Memorable Commentator Reactions

Chorus: TES 120!! [both die from laughing]
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Ambesi: Now the dilemma is the following: In front of such a program, you as a judge sitting at the rinkside, how can you NOT give a 10 to: Choreography, interpretation, skating skills - because the steps and the flow you can see here is a rare thing - Performance is a 10 by right and since the last component follows the other four, just give a 10 for everything and stop. Game over.
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Dolfini: I don't think, we'll get 100, but we won't be that far.
Ambesi: How many North American judges do we have? From the US? Let's check...
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Dolfini: Just one.
Ambesi: Eh, that one could give some problem.
Dolfini: But the lowest score gets dropped.
Ambesi: The lowest score gets dropped, that's true.

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BillNeal said:

Giving a shoutout to the tdp commentators. I didn't have to understand Spanish to realize how excited they were through the last minute and a half of Javier's FS at 2015WC in anticipation of having their country's first World Champion:

https://youtu.be/hz50O9z4Elk?t=235

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Henni147 said:

Sorry, but I couldn't withstand to share Max and Angelo in Barcelona, too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ7CCGnkojk&t=342s



Max and Angelo roasting US-judges

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yume said:

The shade that Max throw to other skaters though Poor Jason and Dice. Angelo shows more modération.

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Ambesi: Italian boys, who watch this competition and skate, need to understand a thing: you must learn how to jump first of all. If they tell you, you can win competitions with PCS, change your coaches! I'm taking full responsibility of what I'm saying.
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These skaters are both - great jumpers AND artists, but without quality on the jumping elements you can't go anywhere. Jin Boyang is weak on the basic skating skills, but he gets 5th in the GP Final with 263 points, because he knows how to jump. If you don't know how to jump, you can't compete to win. Jason Brown is the best example. Maybe he'll learn a quad, too, and he'll be at the same level with Hanyu, Fernandez, Uno, Chan, Jin, who wrote figure skating history today, because we've never seen a competition like this before.

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Harriet said:

I'm absurdly fond of the moment when one of the B.ESP guys mutters 'Keep it going, kid' almost under his breath to Laurine in the middle of her FS at Euros in 2017. It's not just OTT shouting that tells you when a commentator's invested in a performance!

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Henni147 said:

I do believe that both Max and Angelo respect Jason, especially for his great spins, sequences and artistic skills. Otherwise they wouldn't chose him as a paramount example of a skater "who needs to learn how to jump first":

Max might sound harsh here, but I think, Jason took his advice by word and moved to Orser for exactly the same reason.

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yume said:

Oh it's not that part that made me laugh. That was a good advice to all skaters, not harsh at all.
It's the part when they talk about the US judge. "They are those who criticize Hanyu. They, who have Jason Brown"

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