Next season, for GP events, you're going to have 4 Eteri girls and 6 GP events. Mathematically, they're going to clash during at least two GPs, or three Eteri girls at the one GP. That will be amusing.
As for this season's Worlds, I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sad about the men and the ladies. This is the ladies' thread so I'll stick to talking about the women.
Alina Zagitova, deserved to win by skating clean with those Lz-Lo combos and those transitions, probably not by this margin because her program is, still, far too frantic. Her posture has improved, but the hunching during crossovers is still a huge eyesore. I also don't see any musical interpretation and I can't understand her PCS at all; with Nathan Chen, for instance, his programs are a little bland, but I see more musicality than with Zagitova, because his choreo and step sequences really were magnificent. I reckon she was about 10 points overscored overall, to be honest, with GOEs and PCS taken into account. She deserves every mark she gets in transitions and in jump entry difficulty GOE. Everything else is questionable. (who the hell is giving her a 10 in performance!!??) However, I am majorly impressed at her comeback given her, frankly, disastrous performances at Nationals and Euros, and at how rejuvenated she appeared at Worlds. I must give Eteri's team credit for that.
Elizabet Tursynbaeva, major kudos for going after the 4S. I didn't feel much for the rest of her free skate tbh, and her skating still looks a little childish, especially that ending pose (please change it). She deserved to be on the podium, however, given the lack of major errors. She really surprised me this season, so I never got to pay too much attention to her, tbh.
Evgenia Medvedeva, I admire her resilience and how she managed to skate without falling. Her step sequence in the free skate was very well choreographed and executed, and I like the 3S-3Lo. Her jumping posture has improved slightly too, and her skating is generally much more mature than before. However, my praise stops there. Her flutz needed to be called, seriously, and her lack of connection to the music in the first half of the FS didn't warrant such insane PCS. I don't have any politically correct explanations for why her PCS is so high after one competition without a fall. Which brings me to...
Rika Kihira. This girl gave me so much stress, and so much disappointment, every time, bar GPF, she skated her short. I admire how she still plans the 3A each time in the short, but for heaven's sake, please ACTUALLY jump it!!!! A fall on a 3A would have won her a silver too, not just a clean 2A. I hope, with a new short, she'll overcome this fear of a SP 3A. I miss her Kung Pu Piano SP. Her free skate this season is to die for. The choreography is amazingly intricate, her overall jump quality is commendable, and her consistency with anything not facing forwards is impressive given she's almost always skating from behind. Unfortunately, the fall on the 3A makes higher PCS slightly harder to give, but I still thought her PCS was robbed. Did anything forget that Rika made mistakes only on an element that no one else even tries, and was perfectly clean on everything else? I'll be mad for a long time that she missed out on a bronze because of a lack of a blatant edge call, or that she missed out on a silver because she didn't jump the 3A in the short. There's always WTT and next season though. Bring it. Let's see that elusive 240.
Kaori Sakamoto. Initially, I didn't get the hype with this girl. When I saw her skate, however, I saw how amazingly smooth her skating is. She really does float on the ice and her motions are sooooo fluid. However, she always seems to mess up a jump that she knows how to do. You can see how frustrated she was at her 4CC performance by how many 2As she decided to train, which paid off; no 2A mistakes, or 2A-3T-2T mistakes (GPF makes me lol sometimes, no matter how unfortunate). However, that flip.......given her lack of extra technical difficulty, that was always going to bite her.
As for Lil Bet she's the perfect skater for Eteri in that it doesn't look like she ever went through puberty even though she's almost 20 so Eteri's dodgy technique works.
Oooh, that reminds me, are tickets on sale yet? I’m determined to attend, come hell, high water, or crappy Canadian weather. 
