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About that: look at timestamp 1:49

It had better be Lady Lutz who shows up, and not Lutzifer....

ditto...

More like, Jun is pretty tall!

Oh, so that's you! I think I've subscribed to your channel. Love your vids.

Only Yuzu. when you watch stuff like this, you get a bit of a feeling that he's sometimes chaos personified on the ice. I wouldn't want to be Brian at rinkside for these....hard on the nerves

Or we could go with "Statistical Analysis of Judges Performance: Bias or No Bias", which is even more neutral-sounding. It'd be bad if all this good work got dismissed as being biased, itself.

Scott's been commentating sports for CBC since I was a tot. He's usually very calm and measured, doesn't get into the hype that some sportscasters do. And of course all the commentators have the job of trying to make their coverage exciting so they say silly things sometimes. But Scott's always been genuine on-air, so if he's saying that about Yuzu, it's his real feelings.

I find it pretty cool that they're (SkateOntario) streaming sectionals/regionals, even for the novices. That's some good public service there. And Scott Russell is absolutely right.

I could so imagine him doing that!

Maybe Brian? LOL.

he usually does lyrical kinds of Exes, though. When was the last time he had a high energy one - Vertigo, was it? Or HILY? I honestly think if he doesn't keep HYK then we'll be getting Crystal Memories. But what I wouldn't pay to see what he could do with Little Red Corvette.

Stretched? Or deliberately tailored? After all, Prince also wore his pants cut tightly so as to show off assets...you could say it was in character, really. But I think most of Yuzu's gains have been in the chest and shoulders, his legs and waist haven't changed much, so the PPOS ought to fit nicely.

Oh, but, joking apart, can Yuzu even do LGC right now? That was pre-double ankle injury, and I have noticed he moves a bit more cautiously now.

I know it's not really funny, but this still made me laugh. Russia's been like that since Soviet times. It's really not a surprise.

The takeaway: working with Yuzu might be a bit hard on pianists but they don't care because he's inspiring.

If you turn out to be right, someone is going to have to stretcher me onto the plane home after Kelowna because I. Will. Die!!

I want it to be Masquerade, but realistically I think it will be HYK.

One more question: would this data set show whether there's any statistically significant bias difference between disciplines? I.e., is ice dance judging really more biased than all the others?

Sheesh! The number of countries with all or most judges tested showing bias! It might be quicker to list the unbiased ones, but at this point I'm wondering if, over time, a larger data set would just show that all the judges are biased to some degree. Also, as a Canadian, I'm profoundly irritated by the Canadian results here. For a country that has suffered unfairly from biased judging in the past, and was a big contributor to the supposedly less biased IJS, to have 9 out of 23 judges fail the bias test is a disappointment. We are a country that prides itself on fair play, for f**K's sake! On the other hand, this evidence pretty clearly shows that almost all feds have bias, so it would be hard to resist the temptation to pad your own country's scores a little. Here's the thing though: just because a skater benefits from bias, doesn't necessarily mean that skater is a terrible skater who doesn't deserve international titles. It just means they should be judged by a neutral party.

And Worlds, don't forget Worlds. Right now they only list La Presse as a media sponsor ( which is a newspaper), but surely they'll have someone broadcasting (right, ISU? Right?). Possibly CTV/ TSN, who I think have the rights for SCI too. Or maybe the French-language sports station, I can't remember the name at the moment. CBC seems like it's not going to fund figure skating coverage this year, but we'll see.

ISU streaming is exciting but I suspect that SA and SCI will be geoblocked in Canada. Hopefully all the overseas competitions will be available though ( NHK, CoR, etc).

At least the smile is beautiful.

Either way, it's a confusing garment.

It's great until you realize they made him wear a cardigan over a sports jacket. The logic, it is not there....