I was at Metro Areena on Friday and Saturday and the highlights for me were the SP of Sota and Alena, good performances of top 4 pairs in the short program and the RD of Madison and Evan. I think the FD is even better, I watched that on tv ( Madison / Evan). It was nice to meet them after their skate, I got some nice photos of them. I was quite disappointed after the men's free, but at least one very big surprise there, Roman Galay of Finland, landing almost all jumps including 2 triple Axels. The award ceremony was quite fun, small Shoma in the middle of 2 'giants'. It was good to see Adam Rippon there at the arena, not skating of course. I'm happy for Jenni Saarinen's comeback, she seems to feel much better now after all the problems. I was really looking forward to seeing new programs of Viveca and Juulia / Matthias of Finland but they WD because of injuries.