2017 Four Continents Men SP

[frida80]

I think maybe because now that 4CC has actually begun people have migrated to actual competition threads.

Plus no one reported on the practice that happened yesterday while pairs were competing.

 

[Mathman]

...Hopefully [Karen will]] skate better in the LP because if she doesn't even stay in the top 10, I'd have a hard time sending her to Worlds. If we're going to keep 3 spots for the next Olympics, we need to hold on that 3rd spot this year to increase our chances.

I think that this is the year that placement at worlds will determine the number of spots for the Olympics, right? Also, the Worlds team is set. It's do or die with Karen, Ashley and Mariah, regardless of how Four Continents comes out. The spot you save may be your own

That said, Go Mirai! :yes:

 

[gsyzf]

I wonder if Nathan being in the second to last group will affect his scores. Mai seemed to come out ok in ladies so I hope not.

I think skating early probably will affect his score a bit.

I think Chan, Chen and Hanyu will probably do ok in this competition. Chan did well in past 4cc, so I assume the same pattern will continue. Hanyu did ok in his past 4cc, so I think he will follow the same pattern. I think Chen will do ok, maybe not flawless, but at least ok. I don't think his form will drop that significantly right after national and pressure at 4cc shouldn't be that big since 4CC isn't a very important/prestigious competition.

Random comment just to increase page counts.

 

[teeannroo]

topic:

@Mango

I did full time courses at Loughborough, NUS and Columbia. My friend's son is currently doing online course from Waseda and my cousin is currently at University of Tokyo full time. I have another friend doing MBA online from Warwick.

There're still online discussions, studying, course works to be submitted and exams associated with an online degree. Time for these in which Yuzu needs to manage with his time for training, sponsors obligation, interviews, commercial shooting, competitions etc.

It is ok if you think that only North American universities are prestigious and only those attending them are impressive. And those attending Asian universities or its online courses are not impressive.

topic: but omg I live in Loughborough and my dad works as a professor at the uni :0

 

[Mango]

Misha skating after Yuzuru, Shoma, and Patrick...there's going to be a lot of excitement in the air.

Even just the combo of Yuzuru, Shoma, and Patrick is pretty intense.

The US men are also all bunched up like the ice dancers were.

It's good we have Boyang's fun SP to end the night.

 

[deedee1]

:reye: Whaaaaat's going on here???? 'oh no I must have missed Mens SP!!!' I thought, then realized it wasn't Friday yet.. :con2:

Good luck to all boys tomorrow!

 

[4everchan]

just woke up.. passed out after ladies disaster... I won't be able tp watch this live i am pretty sure... sigh... good luck ll! fans and skaters alike.

 

[m0001]

good for max... but do you wonder where he would be without being in school? jeff was a world champion and olympic medalist.

I think Mango's point is that education in North America is crazy hard and many skaters, like Patrick, don't even have their undergrad. Radford quit in 2nd year and was doing a very time demanding (believe me on this) and difficult music degree... he plans to return to his studies after 2018... he will be over 30 entering 3rd year...

It's quite a sacrifice for skaters who aspire to become WC.

Just to contribute another post to this long thread, Joannie Rochette is studying medicine at McGill, the toughest subject to take. Good luck, Joannie!

 

[HanDomi]

just woke up.. passed out after ladies disaster... I won't be able tp watch this live i am pretty sure... sigh... good luck ll! fans and skaters alike.

This mens event can become the best mens event in history, but even easier this can turn out to be the biggest splatfest this world has ever seen

 

[snowflake]

I predict the actual competition will take only about 5 pages (since most will be asleep), but then at least 15 more will be for heated debate over protocols and people being over/underscored.

(useless post to help the page count)

No, no, I’ve seen people post in the middle of their nights or from work, from school, from parties, from buses, from cars, from hospitals, when tending the dog, when feeding the child, when excersing etc at much smaller competitions than this

We need Pre-, During- and Post Four Continents Men SP threads

Well if Hanyu and Chen go clean in both programs, Chan will be skating for bronze. And even then Uno has a 2-quad advantage to close the PCS gap.

Although you never know, he surprised everyone with his FS at 4CC last year over a clean Jin and had an upset win over Hanyu at Skate Canada. He's also showed a strong FS at Nationals so hopefully that builds confidence.

I just love how this is literally a mini-Worlds save for Fernandez (no shade to the Russians/other Euro guys). I haven't counted up the total quad attempts but I'm guessing this one competition might have more quad attempts than almost the past two Worlds combined.

Here the Europeans Men Short Program quad attempts:

Fernandez 2
Kovtun 2
Bychenko 1
Kolyada 1
Majorov 1
Samarin 1 - fall
Kvitelashvili 1
Besseghier 2 - one stepout
Fentz 1 - fall
Righini 1 - fall
Reznichenko 1 - fall
Samohin 2 - two popped

14 tries - 6 falls/pops = 8 successful = 57.14 %


topic:
Skimmed through the posts on who is the best figure skating student Don't like making it to another competition. How atletes study beside competing is individual depending on resources... money, motivations and means... etc

 

[4everchan]

This mens event can become the best mens event in history, but even easier this can turn out to be the biggest splatfest this world has ever seen

i know... sigh... i may be tempted to arrange a nap and make it work... but it's at a very bad hour for me with activities the next morning for which i need my brain

 

[sunnystars]

the competition started already?!?!?

 

[xeyra]

the competition started already?!?!?

Yes, it was a splatfest. So much so Keiji Tanaka won the SP. And Misha was 3rd.

 

[snowflake]

the competition started already?!?!?

No, the 40 pages are just interest/speculations on quads and other less or more interesting things.

Here is the start time from Mrs P's first post.

LOL, xeyra is trying to be funny. Splatfest or not we don't yet know

 

[karne]

Men short starting order http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1617/fc2017/SEG001.HTM

And for the third time, Andrew draws a later start order than Brendan. Hope he's not superstitious.

Anguish Alert:

Qualification rule: The best 24 skaters after Short Program will advance to the next segment.

2 will be cut.

I HATE this rule. It should be that if the cut skaters equate to less than a warmup group, there is no cut. I HATED it two years ago before Andrew was one of the two cut and I still hate it.

 

[Bonesfan]

Han Yan for the win! Skating a slightly goofy program.......wearing a vest.

 

[TontoK]

And for the third time, Andrew draws a later start order than Brendan. Hope he's not superstitious.



I HATE this rule. It should be that if the cut skaters equate to less than a warmup group, there is no cut. I HATED it two years ago before Andrew was one of the two cut and I still hate it.

Agreed. It's only two skaters. Give 'em their money's worth for making the trip.

 

[KatGrace1925]

I am going ot be a nervous wreck when I watch the competition tomorrow. Here I am contributing to increasing the thread.

 

[bramweld]

You mean the competition hasn't started yet and we're up to 40 pages? Whaatt???

 

[eta]

Nooooo I have to leave for work just as the last group starts