2025 US Nats Free Dance PBP - Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

[genevieve]

Wedgie Data

Starting Order
1 Michela Melillo, Connecticut Skating Academy/Karl Schapfel, Hayden Recreation Centre FSC 15 47.02
2 Grace Yi, Boise FSC/Danila Savelev, Thunderbirds FSC 14 53.21
3 Raffaella Koncius, Los Angeles FSC/Alexey Shchepetov, FSC of Southern California 13 63.48
4 Vanessa Pham, SC of Houston/Anton Spiridonov, SC of New York 12 64.00
5 Amy Cui, SC of Boston/Jonathan Rogers, Texas Gulf Coast FSC 11 68.78

6 Annabelle Morozov, SC of New York/Jeffrey Chen, Peninsula SC 10 70.64
7 Leah Neset, Magic City FSC/Artem Markelov, Magic City FSC 9 72.17
8 Eva Pate, Cleveland SC/Logan Bye, SC of New York 8 73.64
9 Emily Bratti, Washington FSC/Ian Somerville, Washington FSC 7 75.25
10 Katarina Wolfkostin, Peninsula SC/Dimitry Tsarevski, Peninsula SC 6 76.27

11 Oona Brown, SC of New York/Gage Brown, SC of New York 5 77.38
12 Caroline Green, Pavilion SC of Cleveland Heights/Michael Parsons, Washington FSC 4 82.13
13 Emilea Zingas, St. Clair Shores FSC/Vadym Kolesnik, SC of New York 3 82.13
14 Christina Carreira, SC of New York/Anthony Ponomarenko, SC of San Francisco 2 82.86
15 Madison Chock, All Year FSC/Evan Bates, Ann Arbor FSC 1 92.16

 

[MacMadame]

BINGO Link: https://mfbc.us/m/tv4rkcg

What we've called so far:

Armography
Elegant pop
Emo/ sad girl cover
Fist pump
Invalid element
Knee slide
Music from a Movie
neon
-Nude gloves
Shoutouts in K n C
Superstar artist
-Touched the boards
Tribute program
Very literal costume

- means it's questionable, but I'm leaving them in for now

 

[Karen-W]

Live scoring - https://www.usfigureskating.org/event/2025-prevagen-us-figure-skating-championships

 

[MacMadame]

Should we take bets on whether the scoring box will work for Dance?

 

[Matryeshka]

KNIVES OUT Y'ALL. I'm ready to battle for Z/K. And the Browns. And GreenP. And while not my favorites, I hope C/P isn't terrible. And I hope Cui/Rogers moves up. One Cui needs to get out of this Nationals unscathed. And W/T because I like drama. And Chen, in memory of Karen. I really liked Karen's skating.

 

[MacMadame]

KNIVES OUT Y'ALL. I'm ready to battle for Z/K. And the Browns. And GreenP. And while not my favorites, I hope C/P isn't terrible. And I hope Cui/Rogers moves up. One Cui needs to get out of this Nationals unscathed. And W/T because I like drama. And Chen, in memory of Karen. I really liked Karen's skating.

I'm with you except for Chen.

 

[genevieve]

And Chen, in memory of Karen. I really liked Karen's skating.

Apparently, both Jason Brown and Karen Chen have died

 

[BlueRidge]

KNIVES OUT Y'ALL. I'm ready to battle for Z/K. And the Browns. And GreenP. And while not my favorites, I hope C/P isn't terrible. And I hope Cui/Rogers moves up. One Cui needs to get out of this Nationals unscathed. And W/T because I like drama. And Chen, in memory of Karen. I really liked Karen's skating.

Knives? Isn't this like almost everyone anyway? Except maybe Chock who isn't going to be beaten anyway.

 

[BlueRidge]

Apparently, both Jason Brown and Karen Chen have died

I'm confused

 

[Karen-W]

Knives? Isn't this like almost everyone anyway? Except maybe Chock who isn't going to be beaten anyway.

Look, we've all seen the looks Madi gives in the KnC when she's displeased with their scores. She's got the biggest daggers of 'em all. The rest of these ice dance women, ALL OF THEM, could only ever aspire to that level of killer confidence.

 

[Karen-W]

And our wonderful 'cock has crowed from the heartland!

 

[MacMadame]

The first couple is skating to Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Remember the year that every single event at Nationals had at least one entry skating to that?

 

[once_upon]

Got shower done, bed made, dusting a bit in my closet - the ledge bugged me. Deciding if I kick the laundry basket down the hall to start laundry (machine is in bedroom level)

 

[Barbara Manatee]

Power Hour? Oh, Ben. You know it sucks - do not comply.

 

[Karen-W]

I wonder if Ashley is going to take a voice break for the FD.

 

[Matryeshka]

Knives? Isn't this like almost everyone anyway? Except maybe Chock who isn't going to be beaten anyway.

BACK CONTRARIAN WITH YOUR WITCHCRAFT LOGIC. I HAVE KNIVES. AND A SNUGGIE.

 

[Rukia]

i want clean skates and for those skates to be judged by, you know, the skating

 

[Karen-W]

@MacMadame - no man-bun from our MtG guy; but at least one of the women has a blingy headband...

 

[peibeck]

It's pretty crazy that the top 12 of these 15 teams could be competitive at a lot of events around the globe. Maybe not the GPs but senior Bs.

 

[MacMadame]

I wonder if Ashley is going to take a voice break for the FD.

One would hope.

 

[Karen-W]

OMG! Ben just mentioned that WASA Green Card Marriage #3 Couple are married!

 

[skateycat]

I have a soft spot for Melillo and Schapfel, so I'm going to watch them and then go do a few chores.

 

[MacMadame]

@MacMadame - no man-bun from our MtG guy; but at least one of the women has a blingy headband...

She does. It's very "Korean Ladies Skater" too.

 

[skatfan]

Trash out, laundry started, ready for the free dance!

 

[Sarah]

I did not expect Ben to actually mention the marriage…

 

[Allen]

I see that everyone has their child bride headbands today

 

[once_upon]

If any one is confused about Wichita being largest city in Kansas - most of Kansas City is in the Missouri side of the state line.

 

[PRlady]

The sekret marriage made it into the intros! Good for Ben.

 

[BlueRidge]

BACK CONTRARIAN WITH YOUR WITCHCRAFT LOGIC. I HAVE KNIVES. AND A SNUGGIE.

I have a heating pad that goes around my neck. You will not disturb my traquility.

 

[skatfan]

The sekret marriage made it into the intros! Good for Ben.

I was explaining the secret marriages to my friend who was horrified.