ISU GP Skate Canada International 2017

Pairs Short and Long Program Discussion

 

ISU Grand Prix

Regina, SK / CAN

27.10.2017 - 29.10.2017

 

 

 

This is the thread for GP Skate Canada  Pairs SP&FS-related discussion

 

 

Date	Event	Location
October 20 - 22	2017 Rostelecom Cup	Moscow / RUS
October 27 - 29	2017 Skate Canada	Regina, Saskatchewan / CAN
November 3 -5	2017 Cup of China	Beijing / CHN
November 10 - 12	2017 NHK Trophy	Osaka / JPN
November 17 - 19	2017 Internationaux de France	Grenoble / FRA
November 24 - 16	2017 Skate America	Lake Placid, New York / USA
December 7 – 10	2017–18 Grand Prix Final	Nagoya / JPN

 

 

 

 

*times listed hereon are in your local time

Instructions for Streaming

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Entry List

(start order to follow)

 

	Pairs
1	Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD (CAN)
2	Liubov ILYUSHECHKINA / Dylan MOSCOVITCH (CAN)
3	Sydney KOLODZIEJ / Maxime DESCHAMPS (CAN)
4	Cheng PENG / Yang JIN (CHN)
5	Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES (FRA)
6	Aliona SAVCHENKO / Bruno MASSOT (GER)
7	Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT (RUS)
8	Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER (USA)

 

Time and Practice Schedule
Results Page

SP Start Order

 

	Warm Up Group 1
1	Sydney KOLODZIEJ / Maxime DESCHAMPS (CAN)
2	Cheng PENG / Yang JIN (CHN)
3	Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER (USA)
4	Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT (RUS)
	Warm Up Group 2
5	Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT (RUS)
6	Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES (FRA)
7	Aliona SAVCHENKO / Bruno MASSOT (GER)
8	Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD (CAN)

 

It's starting.

okay, lol, second commentary then

 

bummed for Peng/Jin, but scores were fair. I wish Cheng would emote more! It's a tango. Every pair's couple that came after them deserved to get higher PCS than them. 

Cheering for James/Cipres and Savchenko/Massot!

 

Silly mistakes for Duhamel/Radford.

 

Haven/Denney were surprisingly nice, liked that. 

 

All in all, nobody had Sui/Han quality yet, but I like Savchenko/Massot's FS more than their SP, so I'm looking forward to it!

Strangely enough, I enjoyed Denney/Frazier most of all. Well, they maxed out their potential. S/M and J/C are coming along well. That D/R program is a snooze, unfortunately.

I liked Lubov's and Dylan SP!

Vanessa has nice dress but that blue thing on James's costume must go 

Not a fan of Alyona's SP this season 

 

FS start

 

	Warm Up Group 1	SP
1	Cheng PENG / Yang JIN (CHN)	61.58 (7)
2	Sydney KOLODZIEJ / Maxime DESCHAMPS (CAN)	59.06 (8)
3	Liubov ILYUSHECHKINA / Dylan MOSCOVITCH (CAN)	64.06 (5)
4	Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER (USA)	63.26 (6)
	Warm Up Group 2
5	Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES (FRA)	73.04 (3)
6	Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT (RUS)	69.00 (4)
7	Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD (CAN)	73.53 (2)
8	Aliona SAVCHENKO / Bruno MASSOT (GER)	77.34 (1)

 

This season I'm going to root for Aliona and Bruno a lot. I prefer the FS to the SP but I think they will grow and make it more exciting than it is now. I've already see a lot of things I like. The twist is so clean and so high the throw still needs a lot of work but hey, it's a 3A throw!

Still those sbs jumps aren't the best though...(on the contrary, J/C 3S were absolutely beautiful. The choreo of their lift was great too!).

The final lift is the kind of element that makes me general audience go crazy, for its placement at the end of the program, matched to the music, and how easily he seems to lift her on one arm, the other behind his back! Just wow

Whishing all the teams a free skate without falls

falls in pair skating looks always so scary (tbh also wobbly or two footed landings like Aliona's on the 3Athrow looks scary, I think how much the ladies's poor ankles have to bear)

It's a great line up so!

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH_xj8deHyI

 

That was a terrible fall, SC please don't. Pairs are tough as it is. 

It is cursed ice, I tell you. Only the dancers were immune ... I think the dancers took more than their fair amount of the anti curse charm..

Pretty much. We're at kill it, kill it with fire stage, then salt the earth. 

Good job, despite the fall. The ice curse continues