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 |
All to play for | Watch, he won’t say it every again now that it’s on the list | All |
armography | When the arms (and/or hair) are doing all the work | All |
badly mangles skater’s name | | All |
battle royal | | All |
Big plushie/ cuddly toys | Combined to keep the list down | All |
brave/ real courage/ character | | All |
Bubble braid/ Man bun/ pony | Buns and pony tails on men, fancy braids on women; also AFROS | All |
Came out with all guns blazing | | All |
Cat amongst the pigeons | Cats amongst anything | All |
clean as a whistle | | All |
coach cam | When they show the coach miming or reacting to the performance | 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 |
cracker/ corker | | All |
cutouts | It has to look like a piece of the costume is missing - keyhole backs and bare midriffs don’t count | All |
Deep knee bend | | All |
Didn’t give an inch | | All |
didn’t let anything go | | All |
didn’t put a foot wrong | | All |
dream/ perfect start | | All |
dropped like a stone | | All |
elegant pop | | All but Dance |
emo/ sad girl cover | It doesn’t have to literally be a girl singing to be a 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 |
got it all wrong | | All |
Gymnastics on ice | Cartwheels, roundoff, etc They have to be upside down at one point with no feet on the ice | All |
Hang on to your hats | Or anything about hats really | All |
Heart hands | | All |
HUUUUGE!/ monster/ Humdinger | | All |
illusion/ tights weird color | Like not matching skin tone or rest of the costume | All but usually not Mens |
Inappropriate smiling | To sad, dreary, angry 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 |
long look at it | | Singles |
magnificent/ perfect unison | | Pairs & Dance |
molest the judges | Getting in their space during the program; overrides touch the board | All but especially the FD |
Music from Movie/TV | Umbrellas, Lion King, Matrix, Game of Thrones, etc. Has to be from the soundtrack. | All |
music from Musical/Opera | POTO, Les Mis, etc. Has to be from the cast album | All |
Neon/ highlighter | Any kind, any where | All |
nothing in it | | All |
nude gloves | | All |
Obvious warhorse | Not from Musical/Movie. Carmen, Nessa Dorum, Swan Lake, Muse, Take 5 | All |
off to a flyer/ the races | | All |
on the money | | All |
only one sleeve | | All but usually not Mens |
out of the top drawer | | All |
overcooked | | All |
packing it in/ to the gunnels | | All |
pristine clean | | All |
real quality | | All |
Red hot/ hot it up | Anything that’s hot | All |
right from the off | | All |
shooting into the lead/ top | | All |
Shoutouts in KnC | Hi Mom! Showing photos, etc | All |
Superlatives | Sensational, Superb, brilliant, etc | All |
Superstar artist | Musical superstars only - MJ, ABBA, Louis Prima, etc | All |
thrown down the gauntlet | | All |
ticking all the boxes | | 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 | Including punching them! | 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 | Stuff that is hanging off the costume and could be removed (i.e. not a skirt with shreds) | All |
wind(ing) up | | All but Dance |