2025 Cup of China Rhythm Dance PBP - Rhythm is a Danger

[genevieve]

Starting Order

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Shiyue WANG/Xinyu LIU CHN
2 Junfei REN/Jianing XING CHN
3 Zixi XIAO/Linghao HE CHN
4 Hannah LIM/Ye QUAN KOR
5 Loicia DEMOUGEOT/Theo LE MERCIER FRA

Warm-Up Group 2
6 Olivia SMART/Tim DIECK ESP
7 Caroline GREEN/Michael PARSONS USA
8 Emilea ZINGAS/Vadym KOLESNIK USA
9 Evgeniia LOPAREVA/Geoffrey BRISSAUD FRA
10 Madison CHOCK/Evan BATES USA

ISU Stream

ETA: I can't take credit for the awesome title!

 

[skatingguy]

Biographies

Music

Planned Program Content

 

[Jay42]

The ISU channel just went live on YouTube

 

[Bunny Hop]

Ready to listen to Chris Howarth mangle some names (not that I could do much better with some of these!).

 

[tony]

Ready to listen to Chris Howarth mangle some names (not that I could do much better with some of these!).

Should just give PJ Kwong double duties

 

[Karen-W]

De-moo-goo - that's a new one that not even Ted could aspire to mangling quite that poorly, lol.

 

[Braulio]

hi, almost midnight here just for the RD and see what Chock/Bates can score

 

[Karen-W]

I'm really rooting for Ren/Xing and/or Xiao/He soundly beating Wang/Liu. That's my only real vested interest in this first group.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

ANL in the house kitty cats. For the first time I can watch a competition over there during regular business hours here in Germany. Lol suck it @Karen-W

 

[tony]

'It's a lot of fun actually... you're gonna see all sorts of stuff.'

Well, half-truth.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Just so we’re all clear I’m here until Amber and then Im peacing out

 

[Jay42]

Should just give PJ Kwong double duties

I miss when she used to do commentary for a now defunct CBC Sports channel that I can't remember the name of. She was so good at it.

 

[tony]

I miss when she used to do commentary for a now defunct CBC Sports channel that I can't remember the name of. She was so good at it.

Bold!

 

[Karen-W]

ANL in the house kitty cats. For the first time I can watch a competition over there during regular business hours here in Germany. Lol suck it @Karen-W

Well, my plan for at least 5 hours of sleep between the time I got home from work & this comp started was shot to hell by the EfiMit news out of Boston, so I'm running on about 2 hours of sleep and will be happy to get back to sleep once the RD is over and wake up in time for the Pairs SP about 4.5 hours later. I'll manage - besides, next week SCI is being held at a perfectly normal time of the day for those of us in North America.

 

[Karen-W]

Shiyue Wang's dress is in no way like ANYTHING I remember from the '90s, though I'm guessing since they're skating to a Chinese song, it may have been fashionable & trendy in China during that decade.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

'It's a lot of fun actually... you're gonna see all sorts of stuff.'

Well, half-truth.

Chris has real Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

 

[Jay42]

Bold!

That's the one! Thank you.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

by the EfiMit news out of Boston,

What? They are married? We all knew that anyways, staying awake for that?, no being at after dark hours party in the dark berlin reason to stay awake.

 

[tony]

This is CRAWLING. Like almost zero ice coverage to the corners.

 

[MacMadame]

I'm here but doing other things so won't be commenting much.

Though I will say this first couple is SO SLOW

 

[Karen-W]

Also, anyone else find it suspicious that there is no TES tracker on the screen for Wang/Liu after the last ISU event held in China?

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

OK I brought my headphones so I can watch this in a nice cafe here. Let me see if I can get all this Bluetooth stuff to work.

 

[Bunny Hop]

Wang/Liu - I don't remember that kind of dress from the '90s but maybe it has something to do with the music. I know I saw this program when I was watching Chinese Nebelhorn but I hve no real recollection. They seemed into it anyway....but sloooow.

 

[Braulio]

wtf is this

 

[skatingguy]

Shiyue Wang/Xinyu Liu
Coach: P. Lauzon, P. Haguenauer, G. Huang
Music: Go Wild Alone, Flower Guardian

Sequential Twizzles W:B M:2
Midline Step Sequence W:1 M:2
Pattern Dance Type Step Sequence 2
Choreo Rhythm Sequence
Rotational Lift 4

So we seem to be missing the technical tracker to start the event. Wang/Liu seemed pretty slow, and cautious through most of their elements.

62.68 = 1st Place

 

[Jay42]

I really don't understand why the Chinese Federation is so willing to go all in on Wang/Liu still. Their skills have regressed so much, and were regressing even before we found out he's a creep. They're so slow and not living up to this music, which is pretty fun, at all.

 

[Marta24]

I'm pretty tired, so I might be wrong, but did Wang toepush in the middle of her MiSt?

 

[Karen-W]

LOL - Chris commenting on the wobbly bladework during her twizzles as we get a close-up slo-mo look in the replays is great.

 

[Marta24]

Well, score is a bit more realistic.

 

[Karen-W]

HAHAHAHA! And now the TES tracker miraculously appears. Oh, we see you, ISU!