I can't believe the amount of hate Fernandez gets for his scores. Yes he did mistakes, but he updated his technical content - he is freakingly going for two 4S, one 4T and two 3A in the LP. Besides Hanyu, no one comes even close to his content. This means, point-wise, he has cushion to make mistakes and his score would still be huge. A fall on a rotated 3A gives him more or less the points his former clean 3T did. This is COP. I can't argue PCS as this is a very subjective theme and to each his own, but his TES? Come on! Give the guy some credit. On a related note, his 4S in the LP were particularly fabulous! So easy and smooth!
With respect to his 4T GOE (while I don't agree), I remember someone explaining to me why V/T's two footed throws got in the post positive GOE also (height, entry, air position may give you +2 and +3 goe and if the landing is two footed, you deduct the GOE to 0 or +.1 I might be wrong on the explanation, but I am certain that +GOE on a jump with an error is not that uncommon and Fernandez wasn't first to get it).
I think that for the first time with his new content, Fernandez had a wonderful competition and I love to see how his confidence is slowly after winning worlds instead of plummeting like we have seen with other world champions (Liza ). He does not appear to be too spooked about Hanyu's rising and he is not about to go down without a fight!
With respect to his 4T GOE (while I don't agree), I remember someone explaining to me why V/T's two footed throws got in the post positive GOE also (height, entry, air position may give you +2 and +3 goe and if the landing is two footed, you deduct the GOE to 0 or +.1 I might be wrong on the explanation, but I am certain that +GOE on a jump with an error is not that uncommon and Fernandez wasn't first to get it).
I think that for the first time with his new content, Fernandez had a wonderful competition and I love to see how his confidence is slowly after winning worlds instead of plummeting like we have seen with other world champions (Liza ). He does not appear to be too spooked about Hanyu's rising and he is not about to go down without a fight!