2015 Worlds Men Short Program March 27

[Kittosuni]

Overscored: Hanyu, Kovtun, Ten

Underscored: Fernandez, Voronov, Mura

 

[ruffledgrouse]

Well, the highlights for me were the Italian and the Israeli from the first group. I could have just gone to bed after that instead of staying up until 8am. I'm going to bed now.

 

[jkun]

Bleh. I don't like the GOE scoring on hanyu's combo. 1 Judge gave him a +3 and another +2... ....

 

[gmyers]

Russian fed must reevaluate all support of kovtun! Bye!

Browns great position to keep maybe win

 

[karne]

And Brendan Kerry qualified! Aussie Aussie Aussie!

OI OI OI!

Can't watch but... How did kovtun get better PCS than josh?

Did he really? I didn't notice that. What a laugh.


Can we also please talk about:

Kovtun: 4S-3T, 1A, 1T

is somehow ahead of

Kerry: 4T, 3Lz-3T, 3A (step out)?

Granted, only by half a point, but still...


Holy guacamole I just realised Brendan's TES was higher than Josh's. That's a minefield of emotions I don't want to explore right now. :hopelessness:

 

[evangeline]

Well Takahito got 7.64 for his bomb of a skate, 8.25 for Maxim. Compare that to Takahiko's 7.82 hwell:

Pity points from the judges?

 

[HanDomi]

To be honest protocols on PCS looks very fair between Hanyu and Javi

 

[satine]

Scoresheets.

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

I wonder too. Not about your consumption but the scores.

Javier's skate was sloppy in some parts... his combo and axel were off-axis... his spins weren't that great.

Hanyu had a big error on the quad, but everything else was solid. That being said, he doesn't deserve more than 93-94, and arguably Javier should still be leading given his clean skate.

 

[babyskate]

Nam 9th and Brown in 6th! Very pleasant surprises, but obviously there was quite a bit of collateral (Farris/Mura/Kovtun) that got them there. IMO, Brown and Yan should be ahead of Ten.

I agree. Denis was over scored with two big errors and I just did not see the performance value of Sergei today

 

[s_parks]

It's going to be insane if Japan loses 3 spots in men's, of all disciplines.

 

[jkun]

Could you explain me why Yuzuru is over Javier????? Do I smoke I didn't have time for a coffee...Why Denis10 got over Han Yan (sorry, I haven't seen Han Yan's SP)...

Hanyu 2nd half loaded. Got higher GOE on his 3A. Better spins, better step seq. Not sure I agree with the score, but just explaining, in terms of numbers, why.

 

[Flaya]

Way overscored: Hanyu and Ten...

It reminds me of Patrick Chan being overscored time and time again.

But it was a fun event, a lot of unexpected stuff and I am glad I got to watch and discover all 30 of them.

 

[sabinfire]

Yuzuru Hanyu SP British Eurosport (will be 720p HD when YouTube finishes the processing, if not already)

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

Big ouch at Kovtun's TES score. I know he's the skater who we love to hate, but that's pretty rough. Lucky for him, all the guys bombed, so even he has a chance to pull up.

He should go for 3 quads, 2 axels in his FS... might as well.

 

[anonymoose_au]

Have you seen Torvill/Dean Bolero?

I have, it was actually the bit of skating that made me realise Ice Dancing could be absolutely epic, when I watched it on You Tube that is...they performed it the year I was born! It was genius how they got the program to go longer by not standing up until nearly a minute in...since it is a very long piece in its entirety. But I was thinking more in terms of single skaters and Boleros when I mentioned Plushy, plus you know the fan bias.

 

[adelia]

Terrible WC for Russia honestly. Only the ladies (specifically Liza and Lena) doing their best.

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

It's going to be insane if Japan loses 3 spots in men's, of all disciplines.

Almost as crazy as Russia losing 3 spots in ice dance!!! What is going on with these Worlds?!

 

[TontoK]

Wow, the way things are going, no country is going to have 3 spots for next year. FS will determine all!

I was thinking the same thing, but I don't know the rules for awarding spots when only one skater is in the event... like Spain and Kaz.

I suspect it wouldn't matter. I don't know if Spain and Kaz have three skaters with the TES to qualify.

 

[Bumdid]

Just caught up. Sergey beating Kovtun again. Bless the true Russian Champion.