Short Dance October 22nd, 2 am EST

[MissIzzy]

1 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE
USA
66.97 1
2 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE
CAN
58.69 2
3 Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV
RUS
56.89 3
4 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE
ITA
55.68 4
5 Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI
USA
53.68 5
6 Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK
CZE
45.20 6
7 Cathy REED / Chris REED
JPN
44.90 7
8 Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND
GBR
43.52 8
9 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG
CHN
43.50 9
10 Dora TUROCZI / Balazs MAJOR
HUN
32.68 10


Segment Result Details

Pl. Name Nation TSS
= TES
+ PCS
+ SS TR PE CC IT Ded.
- StN.
1 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA 66.97 32.28 34.69 8.64 8.50 8.75 8.64 8.79 0.00 #10
2 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 58.69 31.15 27.54 6.89 6.64 6.86 6.93 7.04 0.00 #8
3 Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV RUS 56.89 29.79 27.10 6.82 6.50 6.82 6.82 6.86 0.00 #5
4 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 55.68 27.57 28.11 7.07 6.75 7.11 7.04 7.11 0.00 #9
5 Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI USA 53.68 28.57 26.11 6.57 6.32 6.32 6.75 6.61 1.00 #7
6 Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK CZE 45.20 22.07 23.13 5.86 5.61 5.82 5.86 5.75 0.00 #6
7 Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN 44.90 21.86 23.04 5.79 5.46 5.75 5.93 5.82 0.00 #4
8 Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR 43.52 22.36 21.16 5.39 5.07 5.21 5.36 5.36 0.00 #3
9 Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN 43.50 22.85 20.65 5.21 4.82 5.21 5.21 5.29 0.00 #2
10 Dora TUROCZI / Balazs MAJOR HUN 32.68 15.81 16.87 4.46 4.18 4.21 4.32 3.96 0.00 #1

The Shibutanis had difficulty; he tripped, and part of her dress went dangling. If C&L had any such trouble, it must have been while my stream was frozen; I think it more likely one of their sequences was given a low level.

[dorispulaski]

Warmup has started. There is an I&K banner! There are also a lot of those NHK thingies that look like carnivorous cell phones.

There are Japanese, American, and Canadian judges.

Skaters were introduced as in an ice show.


Dora TUROCZI / Balazs MAJOR HUN (ISU World Ranking: Fifty Eigth)
Coach: Ilona Berecz
Choreographer: Galit Chait
Their program: Waltz: The Royal Waltz; Quickstep: Sing, Sing, Sing
Current Junior champions of Hungary
12th at last year's Junior World Championships

The same costumes as in practice
Very ruffly two tone blue skirt and huge big sequins on the bodice. Spaghetti straps and ultramarine gloves. He in white shirt and gray vest and pants.
They both seem to have colds, blowing their noses and coughing.

Rotational lift. Very slow speed into it.
GW. Her Shoot the duck is very low (good). His lunge didn't lunge (not so good) GW over.
He messed up the first twizzle and they got out of sync. Recovered on the 2nd twizzle
This Sing Sing Sing isn't singing. They are way too slow for this music.
TES 15.81
PCS 16.87
TOTAL 32.68



Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG CHN (ISU World Ranking: Thirty Sixth)
Coach: Hongyan Xi
Choreographer: Natalia Linichuk
Their program: Waltz: The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss

She's in a kind of matte peach with heavy silver and gray fake sash swirling around the top. He's pseudo something or other. Maybe a gaucho? There's an odd big buttoned cummerbund and a deep vee neck top -sort of Tyrolean beer server meets gaucho with a country music over embroidered yoke on the shirt.

A few Little toe steps to start. GW a little beter than last team. faster.
GW over
twizzles arms up 2nd and 3rd set. Not great synchro.
simple rotational lift into a tiny spin
The rest of this is not Strauss and music is heavy and abrupt tango. Slow footwork.

TES 22.85
PCS 20.65
TOTAL 43.50
Into first



Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR (ISU World Ranking: Thirtieth)
Coach: Evgeni Platov, Philip Askew
Choreographer: Philip Askew
Their program: Waltz: La Valse d'Amelie by Yann Tiersen; Tango: Tango de los Exilados by Vanessa Mae and Walter Taieb

He's in a bright red shirt with a striped tango suit over it with a large red fake flower on the chest.. She has a tango dress mostly wide fishnet looking on top. Rather too minimal for ballroom.

Amelie. Rotational lift. Nothing special.
Golden Waltz. Leglines don't match.
Pretty good edges.
Nice shoot the duck
Bumpy attitude turn
Little dance move into tango
It's still abrupt transition, though.
twizzles. He put his foot down between the 2 sets.
Straight line footwork quite far apart
Little hops in it. Got a bit close to the boards at the end. They seemed to be improvising. The moves into the final pose quite interesting and nice.
Final pose shown in practice photos.
In the KnC with Zhulin
TES 22.36
PCS 21.16
TOTAL 43.56
Into first place

Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN (ISU World Ranking: Twenty Ninth)
Coach: Nikolai Morozov, Walter Rizzo
Choreographer: Nikolai Morozov, Patti Wilcox
Their program: A Party For Me? (from Addams Family soundtrack) by Marc Shaiman; The Tango (from Addams Family soundtrack) by Marc Shaiman

She in an obvious Morticia outfit.with spidetly stuff on the illusion
He has an odd white spot on his shoulder on the back (a white hand (Thing), I think), striped pants. bowtie Also a moustache.

Kissing her arm a la Gomez
Kneeslide lift
Waltz
Shoot the duck good
Layback was good
I think this is better than previous couples
Crossing twizzles. This is not working and he stumbles (possible deduction)
straight line footwork going quite well.
Love the way it ends
Now final lift and flourish to pose.
Coach says Next time you'll do better
TES 21.86
PCS 23.04
Total 44.90


Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV RUS (ISU World Ranking: Twenty Seventh)
Coach: Alexander Zhulin, Oleg Volkov
Choreographer: Liudmila Vlasova
Their program: Waltz: Waltz from "Agony" (soundtrack) by Alfred Schnittke; Tango

Whether they were fit or not in the summer. They look great now. She's in kind of a black tango bikini with a black grass short hula skirt and a huge red flower. He's in a white shirt under black suit

Grating noise
Wrapping and upwrapping leg
Twizzles the one foot kind, a little wild,but good.
Good speed here
Into the GW to music that doesn't work for it
STD OK
Rather slow and careful in the 2nd segment
Flippy lift around his neck
into tango
screen froze RATS
Signed on again and they're done.
I'm sure it will go into first, but I can't stand the music.
There was a little stumble by Nikita in the straight line footwork from the replay (part when I was having a screen freeze.

TES 29.79
PCS 27.10
TOTAL 56.89

A nice debut for them, but I would rather never hear that music again.

[jcoates]

They did not have a fall. Anna may have lost a level on her twizzle b/c her foot appeared to come down early. Their edges in the golden waltz section did not appear to be terribly deep and they weren't as down in their knees throughout the dance as the teams ahead of them.

[dorispulaski]

Lucie MYSLIVECKOVA / Matej NOVAK CZE (ISU World Ranking: Twenth Third)
Coach: Natalia Karamysheva, Rostislav Sinicyn
Choreographer: M. Drobiazko, P. Vanagas, R. Sinicyn
Their program: Waltz: Battagliero; Quickstep: by Alexander's Rag Time Band remix as quickstep

Black and white spaghetti strap dress with in a huge print.
White With kind of a very short white bolero over it
Fancy earrings, necklace. He is a strange misbuttoned black vest over white shirt, black pants.
Her hair is very messy on purpose

Right into Turns with her leg around his waist
Second segment of GW first
wave to crowd
First segment GW very nice
Pose
Abrupt to quickstep
crossing footwork, which I like
Twizzles way out of synch
Rotational lift to end
Good quickstep feeling.
Should be second

TES 22.07
PCS 23.13
TOTAL 45.20
2nd place



Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI USA (ISU World Ranking: Fourteenth)
Coach: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva, J.Johns, A. Lenda
Choreographer: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Their program: Waltz: The Carousel Waltz by Richard Rodgers

She's in a a simple fuschia dress with a few silver

spangles and a slit. Black pants grey shirt

Twizzles 3 sets (OK)
footwork close together good synchro
very shpilband
waltz steps into GW
They fell in 1st segment (O NO)
Alex stepped on Maia's skirt.
Second segment
Very dramatic lift with a stand and drop
Rotational lift to end.
And a piece of her skit was caught in her skate (she removes it
at the end.

Hugs from Igor

TES 28.57
PCS 26.11
Total 53.68
-1 deduction
2nd place


Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN (ISU World Ranking: Eleventh)
Coach: S. Bourne, P. Camerlengo, A. Krylova
Choreographer: Shae-Lynn Bourne, Pasquale Camerlengo
Their program: Waltz: At Last by Etta James; Cheek to Cheek by Irving Berlin
Very elegant little Black dress on Kaitlyn with fake necklace
White tie outfit on Andrew. Very formal
she has black gloves

Sideways lift
GW
some scrappy stepping
Into quickstep
jump into twizzles hop at end, nice touch
straight line footwork quite good

Rotational lift to end.
Pleasant choreo, I thought

TES 31.15
PCS 27.54
TOTAL 58.69
Into first


Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA (ISU World Ranking: Eighth)
Coach: Muriel Zazoui, Romain Haguenauer
Choreographer: D. Ribas, M.F. Dubreuil, P. Lauzon
Their program: Waltz: Que Sera, Sera by Doris Day; Quickstep: Girls, Girls, Girls by Sailor
Same red spaghetti strap dress with wide silver "belt" as Nebelhorn
The stiff crinoline moves rather oddly.

GW starts on "Que sera sera"
I thought they did that well
footwork on que sera
Did Luca have a little stumble?
quickstep good interp
Twizzle a little rough
Sticklift with his hand between her thighs
and her standing up staight.
skippy ending pulling him by his tie

Very pleasant
They hug

TES 27.57
PCS 28.11
TOTAL 55.68
Into third

Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA (ISU World Ranking: First)
Coach: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Choreographer: Igor Shpilband, Marina Zueva
Their programs: Foxtrot: La Boheme by G. Puccini; Waltz: La Traviata by G. Verdi

Charlie very 19th century in his shirt
and a white ascot tie and black vest
Meryl in red long sleeved dress bare back
scoop neckline

great twizzles with a jump into them
One arm up first set, arms behind second set.
crossing footwork
waltzy
lunge start
very close on gw
Meryl low in std
very 19th century feel somehow
a little careful perhaps

Lovely rotational lift with variations
Joyous ending
Bravo! Standing ovation from some of the crowd

Charlie gives thumbs up to Igor

TES 32.28
PCS 34.69
Total 66.97

[colleen o'neill]

delirious to be seeing this. Thanks skatebuzz for coming through in the end !

I could weep for the shibs.Lovely program ..
Bravo W/P ! judges seemed to accept "At Last" for them..this time.

Adore D/W' program..Pretty tidy, eh?

I/K look just fine..

[MikiAndoFan#1]

Meryl and Charlie's SD.

[dorispulaski]

Wow! It is up already?

[dlgpffps]

So many tangos. Why the sudden tango fad?

[dorispulaski]

The tango was one of the choices allowed for the SD to combine with the Golden Waltz. IMO, it was a bad choice. The two rhythms don't transition well into each other, IMO.

You could do all waltz, or waltz plus your choice of foxtrot, quickstep, or tango. In the folk OD last year, tango was specifically prohibited. Perhaps the coaches had a bunch of tango programs saved up

[Shaba22]

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/fsbj4#gr...1E5EC810FE39B9

[dorispulaski]

What? No I&K video! I hoped one would exist, since I missed half their program due to a screen freeze.

[Morning Glory]

I'm not sure this site will work for the outside of Japan, but NHK has uploaded the clips of SD.

http://www9.nhk.or.jp/figure2/list.html?e=4

Clik the play button.

[Lucky Star]

What? No I&K video! I hoped one would exist, since I missed half their program due to a screen freeze.

I/K short dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnwaVYyUFoQ

[ImaginaryPogue]

Worth noting that D/W scored that with a level one somewhere. Weaver/Poje had all threes and fours. I/K had one level two as did the Shibs. Cappellini/Lanotte had two level twos.

[mystichaze]

Oh no! those videos are slowly getting blocked!