One week before the 2017 World Championships the ISU announces that the top pairs teams must switch partners and come up with new programs. They hold a draw ceremony and this is the result:
Meagan Duhamel/Maxim Trankov- skating to "Sexual Healing", they take the ice first. Planned quad sals and quad lutzes get turned into quints by Max, who realizes he's not throwing his wife anymore. Meagan, caught off guard, falls on both throws and crashes into the boards on the lutz. Upset, Meagan turns the planned SBS 3S into a 3Lz 3T then flips the bird at Max on the landing, who has just fallen on the sal. Meanwhile, Max "accidentally" drops Meagan on the death spiral and Meagan punches Max's crotch on her way down from a lift. Four judges give them 10.00 on performance/execution.
Ksenia Stolbova/Bruno Massot- skating, understandably, to "What A Girl Wants", they get a five point deduction for extended pause in their program after Stolbova successfully does a quad twist with Massot and breaks down by the boards due to extreme euphoria. The planned 3T is done well but Stolbova tacks on two more 3T's just because she can. The triple sal throw earns +3 GOEs from all judges except for one who gives it a +4. They plan a triple flip throw at the end but Massot trips and falls on the set-up. Fearing Stolbova he runs to the locker room. He subsequently announces his retirement.
Aliona Savchenko/Eric Radford- Aliona convinces Eric to let her wear a new red jumpsuit and skate to "Young At Heart". They skate a nice free program compared to the others, aside from a miss on the twist where Aliona forgets she's not being twisted by Bruno and rotates too slowly, resulting in a double. Aliona shocks the world and lands a throw quad sal and a throw triple axel on one foot. They receive high 9's in program component scores and they lead.
Wenjing Sui/Fedor Klimov- Overjoyed to be skating with a non-indimidating partner, Fedor embraces Sui. However, as they wait by the boards before their program Sui kicks Fedor in the shin and whispers aggressively in his ear: "One wrong foot and you're dead," in Russian. Fedor, quite literally trembling in fear, does the worst program of his life, stumbling and falling before both throws, popping both SBS jumps, and fracturing his buttocks during the death spiral. Stolbova watches from the stands and realizes angrily that Sui is scarier than she is. She mumbles something about sharpening her fangs in Russian and leaves the arena.
Tatiana Volosozhar/Cong Han- A few hours before the free program Han announces his withdrawal due to "unspecified injury". Tatiana is leaving the arena when she is stopped by Hao Zhang who was "conveniently" waiting for her. He kidnaps her and pulls her back into the arena. During their free skate to "Been Caught Stealing" by Jane's Addiction, Zhang turns both throws into quads, causing Tatiana to fall. Frustrated, Zhang walks off the ice. Maxim, still wearing his "Sexual Healing" costume, storms on the ice and helps a crying Tatiana through the rest of the program. Eight judges give the program 10.00 for performance, but one judge (presumably a member of the Chinese Fed) gives it a 4.00.
Aliona and Eric win worlds, and after the event, Eric decides to stay with Aliona after realizing how astronomical their skating skills mark is. Infuriated, Meagan searches for another partner. Kirsten Moore-Towers immediately offers up her partner Michael Marinaro but Meagan laughs and moves on. In an effort to land Dylan Moscovitch she tries to bribe the Canadian government to find a reason to deport Lubov Iliushechkina but her record is sparkling clean. A few months later it is announced Meagan has found a new partner: Robin Szolkowy. DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUN.
But they wouldn't have an exhibition program, because it's Shoma and he hadn't thought they could win 
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