2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy general discussion
- Thread starter AlexRus
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Alex, are you writing an article on this?
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This is the Ondrej Nepela thread. Not trying to sound mean.
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There's many time zones. Which one?
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4:30 am.
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Wow! Such a score from Maxim Kolyada I never heard of! Have to see it. Gordey is also at-a-boy, so close to Jason
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I'm beginning to realize that when Anna P falls, she FALLS.
By that I mean full-on, splayed-out-on-the-ice wipeouts, usually on her stomach and almost always into the boards. I just watched her SP and she fell on her stomach/side twice (hitting the boards on the way up once), which is worrying, because those falls are really hard to rebound from (don't I know it :disapp
. It was kind of similar to Worlds, and that is not good. 
Is she sick again? I seem to recall that was what happened at Worlds.
By that I mean full-on, splayed-out-on-the-ice wipeouts, usually on her stomach and almost always into the boards. I just watched her SP and she fell on her stomach/side twice (hitting the boards on the way up once), which is worrying, because those falls are really hard to rebound from (don't I know it :disapp
. It was kind of similar to Worlds, and that is not good. Is she sick again? I seem to recall that was what happened at Worlds.
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How long until dance?
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I'm beginning to realize that when Anna P falls, she FALLS.
By that I mean full-on, splayed-out-on-the-ice wipeouts, usually on her stomach and almost always into the boards. I just watched her SP and she fell on her stomach/side twice (hitting the boards on the way up once), which is worrying, because those falls are really hard to rebound from (don't I know it :disapp
I have though the same things. Some like Hanyu (as in his falls usually don't look as klutzy and are more graceful, don't disrupt the program as much and usually he bounced back up like a spring, so the full effect is less jarring and appears to be less painful - he appears to know how to recognize when he is going down so he can do so in as quick of a bounce back up way as possible) know how to fall... others just don't know how to fall well. It's a weird skill.
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Loved Jason's SP.
I was hoping to read the PBP, but the pages and pages of endless whining about the stream and live scoring made that difficult.
You guys remember the gushing we were doing about Doris and volunteers at the start of the thread?
Well, guess who's running this comp. Volunteers. Sometimes, things go wrong. It happens. And yes, I can assure you that ISUCalc LOVES to update at COMPLETELY inconvenient times and YES, I have sat on panels at a competition where ISUCalc so charmingly updated three days beforehand. It is NOT FUN for anyone, especially the technical panel. And it's not the fault of the competition organisers.
I was hoping to read the PBP, but the pages and pages of endless whining about the stream and live scoring made that difficult.
You guys remember the gushing we were doing about Doris and volunteers at the start of the thread?
Well, guess who's running this comp. Volunteers. Sometimes, things go wrong. It happens. And yes, I can assure you that ISUCalc LOVES to update at COMPLETELY inconvenient times and YES, I have sat on panels at a competition where ISUCalc so charmingly updated three days beforehand. It is NOT FUN for anyone, especially the technical panel. And it's not the fault of the competition organisers.
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No, it absolutely was not their fault. Sometimes technology has a mind of its own...:disapp:
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That's a PBP of the stream, isn't it?
In all fairness, it can be challenging to do live PBP when there's no sound, no picture, no scores, or the camera-man isn't following the skater, but you can hear him talking on his cell phone...
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True....As a judge I can tell you that it's absolutely horrible when computers fail at a competition. As a judge we speak into digital recorders and then write our scores on score sheet which are picked up by a "Runner" who takes them to the "Tabulator" after that, it's out of our hands. I always feel sorry for the event host as they usually get blamed for things they can't control. If the tabulator's computer goes down, it usually only effects the current "Division" of skaters. Men's SP for example. The Ladies Event would be on a separate file and the judges would receive new recorders for them as well.
Believe me. The Head Judge at this event is more than frustrated by any delay in the event schedule.
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Good question.
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The first post of this thread contains all the information you could ever want, and more.
