2018 Europeans Free Dance

[LaArdilla]

Now a shower for Guillaume please! Poor guy is knackered!

 

[Viiktoruu]

Why? Slo-mo looked fine as far as I could see.

Maybe I'm wrong, I was watching it in a rather small window while Bukin and Stepanova were talking in another small window

Now I watched it again on youtube and the first part wasn't perfectly in sync. Sure they were some great twizzles but straight +3's accross the board... Idk.

 

[GGFan]

Fun competition and several performances I enjoyed. The Danish team was everything for me today!!! So glad to see them skate that clean and to have folks give them their props. Can't wait to see them at worlds. :hap57::hap93:

 

[Leppis]

I may be in the minority, but I don't think that was WR worthy. They were better in the GPF and there were few minor mistakes - the twizzels weren't perfect and I think Guillaume faltered a bit in one of the step sequences.

Maybe i'm just getting tired of WRs being rewarded constantly.

In any case, for me the most positive surprise in this competition was Stepanova and Bukin. I wish they were second.

 

[labgoat]

well said labgoat!

Thank you. The vocals for S/B made me think of Elena & Anton speaking of love carrots for the judges and being hit over the head with the idea that this couple is in love and that you must love them. I have an aversion to this kind of manipulation.

 

[Giselle]

Marie is not that amazed. She knows that there is no room for V/M...

There is room for V/M since P/C did not get a perfect score.

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[bramweld]

I hate the big number of crossovers in B/S program.

Zhulin does that with most of his top teams, depending on their strengths. Sara though because she has such nice knees tends to get more interesting choreography. Exhibit A their SD.

 

[LaArdilla]

Apart from those 3 Muse programs back to back I think it was a lovely competition! Lots of SBs and no tragic mistakes.

 

[Spirals for Miles]

Full disclaimer: I haven't watched anything yet, but did P/C really deserve the obscene amount of 10s? They had three categories where the AVERAGE was 10...
Did they really deserve a 203? Or was this Europeans scoring?

 

[Leppis]

There is room for V/M since P/C did not get a perfect score.

About Marie's reaction..rumor has it things are not so great between R.Haguenauer and M.F Dubreuil/P.Lauzon and Romain is looking to leave Gadbois for the USA next year and will take P/C and L/L at least with him...

Oh really....any specific reason for the possible rift?

 

[Anyasnake]

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Arf, rumors aren't a good idea :/

 

[Lester]

Apart from those 3 Muse programs back to back I think it was a lovely competition! Lots of SBs and no tragic mistakes.

The Muse composition is better for singles and pairs than for step sequences, idk why so many dance teams were drawn to it.

 

[labgoat]

About Marie's reaction..rumor has it things are not so great between R.Haguenauer and M.F Dubreuil/P.Lauzon and Romain is looking to leave Gadbois for the USA next year and will take P/C and L/L at least with him...

This is sad to hear.

 

[royce]

Full disclaimer: I haven't watched anything yet, but did P/C really deserve the obscene amount of 10s? They had three categories where the AVERAGE was 10...
Did they really deserve a 203? Or was this Europeans scoring?

They were overscored

 

[Giselle]

Did we really need to hear that version of Liebestraum again

 

[Alchamei]

Full disclaimer: I haven't watched anything yet, but did P/C really deserve the obscene amount of 10s? They had three categories where the AVERAGE was 10...
Did they really deserve a 203? Or was this Europeans scoring?

This wasn't really about Euro's judging, this is about the trend this season where judges give all their love to P/C, even though they are not perfect (impressive yes, but not perfect).

 

[Anyasnake]

http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1718/ec2018/ec2018_IceDance_FD_Scores.pdf protocols

10s everywhere !

 

[kevinVchicago]

Apart from those 3 Muse programs back to back I think it was a lovely competition! Lots of SBs and no tragic mistakes.

Except for Abachkina/Thauron [emoji22]

 

[labgoat]

They were overscored

Perhaps after so much skating to muse, miming and cheesy vocals, the judges reacted emotionally when given a fine wine.

 

[Viiktoruu]

Full disclaimer: I haven't watched anything yet, but did P/C really deserve the obscene amount of 10s? They had three categories where the AVERAGE was 10...
Did they really deserve a 203? Or was this Europeans scoring?

Not even close, they were way better at the GPF. I guess they just decided it's cool to give them perfect scores so they went with it.

Perhaps after so much skating to muse, miming and cheesy vocals, the judges reacted emotionally when given a fine wine.

EDIT: Also this. They really, really, really reacted emotionally