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Qualifiers at Future Worlds
One interesting thing I noticed at worlds: Both Plush and Klimkin used 2 different programs for the qualifier and the LP.
Plush used Carmen for his Qualifier and of course St Petersburg 300 for the LP. Klimkin used Sonny Boy (which I really like) for the qualifier and Dr. Diesel (which I really hate) for the LP because the music is so painful.
No other skaters, men or ladies, as far as I know, used 2 programs. Why would Plush and Klimkin do that? Practice for the GPF format? Or is the ISU heading down this path and they know it first before we do.
Question1: Would using two different programs be a good idea? I think it would be too hard on the skaters, particularly skaters just coming up from juniors who would not have a used program to recycle as the second program. But it would make tickets for the qualifier much more saleable.
Question2: The A and B groupings in ladies were very, very unequal in ability, which was a real detriment to the ladies in Group A. I think that the qualifiers should only be used for their original purpose: to set the skate order for the SP and to eliminate skaters from skating the SP at all. No ordinals should be carried over from the qualifier because of the inherent inequality and impossibility of getting 2 exactly equal groupings. In this years Worlds, this more than Sasha's SP fall, was what kept her from getting the bronze medal. Even though Fumie was in 3rd and Sasha in 4th tied with Vika going into the long, and Sasha was 3rd in the long vs. 4th for Fumie, Sasha's 3rd in the qualifier vs. Fumie's first was the difference.
What does anyone else think about the qualifiers and these two questions?
dpp
One interesting thing I noticed at worlds: Both Plush and Klimkin used 2 different programs for the qualifier and the LP.
Plush used Carmen for his Qualifier and of course St Petersburg 300 for the LP. Klimkin used Sonny Boy (which I really like) for the qualifier and Dr. Diesel (which I really hate) for the LP because the music is so painful.
No other skaters, men or ladies, as far as I know, used 2 programs. Why would Plush and Klimkin do that? Practice for the GPF format? Or is the ISU heading down this path and they know it first before we do.
Question1: Would using two different programs be a good idea? I think it would be too hard on the skaters, particularly skaters just coming up from juniors who would not have a used program to recycle as the second program. But it would make tickets for the qualifier much more saleable.
Question2: The A and B groupings in ladies were very, very unequal in ability, which was a real detriment to the ladies in Group A. I think that the qualifiers should only be used for their original purpose: to set the skate order for the SP and to eliminate skaters from skating the SP at all. No ordinals should be carried over from the qualifier because of the inherent inequality and impossibility of getting 2 exactly equal groupings. In this years Worlds, this more than Sasha's SP fall, was what kept her from getting the bronze medal. Even though Fumie was in 3rd and Sasha in 4th tied with Vika going into the long, and Sasha was 3rd in the long vs. 4th for Fumie, Sasha's 3rd in the qualifier vs. Fumie's first was the difference.
What does anyone else think about the qualifiers and these two questions?
dpp