2024 NHK Trophy Mens FS PBP - How Now Brown Kay-O?

[Karen-W]

Whose costume are you going to kill?

Oh, no, I don't have a bingo. Not even close. That's only the second space I have marked off my card.

"Real courage!"

 

[Karen-W]

LOL - in the warm up, Chris said that Litvintsev didn't have much choreo in his program and then he gets a neg GOE for his choreo seq!

Chris is really tearing into him for the lack of choreo.

 

[tony]

I just want to play some of Litvintsev's older short programs on loop. This program is a bunch of NOTHING.

The PCS should be 70 at best, and that's even pushing it.

 

[tony]

Volchkova looks the same as she did in 2004. The exact same.

 

[Karen-W]

Volchkova looks the same as she did in 2004. The exact same.

I was thinking that too!

 

[Jay42]

And people used to complain about Nathan Chen's non costume costumes

 

[genevieve]

Billy Elliot is kind of perfect for Grassl. All flying legs and occasional lovely positions

 

[MacMadame]

And people used to complain about Nathan Chen's non costume costumes

Hey, his shirt has piping on the back!

 

[tony]

4Lutz looked good to me. I think his quad actually usually looks better than the triple.

4Loop, I dunno he probably gets away with a q. 4Salchow was definitely <.

3Axel+toe fine. 3Axel+Axel+Axel, triple maybe a little bit tight. 3Lo+3T, the toe was short <. 3Lz to end looked short to me, too. Of course.

He has such good flexibility but what the hell is this choreo sequence? Another instance of having musical sense but the program is so disjointed and not showing off how good his skating can be.

 

[Karen-W]

Voiceovers!

 

[genevieve]

that 3 jump sequence was practically a circular step sequence

 

[Jay42]

Hey, his shirt has piping on the back!

Nathan's shirts sometimes had a colour gradient so maybe they're even

 

[MacMadame]

Nathan's shirts sometimes had a colour gradient so maybe they're even

They also almost always actually had a color.

 

[genevieve]

I am 100% buying the story of Grassl as a gawky preteen who just wants to daaaaannnce

I mean it!

 

[tony]

Over 100 TES but that really should drop to about 90 at best if they really give a look to all the jumps.

And no, all those quads do not mean his PCS should be anything above a high 7/8.

So give him about 165.

 

[Karen-W]

Those were quite the music cuts. I enjoyed the first part and thought it was interesting, but I started to nod off - I'm feeling very tired and hoping to make it through the rest of the men.

 

[MacMadame]

I am 100% buying the story of Grassl as a gawky preteen who just wants to daaaaannnce

I mean it!

Yeah, that was really fun.

 

[genevieve]

his coach really, really looks like he's badly undercover.

where is b e n o i t???

 

[YukiNieve]

What is the concept of this program for Daniel?

 

[MacMadame]

What is the concept of this program?

He's Billy Elliot.

 

[tony]

What is the concept of this program?

Don't bother finding out, it'll leave you more confused than what you think it is now.

 

[tony]

Insanely generous. His TES dropped 4 whole points.

Calling the 4S alone a <, which it clearly was, would result in more than 4 points TES loss. They didn't do anything with his reviews.

 

[Karen-W]

Wow. Torgy's killing it again. What a way to capitalize on an unexpected 2nd GP!

 

[tangerine dream]

Maybe the best I've ever seen Torgy skate a FS! Unfortunately the overscoring of Grassl will probably keep him off the podium.

 

[tony]

Beautiful long, sweeping movements, choreography and speed into and out of the jumps. The use of his entire body is so, so good. But he still doesn't give much of anything to elevate the performance and looks down so damn much.

Tight first 3A, 3T on the end of the final combo tight too. Everything else pretty good.

Skating skills should easily be 8.75 or even pushing 9. Composition and performance not as high.

 

[Jay42]

Loved that from Torgashev!

 

[genevieve]

I'm so glad Torgashev held it together. First half was pretty nervy. Funny that the 2nd half, with several combos, seemed so much freer.

And let the KnC brofest begin!

 

[tony]

4T underrotated when Grassl literally got away with almost nothing called based on that TES. Okay.

 

[Karen-W]

Tech panel is, of course, being harsh on Torgy after turning a blind eye to Grassl.

 

[Braulio]

I was falling asleep but Torgashev!!!

With that he could have won a week ago