I thought it was great. Being a Barbie girl you're not exactly flying around the ice so the energy or lack thereof could be misleading from Anastasia. What did you think of KVs Wednesday? I was shocked and didn't really like it at 1st then she won the over with it and it's getting an insane amount of views on YouTube.
That's not completely fair because the International skating Union judges are killing ISU skaters scores this year. The Russian federation not so much. Nastia should have been in the seventies and they've never put her above 70 in the SP and seems likely never will and they've never put her above 140 in the LP even when she deserved it like at olympics.How the Russian skaters would have fared today. Scores taken from the Russian Nationals.
Edit. I should have excluded Akatieva because she is not age eligible.
While you make some fair points they don't have good reason to do this because they're killing their own product. Fewer people are interested fewer and people are in the stands.I think they have good reasons to do this. The scores were totally inflated and getting higher and higher in general. Of course for some more, for some less, but the trend overall was going towards better and better scores, and that's just not how a scoring system with an upper limit can work. Of course people are excited because of all the "records" and amazing numbers, but it is not sustainable. After a while everyone has 9s and almost 10s without deserving it, everyone gets crazy GOES on their jumps - it doesn't mean anything anymore, and when skaters actually execute elements perfectly or have divine skating skills the system doesn't allow them to be scored that much better anymore. It becomes a difference of e.g. 9.25 to 9.45 instead of 6 to 9. So it doesn't give any incentive anymore to really execute your program well.
Of course now people who want to see it that way or who know nothing at all will think the quality is not so good, but well, I'd say let them talk, let them see it that way. To continue with a scoring that can't work in the longer run destroys more.
I agree it doesn't suit her. Marchei-Hotarek Barbie girl was much better.
It's definitely a couple of things the level of the ladies is down this season. No Russians to push them and motivate them to be better is part of it and part of it is just after an unbelievably grueling Olympic season filled with coronavirus and the threat of getting coronavirus and having your Olympic season ruined. Stress was off the charts even before the Kamila controversy. But I am disappointed to see the scores so low for the ISU ladies. While the level is lower than last season I did not expect to see ladies winning events under 200 points. Not a good look for the sport
Yeah, thankfully we have junior RusNats in a few days to look forward to.. although without Alisik..
Hopefully the competition will be very good it's important that these kids continue to develop. They just don't get the competitions like they used to.Yeah, thankfully we have junior RusNats in a few days to look forward to.. although without Alisik..
They will. But I'm not sure there will be a stream without geoblock. Either way, there will be a record somewhere. I've made a separated thread for the shows. https://www.goldenskate.com/forum/threads/russian-ice-shows.94714/#post-3081681
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which one?
Usacheva, she was originally on the list?which one?
I don't know about that. Well it starts soon but the stream is lagging, unfortunately..
