ClarissaH

To add on to this and to pose a related question, in regards to placements and how many GP assignments you get, I'm sure that the fact that Yuzu won an OGM would hold some kind of weight, right? He wasn't able to compete for a majority of the season because of injury but he came back for the Olympics and got gold.

This is probably when I'm lucky I don't work a job and am free this whole weekend!

Just to say that this ^^ is what I like about this forum so much. Even if there are disagreements, they never get heated to the point where individuals devolve to name calling and that's really refreshing considering some of the toxic fandoms I've been in. About what Yuzu will do this upcoming season, based on the information that we've seen so far he seems to be really close to being able to nail a 4A and if he has that reasonably down by the time the next skating season starts, it's quite possible we'll see him put that in one of his programs. Also, provided his ankle injury heals well, we'll see him continue to up the difficulty of his programs to meet what they were pre-injury. In addition to the 4A, it's likely Yuzu's also putting attention to regaining the two quads he wasn't really able to do while nursing injuries on his right leg, knee pain and then the ankle injury.

It would have to be an EX since props are not allowed in competition events. That would be really cool to see though and it would lend to Yuzu wanting to use more Japanese music in his programs. I first read this as "love on the brian" and my brain was very confused.

I'm a total noob. What's this 'harness' in mention? Like, I know what a harness is but how is it used in this case?

I know that some time after Sochi they went to uploading a new video from the Sochi olympics once a day, calling it 365+ or something along those lines. As Bilge said, it's to keep the channel alive.

That would really suck if they did that. But in the meantime we've still got fancams.

^^ I think this post would be better suited to "Random Thought Theater"

So I read that today, 3.11 in Japan, for every time 3.11 is searched on Yahoo Japan, they're donating 10 yen to relief efforts. When I went to the website to do such search, I saw an ad on the side with a younger Yuzu holding his signed boot that was up for auction.

Oh well would you look at that. I'm crying now.

Oh my I really want to see this now.

I would happily have "Death by Yuzuru Hanyu's Sassiness" written in my tombstone.

Yup, that's the number I get too.

The people who are holding the auction are going through emails with information to confirm if the bids are real or fake. Fake bids probably slipped through overnight when no one was monitoring it.

Well the auction's back down to just over 6.5 million yen so it's been knocked back down. These fake bidders are really salting my apples though.

Oh I absolutely wasn't able to sleep. Even though it ended at 12:30, I didn't get to bed until almost 4am. I don't know if it was because of all the sugar I had consumed through Japanese candies I splurged on for the event, the excitement from the free skate, or both.

Welcome to the group! While I personally cannot say I'm not the emotional type, I'm actually the poster child for the emotional type, various performances that Yuzuru has put forward have pulled at my emotions as well. You're also quite the trooper for staying up as late as you did to watch the varying skates! While I was here on the east coast somewhat complaining about it not ending until 12:30am, others were in places where the events didn't start until then. It was likely totally worth it though, or so I've heard from other friends I have who did such a thing.

And it's back down to 4 million yen. With all the extra precautions that were put into place to prevent fake bidding, troll bids are still passing through? It really is disheartening that this is happening. It really should have just been taken to an auction house and done more professionally. I mean, considering Hanyu's current status I'm sure the people holding the auction at the very least considered that fake bids would be an issue. It's not right for people to be making a mockery of a charity auction by placing fake bids and artificially driving up the price, but if it was considered an issue then the proper precautions should have been taken, even if it meant doing the auction in an offline setting.

Sorry for the double post. So the 3rd auction is up past 41 million yen. I really hope it isn't fake. Who wants to place bets on when this auction will be cancelled and there'll be a repost?

Not available in mine either.

You got to it before I could!

I think they were counting by the likes on the video. The most popular video of Yuzu's H&L from Worlds has 48K likes, less than the 69K Parisienne Walkways from Sochi has.

I'm late but happy 3000 pages! I had to do this thing called sleeping so I missed it. But really, what the hell is Yahoo Auctions doing?! If you've had to restart it for a third time in hopes to prevent false bidding, it's clearly not working and something else has to be done. Taking it offline to an actual auction house would definitely be the best route to take.

They probably should have disclaimed this.

Thanks for the link but I totally bookmarked it earlier today to make it easier to get back to. I have committed the grave sin of underestimating Yuzu.