WinForPooh

Well, I suppose going from 200 feet underground to only six feet underground is progress but buried is still buried so not really.

This sounds very plausible. But I don't know if even she has the power to prevent the reigning champion of every competition that happened since she turned senior from skating - I don't think the fed will let her shoot them in the foot like that. Would they?

I guess if she's thinking about money now and after retirement, Plushenko is a good option - he does have connections, doesn't he? Maybe with the combination of her jump coach going there and Plushenko's experience with marketing himself, the move might have made sense to Alyona and her family. Maybe she's counting on her having established her components in her first senior seasons to keep her scores high?

I guess crowded ice time and individual attention won't be so much of an issue at Eteri's camp anymore...

You wouldn't happen to have a link, would you? I can't find any screencaps of the newly altered version.

Good job. Just pickly enough for crunching now.

Boyang has had a 4Lo before, so maybe he'll bring it back? It was a good one in practice...

I mean even accepting everything they've said and done till now, how does it make sense that two jumps with same BV have the same error and end up with different BVs?

So I thought that the 3F and 3Lz << values were different because of table errors from ISU, which has happened, but now it looks like it's not? DG jumps get BVs corresponding to the lower no of rotation version of the same jump, so the 2F and 2Lz have different BVs, so the 3F and 3Lz DGs will have different BVs despite 3F and 3Lz having the same BV, what on earth kind of sense does this make?

My, my, sparkle, you are in fine form, aren't you! I've been missing out, mining for salt in ISUngard when apparently you've found it all and have been flinging it around with wild abandon!

Honestly we can all have opinions about the direction in which the sport evolves, we'll agree or disagree. We can debate whether they're good changes or bad changes. But the problem I have with all the changes ISU make is that they claim to be addressing one thing - BV of quads being too much of a determining factor in who podiums - and then come up with "solutions" that explicitly feed a much bigger problem - how much fed influence, incompetence and corruption from judges and other non-performance-related factors determine who podiums at competitions. I mean look at the things they have and have not done so far: Cut BV of quads Cut repetition of quads Increase judges' discretion to determine the value of quads different skaters do, with no accountability Pretend that an entirely new jump that completely ignores the mechanics of the Lz, that is now being called and scored highly as a 4Lz, does not exist Make no effort to use technology to determine amount of pre-rotation in jumps How can we look at that little list and not see the truth - that what they want to do is shift IJS and CoP closer to the 6.0 system where judges' discretion (and therefore federation policy, since judges are chosen by and answerable to their federations) decided everything? And this is not even going into how TES increase, in practice, automatically means PCS increase with the right backing, and that baseline PCS for skaters do not reduce until they want to push them to retire.

AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *takes breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Alrighty, satellites, everybody figure out your schedules for Worlds because the Planet calendar has been updated with all Yuzucon days. May they be blessed. May he be blessed. OR ELSE.