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Vincent, you can see it from his Salchow technique

Who is gonna ur the Sal more? Lolol

He already trained with Hamada, it's not that surprising for me. I hope she will help with polishing him a little (not that he doesn't already get PCS anyway but eh)

yes ;p I believe in bad luck or Patrick Chan's required SC gold, or even judges playing to their agenda, but no, the figure skating curses don't exist. Sorry, talking about curses just usually sounds to me as finding excuses when there's really no need for that, as no one always win ofc I know most of that talk is not serious but really, imo it's better to have more faith in skaters than some unknown non existing powers, lol.

well, last year the people also said he should win or get a silver when the assigment were out and we know what happened... it's wide open, really.

another random thought, Carolina will not come back ant this makes me sad. And no other Italian girl, sigh.

Well I'm a happy person who doesn't believe in curses bring it on, GP season!

The more I look at these ladies assigments, the more I have no idea who can end up going to GPF. If we have that guessing game this year it will be so funny The most problematic for me will be NHK because I want both Rika and Alena to win...

also did Alaine took a time off or retired? She had very poor results, but she still is a Canadian champ, no assigments... maybe she wanted to do something else... (another random thought as I process the assigments lol).

I also hope there's less withdrawals this time than last year.

Yeah, I want Koshiro to have a 2nd spot too... It's always not enough spots ;;

And also yeeeeah, HAN YAN! <333333333 And I hope Karen menages to really come back this time.

Wow the ladies are crazy as expected O.O all 6 events, gosh. Ah, I'm happy Alena got 2 GPs But Nastya ;;;; I think SC and NHK works just fine for Yuzu I don't think Dai wants the spot, he talked about senior B and possible WC, but I'm all for Dai at NHK tbh, I miss him.

so tomorrow for sure? damn, I'll ba at work and travelling later, I was so counting on today, I would have a time to properly process these

It's holiday tomorrow (well, today, it's after 1AM...) but I have no idea if I will be around for the announcement... I may have to stalk the thread while trying to socialize, uhhh....

I don't think anything is official but Valieva and Kanysheva are a sure bet, and probably Usacheva and Kromykh.

Well they earned a spot and are eligible, Fed can really only unofficialy hold them back. It's like embarrassment of the riches in Russia, really. I want to knooooow.

One spot because of SB or world standing - Liza, Anna S, Alena, Nastya Gubanova, Stanislava, Anna Tarusina, Serafima, Maria. I also think they may find a way somehow.

All 18 spots Russia can have are taken in theory, so there may not be a place for host pick - Alina, Evgenia, Sofia and Sasha with two, and because that many girls earned a spot with SB or world standing, only two more can get two, if sticking to the rules. And I predicted it to be Liza and Anna, hm. Will see. As far as I know it is the first time when THAT many girls from one country have guaranteed spots.

I actually worried for her spots since she withdrew from JWC, but eh, will see soon.

Top 12 from Worlds has guaranteed 2 spots, so from this 4 only Liza could lose a spot, and she had second best total last year... Would they do this to her again? I think more probable is they will think of something so one of the girls who should get a spot because of SB or world standing, will... not get it, lol. Maria oraz Serafima, who really had only this one good competition last season which earned her top 24 SB. But I'm really curious actually what they will do. I just know I want Alena and Liza with 2 spots and Gubanova with at least one.

The thing with Russia ladies spots is that when you take in consideration all the skaters that have guaranteed spots due too rules, only 6 girls can have two spots (unless Fed forces someone out, like Maria who in theory should still have a spot because of world standing...). If no one is injured and Fed can't do that, I have a feeling Alena could get only one spot. I really, really hope not.

Love Kaleo go Jason!

I hope we see Ayaka in GP Series, she deserves this.

Hm... I was gonna say that Shoma probably knows best what he needs (certainly better than any of us), but if he indeed has coachless season, it's... very dangerous experiment I suppose. Only time will tell... Maybe he should go to Yale and train with Nathan