I honestly agree. It's kind of frustrating that Nana is always underscored. Her lutz is amazing and with so much coverage. It's also not just the PCS actually. The GOES of other skaters were scored so much higher even.
To be really honest, these overscoring of other skaters and underscoring of other skaters really have been starting at the Junior level. The biases in the judging starts at the Junior level and just continue to the Senior level. It's kind of sad. As an ice skating fan, I want everyone to do well but if other skaters are not judged correctly and there are biases, it's kind of frustrating. I'm sure it's frustrating for the skaters and their coaches as well.
That said on a positive note, Congrats to Rika for winning~
After analyzing well her free skate and the protocols all I can say is that Nana's free program was severely undercored so far, her 2lo wasn´t underrotated (it was close but not UR, actually looked equally rotated as the 2t), her fly sit spin should have been level 4, there is no reson for downgrated one level when she didn´t do anything different, and the thing that made the big difference was the GOE in her jumps, it was criminally low knowing the technique and transitions she has. Her PCS were also underscored, I gived her two more points because she feel more the program than in last competiton and because she didn´t loss points in TES unlike what the judges want to show to us. This is my score for the elements I noted they were undercored personally:
3lz-3t bv 10.10 judges GOE 1.52 my GOE 2.10: it actually looked better than the one from the short, better flow, better transitions and match with the music, I don´t know what judges were thinking
2a bv 3.30 judges GOE 0.90 my GOE 1.00: small difference but there is no reason for this jump not reach 1.00 points in GOE with difficult entry and exit with good flow, distance and match with the music as well
3s bv 4.30 judges GOE 0.92 my GOE 1.10: this jump was so soft and with great flow, so effortles.
FSSp3 bv 2.60: As I said before this should have been level 4, there is no reason to downgrate a level, FSSp4 bv 3.00 the GOE is the same here tho.
3lz-2t-2lo<x bv 9.42 judges GOE -1.01 FOR ME is 3lz-2t-2lo bv 9.79 MY GOE 0.80: As I said th 2lo wasn´t underrotated it was as rotated as her 2t that wasn´t called, both were landed more than 270 degrees of rotation, The exit was not that clean and for that close rotation I give her only 0.80 goe but still the technique, the distance, the height are incredible.
finally 3fx bv 5.83 judges GOE 1.14 my GOE 1.80: textbook flip, great height, flow, distance, speed in and out of the jump, no transitions tho but that is enought to receives great GOE
I don´t disagree with the other elements scored in the program but only with this her TES score should have been 69.82 and her PCS 59.03 (two points more than last competition due to better interpretation of the music, performance, and transitions.) resulting in a total score of 128.85, 6.10 points more than what she received. Now you don´t want to give her more PCS ok then her score still would have been 126 aprox. Of course this is just a personal analysis but I think many people will agree with this, Nana was underscored, in my opinion to prevent another skater from a dangerous country to fight for a medal if a russian junior lady fail to deliver, of course this would have not changed nothing due to Nana's sp but is not about the medals or places but about real scores and ISU's credibility, and this is just the fault of the judges and referees, the skaters have nothing to do with this. You don´t agree with my opinion its ok, I don´t try to ofend anyone I just show my opinion about this, everyone can express their opinion about what happened here. I'm not a conspiranoic person lol I don´t usually do this but this time I felt it necesary because it was so obvious that they play a dirty game to Nana :'(.
Considering some of the other scores in past JGPs I thought (was hoping) she was going to get 125+ at least, but oh well... she did wonderful nonetheless.
On one hand it must be nice for Marin and Taichi to have their little sister with them (presumably Sara is also moving to the US) but since she's so much younger than them, I wonder about her schooling and how she'll be able to adapt... well, good luck to everyone involved. I hope Marin can show better results this season and get to compete more :agree:
