up group and is in 6th place, but I feel like this is a common thing for Shoma now -- to have a bad short and need to make it up in the free. Anyway Shoma took it in stride because he's just like that, and it was nice to see him smile at the end despite the fall, because he hasn't really done that all season even when he's done good. There's definitely been a change between the rest of the season and Worlds, because he seems a lot more happy even though he's still really determined to do well.
Also thought Vincent was overscored, his UR's weren't called. I feel so bad for Mikhail. Most of that last group was a mess and I really hope the free skate isn't like that because last year the men's free skate was awful except for Nathan and that was hard to watch. So hopefully the short is the sacrifice we have to make for the free.
Jason Brown was RIGHTFULLY SCORED FOR ONCE HE DID SO WELL AND IS IN SECOND! Nathan did amazingly, and there's a bit of scoring discourse but you can't say he didn't deserve to be in the lead after that. Kevin Aymoz and Matteo Rizzo both were amazing and have both been kind of unexpected in their success this year. Yuzuru's step sequence was, as always, a Delight and that program in general is really amazing.
Back to the discourse, one of the things Yuzuru fans are nickpicking about on twitter aside from acting like everyone else was overscored was the stupid triple axels. For Japan, they have this thing called 'ice scope' which measures a jump's height, distance, and speed and they do it for every skater for their axel jump (unless they fall, in which case they pick another jump.) It's a cool feature but ofc it's causing discourse. Shoma got #1 axel of the night and people are mad that Yuzuru didn't and I'm annoyed because the judges didn't do Shoma any favors and that axel was FIRE. I love his axels and Yuzuru also has good axels and I think on any given day one could be "better" than the other but it's just so stupid. And they're doing all these number stuff and kind of putting down other skaters like Nathan because of his lead and PCs. (I'm glad they haven't done that to Jason but idk how anyone could be salty about Jason ever he's so good. Like not just a good skater, a good person.)
I'm also really sad for Junhwan, who is in 18th place. That's just...I can't deal. And also, the men I know are so scattered in placements that I might actually have to get up at 3am if I want to see all of them. WTF.
I hope everyone does well in the free. I think it would be nice to have a men's free like the one at Four Continents, where everyone skated clean or almost-clean in the last two groups.
salt under the cut
This is the first year I've watched while actively on fs twitter and the Yuzu fans are pissing me off. Not only that, but Yuzuru's scoring is pissing me off and it's not a good mix. I want to preface this with, I'm not mad at Yuzu obviously because he doesn't control the scoring, but there's such a weird way of scoring where Yuzuru shouldn't be so high above the people below him (or shouldn't be ahead of them), because one of his jumps was invalidated. A whole ass jump, just not counted. I think his score was really generous and he's in third because of it.
It was VERY generous compared to Shoma's. The judges weren't really feeling him today LMAO even Yuzuru, when he saw Shoma's scores come up, was like wtf why is it that low even if he fell? (He fell on his opening jump, it was UR but he still got points for a jump.) He barely made the final warm-up group and is in 6th place, but I feel like this is a common thing for Shoma now -- to have a bad short and need to make it up in the free. Anyway Shoma took it in stride because he's just like that, and it was nice to see him smile at the end despite the fall, because he hasn't really done that all season even when he's done good. There's definitely been a change between the rest of the season and Worlds, because he seems a lot more happy even though he's still really determined to do well.
Also thought Vincent was overscored, his UR's weren't called. I feel so bad for Mikhail. Most of that last group was a mess and I really hope the free skate isn't like that because last year the men's free skate was awful except for Nathan and that was hard to watch. So hopefully the short is the sacrifice we have to make for the free.
Jason Brown was RIGHTFULLY SCORED FOR ONCE HE DID SO WELL AND IS IN SECOND! Nathan did amazingly, and there's a bit of scoring discourse but you can't say he didn't deserve to be in the lead after that. Kevin Aymoz and Matteo Rizzo both were amazing and have both been kind of unexpected in their success this year. Yuzuru's step sequence was, as always, a Delight and that program in general is really amazing.
Back to the discourse, one of the things Yuzuru fans are nickpicking about on twitter aside from acting like everyone else was overscored was the stupid triple axels. For Japan, they have this thing called 'ice scope' which measures a jump's height, distance, and speed and they do it for every skater for their axel jump (unless they fall, in which case they pick another jump.) It's a cool feature but ofc it's causing discourse. Shoma got #1 axel of the night and people are mad that Yuzuru didn't and I'm annoyed because the judges didn't do Shoma any favors and that axel was FIRE. I love his axels and Yuzuru also has good axels and I think on any given day one could be "better" than the other but it's just so stupid. And they're doing all these number stuff and kind of putting down other skaters like Nathan because of his lead and PCs. (I'm glad they haven't done that to Jason but idk how anyone could be salty about Jason ever he's so good. Like not just a good skater, a good person.)
I'm also really sad for Junhwan, who is in 18th place. That's just...I can't deal. And also, the men I know are so scattered in placements that I might actually have to get up at 3am if I want to see all of them. WTF.
I hope everyone does well in the free. I think it would be nice to have a men's free like the one at Four Continents, where everyone skated clean or almost-clean in the last two groups.
