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FD 12:15 Eastern Time, Sunday, Nov. 22

dorispulaski

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Andrea CHONG / Guillame GFELLER CAN
FD La Boheme by Charles Aznavour and Jacques Plante

Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN
FD Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler - arrangement by Ryner Stoetzer

Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN
FD Phantasia by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA
FD Kika by Ezekiel; Requiem for a Dream (soundtrack) by Clint Mansell

Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN GER
FD This Business of Love ; Hey Pachuco; You Would Be My Baby; Cuban Pete (all from The Mask soundtrack)

Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA
FD Gli Emigranti by Nino Rota
Withdrew due to health problems

Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS
FD Adagio by Tomaso Albinoni

Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA
FD American Woman by various composers; Can't get you off my mind by Lenny Kravitz; Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz

Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES USA
FD Canto Della Terra performed by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli

Here are the scores and placings these teams received in their earlier GP assignments:

97.39 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR (First place TEB)
89.96 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI (Second place CoC)
89.77 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT (Second place TEB)
80.78 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV (Fourth place NHK)
80.41 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES (Fifth place TEB)
80.36 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE (Fourth place CoC, just ahead of Zaretskis)
73.04 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL (Sixth place TEB)
66.51 Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN (Ninth place CoR)
____ Andrea CHONG / Guillame GFELLER (No data from this season)
 
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^^^
I like the variety of music by all contestants.

I would like to see Weaver and Poje get better scores.

Mahler's music is so deep but only V/M could handle that.

Hubble and Hubble have not yet reached the inner sanctum of the judges.

Not fond of Samuelson and Bates.

Pechalat/Bourzat are a bit over the top for my taste.

Frederica/Massimo long time fave of mine.

It seems to be an EZ ride for V/M, so who will be silver and bronze?
 

dorispulaski

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Whither the Silver

It's a good question. My guess is, P&B, because their program has had far more room to improve, and far more time (as TEB was the first GP event) for the improvements to be made than F&S's, who skated their programs about as well as they could be skated at CoC.

Also, if P&B place second, Kerrs go to the GPF, which would make me happy! :) so I am not totally objective.

I hope P&B will have gone back to something closer to the French Master's version of their FD program--the choreo made more sense than the TEB version, plus more Requiem for a Dream happens by chance to be an overused piece of music this season, so adding it was destructive to their program.

I've never been a fan of F&S, mostly because they seem to me to be primarily a team that has truly mastered repackaging. If you do something very close to the same thing for several seasons (as far as the elements go), it ought to look very smooth (which they do, other than the OTT facial stuff, which I dislike).

This repackaging is particularly evident in the OD where they are doing something very close to their 2007/2008 OD, another relatively obscure regional tarantella (Salerno pizzica). And neither OD (this one or the 2007 one) has any of the stomp out the spiders clogging that a true tarantella has.

Here's the Neapolitan version of the tarantella that they are supposed to be portraying. And indeed, you can see that F&S have great authentick costuming and music--and they are not doing the tarantella. This is F&S all over, to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMP8zFjCYn4movement
 
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dorispulaski

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Order of skate now up

StN. Name Nation Rank Points

Warm-Up Group 1

1 Andrea CHONG / Guillaume GFELLER CAN 8 64.66
2 Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN GER 7 68.07
3 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA 6 71.63
4 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 5 76.01

Warm-Up Group 2

5 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES USA 4 82.96
6 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 3 83.36
7 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 2 91.60
8 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 1 101.26
 

dorispulaski

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Hermanns

I just tuned in and saw the Hermanns-I love their pair spin, both the interesting positions and the way they get into it. Now if only Hey Pachuco wasn't one of the cuts they were using, and if they had a little speed! Twizzles were fine, BTW.

Score: 73.54 Season's best Total 141.61
 
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dorispulaski

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Hubbells

Madison in a blue bra and panties, Kieffer in white shirt, black pants.
American Woman+Lenny Kravitz
I've wantd someone to dance to Fly Away for a long time-but I sure wouldn't have used it for the twizzles and the pair spin. That tune calls for a lift!

Kieffer trips on the first twizzle set. The lift where they're both stretched out flat, he got stuck, and they came out kind of awkwardly.

Score 70.00 Total 141.63
Into first.

Hermanns wuzrobbed.
 

dorispulaski

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Bobrova Soloviev

FD Adagio by Tomaso Albinoni
They're in black and silver. Costumes look great while posing, in motion, not so much.

She has awkward black tights with a flair over the boot. For beautiful long leggedly people, that was rather awkward.

The raggy skirt did nothing to help their look either.

Twizzles way out of sequence.

She has very angsty facial expressions.

Noncounting lift very awkward at the end.

Score 75.67 Seasons best
Total 161.68 into first
 

life684

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FD Adagio by Tomaso Albinoni
They're in black and silver. Costumes look great while posing, in motion, not so much.

She has awkward black tights with a flair over the boot. For beautiful long leggedly people, that was rather awkward.

The raggy skirt did nothing to help their look either.

Twizzles way out of sequence.

She has very angsty facial expressions.

Noncounting lift very awkward at the end.

Score 75.67 Seasons best
Total 161.68 into first

Score is 85.67 not 75.67, a PB free skate score. Overall Hubbells beat Hermanns by 2 hundredth of a point
 
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beep_beep

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S/B have to leave Tchesnitchenko/Netchaeva. ASAP. At least for choreography.
They are a very good team and deserve better.
 

ImaginaryPogue

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Samuelson/Bates: I love their curve lift and the non-counting lift, as well as that little hop in their second step sequence. He's wearing less purple this time. Couple stumbles, but nothing major.

Skate Canada really does look cheap stinting on chairs in the KnC, though.
 

Buttercup

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S/B have to leave Tchesnitchenko/Netchaeva. ASAP. At least for choreography.
They are a very good team and deserve better.
ITA. All that talent going to waste with generic FDs. Also, the music... :eek: if I had to skate to that crap every day in practice, I think I'd make like Van Gogh.
 

beep_beep

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Weaver/Poje 's POTO is way better than D/W. That was beautiful. Ok, now I'll run for hills.

82.28, very good. had he not stumble on the footwork it might be even better.
 

i love to skate

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W/P were great! Aren't they much too old to have a stuffed animal mascot though? :scratch: They had one in the short program too. Very happy they will finish third though!
 

dorispulaski

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Weaver and Poje

This is a lovely program, and they skate it in a lovely unhurried style.

She is Christine in white.
He has a vest (black) that looks like a tux coat with the sleeves cut off. White shirt.

I love the gold insets in his vest/coat that show occasionally. Drama...

The lift with her parallel to the ice

Audience is totally loving this standing o

Score 82.
total 165

They get the bronze!!
 
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