T. Even as it was I dont remember a cold reaction, and he didnt skate the Lp good as well, so I would say it was a normal reaction, I dont believe anyone would hate a good performance of the program.
Yes, Ryan skated both programs in Italy like a guy skating on a broken foot--in fact he was a guy skating on a broken foot. Neither his performance or the audience's reaction can be predicted from that Worlds performance. However, the TEB French audience was very cold, after Ryan landed his quad combination and did some clowning at the beginning of the program, and Ryan fell apart--he said this in an interview after TEB last year, more or less.
Have you people not seen Amadeus? Ryan is clearly playing the very over-the-top and nelly interpretation of Mozart from that film, which is widely considered a masterpiece.
Evidently not. Either that, or there are a lot of children of Salieri here
I'm wondering if Ryan may go with what he originally seems to have planned originally, to use his Willy Wonka exhibition, Oompah Loompah words and all. (I'm guessing that from an early leakage that his LP would be Willy Wonka, and Ryan saying in his interview that until his mother knocked some sense into him, he was going to play his LP for laughs, "skating to words" and doing illegal things (presumably the hat and the backflips as well as the quad toe). There was no time to finish both the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy SP and a new LP, but perhaps he may want to finish up doing Willy Wonka for an LP (filtering the words out, and without the hat and backflip and getting enough practice miles on it. Really, Ryan is at this point in 2 months-he could just do a 3T when he decided to go to Nats at all. Last year, he couldn't land a 2A that looked relatively OK. This year he landed 3 triple axels, one with a triple toe. His jumps are fine.
He should consult with somebody who knows whether his Amadeus program would go over well in Japan, if skated well, or whether they would not see the humor in it. If that's OK If he lands 4t3t, 4t, 3A, bonus area-->3A3t, 3Lp, 3S2t2T,3F cleanly, his tech marks will hold him in good stead at Worlds. But that depends on the audience liking him, so if Amadeus would not work with Japanese, he should rethink quickly.
Even with the 4T seq, his base score in the LP was 78.64 (more than Joubert's 1st place program at Euros). Replacing that with 4T3T adds 6.18 to that for 84.80. And he was skating that program in practice successfully. By contrast, Dornbush skating his planned program has a base score of 73.71 at best, Miner 73.17, Mahbanoozadeh 70.39.
Rippon? 67.96 Abbott? 61.00
And that's why Rippon and Abbott are not going to Worlds. Even with GOE of what they did pumped up as high as the judges could make it & their PCS suitably rewarded, and even with Ryan's PCS dinged appropriately, they still couldn't overcome the technical superiority of Ryan in the SP and LP, even given a very flawed skate by Ryan in the LP. Why?
Because 3A's and 4T's are rewarded more this year than last year.
And that's true at Worlds as well.
It's why KvdP finished like 4th at Europeans, a fellow with jumps, and only 69.21 in base value in the LP, finished 4th in the LP at Europeans overall
, we like Ryan!!! I couldnt find the video in youtube but I will have to disagree with Torino. Ryan as far as I remember had a bad sp and skated in the LP in the anticlimactic group, the first one that had a huge time gap from the rest of competition. Arena was half or even more empty when he skated. Italian crowd is rather warm and cheered different programs like Schultheiss´ also, I m sure a full arena would cheer loud for him. Even as it was I dont remember a cold reaction, and he didnt skate the Lp good as well, so I would say it was a normal reaction, I dont believe anyone would hate a good performance of the program.
(as high as 8.75)
