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  1. 1 hour ago, quadaxelwin said:

     

     

    The ISU Skating Awards Selection Commission will take into account the on-line voting results of each of the 3 voting groups with the same weight, i.e. Public 1/3 - Media 1/3 - ISU Member Federations 1/3. Only on-line votes submitted via the ISU on-line voting platform will count.

    For the determination of result of the Public on-line vote and Media on-line vote, the ISU Skating Award Selection Commission will take into account for each Award category:

    a) the absolute number of on-line votes per candidate including on-line votes from all countries

    b) the absolute number of on-line votes per candidate including on-line votes from all countries but not including the on-line votes from the Candidates country of origin.

    c) the number of on-line votes per candidate broken down by on-line votes from each country

    d) considering this first-time edition of the ISU Skating Awards and related totally unknown on-line voting result and proportion by country of the result, the ISU Skating Award Selection Commission will weigh the above-mentioned on-line results details with the objective to determine the final Nominees reflecting a fair and balanced world-wide opinion.

     

     

     

    Except it said on their website that they are gonna give little weight to votes from the skater's own country.

    Hence, the JP Fanyus who want to vote should change their country of origin when signing up lol. 

    But Japanese votes still will get taken into account under subparagraph (a) - they will take both non-Japanese and Japanese votes into account to get an overall objective view. If Yuzu end up with little vote from Japan, it will also look very weird. Considering his broad fanbase, I don't think he is the skater that needs to worry about too much skewing towards his home country ( I can't say the same for some other skaters)

  2. 49 minutes ago, yude said:

     

    I'm sorry if this was already posted, but Yuzuru also said in this article that he wanted to perfect Origin even if he would take 3 or 4 years...(I don't know if I should laugh or cry :laughing:)

     

    https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20190915/k10012083301000.html

     

    Hi, everyone. Being his fan for a long time, I complained about his score openly on Twitter for the first time. Oops , wrong thread :P

     

    Oh I see he doesn't care a bit about all the naysayers on recycling program...Good for him. Although I wonder if he is talking about perfecting the jump layout itself rather than necessary the exact program. Because even I can't imagine Origin repeated four years with all my love for it. 

  3. 36 minutes ago, 4Nessie said:

    Imagine... this autumn, free skate starts, Origin pose, hands up........ and all fanyus in the audience take out their dispensers... and click.... :rofl2:

     

    Raf is going to complain it's phsycological warfare! Although I think the campaign say there is only 600 of them so this scenery is probably not possible. I don't understand why they can't mass produce it.. it is not a very complicated model. Plus it looks cute in my opinion even for a non Yuzu fan.

  4. 4 minutes ago, TallyT said:

     

    Please don't tell me that we are already learning to love it.....

     To be honest I will take the reveal of the salmon pink costume over say 5 sec of Mezamashi trolling us by just reporting something we already know like ACI is on next week. After all the fun we had , how can we not see it in its full glory:pouty: 

  5. 53 minutes ago, Yuzurella said:

     

    You pay $3,700 for a Yuzu pic with his autograph and get a very beautiful watch for free. That's a great deal! No wonder it sold out within an hour! :10814716: :pouty:

    To be honest if I could part with that much money in a split second, I want Worlds front row seats to watch Yuzu skate more. On the other hand, whoever can buy such a watch on a whim probably already owns front row seats tickets.

  6. 47 minutes ago, yuzuangel said:

     

    This costume LOL I can't. It looks like expensive pagamas for an old lady :smiley-laughing021: The white sweater ones were on point tho :2thumbsup:

    I didn't know it was possible to outdo the white onesie with yellow frills:59227c768286a__s:...This pink one better not be the costume for this year's Lotte clear files....what happened Lotte, you were so on point with last year's green Japanese costume

  7. Who said the suit fits :LOL:  not only does it not fit, it's not even ironed properly. I bet Yuzu gave Citizen a few hours only to snap as many pictures as they want and go ok I'm back to practice. Nevertheless, he still looks fantastic! 

  8. I feel like you can hear a tiny tiny portion of Origin right before Seimei (could be wrong though)....And there is faint music playing in the background when he was jumping the 4S and quad combo. Anyone think it could be related to his short program?:P

  9. 24 minutes ago, Moria Polonius said:

     

    Raf would twist himself up talking about psychological warfare! :xD:

     

    Or better yet, play them during competitions Yuzu doesn't take part in. No competition without Yuzu!

     

    Or even better, every medalist's gift include the 'Yuzuru line' of watches (I know they are ladies line, but they can develop a men line too):59182a91b7414_cool(1):

  10. 1 hour ago, kaeryth said:

     

     

    :10814716:

     

    I was thinking something about the drawing seems off, but the above hit the point...The body proportion are too realistic such that it ends up being an unrealistic portrayal of Yuzu:LOL:

  11. 6 hours ago, SparkleSalad said:

    Apparently a company in China is trying to register the name 羽生結弦 :tumblr_inline_ncmif7esGm1rpglid: Chinese fans are trying to stop them and ANA have said they’re aware of the situation and will be looking out for Yuzu, too. 

     

     

     

     

     

    He is famous enough in China that someone wants to trademark his name? Geez. Hopefully ANA will sort it out, I think legally you can't trademark someone else's name, although I'm no expert on the matter. But I hope it's a warning sign to Yuzu's legal team to hurry up and trademark in China not just his name but also any other brandname he might want to use in the future such as  Continued with Wings. Not that he will necessarily hold ice shows in China but to prevent any misuse of brandnames associated with him. I recall Yuzu already trademarked Cotinued with Wings in Japan.

  12. To be honest the best time to introduce a quint for Yuzu is after he retires from full time competitive skating,  because right now it is not worth it if it has no known mark. After retirement, he can train it at his pace and when it is ready,  just enter himself into some international challenger event whose results are recognised by the ISU, but he does not need to commit himself to a full season. That way he can build a program that is choreographically supportive of the quint (or maybe even more than one for more opportunity to succeed), jump it and get his name down in history as the first to land it. He can simply just do one quint, one quad and the rest triples if it makes the success rate higher (in a lot of these challengers, two landed quads is all you need to win)  But since he is retired, what total marks he gets doesn't really matter anymore.  

  13. TSL said Yuzu would stay a month in Japan around Worlds with Ghislain ....Did not happen...He arrived a day late and left almost soon after. So they really barely have info on him. I mean even Brian alot of times don't  seem to know Hanyu's plans and state well himself. That is not to say Hanyu can't be training quints, since after the Olympics, he said he would like to try quints too. 

  14. 6 hours ago, KatjaThera said:

    This is great for getting an idea for the judges' reaction to the programs. Regarding difficulty, I think it'd also help seeing the BV of the programs at the times, and, just for kicks, the number and types of quads (as it seems for other skaters, at least, PCS seems to depend on that). IMO, technically, Origin is more difficult than H&L and Seimei, because it's also a pretty different type of choreography and it feels busier (except for the opening and we know he was planning a 4A there, so that's probably why it was fairly empty; not even Yuzu can probably do 4A from the beginning for a million transitions).

     

     

    The reason I didn't list out BVs & GOEs is because values and no. of jumps have changed in 2018/19, so a bit hard to compare directly. Also H&L, Seimei 2.0 and Origin were all planned 4 quads two 3A programs, so the technical difficulty is roughly similar.  BVs of popped programs are also not comparable to ones without pops. H&L and Origin had the 4lp, Seimei 2.0 started with 4Lz, but by the Olympics had only 4T and 4S.  Which is why I find these three seasons largely comparable. Based on the protocols of the competitions I have listed,  other than Olympics 18 and NHK 15 getting exemplary GOEs for successful jumps, the other ones all had middling GOEs given (since they were the first three skates of a 4 quads program). The number of and type of mistake are listed for the sake of seeing how close to being clean Yuzu managed to get on each attempt. 

     

    One would think H&L with slower music and less busy choreography is easier and more PCS friendly than Origin. But if you actually compare the first three skates, Yuzu wasn't skating less clean in Origin compared to H&L, and in fact getting better PCS for similar amounts of mistakes (maybe busier choreography did get him some more marks). And overall,  Origin is not that far off Seimei in terms of trajectory.  Interestingly, the first time he cleaned Semei at NHK, he got 97 PCS. When he first cleaned H&L he also got 97 PCS. I guess its left to see where Origin will be if cleaned (that is if he really is recycling it this season)   

  15. I was wondering whether Origin is a more difficult and judges unfriendly program, as compared to say H&L and Seimei. So I decided to compare the first three skates of the LP from the last three seasons (which all had four quads). I stopped at three as 2017/18 season only had three. I counted Worlds 2019 as the third time for Origin because RoC 2018 LP was a complete Yolo on the spot with injuries bad enough to need crutches - so really an anomaly. Also I think it is ok to compare NHK 16 to Olympics 18 and Worlds 19 because Yuzu couldn't train properly under injuries for 2-3 months. Image training can't really make up for lost competition skating and judges familiarity. it is fair to say his Olympics 18 & Worlds 19 physical state was likely where he may have been at 2nd GP or GPF had he not get injured, since it's usually when he peaks in the past too. With that in mind, the number of visible major mistakes he made and the PCS he got are listed for comparison:

     

    Hope & Legacy (2016/17 year) 

    ACI - 2 bad landings, 2 falls. PCS: 86.6

    SC - 1 fall, 1 pop. PCS: 88.12

    NHK - 1 fall. PCS: 92.52

    Average PCS: 89.08

     

    Seimei 2.0 (2017/18 year)

    ACI - 2 bad landings, 1 pop, 1 fall. PCS: 89.5

    RoC - 1 bad landing, 1 pop. PCS: 94.38

    Olympics - 2 bad landings. PCS: 96.62

    Average PCS: 93.5

     

    Origin (2018/19 year) 

    ACI - 2 bad landings, 1 fall, 1 pop.  PCS: 87.9 

    Helsinki - 3 bad landings.  PCS: 92.42

    Worlds -  1 bad landing.  PCS: 95.84

    Average PCS: 92.05

     

    Interestingly, Yuzu makes similar amounts of visible mistakes in the first three skates each year (although bad landings are less severe than falls).  So Origin isn't necessarily much more difficult. Using PCS as a guide, it appears whilst judges liked Seimei 2.0 slightly more than Origin, they liked Origin more than H&L at similar stages. However, Seimei 2.0 may also be getting higher PCS due to it being the second season, and had a reputation already. If you compare the average PCS of the first three skates of Seimei 1.0, it is slightly lower than 2.0.  

     

    Semei 1.0 (2015/16 year)

    ACI - 1 fall, 1 bad landing. PCS: 92.1

    SC - 2 bad landings, 1 fall. PCS: 88.94

    NHK - completely clean PCS: 97.2

    Average PCS: 92.75

     

    Between two seasons, Seimei was skated 9 times (cleaned on third go, but it only had three quads). In one season, H&L was skated 7 times (and only cleaned on 6th time). Like said above, Origin only had a proper skate of 3 times. So it really needs a few more outings before a proper comparison can be made. If you look at early stages, its trajectory is actually better than H&L.

     

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