Ekaterina Bobrova & Dmitri Soloviev

[Snow63]

I hope you told her she has many fans here at GS cheering for Dima and her.

I was too excited and nervous to mention Golden Skate I'm sorry, Doris. I still wonder how I found the courage to talk to her
I also had 100% chance to approach Luca Lanotte after SD, he was standing all alone in lobby and looked lost, and Anna was talking to some guy in Italian. I started to walk to him but at the last moment I chickened out. I still am regretting this, there would be probably no chance for the rest of my life to do that! Poor me That's when I had a chance next day, I took it and approached Katia, there were other people of course, but still

 

[dorispulaski]

I am always hesitant to to talk to skaters, even Jason, who talks to everyone. I am so glad you did talk to Katia

 

[Mrs. P]

I have an autograph from Katia from Skate America 2012. She is super friendly! Really glad you got to talk to her, Snow.

 

[tulosai]

I am always hesitant to to talk to skaters, even Jason, who talks to everyone. I am so glad you did talk to Katia

I... do not share this hesitation though I do always try to be conscious, once I've started talking to them, as to whether they actually seem to want to be talking to me, are just being polite, or really pretty obviously wish I'd just go away. I especially try to be conscious of this if the encounter happens at a place they really might not expect to be approached (there was a time in my life I was travelling a lot, and literally just by chance during that time I ran into a handful of skaters in O'Hare airport in Chicago- that's where I recommend you hang out if you want to run into North American figure skaters ) Anyway though, in those cases I was super conscious of whether, once I said hi, they seemed happy or reluctant that I'd done so. At competitions and especially at meet and greets I think it's a bit different and they have more of an expectation there to 'need' to give at least a little time to fans, but if they seem to want me to go away there I do too. IMO, to be honest, while usually at least superficially polite, skaters are pretty obvious about when they'd rather be doing something else so I don't think you should be scared to approach them as long as you're willing to respect their wishes about how long they want to talk to you. Also (again just in my own experience) little known skaters usually are just delighted to be approached and wished well.

Anyway back to topic, I am also glad that Snow got to talk to Katia Hopefully we'll all met many more skaters in our lives!

 

[Snow63]

I am always hesitant to to talk to skaters, even Jason, who talks to everyone. I am so glad you did talk to Katia

I'm always like 'oh, they must be tired'... 'oh, they're definitely tired of answering stupid questions'... 'yeah, I don't know what to ask'... 'hmmm, how do I look? Maybe I don't look good enough to talk to them'... 'Oh, my English is bad as it is, what if my question will be greamatically incorrect?'... 'oh, so many people around'... etc. etc. etc.

 

[Snow63]

I... do not share this hesitation though I do always try to be conscious, once I've started talking to them, as to whether they actually seem to want to be talking to me, are just being polite, or really pretty obviously wish I'd just go away. I especially try to be conscious of this if the encounter happens at a place they really might not expect to be approached (there was a time in my life I was travelling a lot, and literally just by chance during that time I ran into a handful of skaters in O'Hare airport in Chicago- that's where I recommend you hang out if you want to run into North American figure skaters ) Anyway though, in those cases I was super conscious of whether, once I said hi, they seemed happy or reluctant that I'd done so. At competitions and especially at meet and greets I think it's a bit different and they have more of an expectation there to 'need' to give at least a little time to fans, but if they seem to want me to go away there I do too. IMO, to be honest, while usually at least superficially polite, skaters are pretty obvious about when they'd rather be doing something else so I don't think you should be scared to approach them as long as you're willing to respect their wishes about how long they want to talk to you. Also (again just in my own experience) little known skaters usually are just delighted to be approached and wished well.

Anyway back to topic, I am also glad that Snow got to talk to Katia. Hopefully we'll all met many more skaters in our lives!

Oh, I wish I was like that! It's especially hard to talk to English speaking skaters. I'm more or less okay when I use my mother language I talked to Alla Loboda (junior dancer) more than a couple times, Max Trankov, Bobrova, Ilia Tkachenko (long time ago).. maybe someone else, I don't remember. But when it comes to English speakers... none, zero!

Anyway, thank you all for your kind words. When I opened my browser sunday morning and saw 80 something thumb ups I was like So glad people liked my reports GPF next!!!

 

[tvuckic16]

I'm always like 'oh, they must be tired'... 'oh, they're definitely tired of answering stupid questions'... 'yeah, I don't know what to ask'... 'hmmm, how do I look? Maybe I don't look good enough to talk to them'... 'Oh, my English is bad as it is, what if my question will be greamatically incorrect?'... 'oh, so many people around'... etc. etc. etc.

Don't know how you speak but your written English is excellent

 

[Snow63]

I'm just elaborating and putting numbers on what people are already discussing in GPF predictions thread.

--This is while counting in the TEB SP scores as official scoring
--I've factored placings by tie breakers, When needed (TEB) used only SP score \ 2 SP scores and one FS

Ice Dance :

1) Weaver\Poje (30)
2) Capellini\Lanote (28)
3) Chock\Bates (28)
4) Sinitsina\Katsalopov (24)
5) Gilles\Poirier (24)

NHK lineup :

1) Hubbel\Donohue (15)
2) Shibutanis (13)
3) Bobrova\Soloviev (11)
4) Stepanova\Bukin (11)
5) Coomes\Buckland (9)

So what we have here. To qualify to GPF Bobrova/Soloviev need to win NHK trophy, and Shibutanis should be second. IT will be difficult to do from first start number, but not absolutely impossible.

Don't know how you speak but your written English is excellent

Thanks :

 

[lauravvv]

So what we have here. To qualify to GPF Bobrova/Soloviev need to win NHK trophy, and Shibutanis should be second. IT will be difficult to do from first start number, but not absolutely impossible.

Or they need to be second with a higher combined score than Sinitsina/Katsalapov and Gilles/Poirier which will be difficult to achieve, but not impossible. In that case they can get in as fifth or sixth depending on how Hubbell/Donohue do at NHK (H/D will be out if they are only fifth behind Stepanova/Bukun and Coomes/Buckland there).

 

[Snow63]

Or they need to be second with a higher combined score than Sinitsina/Katsalapov and Gilles/Poirier which will be difficult to achieve, but not impossible. In that case they can get in as fifth or sixth depending on how Hubbell/Donohue do at NHK (H/D will be out if they are only fifth behind Stepanova/Bukun and Coomes/Buckland there).

Second tie-breaker now is SP score, it looks like they already beaten Gilles Poirier

AND SINITSINA/KATSALAPOV TOO!!!!! So, 2nd place with ANY score will be enough for them to qualify, right? Right?

 

[LisaM]

Second tie-breaker now is SP score, it looks like they already beaten Gilles Poirier

AND SINITSINA/KATSALAPOV TOO!!!!! So, 2nd place with ANY score will be enough for them to qualify, right? Right?

Isn't it total score meaning the SDs of both events together? In that case we are not sure yet but they make a good case.

 

[Snow63]

Isn't it total score meaning the SDs of both events together? In that case we are not sure yet but they make a good case.

Edit: I NEED some native English speaker to confirm that. I still can't believe it's true.

 

[adelia]

Edit: I NEED some native English speaker to confirm that. I still can't believe it's true.

The second tie breaker is the total score of the SDs from both events.

 

[Snow63]

Sinitsina/Katsalapov: 63.63 + 62.76 = 126.39
Gilles/Poirier: 61.33 + 63.94 = 125.27
Bobrova/Soloviev: 64.38

They need to score 62.02 in the SP and place not lower than 2nd.

 

[s_parks]

Sinitsina/Katsalapov: 63.63 + 62.76 = 126.39
Gilles/Poirier: 61.33 + 63.94 = 125.27
Bobrova/Soloviev: 64.38

They need to score 62.02 in the SP and place not lower than 2nd.

Very strange. But at any rate, I think those conditions are definitely possible. (Hope I didn't jinx them!)

 

[Snow63]

Very strange. But at any rate, I think those conditions are definitely possible. (Hope I didn't jinx them!)

What is strange?

 

[s_parks]

What is strange?

Ha, that was just me thinking out loud about the gpf qualifications in general. Not just about ID. Was juggling too many placements/scores/skaters, and trying to decipher the announcement.

 

[Snow63]

Ha, that was just me thinking out loud about the gpf qualifications in general. Not just about ID. Was juggling too many placements/scores/skaters, and trying to decipher the announcement.

Oh, okay. I actually think that they have a shot even for the first place in Japan, so maybe all these specualtions will be useless. But anyway, they are capable of scoring 62 points, that's for sure. And they're more than capable of beating Hubbel/Donohue Let's wait and see.

 

[coldblueeyes]

I didn't even realize it was the total SD score that was the second tie breaker, so it's really close to them. I thought it was the total, but now seeing that's just the SD, I think they are really near the spot. Though, I want them to give it all this weekend.

 

[tvuckic16]

Sinitsina/Katsalapov: 63.63 + 62.76 = 126.39
Gilles/Poirier: 61.33 + 63.94 = 125.27
Bobrova/Soloviev: 64.38

They need to score 62.02 in the SP and place not lower than 2nd.

That's what it sounds like to me. So I would say that BS have a pretty good shot at qualifying. If they skate cleanly they can totally score a 62 and they wouldn't even have to beat the Shibs.

Looks like Russia might be sending two pairs to the GPF this year, BS and SK. Things are looking promising for Russia.