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I think that Kovtun will have the edge over Farris in PCS, Kovtun has more international recognition than Farris. And, regardless of his execution, he's been more constant this season than Farris (anyone remembers the disaster at NHK?), which will rise his PCS. That, in addition to his technical elements (it wouldn't be weird for a high TES to rise the PCS as well). Although I find Farris' skating much more pleasant to the eye (in general I enjoy the Americans' style more than the Russians), the TES is what is winning competitions now.
Of course, if Kovtun fails his quads it could be a whole different story. That's what I like about the men's field, it's very hard to predict.
Yes, I remember NHK pretty well. In Josh's favor though, he has made huge improvements and is on a massvie upwards swing. Kovtun kind of stayed the same or even ran out of gas a little (hence my gut feeling telling me Josh has a good chance of skating better than Kovtun at worlds).
I'd expect Josh to beat Kovtun in the PCS in the LP, as long as he manages to move up some ranks after the SP. I'm just not so sure about the SPs.
Newbiespectator said:Kovtun has many weaknesses that the judges are quite aware of. Which his why his scores have mostly stagnated over the last 2 seasons.
I actually felt they did improve...? From a short look at his wiki page: the scores this season are very similar to last season. But I'm not sure if this really is because his scores have stagnated, or because he simply didn't skate that well (he mostly gets the job done regarding the jumps, but for his 3As for example, the percentage of jumps landed with +GOE is definitely lower. I'd have to look the exact number up though. He definitely needs to improve in getting his spin levels, he's losing major points there).
To be fair, and I say that as somebody who has zero interest in Kovtun or his skating, I think he did improve some of his weaknesses. he looks faster to me than last season. I remember I felt he was painfully slow sometimes, f.e. when going into the jumps, and right now I think his speed is okay. He also seems to try to skate to the music. From my personal view, he doesn't really get the job done, but IMO he seems to try to improve at least.
That said, I still think his PCS are inflated and all that yadda yadda. Just felt he got so much criticism regularely (from me too), that I wanted to say something nice.