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xofivebyfive
10-28-2007, 08:35 AM
**THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS***



I'm on the computer in my hotel room and was so excited that I had to come on and type this up and let you know how exciting my day was. Just warning you that I'm a 16 year old girl so theres girlspeak on here. So I saw the Ladies SP and Mens LP.

Last night was pretty much unbelievably amazing. The ladies did so well. I love Mira Leung.. she’s so cute! And Binshu was great as well. Caroline did great! She had tons of emotion(something I did not really see before this) and her 3-3 was clean and tight and perfect(minus that horrible sideways kick she does with her picking leg). Every time she landed a jump we went nuts! She got a huge grin on her face after every time. Her spins are really amazing. Emily looks like she’s lost a little weight, and I hate how she had a bun, but whatever. I can’t quite remember but I think she did well. I remember WTFing at her low score. Um, Kimmie now..Kimmie’s dress is weird.. but she did awesome. All through the warmup she was only landing double and single lutzes(her combo was a 3lutz-3toe) and I was thinking oh crap. But then she pulled out a clean 3lutz-3toe during her program. I’m thinking she along with Caroline had a perfectly clean program and we gave them both stand ovations. I thought this was cute, during the warmup people would be like, YEAH KIMMMIIIIE and every time, she got the cutest smirky smile on her face. She is just so humble and down to earth, it’s really amazing. The same thing happened when we screamed like crazy because she landed a jump. Miki I think was way overscored.. I don’t think she deserved the high marks she got but whatever.. Her artistry is not very good and I think she had one or two messups on jumps and I was WTFing at how she was placed in front of Caroline. Weird..

The men’s long was boring for the first 4 or 5 skaters probably because I didn’t know any of the people. Ryan did very very well. He’s adorable. HAHA oh and after his program and he was in the kiss and cry, these 12 year old girls high pitched voices yelled WE LOVE YOU RYAN and this other group of girls was like WE LOVE YOU MORE RYAN and then after a few seconds you hear WE LOVE YOU RYANNNN coming from very low voices LMAO it was a couple of the middle aged men up in the higher seats. His reaction was the funniest thing ever. Wow. I don’t know if you saw that on icenetwork but it was hilarious. Stephen did well, Evan was awesome as usual. Clean program, lots of WE LOVE YOU EVANs. I love watching him live. Oh did I mention I’m going to marry Patrick Chan? How freaking cute is he? And it helps that he did AMAZING tonight. Absolutely phenomenal. I’d never heard of him before today, but holy crap he is hot. AND HE’S ONLY TWO MONTHS OLDER THAN ME! haha. Woowwwww. He got a standing O as well. He looked so humbled. It was really sweet actually. He was very happy that we were so proud of him. And Daiske fell twice but still got first because he is a BEAST. I think he did a 3axel-3toe. Really great job from all of the top 6. Except Preaubert.. he was so boring. No one clapped at all during his program I think because we were all drained(ironic because his music is from Dracula.. lol) from the music.

Men’s victory ceremony was interesting. It takes so long to set up! I didn’t know that. Then they took pictures and went around the rink once and then took more pictures and then were signing autographs at the corner of the rink where they normally would have gotten off. I was on the other end so I ran all the way down the arena and got into the mix but Evan and Daiske already left by the time I made it down to the front, but Patrick.. oh man I love him. He was taking pictures and signing and making conversation with all the little girls. And he turned to me and was like HI and I’m like HI. and there was this mother who was like OH PATRICK can you sign Kelly’s book and take a picture with her? and he was like sure. and he said to me, “I’ll get back to you in a second” and I was like no problem. and the mom was like thanks so much and he said, “It’s fine. This is all because of you guys so I’m so grateful.” *SQUEEE* So he did that with the girl and his coach or someone came over and said to him, “I know you want to sign more autographs but you have to wrap it up soon because you have to go to the press conference. Then I was like oh crap. So he finished with the woman’s two daughters and came back to me and was like sorry. And I said you did so well tonight it was amazing and he took my mini sharpie and signed my program. I love his signature. lmao. Then he went and signed 3 more things and I was like, yeah he has my sharpie <3 and then he said to me, “I’m sorry, I stole your pen.” And I said, “Oh it’s not a problem, that’s fine with me.” and he laughed and then gave it back and I said thanks again. And then he was going to go over to the other corner and sign this girl’s skates and the same woman yelled to him that he had to leave and he yelled “I’m sorry I have a press conference” but then saw the little girl look upset so he gave the woman a look like, I have to go over there and he signed the skate. So so so so nice. He would have stayed out there for 3 hours if they would have let him.

So we get to the hotel and we pass Daisuke and another Japanese skater, not sure who. And then I want to walk through the hotel down to the lobby and front of the hotel because I know that there will be skaters hanging around. So we go and decide to ask someone where a Wendy’s is that we could go to. We passed Tanith, Evan, and Ryan on our way down. One kid thought I was a skater because I was wearing a jacket that said figure skating on it.. LMAO. Then we went back and passed Miki, Ryan, Evan, Stephen going back through. We go out and got food then came back through the back way that was closer to our room, and who is standing outside our room eating ice cream? Daisuke. Daisuke Takahashi is eating ice cream outside of my room. So then I was like.. holy crap. And I left my pillow in the car so I go back out, come in and pass Mai Asada who is next door to my room, and Daisuke is now sitting in the corner eating ice cream. LOL. Then I was a stalker for the next 20 minutes with my ear to the door and my eye in the little eye lookout place and saw Evan, Yasuhari and Kevin pass by. HAHA.

I am having so much fun just walking around up and down the hallway. It looks like I'm just pacing around texting someone but I'm really being a stalker. I said hey to Evan and Hi to Daisuke(his room is right across from mine) but I haven't seen Patrick yet. Or any of the girls but they're probably all sleeping because they're not done yet.

Yesterday was awesome.

ETA: Mai > Mao. kthnxbye.
ETA: I believe Yasuhari and Daisuke are sharing a room, right across from me, and Mai is nextdoor to me.

I cannot wait for today.


ETA SORRY FOR NOT PUTTING SPOILER ON HERE. my bad.

peanutskates
10-28-2007, 08:56 AM
wow sounds soo much fun! glad you're having a good time.

ETA: I believe Yasuhari and Daisuke are sharing a room, right across from me, and Mai is nextdoor to me.

lol!! that is so cool.

god how much fun would it be to actually be one of those skaters!! and have people kinda stalking you. LOL.

Isk8NYC
10-28-2007, 09:01 AM
Thread moved from On Ice-Skaters forum.

Oh, I'm so jealous - enjoy yourself and tell us more about your travels this weekend!

cherryliphoto
10-28-2007, 09:19 AM
that's sooo exciting you're there!!!!!!! I don't get to see the webcast until later because i'm not in the US..grrr!!! :evil: can't I just email icenetwork my american passport and get access to the live webcast?!
well spoil away~ I can't wait that long to hear the results!

Nicki
10-28-2007, 10:37 PM
Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. Glad to hear that all of the skaters were so friendly and that you had so much fun. I would love to be able to go to a skating competition.

xofivebyfive
10-29-2007, 11:14 AM
Okay Tanith Belbin’s FD dress is GORGEOUS. And how the heck does she get her hair to stay so perfect? Before the program it’s perfect, after, it’s perfect. WTH? France’s FD program scared me.. haha.

Ladies FS: Okay let me start by saying that Miki is way more enjoyable in person than on tv recordings. Elene was in the lead for a while.. I was really surprised. Um, obviously it was clear that the top 3 was going to be Miki, Kimmie and Caroline, I just didn’t know what order. I think the way it came out was perfect, although I think Caroline’s program component score was little bit too high. I don’t think that any of the ladies had a clean program tonight. I know Kimmie had a touchdown and a popped jump and so did Miki. Uhh Caroline was the closest to clean, she had a touchdown on one of the jumps but otherwise did well. She has absolutely no transitions though. She’s still very much a junior skater, but I think with more experience she’ll get better. And will someone PLEASE fix her flip and lutz techniques?! That kick is driving me insane during what would otherwise be a beautiful performance. I rock at math so I realized that Kimmie beat Miki before everyone else so you can hear a lone WOOOOOOOOOOOO scream after the program component score was announced. And then again after the total FS score. And then everyone realized, but only after they said she was in 1st. Silly nonmath friendly people.

Oh I liked Navarro and Brommentere’s EX. It was Sexyback but I liked it way more than Tanith and Ben’s version. Kim is extremely beautiful, and not awkward looking when she does hiphop, whereas Tanith makes me cringe a little, though gorgeous. So there were 3 performances to Sexyback… a little overload for me.. but all were good programs. Evan did his Boston routine again. Bleh. Pang and Tong did their same EX to, well I know it as Anytime, Anywhere.. but yeah. Um.. Emily skated to I’ll Stand by You sung by Carrie Underwood and I actually loved it.. I didn’t like her skating during the competition, but this program was lovely. She had a nice black dress on and a bun(GAHH.) Miki skated to Hurt and I actually loved it! She had so much emotion and passion in her performance and I was really proud of her. Caroline did awesome, as expected. Patrick had a less than perfect performance but I still love him. Kimmie’s dress was a gorgeous shade of hot pink, and a really pretty dress. She skated to Keep Holding On but that’s okay with me because it’s the spokessong for the Cool Kids Campaign.. so that’s cool. France team were mummys. Weird. Again. Oh at the end when all the individual skaters do like one element, Kimmie did her spin and all of a sudden realized Miki was coming so she was like oops and like ran out of the way.. and laughed.. it was so cute. Daisuke did that too. He tried a quad I think and fell out of it and then Evan came and was going to do a lutz and he was like oh crap and skated out of the way quickly. At the very very end they had a bunch of Frisbees and shirts and stuff and all the skaters signed like 2 or 3 of them and threw them into the crowd, and Patrick and Ryan were competing for the most cheers and then Ryan threw his and Patrick was trying to be all cool but he ended up throwing the Frisbee back onto the ice accidently, so then Evan and Ryan literally ran and raced to get it and Ryan grabbed it and was like, skipping around with it and then threw it into the audience, and AGAIN it fell onto the ice. So Evan grabbed it and just handed it to someone.. haha. I caught a Tanith Frisbee but I gave it to the lady next to me because I already have Tanith’s autograph. It was a good night and a great weekend. I’m happy overall.