2021 Skate America: Women's Free Skate

[Joekaz]

yeah i'm not surprised with the result, but it still just doesn't seem right tbh

It was close, could have went either way. You could argue her PCS was underscored (as was Satoko's).

 

[withwings]

This was a great competition overall. 7 out of 12 girls scored 200+ and Kim Yelim just missed the cutoff. The last group especially were top-notch. Questionable programs, but still good overall skating. I think Shin was the only one who fell.

IMHO Audrey Shin has a great potential and is a beautiful skater. I love her intense and sublime skating style a lot. In my eyes she is potentially better than few other skaters who are ranked higher at this point of time ( though they are ranked higher very deservedly!).

 

[Lutzedge]

Yes, but without the quad she still had the most difficult tech out there. Two 3+3s in the latter half + a Lutz.

Taking a look at the judges scores and her technical content, it wasn't scored extremely high. I think it was more of a reaction I had seeing an 85 with only 1 quad.

 

[Lutzedge]

A note from today: There were edge calls!

 

[Baron Vladimir]

(To those who are complaining) they called Daria and Kaori lutzes, and Sasha and You flips as flat (even Russian and Korean judge were in a tech pannel). Very fine judging i would say

 

[Mauvedreamer]

IMHO Audrey Shin has a great potential and is a beautiful skater. I love her intense and sublime skating style a lot. In my eyes she is potentially better than few other skaters who are ranked higher at this point of time ( though they are ranked higher very deservedly!).

I love Audrey Shin, she has a beautiful quality to her skating.

 

[yuumagical]

Daria took my stuffed parrot, I'm so happy! Been a dream of mine to have a skater actually pick up one of my plushies from the ice, so glad it came true!!!

 

[Lutzedge]

I love Audrey Shin, she has a beautiful quality to her skating.

I hope she can be a better and more consistent jumper. She could score so well if she would. She is so lovely to watch!

 

[streams4dreams]

Amber Glenn the only skater without any calls today.

 

[Jontor]

Daria took my stuffed parrot, I'm so happy! Been a dream of mine to have a skater actually pick up one of my plushies from the ice, so glad it came true!!!

I must be in a weird mood because that sounded a bit like "kill the parrot and stuff it" to me. At least it wasn't 6 parrots like with the chicken lady.

 

[Mauvedreamer]

I hope she can be a better and more consistent jumper. She could score so well if she would. She is so lovely to watch!

Yes definitely. She is my favourite out of the US ladies to watch. I really hope she can get her jumps together. She has a magical quality to her skating.

 

[Mathman]

Daria's music will take some getting used to. We don't often hear a woman's voice on that tenor aria.

 

[Joekaz]

Great competition! I enjoyed Satoko and Kaori the most.

They were both great, despite Satoko's URs. I still don't understand how Satoko had 2 pts LESS than Kaori in PCS though. Judging was pretty good overall, but that's just stupid. Lol

 

[rollerblade]

(To those who are complaining) they called Daria and Kaori lutzes, and Sasha and You flips as flat (even Russian and Korean judge were in a tech pannel). Very fine judging i would say

That's just the Technical Panel doing their jobs. They have nothing to do with GOE (except mandatory reduction) and PCS.

 

[emmaleemochizuki]

I am so impressed how Sasha pulled that together, she deserved the win today. Practice looked rough but she pulled through. I actually really enjoyed her programme performance wise.

 

[eterialskating]

Without the quad lutz, she would have been still around 80. That is still a very high score.

What are you complaining about lots of women get 150+ without even landing a quad. She gets very good GOE's on her jumps as well as the best jumper in the ladies tour. So no I don't understand why anyone is trying to make scandal out of this.

 

[Baron Vladimir]

That's just the Technical Panel doing their jobs. They have nothing to do with GOE (except mandatory reduction) and PCS.

Nor it has our observation about it, because we were not in the arena to have the same impression as the judges about GOE and PCS

 

[SkatersWaltz]

Beautiful dress for a nocturne

It is a beautiful dress; however just to clarify that the moonlight sonata is technically a sonata and not a nocturne. I have a music degree so I feel like I can say this without sounding ridiculous. I hope you don't mind. Sonata follows a specific ABA pattern and is common with many instruments whereas a nocturne is a composition usually written in the romantic period (roughly 1820 to 1900 - like Chopin's nocturnes), which have characteristics that remind the listener of nighttime (light breeze, dreamlike, vulnerable). These are mainly written for piano.

 

[rollerblade]

I must be in a weird mood because that sounded a bit like "kill the parrot and stuff it" to me. At least it wasn't 6 parrots like with the chicken lady.

But Jontor.... 6 thighs = 3 chickens

Although each thigh could potentially come from different chickens, so you're right... it could be 6 birds!

 

[eterialskating]

Rightly so.

No one in these field is even close to her elegance and musicality. At her best she's better than Shcherbakova , Kostornaia and Valieva for me. Never mind Sasha or judges favorite God knows why Tuktamysheva. So comparing her to some run of the mill American competitor does not sit well with me.