2026 US Nationals Pairs FS "Ghosted (by my triples)"

[slicekw]

I love Chan/Howe. Glad they did better. That last lift is world-class, but the jumps - classic US team.

 

[BrightSkates]

the lift hates the music as much as I do and just refused to budge

As soon as they announced it I absolutely hated it. I dont know what Drew is listening to but he needs a new Pandora radio station

 

[Allen]

I mean, it's not like our other pairs jump successfully on a regular basis. Emily and Spencer just have a little extra bit of zhuzh and never have weird huge grins in the wrong parts of the music.

They have the international look more than our other teams too.

 

[Karen-W]

I mean, it's not like our other pairs jump successfully on a regular basis. Emily and Spencer just have a little extra bit of zhuzh and never have weird huge grins in the wrong parts of the music.

That's what I love about them. Their expressions always match the music.

 

[MacMadame]

I don't know where Emily left her jumps but just didn't get to Saint Louis

That last lift was scary too. It looked like Spencer didn't have the strength for it.

 

[BrightSkates]

Does anyone know if Williams and Lewer have considered skating for Australia?

I know they considered it but I dont know why they aborted that option

 

[Karen-W]

Well, there's the bar for the rest of the teams. We'll see what comes to pass in several hours.

 

[Karen-W]

FS results after Group 1 -

Pl. Name Club Points SP FS
1 Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe SC of Boston/SC of Boston 186.52 8 1
2 Naomi Williams / Lachlan Lewer SC of Boston/Broadmoor SC 152.86 9 2
3 Linzy Fitzpatrick / Keyton Bearinger SC of New York/SC of New York 151.93 10 3

Segment Result Details
Pl. Name Club TSS= TES+ PCS+ CO PR SK Ded.- StN.
1 Emily Chan / Spencer Akira Howe SC of Boston/SC of Boston 127.23 62.88 64.35 8.07 8.07 7.96 0.00 #3
2 Naomi Williams / Lachlan Lewer SC of Boston/Broadmoor SC 97.77 46.55 51.22 6.43 6.50 6.25 0.00 #2
3 Linzy Fitzpatrick / Keyton Bearinger SC of New York/SC of New York 97.37 49.32 48.05 6.11 5.96 5.93 0.00 #1

 

[BrightSkates]

That last lift was scary too. It looked like Spencer didn't have the strength for it.

The footwork was really scratchy at the end.

 

[Wyliefan]

Ben sounds as over the split as we are.

 

[my little pony]

what do we think the lag time is before the women's WUG1?

 

[ChillSkate]

We'll have to wait forever to find out but my prediction is Chan & Howe pull up to 3rd or 4th - behind Efimova & Mitrofanov, KamO, and maybe McPark.

 

[MacMadame]

The footwork was really scratchy at the end.

It was very off-balance.

On a different note, Golden sounds better in the arena on my tv than on my car radio.

 

[Karen-W]

what do we think the lag time is before the women's WUG1?

Per the colored time schedule - the Women's FS Group 1 is supposed to start at 2:57pm, so about 20 minutes.

 

[Sarah]

I mean, it's not like our other pairs jump successfully on a regular basis. Emily and Spencer just have a little extra bit of zhuzh and never have weird huge grins in the wrong parts of the music.

There is something about Emily’s jumps that are more disruptive? Maybe it’s that she pops a lot and pops and falls? I’m not sure. But I struggle with them. (But I like them!)

And since Spencer’s injuries, some of the lifts look scary/out of control.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Was the score generous?

 

[MacMadame]

Time to switch threads!

 

[ilovesalchows]

We'll have to wait forever to find out but my prediction is Chan & Howe pull up to 3rd or 4th - behind Efimova & Mitrofanov, KamoO, and maybe McPark.

I hope not. Nothing against them but that means we are in for some dire performances from others.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

OK, so where are we going now? To a Canadian thread? To the women’s first group?

 

[peibeck]

That last lift was scary too. It looked like Spencer didn't have the strength for it.

It was VERY scary, live. His feet were skidding. Their second lift was chef's kiss though.

 

[Karen-W]

We'll have to wait forever to find out but my prediction is Chan & Howe pull up to 3rd or 4th - behind Efimova & Mitrofanov, KamoO, and maybe McPark.

I dunno... I think they'll certainly pull up to no worse than 5th. FlorWang have struggled with lifts this season and I don't think they're even attempting two throw triples. LiuBed are dealing with Chelsea's mystery illness which can't be a good thing for the FS. And I'm sure that at least one of teams in the top 5 will have a bad enough FS that drops them behind ChanHowe. Beyond that, I'd actually be pretty sad if the rest of the top 5 did so poorly they couldn't beat ChanHowe's very beatable 186.52 this evening.

 

[Matryeshka]

Everything seemed off today. Even their lifts were a little off--not quite as stretched out or high, I swear Spencer had a moment on that last lift.

I know I'm in the minority but I feel like this is a team that reached its peak a couple of seasons ago and would have been better off it they had split. Imagine Chan/Nagy and Effimova/Spencer. All of them could have gone to the Olys.

This is a perfect world where obviously we would have three spots, not leaving out Kam/O'Shea. For all of Kam's jump issues and their age difference, I really like these two together.

This is a bizarre trivia game. I swear, Rusty is trying to be the Temu version of Ryan Seacrest

 

[Karen-W]

Everything seemed off today. Even their lifts were a little off--not quite as stretched out or high, I swear Spencer had a moment on that last lift.

I know I'm in the minority but I feel like this is a team that reached its peak a couple of seasons ago and would have been better off it they had split. Imagine Chan/Nagy and Effimova/Spencer. All of them could have gone to the Olys.

This is a perfect world where obviously we would have three spots, not leaving out Kam/O'Shea. For all of Kam's jump issues and their age difference, I really like these two together.

This is a bizarre trivia game. I swear, Rusty is trying to be the Temu version of Ryan Seacrest

She still can't go to the Olympics, even with a different partner who is a US citizen. I like the EfiMit partnership and think it's a good one.

I do agree that ChanHowe peaked a couple seasons ago. His shoulder injury & the multiple surgeries he needed to come back from that really destroyed the solid momentum they'd built up during the 2022-23 season.

 

[Matryeshka]

Listen, this is my fantasy pairings. I'm not letting little things like "citizenship" and "reality" get in the way of a good story. I think we've well established I am here for glitter and pretty people and questionable life choices. I am not here for "true lutzes" and "spin rotations" and other fake news.

 

[peibeck]

Wrong thread

 

[VALuvsMKwan]

Listen, this is my fantasy pairings. I'm not letting little things like "citizenship" and "reality" get in the way of a good story. I think we've well established I am here for glitter and pretty people and questionable life choices. I am not here for "true lutzes" and "spin rotations" and other fake news.

Have some ayehuasca.

 

[ChillSkate]

It would have been very odd though for Chan & Howe to split as reigning National Silver medalists while he was recovering from shoulder surgery.

That said, I think I would have enjoyed seeing Chan & Fernandez and McBeath & Howe.

 

[Matryeshka]

It would have been very odd though for Chan & Howe to split as reigning National Silver medalists while he was recovering from shoulder surgery.

That said, I think I would have enjoyed seeing Chan & Fernandez and McBeath & Howe.

Yesss, big ups to Chan and Fernandez. Not sure about McBeath and Howe because I do really like her with Parkman, but you know, I'd be down for it. I'll play it out in my head and let you know how it goes.

 

[Karen-W]

Yesss, big ups to Chan and Fernandez. Not sure about McBeath and Howe because I do really like her with Parkman, but you know, I'd be down for it. I'll play it out in my head and let you know how it goes.

I actually want Flores & Parkman to team up - she needs a bigger guy than Luke.

 

[my little pony]

Listen, this is my fantasy pairings. I'm not letting little things like "citizenship" and "reality" get in the way of a good story. I think we've well established I am here for glitter and pretty people and questionable life choices. I am not here for "true lutzes" and "spin rotations" and other fake news.

in theory, if we steal a country can we send those people to the olympics for us? (sort of kidding)