Championnats québecois d'été (Quebec Summer Championships), Aug. 9-12, 2018

[JoannaLouise]

Gotta miss the next couple of skaters - I didn't eat dinner, and I'm starving

 

[Sylvia]

Joseph Phan skates 2nd in this 2nd group - rink 4 live stream: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6lyi71

 

[JoannaLouise]

Joseph Phan
2t (popped 4t)
4t2t
2a (popped 3a)
2a
1z3t
3z1lo3s
3lo

Jumps were a bit of a struggle today, especially in the first half of the program; hope he can get the pops under control before the jgp. I still love his basic skating, though.

Score 120.90, total 202.39

 

[Catherine M]

Thomas Pelletier should follow Simard & Pierro into pairs skating as he looks like he's tall enough.

Even though its last year's free, I love Phan's long and hope to see it skated better on the JGP.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Thomas Pelletier
3f hand down
3z fall
3lo
1f
3t fall
3s fall
2a step out

Pelletier has a nice elegant style, and his jumps looked relatively controlled despite the falls. He also looks quite tall and lanky - any chance he could do pairs?

Score 75.56, total 120.52

 

[JoannaLouise]

Senior men are up!

Nicolas Nadeau
3a hand down
4t 2-foot
3lo3t

He seems to do a lot of programs in this sort of jazzy-crooner style, but he does it well so I'm not complaining. His spins have been weak in the past; I thought his sit spin and combo spin were maybe a bit improved here, but his camel spin was still unsteady.

Score 76.85

 

[Catherine M]

I want to get back on the Nic Nadeau bandwagon but I find that he has kinda stagnated in his skating over the last few years.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Samuel Turcotte
2a
3f-turnout-3t
2lo turnout

He's unrefined and his jumps are kind of wild, but Turcotte has personality in spades - I was grinning through his entire program.

Score 55.61

 

[Dobre]

He seems to do a lot of programs in this sort of jazzy-crooner style, but he does it well so I'm not complaining.

Well, in this case it is the same program as last season. I enjoyed watching Nic. Messy landings aside, it was nice to see the performance. After a whole summer of watching only ice dance and rewatching great skates from last year, logging back on for the mess that is a summer men's event is a bit of a shock.

My thanks to everyone for their play-by-play comments today. I've enjoyed them.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Marek Ramilison
3f
3a fall, ur
3t3lo, ur step-out

Ramilison was beautiful. So expressive. I love the way he carries himself; he looks like he does a lot of off-ice dance & movement training. Another wild jumper though, and some spin problems.

Score 47.94

 

[The Accordion]

Ramilison was beautiful. So expressive. I love the way he carries himself; he looks like he does a lot of off-ice dance & movement training. Another wild jumper though, and some spin problems.

Score 47.94

Tuned in just in time to see him and he is lovely!

 

[honey]

I want to get back on the Nic Nadeau bandwagon but I find that he has kinda stagnated in his skating over the last few years.

I agree, unfortunately. I think he’s a great talent, but something doesn’t seem to be clicking. Maybe a coaching change could be a good thing for him.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Laurent Guay
3f2lo
3z
2a

Guay has been around forever in the men's event at nationals, but I don't remember him ever being so "smooth" before. I really enjoyed him today; he did a great job expressing the character of his music.

Score 63.41

 

[Catherine M]

Wish Guay had a triple axel as without one he's not going to get sent out internationally.

 

[JoannaLouise]

Dustin Sherriff-Clayton
3z fall
3s2t
2a

I could watch Sherriff-Clayton skate all day. His edges are to die for, and he really feels the music. Unfortunately, iirc from past performances, he's not the most consistent jumper. He reminds me a bit of Liam Firus in that regard.

Score 57.13

 

[JoannaLouise]

Brandon Day
3s2t
3z fall
2a step out

Another elegant skater who really puts himself into expressing his music. I remember "discovering" Brandon Day at nationals a couple of years ago, and admiring his posture. He had jump issues here today, as he did then, but it looked like he had good spring in his lutz.

Score 44.62

 

[JoannaLouise]

Brandon-Lee Graham
3f fall
3s-hands down-1t
2a fall

Graham was hot-and-cold for me. He had some nice expressive moments, but at other times looked kind of lost and not really into the performance. I'm sure his jump errors didn't help.

Score 38.53

 

[Sylvia]

Thanks for the play-by-play jump notes tonight, @JoannaLouise!

Junior Men FS protocols are published: https://resultats.patinage.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/14_det.pdf

Joseph Phan had a much better SP here (~15 points higher than at Minto Summer Skate), scored almost 7 points lower in his FS today, 202.39 total (193.25 at Minto).

Nic Nadeau kept his SP from last season to Harry Connick Jr's "A Wink and a Smile." I'll edit in the link to the Senior Men SP protocols when they're up (ETA): https://resultats.patinage.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/15_det.pdf

 

[Rafter]

Senior men are up!

Nicolas Nadeau
3a hand down
4t 2-foot
3lo3t

He seems to do a lot of programs in this sort of jazzy-crooner style

Ugh not again. Yawn.

 

[Sylvia]

Rink 4 live stream: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6lyi71

All Saturday rink 4 events in order (all times are Eastern):

Junior Pairs FS starting order (9:30 start time):
1 Camille Perreault / Bryan Pierro Magog/St‐Hubert ER/RS
2 Marine Pouliot / Alexandre Simard Lorraine/La Pocatière LO/EQ
3 Gabrielle Levesque / Pier‐Alexandre Hudon St.Margarets Bay/La Pocatière NS/EQ
4 Chloe Panetta / Benjamin Mimar Les Lames d'Argent/St‐Michel LV/MC
5 Chloe Choinard / Mathieu Ostiguy Saint‐Léonard/St‐Césaire BA/RA

Junior Women FS Group 1 starting order (10:35 start time): https://resultats.patinage.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/17_OD.pdf

Senior Pairs SP starting order (14:05 start time):
1 Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland St-Romuald / St-Jean/St-Romuald / St-Jean CACH/CACH
2 Nadine Wang / Spencer Akira Howe USA/USA USA/USA
3 Justine Brasseur / Mark Bardei Brossard/Brossard RS/RS
4 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro Winter Club of St. Catharines/Point Edward S ON/ON
5 Camille Ruest / Drew Wolfe Rimouski/Glencoe EQ/AB/NT/N

Junior Rhythm Dance starting order (15:05 start time):
1 Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha Boucherville/Saint-Lambert RS/RS
2 Katrine Roy / Oliver Zhang Les Lames d'Argent/Ville-Marie LV/MC
3 Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer Terrebonne/Calalta FSC LN/AB/NT/N
4 Sophia Simitsakos / Jeffrey Wong Laval/Saint-Laurent LV/LC

5 Virginy Guertin / Kameron Jeromkin Saint-Léonard/Les Lames d'Argent BA/LV
6 Maia Iannetta / Liam Carr South Windsor FSC/Ilderton SC ON/ON
7 Lily Hensen / Nathan Lickers Ilderton SC/Ilderton SC ON/ON
8 Jessica Li / Jacob Richmond Brossard/Saint-Lambert RS/RS

9 Cassidy McFarlane / Alexandre Faucher St.Margarets Bay/Valcourt NS/ER
10 Emmy Bronsard / Aissa Bouaraguia Gadbois/Gadbois MC/MC
11 Jasmine Levesque / Olivier Poupart St.Margarets Bay/Pointe-aux-Trembles NS/MC
12 Ellie Fisher / Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette Lorraine/Lorraine LO/LO

Senior Women SP starting order (16:55 start time):
1 Véronik Mallet Sept-Îles CN
2 Alaine Chartrand Prescott FSC ON
3 Marianne Côté ESG Drummond / St-Cyrille CC
4 Béatrice Lavoie-Léonard Pointe-aux-Trembles MC
5 Charlotte Dumaine Côte-St-Luc LC
6 Alicia Pineault Varennes RS

7 Kim Decelles Baie-Comeau CN
8 Kelsey Wong Champs International SC BC/YK
9 Lorie-Anne Pelchat Les Tourbillons de St-Isidore CACH
10 Sabrina Vigneault Mascouche LN
11 Kim Deguise Léveillée Sorel-Tracy RA
12 Élina D'Auteuil Chambly RS

13 Emy Decelles Baie-Comeau CN
14 Arianne Pascal Beauport CACH
15 Eugénie Létourneau-Lanteigne St-Hyacinthe RA
16 Sarah Tamura Champs International SC BC/YK
17 Valérie Giroux Blainville / Ste-Thérèse LO
18 Marie-Ève Lord Beauport CACH

Senior Rhythm Dance starting order (19:15 start time):
1 Elysia-Marie Campbell / Philippe Granger Saint-Léonard/Mascouche BA/LN
2 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Soerens Gadbois/Gadbois MC/MC
3 Gina Cipriano / Jake Richardson Les Lames d'Argent/Scarboro FSC LV/ON
4 Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac France/France FRA/FRA
5 Teodora Markova / Simon Dazé Bulgarie/Bulgarie BUL/BUL
6 Carolane Soucisse / Shane Firus Repentigny/Repentigny LN/LN

Senior Men FS starting order (20:15 start time): https://resultats.patinage.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/22_OD.pdf

 

[Moustaffask8r]

Thanks for the play-by-play jump notes tonight, @JoannaLouise!

Junior Men FS protocols are published: https://resultats.patinage.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/14_det.pdf

Joseph Phan had a much better SP here (~15 points higher than at Minto Summer Skate), scored almost 7 points lower in his FS today, 202.39 total (193.25 at Minto).

Nic Nadeau kept his SP from last season to Harry Connick Jr's "A Wink and a Smile." I'll edit in the link to the Senior Men SP protocols when they're up (ETA): https://resultats.patinage.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/15_det.pdf

it's been two years that Nadeau either keeps his long from previous year and now it's the SP...I also feel he has stagnated in his skating over the last few years and he's unable to show versatility in his program style. I know he has good coach staff but he need a kick in the... to get him out of his comfort zone, maybe a change is in order! He should do like Phan and go train somewhere where competition is there everyday!

 

[Sylvia]

Junior Pairs final standings:
1 Gabrielle Levesque / Pier‐Alexandre Hudon St.Margarets Bay/La Pocatière NS/EQ 44.02 85.26 129.28 (3) (1)
2 Chloe Panetta / Benjamin Mimar Les Lames d'Argent/St‐Michel LV/MC 46.85 69.54 116.39 (2) (3)
3 Chloe Choinard / Mathieu Ostiguy Saint‐Léonard/St‐Césaire BA/RA 48.00 66.09 114.09 (1) (4)
4 Camille Perreault / Bryan Pierro Magog/St‐Hubert ER/RS 41.67 70.83 112.50 (4) (2)
5 Marine Pouliot / Alexandre Simard Lorraine/La Pocatière LO/EQ 31.34 62.41 93.75
FS protocols: https://resultats.patinage.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/16_det.pdf

Final 6 in Junior Women FS (Group 1) coming up.

 

[danafan]

I'm watching junior ladies. Blanchard had a fairly good skate. She landed both triple flips, and two triple toes in combination but fell on the lutz and did a double salchow at the end. I think edge jumps aren't her thing. Anyway I think she'll probably get a JGP assignment after this.

 

[danafan]

Maya Isabelle really struggled today I hope her short program wasn't a fluke. I think she has great potential and hopefully she'll qualify for nationals this year.

 

[puglover]

I have mixed feelings about lyrics with music - like some - not so much others. After raising a large family though, I had to learn to pay attention to lyrics even if I like the feel of the melody. Not sure why anyone would choose to skate to a song about things not being easy - in case you have a rough skate. Also - nothing with the word "falling" or "fall" anywhere!! Well, maybe "I Can't Help Falling in Love with You" as everyone knows what that falling is about.

 

[Catherine M]

Justine Brasseur looks amazing. Now hopefully Mark can get up to her level on the sbs jumps ASAP!

 

[danafan]

I missed Matte/Ferland. How did they skate? They scored high 50s and seemed happy in the kiss-n-cry.

 

[honey]

Brasseur/Bardei's twist is awesome. There is real potential with this team and I think she is a complete star. Someone please tell me he can jump and that this was just a fluke!

 

[honey]

I missed Matte/Ferland. How did they skate? They scored high 50s and seemed happy in the kiss-n-cry.

Crashy 3twist, very good sbs 3S with a tough entrance, hand down on the throw 3L. He biffed the sbs spin.

 

[Catherine M]

Brasseur/Bardei's twist is awesome. There is real potential with this team and I think she is a complete star. Someone please tell me he can jump and that this was just a fluke!

Yes I need to know too, can Mark jump?!?! as if he can, man they are on their way as Justine is a total star out there now that she is finished with puberty.