Ladies SP Saturday Nov 14th 7:00 p.m. EST:

[thumbyskates]

some of her 3T does look kinda UR, but they never got downgraded. Maybe the judges are a little bit easy on her?? Maybe they should show closer closeup of the jump landing.

The judges are not judging the rotation. It is the tech specialists and tech panel's job to do that. If it does not look under rotated on live time, they can not go back to review it after the fact and change their mind.

[prettykeys]

Should I bring this up? The 3T looked kinda UR on the slo-mo for my untrained eye

It was within 1/4 of the rotation underrotated, so I think it was "acceptably" underrotated

I thought YuNa was better here than at TEB!

[leruiz]

3Lz-3T looked safe from the replay.
Anyway, does anyone know if NBC is going to broadcast this?

No they are not going to broadcast the SP but they will broadcast the LP tomorrow @ 2-4

[R.D.]

3Lz-3T looked safe from the replay.
Anyway, does anyone know if NBC is going to broadcast this?

It's possible they might, but it's not advertised.

[beep_beep]

However, I'm curious as to why Rachael is 2nd over Julia's clean program. A fall on her combo and a flutz?

Beats me. I'm curious too.

[jan]

I think it depends on the camera angle.... Anyway, I hate she pretentious behavior everytime the new WR comes up... Stop doing that...

Actually I made this original comment about URbefore the scores came up. Are you referring to Kim's pretentious behaviour or mine? I am confused.

[prettykeys]

However, I'm curious as to why Rachael is 2nd over Julia's clean program. A fall on her combo and a flutz?

Ahh...I don't know. I would have put Julia in 2nd, over Rachael.

[DarkestMoon]

The judges are not judging the rotation. It is the tech specialists and tech panel's job to do that. If it does not look under rotated on live time, they can not go back to review it after the fact and change their mind.

No they are judging rotation. Judges are the ones who decided, GOE wise whether the jump is UR or not. They make the choice individually and mark according to what they think is right. Before, the caller would decide and the judges would ALL HAVE to mark accordingly to what the tech called. Judges now don't see the UR mark until protocols are out.

[thumbyskates]

The judges are not judging the rotation. It is the tech specialists and tech panel's job to do that. If it does not look under rotated on live time, they can not go back to review it after the fact and change their mind.

And as a side note, judges are not informed if the jump was downgraded or not. When they give their score, they don't know if the jump was downgraded. The are judging the rotational ability, height, entry, exit, etc. The downgrade is up to the panel.

[janetfan]

I don't have the feed at all. Did someone say that YuNa is skating to "Classical Gas"? What a great choice for a short program! (Or is she just warming up to it? Even that would be cool. It's such a tremendous piece.)

No, they were playing it after Rachael finished and Yuna was warming up.

Better than some of the pop fluffs they were playing before.

For me, speaking of the scores - Yuna seems better than her margin over Rachael and Julia. It was no contest, Yuna should be skating against the guys

[R.D.]

She is clearly the best of the night but for real, she does not need a whooping 76.28 to win. It's ridiculous. They're all doing the same elements, with the exception of the 3-3.

Just FedEx her the gold already...let everyone else battle it out for the remaining spots.

[SerpentineSteps]

Actually I made this original comment about URbefore the scores came up. Are you referring to Kim's pretentious behaviour or mine? I am confused.

(S)he's calling anyone who disagrees with the judging pretentious (yes, even those that think that Yu-Na should have won by a mile but not by a WR)

[DarkestMoon]

Ahh...I don't know. I would have put Julia in 2nd, over Rachael.

So would I. Julia is the second cleanest skater after Yuna, followed by Fumie.

[magicalwords]

No they are not going to broadcast the SP but they will broadcast the LP tomorrow @ 2-4

It's possible they might, but it's not advertised.

Thanks!
Hopefully they show some SP's as well..

[Enthusiast]

Granny will be going on 2nd.

LOL! That's what I call Flatt too!