JGP Ostrava Czech Skate 2014 Short Dance

Junior SD JGP Ostrava 2014

Starting order: http://www.isuresults.com/results/jgpcze2014/SEG007.HTM
Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huBKewZEvZQ

1 Betina POPOVA / Yuri VLASENKO RUS
2 Rebecca DAWN LUCAS / Temirlan YERZHANOV KAZ
3 Christina CARREIRA / Anthony PONOMARENKO USA
4 Merily KESKKÜLA / German FROLOV EST
5 Lorraine MCNAMARA / Quinn CARPENTER USA
6 Mackenzie BENT / Garrett MACKEEN CAN
7 Kristsina KAUNATSKAIA / Yan LUKOUSKI BLR
8 Tina GARABEDIAN / Alexandre LALIBERTE ARM
9 Inna GORBACHOVA/Ilia BOGOMOL UKR
10 Hanna JAKUCS/Daniel ILLES HUN
11 Ria SCHWENDINGER/Valentin WUNDERLICH GER
12 Christine SMITH/Simon EISENBAUER AUT
13 Sofia EVDOKIMOVA/Egor BAZIN RUS
14 Sammi WREN/Alexey SHCHEPTOV GBR
15 Mathilde HAROLD/Mael DEMOUGEOT FRA
16 Katerina KONICKOVA/Matej LANG CZE
17 Danielle WU/Spencer SOO CAN

I really liked the Russian and Canadian teams, as well as Carreira/Ponomarenko - so young!

McNamara's moves were much smoother than I remembered

Popova is excellent but I feel like Vlasenko is merely there because she needs a tall guy to skate with

ACK, I missed it!

I'm so excited to see Carreira/Ponomarenko!

Eek. The most anyone got on one of the sequences was a level 2, and most teams didn't even get that on either of them.

It really came down to levels. The top four teams received similar GOE. (Though Pomerenko/Carriera had lower PCS as well.)

Mrs. P said:

It really came down to levels. The top four teams received similar GOE. (Though Pomerenko/Carriera had lower PCS as well.)

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Yeah, that's what I noticed. That's why it'll be interesting to see the next competitions for some of these teams. Last season. Bent/MacKeen won their first event (Latvia) with a L4 on one sequence and a L3 on the other in the SD but were 7th in their second event (Slovakia) with lower levels, an L2 and L1 plus some elements in their FD that were called lower.