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[yfan1]

Men 2018 SP

Group 1

Felipe Montoya: Weak.

Chafik Besseghier: Not very interesting.

Vincent Zhou: Nice program. All jumps looked borderline, the +3T looked outright UR, 4F might have been too. This is probably the only Zhou program I liked lol.

Denis Ten: Quality? There. Jumps? Not there...

Matteo Rizzo: Bland and with no exceptional skill.

Michael Christian Martinez: Some nice transitions and moves, but a bit too sluggish overall.

Group 2

Yaroslav Paniot: Mess.

Han Yan: Great 3A. Not very good jumps otherwise. Never liked his spins. Does show gorgeous basic skating, and nice detailed movement. This was probably my fave program of his too.

Julian Zhi Jie Yee: Tentative entry to 3A. Nice landing position on 3Lz. Messy combo. Nice to see him performing through each move, even if the edges aren't the best.

Brendan Kerry: Nice flow from the opening jump, and some nice basics, but not interesting.

Morisi Kvitelashvili: Mediocre on every regard.

Keegan Messing: Nice combo. Decent basics. Program suits him. just not a fan.

Group 3

Michal Brezina: Decent all around, nothing memorable.

Jun Hwan Cha: Roars from the crowd. Best performance so far. I liked him better when he was younger lol.

Paul Fentz: He gives a baseline level of performance that makes him watchable, but not interesting.

Misha Ge: His skating and choreo was never to my taste, but I suppose that's nothing to do with scores... Still, this program comes across as phony in its angst, to me.

Jorik Hendrickx: Phony yet again, and not even with the quality of Ge's...

Daniel Samohin: There was always a lot of power to his skating, but unfortunately he really went nowhere... Very passionate though.

 

[yfan1]

Group 4

Adam Rippon: Decent performance, not his most confident, not a fan of the program.

Dmitri Aliev: Very confident, bad technique on jumps, but great job overall.

Patrick Chan: Great basics of course, but a bit too muted in terms of performance, I'd say.

Keiji Tanaka: I never got him. Many times I thought someone else should have gone instead of him to major competitions... Just very boring overall.

Alexei Bychenko: Well... nice enthusiasm.

Deniss Vasiljevs: He has some gorgeous qualities, but he never got it together. This program is boring overall.

Group 5

Yuzuru Hanyu: I preferred this choreo to the many, many iterations we got in between 2015-2017 and then that one time in 2020. Still think the best was at 2014 CoC. Wonderful speed and confidence and spins and jumps and steps, everything.

Nathan Chen: To be upfront, I thought this was the best choreo of the event. Obviously, he deserves low scores with how it went. Too tentative and the mistakes detract.

Mikhail Kolyada: Random choreo, even if delivered with outstanding skating skill and decent presentation... Mistake doesn't help.

Shoma Uno: Just not good choreo, very generic. But presented well, nice glide. I like how she goes "3F" because... well... Not a good landing on anything.

Javier Fernandez: Weaker spinner than the ones before. But nice moments throughout it all. Deserved second place.

Boyang Jin: Not the most refined skater and needed to extend some of these movements to completion. Program a bit emptier than others... otoh, that combo was the largest one of the competition, performed with the utmost confidence, and there's more flavorful moment to this than Uno's. Would have placed him third by around a point ahead of Uno.

This was good. Better SP segment than 2006 men.

Fernandez was the weakest spinner in the final group lol. Bet he wasn't marked as such though.

 

[yfan1]

Men 2018, LP

Group 2

Nathan Chen: Big 4Lz with a poor landing position and little flow. Nice steps, could use more commitment. Needed better glide and speed in general. None of his jumps flow, and all apart from the 4Lz could use more lift... Program was much better earlier that season, dropped nearly every transition by this point. Spins weaker than earlier too, but still decent here. The ending is supposed to be emotionally satisfying, yet there isn't much going on in terms of performance outside the spread eagle. Nice redemption skate... massively overscored on GOE and PCS.

Group 3

Keegan Messing: Hokey program, skated with good speed, nice jumps, decent spins, and tried to keep character. Like that he did an axel+toe+loop. Nice basic skating too.

Vincent Zhou: This was a decent program. Nice spread eagles, but unimpressive basics beyond those. Awkward quality of movement sometimes. Jumps... no quad looked rotated apart from maybe the opener? Performance became better towards the end.

Adam Rippon: Nice program. This was my favorite of this competition... could use more speed and better basic skating in general.

Group 4

Dmitri Aliev: Nice program again, but bad technique jumps and marred by mistakes.

Boyang Jin: Not a good program. Very disjointed. Big jump setups work superficially with the music. Good ChSq. 4T may have been UR. Not very good edges on the steps sequence. Spins less than amazing. I do think he deserved to be ahead of Nathan because of the much better SP, but this was overscored.

Patrick Chan: Beautiful basics, and I enjoyed this quite a bit more than his SP.

Yuzuru Hanyu: Already spoken about it elsewhere, so will just say this is probably one of his best performances of this program. I just don't like it.

Javier Fernandez: Nice performance, I just don't get the program.

Shoma Uno: Worse than his original Nessun Dorma. Less than ideal landings and a clear UR on that 4Lo. Would place him behind Javi, in bronze position. Find his basic skating better than Javi's and spins too, but just not on with his jumps here, and less full program than his.

 

[thatdarncat]

I remember 2006 well, as it was Italy it was on my time zone so got to watch it live unlike 2002. I was watching on the BBC which only showed certain skaters.

I won't review each skater as I don't really no enough to judge but the skates that stuck in my mind were Matthew Savioe, gorgoeus program, whenever I hear this piece of music I think of this skate. Loved Johnnie Weir's The Swan program. Was a fan of Buttle, Lambiel and Joubert, never a fan of Plushy, too arrogant and had no musicalty or emotion, technically the best.

Ladies - Sasha's short program was perfect, shame about the mistakes in the free, she is my all time favourite ladies skater. Shizuka, I loved her long program performance, loved the music, the ina bauer she did has always stuck with me and her Y spin. Fumie was beautiful too.

Surprised no one has reviewed the ice dance, that moment when Fusar Poli and Margaglio finished their program after the fall

Like someone else mentioned its so nice to have music with no lyrics and I miss the step sequence and spirals.

 

[yfan1]

I dislike Ice Dance, so that's my reason.