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  1. WinForPooh
    Why don't they all do the sensible thing and go and bash the people who make these decisions?
  2. WinForPooh
    Yes but they don't usually fly him in first class? Business class? No? He flies economy and then does quads?!
  3. WinForPooh
    Her spins really are great, aren't they? She barely travels during her spins, it's remarkable from that POV.
  4. WinForPooh
    They're very beautiful. Very.
  5. WinForPooh
    I read that in slowed down audio voice and have now had my morning chortle. Yuzu entertains in unpredictable ways.
  6. WinForPooh
    Edited completely because definitely not watching that.
  7. WinForPooh
    Is it the one where they yelled Yuzuru kawaii, Yuzuru kakkoii? I'm no help, I just remember it too. Totally working, guys.
  8. WinForPooh
    Bragging about your superior will power is so unbecoming. I'm totally not jealous. But you know, just for science, how do you do it... Where's the quality content I signed up for? Nvm the Yuzumoticons are good enough.
  9. WinForPooh
    The Evil Overlord is irresistible. I left, but I came back.
  10. WinForPooh
    And then jump 4A and cause Fanyu Extinction Event. I just popped in for a two-minute break, I'm going back to work, I swear!
  11. WinForPooh
    It's okay, I don't think I've stopped crying for more than a few hours at a stretch since the week before the Olympics. Though now it's also because I have a deadline DAY AFTER TOMORROW and I think I need seven days with no sleep to get the work done, and I'M STILL HERE WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!
  12. WinForPooh
    *hugs* You've had to deal with a lot. I'm glad our alien Overlord Trollzuru helped you do that. Remember what he said about how he knew when he was happy, he'd also made others happy? He's right.
  13. WinForPooh
    This is how I understand it, as well. Feds choose which particular judges represent them. They usually choose the ones that suit them best, obviously. This means if they want to be sent as judges again, they have to serve the Federation's interests, too. Then there's how you can usually see the alliances between certain feds when you look at how their skaters and their rivals are marked. It's usually evident from judges' sheets.
  14. WinForPooh
    I also wonder about how many -5s will really be given. Even now, a lot of things that demand a -3, like the solo jumps without steps (again, iirc) aren't really followed. Things that clearly should get -3 get subjective -1 and -2. If they're so reluctant to give -3 sometimes, if the required penalty is -5, would these same judges do it? I think judges need bootcamp.
  15. WinForPooh
    It is public knowledge, but nothing is actually done about it. Judges who have a track record of biased judging still keep on being sent by feds to do more judging. There was a piece on Buzzfeed (of all places) about bias in judging and any disciplinary actions faced by judges. There was a total of two judges who faced actual disciplinary action, iirc, and it wasn't for bias. They do some kind of review that involves an algorithm that checks for scores outside of a certain corridor, but apparently that corridor is so wide that almost nothing is flagged by it. They're not in any real sense accountable to anybody except their federations. That is just a very flawed system for fairness. This one.
  16. WinForPooh
    If executed well, maybe... I do think the only real way to make it all work would be to remove all federation influence from judging, and have judges be reviewed by an independent panel whose findings are made public to check for bias or kickbacks. It'll never happen, of course, and if it did, it would be just another kind of politics.
  17. WinForPooh
    Six years, Nathan learnt ballet, according to an article. US media but still. Six. Years. I don't even know what to think.
  18. WinForPooh
    I know, I thought I was done with the frustration, too.
  19. WinForPooh
    I don't envy you, even if you do have to use your training, it's going to be terrible, worrying about him. This sig is a placeholder until I find the perfect gif from the Olympic swan.
  20. WinForPooh
    Probably not, but they'll probably wait till the doctors officially give their recommendation. Might be part of formalities for the named alternate competing in his place, too.
  21. WinForPooh
    About that, after a week of slow releases about how he'd be in the Olympic team even if he didn't participate at Nationals. It must have been fairly evident he wouldn't be going before that.
  22. WinForPooh
    I really doubt it. Remember how long they drew it out before Nationals, and they knew well in advance that he wouldn't be able to skate? He wasn't even back on ice then.
  23. WinForPooh
    I'm not really sure we watched the same programmes! No, I don't think Alina is a well-rounded skater at the moment. She could be in a couple of years, but there will be no room left in her scores to reflect that because she is currently being marked as a skater with well-developed artistry. It will be a pity when she does develop that artistry and find that there's no more room to rise. Her PE, IN and SS levels are all well below those of her fellow senior skaters.
  24. WinForPooh
    She had the same free skate in her last junior year as she did this season, so I'm not sure which older programmes, either? There's one more from 2015, a Ghost mix. The jumps are not all backloaded and there's a little bit of miming, but switch costume and music and the choreography is so similar to Don Quixote. (ETA: Less complicated entry and exits to jumps sometimes, though. The other transitions are very similar.
  25. WinForPooh
    You'll find out. We all did. It's not as ominous as that sounds, really. I hope you like rollercoasters.
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