Cup of China SPOILER DISCUSSION

[Isk8NYC]

Calling all spoilers! Bring 'em on!

[Isk8NYC]

The Rhumba (Compulsory Dance) results are up on the ISU website.

http://www.isufs.org/results/gpchn06/SEG007.HTM
Wonder what happened to the Uzbekistan team to cause a deduction?

ETA:

Pairs short program results.
http://www.isufs.org/results/gpchn06/SEG005.HTM

Ladies short program results.
http://www.isufs.org/results/gpchn06/SEG003.HTM

Tsk, tsk. Several deductions there, too.
Too bad, I like it when everyone skates really, really well and the judges have to sweat out the winner.

[NoVa Sk8r]

Yay for Emily recovering from her disaster skates at Skate America.
Here, she downgraded her jump combo in the short to 3flip/2toe (she attempted 3lutz/3toe at Sk8 America), but she had a wild swing on the 3lutz landing. Maybe she can hold it together as well in the long?

[FrankR]

Yay for Emily recovering from her disaster skates at Skate America.
Here, she downgraded her jump combo in the short to 3flip/2toe (she attempted 3lutz/3toe at Sk8 America), but she had a wild swing on the 3lutz landing. Maybe she can hold it together as well in the long?

Yay for Emily is right!! :D I'm pulling for her to win this event. At the Adult Training Camp in Hackensack she was so sweet. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I tell you that she went up to each and every camp participant on the ice to offer her help and tips.

[Isk8NYC]

Apparently, Bebe fell on a required jump. Too bad - I like her, too.

[NoVa Sk8r]

Bebe fell on the 3lutz (so didn't complete the intended combo).
She later did 3flip (she should have tacked on a 2toe here to make this the combo).
She also did an Ina Bauer into a nice 2axel.

[Isk8NYC]

Bebe fell on the 3lutz (so didn't complete the intended combo).
She later did 3flip (she should have tacked on a 2toe here to make this the combo).
She also did an Ina Bauer into a nice 2axel.I guess she couldn't think about how to fix her mistake. Maybe she didn't even remember what mistake she made.

[NoVa Sk8r]

Right.
When someone has a program trained, and it is a new program, it's likely he/she is not thinking "strategy" but just trying to remember the program in general!

[Jump]

I hope bebe does well. I saw her programme, and aside from the fall on the 2lutz, i think i saw a wobble on her last camel combi spin?
Other than that, she was strong as usual, graceful and her footwork was awesome. can't wait to see her freeskate

[Isk8NYC]

All right Evan. Carmen works its magic again for him.

Sorry about Emily and Bebe, but they were just outskated. I wasn't expecting the winner to take first place,either. Bebe had a few landing issues, but otherwise, everyone skated pretty well.

[Lark]

Does anyone else think that Belbin and Agosto have a very boring Free Dance??? I nearly fell asleep. I think it is a mistake for them.

I was wondering if Evan would be marked down at Worlds for using the same LP as last year. What does anyone else think?

[MQSeries]

B&A's free dance made no impression whatsoever. Igor and Marina made a major blunder with that concept. Everything about it screams 1980. It's the type of program I would expect a team like Carol Fox & Richard Daly to do during their competitive day but not by a World top 10 team in 2006. I suspect we'll see something completely different by Nationals if not by their next GP.

Z&S's program to Meditation was nice in a predictable sort of way; I much preferred the faster pace and intricacies of B&S's Olympic program.

The ladies were a zzzz. I don't understand why the tech caller downgraded Emily's 3toe; It looked completed to me.

For the love of God, would someone please cut off Davydov's mullet while he's not looking.

[Lark]

Ohmygod, I agree with everything you said, MQ, and was thinking it when I saw it.! LOLOL

I did not notice the issue with Emily's 3toe, I hated the mullet, S&Z were very "same" to me, and B&A shocked me with their blandness, and I was thinking "this is a program someone would do in 1990".