Congrats to Artur on his debut!!! The jumps in the FP were decent and he fought and that's great. TES wise he was 6th

He did well to keep most of his spin/footwork levels while being way behind on his music.
PCS wise, I'm on the side of the judges and I'm trying to figure out how best to approach this...I had him in last place too along with Grassl and Ma. I'm just going say I was extremely disappointed in his performance. And I'm not going to even start with the Egyptian like costume, while gorgeous, seems a bit out of place for the program (and is entirely too much black) and the choreo sequence that's taken from Verdi.
I just can't even start with my disappointment and I really like this FP. Pity about the scores for the SS but the rest from that Arena is rightfully low. I had him lower. I had him in the 5s, low 6s for I/P.
ETA: So basically my issue with him yesterday was that he was very lackluster. He was so focused on hitting the jumps that the PCS part of the program fell way down. He just stayed "within himself" and he never came out to present the program to the audience/judges like for example Adam did with his footwork sequence. And for me, I was was offended. I guess it didn't help that he was already behind on his music towards the end and for parts of it, it seemed as if he was just skating through the music and not hearing it although he tried at certain parts of his step sequence to hit the accents but it still fell flat. And like I stated, I really like the program minus the choreo sequence but it did not work at all for me yesterday. I would give him a B for effort as far as the jumps goes because he legitimately fought, but a D or F in performance. And I hope his team doesn't come off with the attitude that he was robbed because he wasn't. The SS scores are unfortunate. No he shouldn't get the same scores as Grassl however, when the rest of the performance IMO is terrible, it's going to affect the SS score, that's just a reality. I hope his team look at the protocols and draw conclusions and that Artur really works on his presentation because for me it was lacking a lot yesterday and he's definitely better than that

And I'm really upset because the gap between him and Fa is offensive, I can understand it, but it doesn't make it any less offensive and I like Adam, his programs are awesome. And let's not get started on the fact that he lost a point to Grassl, it's offensive but Artur didn't help himself at all. I'm not going to lie, I did put him in last place on P/I.
And then there's the lack of federation support that plays a little with PCS scores. Grassl definitely has the support of his federation, Artur I want to say he does not (along with 2 or 3 of the other Russian guys) and that's going to hurt as well and it's unfortunate.