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  1. WinForPooh
    More like resign ourselves to being stressed out some more. And I'm not even looking for tickets or anything, I'm just stressing about who will go where, and when.
  2. WinForPooh
    I have so much work and it's not like I need any help procrastinating, I'm an expert even without news to wait for.
  3. WinForPooh
    Considering that his 3A is pretty much back and huge, and his 3Lz is still MIA, I'd be more surprised to see 4Lz back than if he turned up with a 4A. But everything depends on how his rehab and recovery really is going. If they can get his ankle back to close to 100 percent, all bets are off, boy is goin' wildin'. If not, I will be keeping everything crossed that he just turns up and dazzles us with a couple of 3As, a whole bunch of glorious twizzles and hydroblades, flips (har) ISU the bird and skates off with an explosion in the background.
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    That does look fully rotated and pretty good from Keegan. I don't expect him to land it in competition yet because he has UR trouble with his quads in competition, too, but it's still very cool to see. I'm still firm in my belief that Yuzu has landed it in practice without harness.
  5. WinForPooh
    I dunno where all the skaters are going but I can confirm that ISU is going straight to CoH. Circles of Hell GP. It's not just the men, I need to know how the Russian and Japanese ladies will be assigned, too. Wakababy gets first pick woooooot! If she picks an earlier GP, might mean her 3A is coming along well after the Ghislain and Mishin training.
  6. WinForPooh
    It's very accurate. I am in fact a multitude of fainted/dead bunnies.
  7. WinForPooh
    Ugghhh Time difference. The measurement of time is just a human construct! (I say that when I'm late, usually.) Give us he assignments, this is too much stress, this is the summer of stress, give it to us!
  8. WinForPooh
    Could we have the Yuzu butt-spin (not the A-spin) as an emoticon, maybe? Happy dork Yuzu?
  9. WinForPooh
    If Yuzu sees that table, I think Ghislain might be in big trouble, and Boyang might get a ninja Lutz-stalker.
  10. WinForPooh
    It didn't drop when I slept? That's odd, the big news usually goes down when I'm asleep. Fine, I'm awake and ready, give us the assignments! It's Thursday!
  11. WinForPooh
    Ah, okay. Next time you do it, I'd love it if you could send me a PM. I won't quote you anywhere and won't use it for anything, I'd just really like to know. No problem if you don't want to, though!
  12. WinForPooh
    I didn't mean it nicely, I meant judges aren't following the more specific and better defined earlier bullets, so they just made it much more generic so they can mark how they feel it.
  13. WinForPooh
    I think they were made easier to evaluate and justify tbh. Just like the solo jump and steps.
  14. WinForPooh
    On the other hand, though, if Yuzu gets his 4Lo and 4Lz back, and he lands the 4A as well, then everybody can go 4F themselves because he will have a BV advantage and with that, there's nothing anybody can do but pray he doesn't go clean. That is even if GOE and PCS all skyrocket and everybody starts getting boosted to high heaven so Yuzu doesn't get the quality advantage he obviously should.
  15. WinForPooh
    There's also the 'serious' error PCS deduction. They capped maximum PCS for each component under the new rules, didn't they? But that will only affect the guys who already get an average of 9.5 for PCS. That would be Yuzu. So a not perfectly clean skate from Yuzu will be punished because even with a step out or a hand down, he should be getting well above 9 for a few components. That particular insertion benefits those who stay around 9-9.25 per component because they basically get no additional punishment for a serious error. @Neenah Have you posted your numbers anywhere? I'd love to see them even if you weren't thorough and haven't checked everything, to get a general idea. Seriously though I don't think judges pay that much attention to bullets other than the obvious ones. The most obvious used to be the varied air position. That's probably why all the tano jumps got positive GOE. For all the other bullets, I think they just took the 6.0 way and applied it to GOE. And PCS too. With the new bullets, they can really do that because it's been made pretty blatantly subjective with the 'good' and 'very good' and all that.
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    Harder to fudge UR, though. He'll need to fix his UR problems if he's going to get the most out of the new SOV. ETA: Though obviously not impossible. Yes, Worlds FS and Boyangman's 4T still rankle. But unlike Nathan, Vincent already has a reputation for UR so his jumps are more likely to be marked for review.
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    I didn't mean to ask you to do more work! I mean you've done so much already, and it's all been so interesting, it's really cool. I'm pretty sure we'll see the 4Lo back, though I'm not that certain about the 4Lz, and the 4A will probably take time, so... Yuzu might stay with his 2016-17 layout, at least to begin with. But I'm also not entirely sure what we'll see from Nathan because he had that ankle injury before the Olys too (remember it was leaked that he wasn't practicing 4Lz as much as he was because of swollen ankle and Raf confirmed it after the Olys) and his previous hip injury makes adding 4Lo a little unlikely, and we have to wait and see how steady and reliable his quads are when his coaching and training situation changes drastically once school starts. As many variables as there are with Yuzu, there are almost as many for Nathan, too. Other than that, it's only Vincent who has both 4Lz and 4F, isn't it? It's unlikely that his GOE and PCS will rise quite that drastically.
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    I think the concern is that the +4 and +5 GOEs won't be given out even if they're warranted. +2 GOE and 90 PCS were so rare a few years ago, but now they're handed out like candy everywhere, and the quality difference between a +2GOE 4T then and a +2GOE 4T last season is stark. As is the difference between a 90 PCS skate then (I mean, look at Stephane Lambiel's scores!) and a 90 PCS skate now. So going by what we know of judges so far, I think it's quite possible that we'll see a few +4s handed out here and there sparingly, maybe to Yuzu, and +2s and +3s handed out like candy, because they're already used to dashing off +2, and now +3 is not the highest so it'll be that much easier to give that. The thing is, the letter of the rule matters less than how the judges feel. So far, judges have had the 6.0 mentality to GOE. Bullets are not really always considered, or H&L Helsinki not having a single +3 GOE jump cannot be explained. But a 6.0 mentality of saving room does explain it. I think it's quite possible to see the 6.0 mentality reset for the new GOE scale. So while we can convert the former scores to the +5 scale, it might not really matter unless for once, judges decide to actually apply bullets and do it like that, instead of using it as a new 6.0 scale. I wouldn't bet real money on them doing it. If quality only matters theoretically, and judges perform as expected from previous form, then we will probably see a lot of +2 and +3GOE high BV quads in fairly ordinary quality skates. The most realistic way of testing it, the way I see it, would be to compare a skate with two 4Lz, one 4F and the rest, with an average of +2 GOE, vs a skate with only 4S and 4T, and two 3As, with an average of +3 GOE. That is what I expect to see this season, practically speaking. Because this theory of excellent quality being rewarded highly but the quality being defined so subjectively is not going to help skaters with actual excellent quality because of that subjective definition. Even with GOE bullets spelled out so clearly they fudge it, as Helsinki demonstrated, as all the lack of negative GOE for SP solo jump demonstrated. The new rules plus old incompetence and 6.0 mentality won't give us what we should be able to expect. Unless the judges actually decide to hand out +4 and +5 to exceptional 3As and 4Ts and 4Ss, they'll be beaten out by average 4Lzs and 4Fs getting +2.
  19. WinForPooh
    I'm really beginning to see why a Lo combo might be something worth training. The seq base value cutting business is bullshit. Why.
  20. WinForPooh
    I suddenly really want to see the 3F-3A seq. I don't really see him doing 3F as the latter part of a combo so this would be a good way, and it would put both his out of nowhere jumps together. I was going to go and check Gabby's protocols, too. Thank you, you saved me the trouble!
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    That's what I remember, too. But wait, if it's seven jumping passes with three combos allowed, does that mean that if he has a sequence he can have three more combos? Or is it seven jumping passes with three seq/combos, including one three jump pass? I should just look at ladies' layouts with 2A sequences and see how many combos they had in those skates. I would've paid more attention to sequences in the rules if I'd known Yuzu might be pulling a 3A sequence. I just realised I dunno how they'll affect his layouts at all.
  22. WinForPooh
    This. Yuzu has never talked about it, and he has no reason to talk about it, either. Why would it matter in his skating? The really important part is, rigid ideas of gender have not limited his expression and his artistry when he skates. I'm very glad for that. As for the criticism he gets for not being 'manly' enough - I don't see why anybody should pay attention to people who think that during a skate, performance of gender stereotypes is more important than the honest and wonderful interpretation of the music and programme. That would be a limitation in an artist, and it's one Yuzu doesn't have. I love him all the more for it.
  23. WinForPooh
    Will we see a 3A sequence from him? Wouldn't it be something if we did! But could somebody tell me, if he does two 3As with one in SEQ, does the other one have to be in combo? I've never thought of that. For the at least one in combo rule, where do jump sequences fit in?
  24. WinForPooh
    This summer. Please put us all out of our misery and just announce them already.
  25. WinForPooh
    @shanshani I just want to say thank you for your awesome spreadsheets! I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that you'll have the time and inclination to crunch some data here and there during the season, too, because I'm sure it would be in equal parts infuriating and fascinating.
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