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Agree, agree and agree. Thank you for this positive and healing comment

EDIT: I decided to put this comment into spoilers, because I don't want to destroy the good mood

I really gave up on any kind of skating score calculations after Worlds and WTT 2019... [funfact: my auto correction didn't know the abbreviation "WTT" and suggested "WTF" instead lol]. Possible mindgames right now: If I skate two perfectly clean programs and the judges give me 0 GOE and 8.00 PCS everywhere (worst case scenario), I need a BV of ~53 in the SP and ~167 in the FS to win with 95% probability and a combined total of ~340 points. If they capitulate and decide to give me +5's and 10.00's, I could score ~390 with the same performance. *yeeey*

Now I'm really curious how Otonal and Origin look like without jumps at the moment...

Wonderful photo! It's so rare to have everyone in one pic: Yuzu, Zhenya, Jason, Jun, Joseph, Conrad and now Matteo, too Why do I have the feeling that Matteo doesn't want to leave the Club after those three weeks anymore...

I don't know how good or bad Yuzu's singing voice is, but I'm 100% sure: If he's ever forced to sing in public and doesn't feel comfortable, ToshI will beam himself into the backstage area and volunteer as his backing track

Thank you for your detailed analysis! Out of curiosity I looked up all PCS that Yuzu received for his FS since the 15/16 season (except Nationals): Event Seimei 1.0 H&L Seimei 2.0 Origin ACI 92.10 86.60 89.50 87.90 GP1 88.94 88.12 94.38 92.42 GP2 97.20 92.52 - 90.64 GPF 98.56 92.36 - - 4CC - 94.34 - - OWG - - 96.62 - WC 92.02 97.08 - 95.84 WTT - 93.56 - - Overall I would say that the judges liked Seimei the most and Origin and H&L are on similar level more or less. I'm still baffled that Olympic Seimei with a missed combo and two wonky jumps received nearly the same PCS score as the absolute flawless H&L in Helsinki (less than 0.5 points difference). Sure, the SP placements, starting order and different judging panels played a role, but still. Helsinki H&L really deserved better PCS than 97 imo.

Sometimes it's really hard for me to talk about THE fandom of an athlete or other celebrity. There are so many different types of groups, networks and people... from supportive and warmhearted to secondhand ambarrassing and rude... from a pieceful follower to a hardcore stalker you have everything in the pool. Sometimes it's even both and this the craziest thing actually: Some of the users who spread hate on SN might be the same people that left kind and encouraging messages in Yuzu's beauty blog or in the fanbook. In the 17/18 season I started to communicate about figure skating on GS, YT and Twitter and I have to say: in no other sport (and I follow pretty much everything) did I feel such a strong need to defend my favorite, start pointless discussions with antis or riot against the system. This was an absolutely crazy experience and sometimes I felt so tired that I wanted to quit... However, Yuzu's skating made me stay and the Planet is a real treasure. Here I can follow his incredible journey without any stress and share my thoughts and feelings with other nice fans. Big thank you for all the streaming parties as well!! It's like watching your favorite event at home with your family

I'm not sure what is worse: 1. The ugly and rude comments and some people acting like TCC's privacy officers. I'm 100% sure that the club can handle cases like this on their own and public bullying on Insta is the very last thing they need. 2. The fact that some people have nothing else to do than lurking 24h on other skaters' Insta accounts for crucial leaks. Whatever they hope to find, they know that it will cause everyone unnecessary trouble. Sometimes it's better not to know about anything. In this case I think that for Yuzu and the club this Origin leak is not a big deal or at least not as big as those people think.

The thing is: with the narrow rules that we currently have it's nearly impossible to construct a program that maximizes the scoring output and still leaves room for a perfectly fitting choreography. Every jump has a specific rhythm, airtime and entry pattern, so it must be very tricky to cut a music piece that fits all these criteria for three or even seven jumps. Not to mention the order of the elements, the breathing rooms and your stamina limits. In the SP you have a little bit more options to play with the composition of your program, but it's still tough as Otonal has shown. Scoringwise the COR layout was the ideal solution. In the FS you get max output, when you start with a cascade of your four biggest solo jumps followed by a spin to fill the first half, then go for the three combinations early in the second half and complete the remaining elements in whatever order. However, dramaturgically this is contraproductive, because the tension of the program is more or less gone after the 3:00 mark. Your spins and sequences must be stellar to keep the excitement high until the end and we know how many skaters can do that...

I shouldn't be surprised about anything anymore and yet... the chopsticks + noodles missed my mouth by two inches.

Now that I think about it... AYE. No music choice in the world could change their mind. Probably.

In the waiting room of the Citizens' Office I thought a little bit about a possible Origin recycling. If Yuzu plans to repeat it, it's an understandable choice. You don't invest so much time, love and sweat in a choreography that you only skate four times in competition (twice with painkillers). I'm sure it would bother him to leave Origin like that. Considering the massive technical upgrade that he plans, it's good to have a familiar program anyway. My concerns: 1. Origin - no matter which music cuts he picks - is an incredibly explosive and physically demanding program. I don't know, how much he has worked on his stamina and the efficiency of his movements, but Origin is a killer, especially with 4-5 quad monsters. 2. Yuzu has recycled a couple of programs in recent years and this could lead to annoying narratives again. I hope that it won't, but it's the skating community we're talking about... If Origin is the choice, I cross my toes and fingers that he can finally skate this program to his satisfaction. If not, I'm curious what it will be (unlikely, but let's wait and see).

And we thought, an upgrade of his ISU bio would be the least spectacular announcement... "Yuzu, how do you REALLY think about the scores of Judge 4?"

When I saw the pics of the glove-incident for the first time, I read in Yuzu's eyes: "Sigh... How shall I do the Hydroblade without gloves now? This program is cancelled."

@Veveco Gomen that I can't help in the printing question, but I've read the whole PDF now (minus the blurry comments) and it made me inexpressibly happy. The love and support is really radiating from these pages. It's the best energy booster for Yuzu that his fans can give him. So once again: Thank you so so so much for this hard work!! It would be nice for sure, if Yuzu read the book before the start of the new season, but I think ACI is fine, too. PS: I can totally picture him analyzing our fan survey on his couch: 'Oh wow, Origin and Notte Stellata costume were really that popular! Let's pick more sparkling feather costumes in the future...'

That was long overdue. Hope that Notte Stellata can follow soon. Both programs deserve it

Oh thank you, didn't know that. What would happen, if all scores and other stats are the same? (Not that this will ever happen... ) To be honest: If two skaters have exactly the same score, they both deserve the gold. In many other sports it's no problem either to award two gold medals and figure skating is a sport, where you can only win one Olympic medal in four years (maybe two, if you have a strong fed in the team event behind you).

Now that I think about it... There was a veeeery little chance that both win gold in PyeongChang, but Yuzu and Javi would have needed exactly the same score in both SP and FS. This is extremely rare... Okay, their friendship is one of a kind, too. So it would have been symbolic somehow, aye? However. It's great as it is.

My guess for the competition thread: Practice day: +100 pages SP day: +100 pages FS day: +200 pages

So that means, Alina's SP won't survive very long on YT next season... This is the only reason, why I hope that Yuzu won't bring back LGC but pick some copyright-friendly music

It's great to see that Yuzu and Alina get along with each other and Yuzu supports her. I really liked their sbs 3F in practice at Worlds, it was better in sync than most sbs jumps in pair competitions

5000 PAGES!!! Just WOW!!! As a 2019 newbie I couldn't contribute that much yet, but I love this chat EDIT: Hell, I just realised that this is my 766th post already!

Okay everyone. The next post will open page 5000. Should we throw something special in to celebrate this moment?

Yuzu and TCC can teach the film industry a lesson in the prevention of information leaks... I can picture his first press con in Oakville to be like this (but with the duct tape on for the entire 60 minutes)