FSU Watch Party Saturday (28/03/20) - 2013 Worlds Ladies SP [12:30pm CDT/6:30pm CET]

[Colonel Green]

Since we don't have Montreal Worlds this year (or at least this month, we'll see what insanity the ISU may attempt in the fall), instead let's look back to the last time Worlds was held in Canada: 2013, when the world's finest traveled to London. Assembled, a cross-section of the current best, a few stars who would burn very brightly in the next few years, and some other OES. We'll be covering the people who placed in the top twelve plus a few other FSU favourites. See Yuna's return! See Kaetlyn and Gracie's Worlds debuts! See Perkova's last stand!

Group 1
Brooklee HAN AUS

Group 2
Kaetlyn OSMOND CAN

Group 3
KIM Yuna KOR

Group 4
Gracie GOLD USA [+ hilarious Japanese intro]

Group 5
Akiko SUZUKI JPN
Valentina MARCHEI ITA
Adelina SOTNIKOVA RUS
Viktoria HELGESSON SWE
Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA RUS
LI Zijun CHN

Group 6
Kanako MURAKAMI JPN
Ashley WAGNER USA
Maé Bérénice MEITE FRA
Mao ASADA JPN
Carolina KOSTNER ITA
Alena LEONOVA RUS

 

[Vagabond]

Perkova FTW!!!!

 

[Colonel Green]

Now we learn if operating one of these is as easy as @alchemy void made it look. Starting in 14 minutes.

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[Colonel Green]

Low tech, but a very nice Worlds debut for Brooklee, with lots of choreo that she looked confident in.

 

[alchemy void]

we didn't yet have a TES tracker in 2013?

 

[Colonel Green]

What a wonderful way to make a World debut that was! There wouldn’t be anything quite as good for her at Worlds until 2017, but those would be problems for another day.

 

[Vagabond]

That Kaetlyn Osmond might go places one day.

 

[alchemy void]

Osmond was really sensational. I don't remember where she ended up, but that should easily be in the final group.

Who's ****ing with the controls?

 

[Colonel Green]

I don’t know why that video started skipping suddenly.

Anyway: Lord of the Rinks: Return of the Queen!

 

[Colonel Green]

Osmond was really sensational. I don't remember where she ended up, but that should easily be in the final group.

She was fourth, just off a small medal.

If not for Yuna being in the third group, she’d have led from Group 2 through to Group 6.

 

[Aerobicidal]

I remember someone writing a really long post on FSU about how this program captured the essence of campy horror movies, making it a subversive classic.

Which is basically an indirect way of saying I never liked Yuna or understood her obsessive fans.

Osmond was much more interesting even though that is not one of her better SPs, IMO.

 

[muffinplus]

Never seen this Yuna program. (wasn't following skating that much at the time) Sorry, she still bores me

 

[Colonel Green]

Not my favourite Yuna program by any means, but those jumps are

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

Now I wonder which skaters they wished hadn't returned to competition.

 

[alchemy void]

 

[Wyliefan]

I'm not on the Watch Together thing -- I have no faith in my ability to make it work -- but I'm watching on YouTube. Such fun to see little Kaetlyn at her first Worlds! She rocked it!

 

[Colonel Green]

I wish all World competitions gave the competitors intros like they’re the stars of their own anime.

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

Was this when Gracie was working with Frank?

 

[Aerobicidal]

It's really hard for me to watch Gracie knowing what we know now.

 

[Vagabond]

It's difficult watching this knowing what is to come.

ETA: Jinx!

 

[VGThuy]

Never seen this Yuna program. (wasn't following skating that much at the time) Sorry, she still bores me

Same here. I thought she was at her most boring at this Worlds honestly. I preferred her prior and in Sochi, but she was never my favorite.

 

[Vagabond]

I have a curious feeling of deja vu.

 

[Colonel Green]

Somebody evidently wanted to go back to Kaetlyn.

 

[alchemy void]

@Colonel Green if you click the settings icon, you have the ability to block other users from advancing the video or selecting other videos. I think that's why the video keeps jumping around

 

[Colonel Green]

@Colonel Green if you click the settings icon, you have the ability to block other users from advancing the video or selecting other videos. I think that's why the video keeps jumping around

Which feature does that?

 

[alchemy void]

I admit I was amused when Chris and Simon were predicted a score around 78, and she didn't even crack 70. I was never much of a Yuna fan, but that was generic to the max.

 

[Colonel Green]

Great program from Akiko, in terms of choreo. She’s often overlooked in terms of longevity stories in skating.

 

[Aerobicidal]

Was that Miss Karne trying to see how the 3-3 combo was underrotated from as many angles as possible and kept rewinding it??????

I wish there was a skater today who could sell footwork like Suzuki could, but her tech content leaves something to be desired.

 

[alchemy void]

Which feature does that?

Check everything underneath Enable Moderation, EXCEPT members only.

 

[Wyliefan]

I loved Akiko. First Japanese lady I ever ubered.

ETA: No, second. Yukina Ota was first. But she was here and gone so fast, sometimes I forget.