2024 European Championships Men's Free Skate

[elektra blue]

Eco-Maurizio

 

[CrazyKittenLady]

Anyway, come on Maurizio!!!

 

[Ichatdelune]

I haven't even heard of him when he was not representing Armenia

So many Russian-born skaters just pop up out of nowhere representing other countries, take the Vlasenko siblings who just popped up out of nowhere and started representing Hungary. I had never heard of them and I follow Russian figure skating

 

[icewhite]

I wouldn't say useless, that's not the right way to describe them. Weiss for example does know a lot about figure skating, but he's needlessly rude and heavily biased. Whenever I end up hearing his commentary, I find myself wanting to punch someone, and I'm not usually a violent person.

I know he was a skater himself, but when I listen to him I get the feeling it's someone who has watched two competitions in his life. I don't know why that is. Maybe he's trying so hard to give the audience what he thinks they want to hear that everything he knows gets eaten up. I don't listen to him anymore but I remember all his completely useless comments which are on the level of my commentary here about dresses he likes, music he likes - as pretty much the only comment about a program. How is that appropriate for a professional commentator? Not even talking about his extreme biases.

 

[CrazyKittenLady]

Axel Paulsen says to Maurizio "not today"

 

[Ichatdelune]

Eco-Maurizio

He did a program to Earth Song once IIRC, which was very much in character

 

[CrazyKittenLady]

Oh my, apparently I've just made my 10.000th post. I wanted to save that for a special thread. And now I can't even delete my posts anymore

 

[jgg220]

Did the ISU require these skaters to feature voiceovers of William Shatner reading The Wall Street Journal or did half of them just coincidentally choose to include them in their FPs?

 

[TT_Fin]

I have nominated Mauriziothis season to my personal category: best men's pants candidate. Not too boring, not too much. Made by good taste.

 

[icewhite]

And now a high quality comment from myself again: I hate grey skaters' pants.

 

[YuBluByMe]

What a terrible music cut. Come to think of it, Zandron was skating to something equally bad last season too.

 

[Anni234]

Gotta admire the bravery to choose this music

 

[icewhite]

I have nominated Mauriziothis season to my personal category: best men's pants candidate. Not too boring, not too much. Made by good taste.

Nooooo. Another one.

 

[Ichatdelune]

I have nominated Mauriziothis season to my personal category: best men's pants candidate. Not too boring, not too much. Made by good taste.

And now a high quality comment from myself again: I hate grey skaters' pants.

There are two types of figure skating fans:

 

[elektra blue]

Oh my, apparently I've just made my 10.000th post. I wanted to save that for a special thread. And now I can't even delete my posts anymore

but this is a special thread! congrats!

 

[Jeanie19]

Maurizio. Great shirt, great step sequence. Really good skate.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Eco-Maurizio

Well, he does like his recycling.

How many years did he recycle this programme for? And "Earth Song"?

CaroLiza_fan

 

[el henry]

Watching, not able to comment so much, but going to put in a word about the skate order:

I think the flights should be in reverse order (are they?) but not in complete reverse order.

Going last, absolute last, in a comp is not the skater's favorite thing to do. (From what I read). No matter how sturdy, wonderful, championship minded, etc etc, the skater, better not to wait so long after the warmup.

Reverse order does make it easier for me as a fan.

 

[Ares]

Just when I was thinking that Zandron was going to stumble his way through the rest of the program he started landing cleanly one jump another. I was watching and eating simultaneously. For real. Maurizio I think is my favourite skater in this 1st flight

 

[norwegianfairytale]

I also hate this random order. The order of SP is not just easier to organize because needing no drawings, but it is audience friendly. I was already confused to see Ivan skate first before I realized it is the random order.

They do draw the SP actually within a group, but only between 1-3 in and 4-6. So the best seeded will no matter be in the last half of the group.