2024 GPF - Junior Men FS

[Sylvia]

Junior Men - Free Skating Starting Order/Results: https://www.isuresults.com/results/season2425/gpf2024/SEG010.htm

Time schedule by skater (2nd event on Saturday 14:45-15:35 local / 8:45-9:35 am Eastern time): https://www.isuresults.com/results/...JUNIOR----FNL-000100--_StartListwithTimes.pdf

StN. Name Nation (ISU bios are linked below)

1 Sena TAKAHASHI JPN 6 61.83
2 Minkyu SEO KOR 5 69.68
3 Yanhao LI NZL 4 72.17
4 Lukas VACLAVIK SVK 3 72.72
5 Jacob SANCHEZ USA 2 79.24
6 Rio NAKATA JPN 1 79.39

Livestream (with Ted Barton & Mark Hanretty): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9FXNIZZlhc

 

[Karen-W]

I don't see @MacMadame around yet (I'm up because Golden Spin pairs just ended about 20 min ago, lol), so here's the first Bingo card of the day!

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Based on yesterday's PBP, I went ahead and added two "commentator" boxes.

1) Mark audibly crushed - Mark groans, sighs, or makes his frustration/disappointment clear to all
2) Ted mangles a name - skater, place or country

Suggestion	Comments	Discipline
“artistic” camerawork	Weird angles, loses skater, focus on 1 body part, fade-ins/outs	All
“Korean” hair bling	Doesn’t have to be a Korean skater but it has to be super-blingy; headbands count	All
2nd half bonus	Mentioned by commentator	All but Dance
arm (hair) ography	When the hair or arms are doing all the work	All
big plushie		All
bubble braid/ man bun		All
coach cam	When they show the coach miming or reacting the performance	All
costume change		All
costume doesn’t match	Either each other or the music; slight color differences don’t count	All
could be skating to anything	From an FSUer	All
cutouts	It has to look like a piece of the costume is missing	All
dying on ice		All
elegant pop		All but Dance
Emo/ Sad Girl Cover		All
face touching		All
fall on non-element		All
fist pump	after landing a jump or seeing scores	All
frosty/ mad coach	In the KnC	All
gymnastics on ice	Cartwheels, roundoff, etc They have to be upside down at one point	All
Heart Hands		All
illusion/ tights weird color	Like not matching skin tone or rest of the costume	All but usually not Mens
inappropriate smiling	Smiling when skating to sad or serious music - we know it when we see it	All
invalid element		All
jarring music cuts		All
knee slide		All
lip-synching	To skater’s program	All
Mark audibly crushed	Mark groans, sighs, or makes his frustration/disappointment clear to all	All
molest the judges	Getting in their space during the program; overrides touch the board	All but especially the FD
Music from Movie	Umbrellas, Lion King, Matrix, etc. Has to be from the soundtrack.	All
Music from Musical	POTO, Les Mis, etc. Has to be from the cast album	All
nails/ hair match costume	Anything that requires a commitment beyond makeup and jewelry	All but usually not Mens
nude gloves		All
Obvious Warhorse	Not from Musical/Movie. Carmen, Nessa Dorum, Swan Lake, Muse, Take 5	All
only one sleeve/sleeveless	Women's costume with only one sleeve OR Men's costume with no sleeves	All
Pink Ladies		All
shoutouts in Kiss n Cry	Hi Mom!	All
Superstar Artist	Musical superstars only - MJ, ABBA, Louis Prima, etc -	All
Ted mangles a name	skater, place or country	All
tights over/boot covers	Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is it so they both count	All but usually not Mens
touch the boards		All
Tribute program	i.e., skating to Disturb’s SoS or Red Violin - as determined by FSU - overrides obvious warhorse	All
very literal costume		All
voiceovers	Can’t be part of the original music	All
whickety-whack		All

For those playing Bingo - here's what we have so far -

bubble braid/ man bun
coach cam
cutouts
Emo/ Sad Girl Cover
fist pump
Heart Hands
“Korean” hair bling
Mark audibly crushed
Music from Musical
only one sleeve/sleeveless
nude gloves
Pink Ladies
Ted mangles a name
whickety-whack

 

[Frau Muller]

Jacoh or Ria? Tough!

 

[victorskid]

We are live for event #2 of day 3

 

[Karen-W]

LOL - Rio Nakata takes a page out of Ilia's book from last night and casually strolls through the curtain onto the ice.

 

[her grace]

Age watch:

Vaclavik and Sanchez are old enough for seniors now as well. Others are too young and will also be too young to move up next year.

 

[Private Citizen]

The guys have all had pop-itis on warmup. Hoping they leave it there.

 

[Sally1214]

Santa spotted in the audience. Such a cool guy.

 

[Karen-W]

LOL - Mark off "Obvious Warhorse" here with Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"!

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

I think it tells a lot if I say I enjoy Takahashi's interpretation more than Hase/Volodin. Even if the music cuts are butchering Vivaldi.

 

[tony]

Takahashi

3Lz+3T, 3A+2T, 3F, 3A, 3Lo, 3F+2A+2A(tight), 3S

FCSp was all kinds of ugly, barely stretched basic position. Very nice ChSq, though. Loved it. Very good interpretation and a more memorable Four Seasons out of all the resurgence we've seen lately.

 

[Karen-W]

Well, this has been a rather pleasant enough program from Takahashi. Nothing I'll remember in 2 days let alone the next time I see him skate, but nice enough.

 

[her grace]

Takahashi

Nice speed on his back camel, really impressed by the quality of his 3as at only 14, three jump sequence was quite a fight, lots of potential for future

 

[Wyliefan]

Good comeback after the short! Aw, he's so happy!

 

[Private Citizen]

Great skate and even better reaction from Takahashi! Filled every box. It’s not impossible for him to win the free skate with this kind of a performance.

 

[TAHbKA]

The flower kid is almost the size of Takahashi

 

[Sally1214]

Awww..... Sena's face at the end of his skate was EVERYTHING!!

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Takahashi is adorable.

 

[JoannaLouise]

The 2nd 3a was so casual I thought it was a double!

 

[Firedancer]

This is my first time watching juniors in a long time. That was a really great skate and his reaction was adorable

 

[Karen-W]

Hard for me to get behind Seo - I wasn't a big fan of him last season and I'm even less of a fan now.

 

[Wyliefan]

Minkyu uses more of the intro of that song than anyone ever has. Three jumping passes done before we get to the first line.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

If Seo wants to dance and sing in the rain, he can just go outside; the weather is horrendous today.

It tells alot if I enjoy junior men music choice miles more than seniors'.

 

[tony]

Seo

3A+3T, 3A, 3Lo, 3F+2T, 3Lz(edge?) with a nice nuance out of it, 3F+2A+2A, 3S

A really 'expected' junior program but with good interpretation and flow across the ice. In fact, both of the skaters so far have more choreography than a lot of the seniors

 

[Wyliefan]

Aww, that was great!

 

[Karen-W]

Well, that program isn't nearly as twee as I remember, so that's good. Still not a fan.

 

[Private Citizen]

Wow, another clean program with two triple axels and checking all the boxes. Very high quality jumps (stalked axels and possible flutz aside). The guys at the top better bring it!

 

[Dragonlady]

The 3 C's???? How about Clean, Ted???? That's a C word. So is Clueless.

Every time Barton commentates, I want to throw things at the screen. Earlier in the week was his laughable statement that we will see ALL of the Junior singles skaters here, at the Olympics someday. Without question. Nam Nguyen ring a bell Ted? There are dozens of others.

 

[Hedwig]

I hate Singing in the rain. It says a lot about him that I still enjoyed his skate. It looked all so easy today for him. Such ease!

 

[her grace]

Seo

Nailing one jump after another, okay presentation but I think he could push the interpretation more to make it bigger and more impactful