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What are your 5 favorites programs of the season so far?

1. Ilia Free Skate
2. FB/C Free Dance
3. Z/K Rhythm Dance
4. Amber Free Skate
5. Mone Chiba Short Program
6. R/A Rhythm Dance


Couldn't limit it to 5!
 
In no particular order.

Torgashev FS (USNAT)
Liu SP
Aymoz SP (Gaga Ver. SKAM)
Siao Him Fa FS (GPDF) SP (Finlandia)
Rizzo SP (Euros) FS (Euros)
A. Selevko SP (Euros)

That's 8. Sue me. :biggrin:
 
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Tomono - SP - That's It (I'm Crazy) (I still don't get how this got only 42 points in PCS during 4CC :palmf:)
Chiba - SP - Last Dance
Fournier-Beaudry/Cizeron - FD - The Whale
Nagaoka/Moriguchi - SP - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Kagiyama - FS - Turandot

I know some of those are used second season in a row but I'm glad they are. Also just realized 4/5 is sakted by Japanese skaters. 😀
 
Isabeau Levito's SP
Yuna Aoki SP Skate Canada or 4CC
Yuna Aoki FP 4CC
Sofia Samodelkina SP NHK Trophy
Z/K FD or O/P FD

Normally, ID has my favorite programs, but the decades theme is such a struggle and then limits what teams are willing to do for the FD.
 
I know some of those are used second season in a row but I'm glad they are. Also just realized 4/5 is sakted by Japanese skaters. 😀
Some people mind reusing programs during Olympic year, but I like it. It make Olympic years kind of like those Best of the ... CD compilations. Many of the programs still have room to grow after a year--non competitive artists perform the same classic for years on end. And it makes sense to me. For a possibly once in a lifetime or at least once every 4 years opportunity to make an impression on non-figure skating fans, bring out the best of what they've learned over the last quad.
 
Now that the Olympics have begun...

Men: Kao Miura's SP

Pairs: Sui/Han's SP

Women: Alysa Liu's SP

ID: ... nothing. I wish I'd ignored this discipline throughout this quadrennial.

And it stands out to me that I really didn't like any long program at all this season...
 
I can’t really break it down to 5!

Lara Naki Gutmann SP/FP
Andrew Torgashev SP/FP
Hase Volosin SP/FP
Maci/Contii SP/FP
Sasha Selevko SP
Kazuki Tamono SP
Matteo Rizzo FP
Fournier-Beaudry/Cizeron FD
Guignard/Fabbri FD
Zingas/Kolesnik RD
 
1 Yuma's short and free programs - jazz and Turandot!
2 Piper and Paul's free dance - Vincent the exhibition skate that became a free dance
3 Alysa's short program - Laufey contemplation
4 Tomas Guarino's Minions program - so unique and fun
5 Max Naumov's short program - cannot go wrong with a Chopin Nocturne
6 Donovan Carrillo - Elvis
 
Very slim pickings...


Kao Miura: SP

Sui/Han: SP
Alysa Liu: SP
Lol. And unsurprisingly another person who thinks no long program was worth watching.

But I will say, she was never a contender for anything, but Beverly Zhu's performances at Chinese Nationals were worth a watch. Some of the more expressive performances this year.
 
Lol. And unsurprisingly another person who thinks no long program was worth watching.
There are a small handful worth watching but none that inspire me to the degree a really great program should. If I have to pick the best LP per discipline of the season:

Women: Mone Chiba
Men: sigh. what a wasteland. maybe Roman Sadovsky, but if we are talking about programs that start with Clair de Lune and then transition into a modern song, Stephen Carriere did it better - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oCsL_iiD20 (ugh, that Tara and Johnny commentary)
Pairs: Sui/Han
Dance: Beaudry/Cizeron
 
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