Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 2021 - Astana KAZ - October 2-5, 2024

[Kateri]

I have no idea what F/D are skating to (complimentary!) but I loved that.

 

[Kateri]

Not gonna lie, I was hoping L/Q would include an I Wanna be Your Dog section. Gotta give poor Ye something to do!

 

[Karen-W]

LimQuan - the concept is greater than the program itself. The rock sections at the start & end work better than the middle section.

 

[Belsornia]

Lim/Quan - I don’t love Cruella for seniors. A very “first time out” performance and it felt like they never really got going so I’m interested to see what this looks like as the season progresses, but so far these don’t seem quite up to last season’s programmes.

 

[Marta24]

Not as unique as the Americans, but still lovely. They had a few Rs though.

 

[Kateri]

LimQuan - the concept is greater than the program itself. The rock sections at the start & end work better than the middle section.

He needs to be in a dog costume - really lean in to their she's-gonna-murder-him schtick.

 

[Belsornia]

I’ve got to go out now - hope the last group are still online this evening!

 

[Karen-W]

Mrazeks - can someone explain to me why, with the clear intent for the upper hapves of their costumes to match, her sleeves end in full Flores and his do not? It's distracting.

Okay, they just took board-ography to a whole 'nother level. FearGib haterz should really hate this from Katerina, lol.

 

[Kateri]

Okay, they just took board-ography to a whole 'nother level. FearGib haterz should really hate this from Katerina, lol.

But with this one, I can live in hope she'll overbalance, and fall into the judges!

 

[Karen-W]

Browns - still trying to recapture the glory that was "Nothing Else Matters". This is a better program than last season, but that's a low bar since I really hated their program last season. The music for this just kind of goes nowhere, though, and doesn't build to a satisfying conclusion for the program.

 

[Karen-W]

Taschlers - not as moved this time as I was a couple weeks ago at Nebelhorn, but it's still a good program for them.

 

[Karen-W]

FabAyer - sooooooo... whoever in Montreal is passing around that CD with this cover of "You're Don't Own Me" that LaurEth have used much more effectively in pairs (that lift to the line "Don't out me on display" never failed to crack me up)... they need to be shot because giving it to IAM who picked it out for this team was just... A struggle for me to remain awake.

 

[Karen-W]

FYI - I've recorded the last two groups, plus ReiMaj and will upload them later to my Rumble account. I need a bit of sleep while the early groups of women at JGP Slovenia do their thing in the FS.

 

[Marta24]

Yay, Taschlers win! Hopefully, that will give them a little bit of confidence before the GPs start.

 

[Karen-W]

FD Results - https://results.d2024.kz/SEG006.htm
Judges Protocols - https://results.d2024.kz/FSKXICEDANCE----------FNL-000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +		PCS +	CO	PR	SK	Ded. -	StN.
1​	Natalie TASCHLEROVA / Filip TASCHLER	CZE	116.20​	64.92​		51.28​	8.50​	8.57​	8.57​	0.00​	#15​
2​	Oona BROWN / Gage BROWN	USA	113.95​	64.01​		49.94​	8.29​	8.36​	8.32​	0.00​	#14​
3​	Alicia FABBRI / Paul AYER	CAN	109.32​	59.96​		49.36​	8.25​	8.25​	8.18​	0.00​	#16​
4​	Isabella FLORES / Ivan DESYATOV	USA	108.69​	61.89​		46.80​	7.93​	7.79​	7.68​	0.00​	#11​
5​	Katerina MRAZKOVA / Daniel MRAZEK	CZE	108.47​	60.55​		48.92​	8.14​	8.25​	8.07​	1.00​	#13​
6​	Hannah LIM / Ye QUAN	KOR	107.38​	60.80​		46.58​	7.86​	7.68​	7.75​	0.00​	#12​
7​	Phebe BEKKER / James HERNANDEZ	GBR	102.88​	57.52​		45.36​	7.64​	7.54​	7.50​	0.00​	#9​
8​	Milla Ruud REITAN / Nikolaj MAJOROV	SWE	101.90​	58.74​		43.16​	7.25​	7.29​	7.04​	0.00​	#6​
9​	Marie DUPAYAGE / Thomas NABAIS	FRA	100.45​	55.43​		45.02​	7.54​	7.43​	7.54​	0.00​	#10​
10​	Zoe LARSON / Andrii KAPRAN	UKR	99.71​	56.35​		43.36​	7.18​	7.39​	7.11​	0.00​	#8​
11​	Lily HENSEN / Nathan LICKERS	CAN	97.13​	55.05​		42.08​	7.00​	7.04​	7.00​	0.00​	#7​
12​	Lucy HANCOCK / Ilias FOURATI	HUN	83.30​	47.66​		37.64​	6.36​	6.32​	6.14​	2.00​	#5​
13​	Kristina DOBROSERDOVA / Alessandro PELLEGRINI	ARM	81.45​	45.87​		35.58​	6.00​	5.93​	5.86​	0.00​	#4​
14​	Natalia PALLU-NEVES / Jayin PANESAR	BRA	80.65​	47.73​		32.92​	5.57​	5.50​	5.39​	0.00​	#2​
15​	Maxine WEATHERBY / Oleksandr KOLOSOVSKYI	AZE	80.63​	45.49​		35.14​	5.96​	5.82​	5.79​	0.00​	#3​
16​	Daniela IVANITSKIY / Matthew SPERRY	FIN	68.83​	38.47​		30.36​	5.18​	5.07​	4.93​	0.00​	#1​

Final Results - https://results.d2024.kz/CAT003RS.htm

FPl.	Name	Nation	Points	RD	FD
1	Natalie TASCHLEROVA / Filip TASCHLER	CZE	189.23	2	1
2	Oona BROWN / Gage BROWN	USA	186.96	3	2
3	Alicia FABBRI / Paul AYER	CAN	182.98	1	3
4	Katerina MRAZKOVA / Daniel MRAZEK	CZE	180.75	4	5
5	Hannah LIM / Ye QUAN	KOR	177.29	5	6
6	Isabella FLORES / Ivan DESYATOV	USA	174.32	6	4
7	Phebe BEKKER / James HERNANDEZ	GBR	166.95	8	7
8	Marie DUPAYAGE / Thomas NABAIS	FRA	164.53	7	9
9	Milla Ruud REITAN / Nikolaj MAJOROV	SWE	160.78	11	8
10	Zoe LARSON / Andrii KAPRAN	UKR	160.30	9	10
11	Lily HENSEN / Nathan LICKERS	CAN	157.43	10	11
12	Lucy HANCOCK / Ilias FOURATI	HUN	140.49	12	12
13	Kristina DOBROSERDOVA / Alessandro PELLEGRINI	ARM	135.94	13	13
14	Maxine WEATHERBY / Oleksandr KOLOSOVSKYI	AZE	134.15	14	15
15	Natalia PALLU-NEVES / Jayin PANESAR	BRA	131.84	15	14
16	Daniela IVANITSKIY / Matthew SPERRY	FIN	119.42	16	16
WD	Angelina KUDRYAVTSEVA / Ilia KARANKEVICH	CYP
WD	Lou TERREAUX / Noe PERRON	FRA
WD	Diana DAVIS / Gleb SMOLKIN	GEO
WD	Jennifer JANSE van RENSBURG / Benjamin STEFFAN	GER
WD	Victoria MANNI / Carlo ROETHLISBERGER	ITA

 

[Karen-W]

Men's FS Results - https://results.d2024.kz/SEG002.htm
Judges Protocols - https://results.d2024.kz/FSKMSINGLES-----------FNL-000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +		PCS +	CO	PR	SK	Ded. -	StN.
1​	Daniel GRASSL	ITA	170.91​	91.82​		79.09​	8.05​	7.90​	7.80​	0.00​	#8​
2​	Mikhail SHAIDOROV	KAZ	166.83​	92.07​		74.76​	7.45​	7.40​	7.60​	0.00​	#13​
3​	Vladimir LITVINTSEV	AZE	161.97​	91.03​		70.94​	6.75​	7.20​	7.35​	0.00​	#11​
4​	Nika EGADZE	GEO	152.37​	79.11​		73.26​	7.30​	7.25​	7.45​	0.00​	#12​
5​	Kyrylo MARSAK	UKR	146.95​	77.35​		69.60​	7.10​	6.90​	6.90​	0.00​	#4​
6​	Semen DANILIANTS	ARM	143.19​	76.93​		66.26​	6.65​	6.60​	6.65​	0.00​	#10​
7​	Aleksa RAKIC	CAN	142.41​	74.65​		67.76​	6.95​	6.60​	6.80​	0.00​	#1​
8​	Goku ENDO	USA	140.53​	68.43​		72.10​	7.25​	7.20​	7.20​	0.00​	#5​
9​	Dias JIRENBAYEV	KAZ	131.97​	59.20​		72.77​	7.35​	7.30​	7.20​	0.00​	#7​
10​	Valtter VIRTANEN	FIN	120.25​	52.33​		67.92​	6.95​	6.65​	6.80​	0.00​	#9​
11​	Ze Zeng FANG	MAS	112.01​	55.07​		57.94​	5.80​	5.90​	5.70​	1.00​	#6​
12​	Daniel MARTYNOV	USA	111.73​	49.12​		63.61​	6.45​	6.15​	6.50​	1.00​	#2​
13​	Rakhat BRALIN	KAZ	110.35​	51.58​		58.77​	5.65​	5.90​	6.10​	0.00​	#3​

Final Standings - https://results.d2024.kz/CAT001RS.htm

FPl.	Name	Nation	Points	SP	FS
1	Mikhail SHAIDOROV	KAZ	262.33	1	2
2	Vladimir LITVINTSEV	AZE	246.00	3	3
3	Nika EGADZE	GEO	242.43	2	4
4	Daniel GRASSL	ITA	237.70	6	1
5	Semen DANILIANTS	ARM	216.89	4	6
6	Kyrylo MARSAK	UKR	209.28	10	5
7	Goku ENDO	USA	203.03	9	8
8	Aleksa RAKIC	CAN	198.47	13	7
9	Dias JIRENBAYEV	KAZ	197.66	7	9
10	Valtter VIRTANEN	FIN	187.63	5	10
11	Ze Zeng FANG	MAS	174.86	8	11
12	Rakhat BRALIN	KAZ	172.29	11	13
13	Daniel MARTYNOV	USA	170.27	12	12

 

[Sylvia]

Top 5 FD videos are posted here: https://www.youtube.com/@figureskating2277/videos

Grassl's 1st place FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzFo0AMRiA

Gala livestream will begin in 2 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWnfVUR7ss

 

[her grace]

FD thoughts

Bekker/Hernandez

James Bond theme, effective use of music, disaster on dance spin, she has great body control—limber, but not loose, well-timed sliding moves

Dupayage/Nabais

Interesting angle on her position in stationary lift, nice speed and crisp movement; I know France has this weird proclivity for sabotaging its own teams, but they need to get behind this team—they’ve got a good dance foundation and a unique POV and deserve to go far

Flores/Desyatov

Opening sets a dark, troubled mood, nice dance spin, transitions into smiles and happy waltz-like movement, nice edge quality in steps, rather easy choreo lift followed by tremendous balancing during choreo slide! Wonderful to hear a new piece of music, fantastic program!

Lim/Quan

Cruella de Ville. good speed into twizzles, but may have lost a level, she is such a natural at performing and he doesn’t completely fade in her shadow, energetic program

Mrazkova/Mrazek

After the last two new-music programs, this feels very conventional, great speed, good synchronization in twizzles, she does a supported handstand on the boards—just no to all this board dancing in general, but actual acrobatics is a bridge too far

Brown/Brown

Opening mini-lifts not particularly effective, good unison throughout, Good sliding moves, I think they’ve removed some of the repetitive use of “teenage wasteland” lyrics that used to be sung over and over and over in the program, sounded like a new/different piece of music at end (which was an excellent change [ETA: apparently, this was wishful thinking, see Wyliefan’s post)] think they need a bigger highlight move/choreo to finish the program, well skated

Taschlerova/Taschler

Great speed, impressive ability to finish their moves while maintaining that speed, good emotional expression, this program should be great vehicle for them this season

Fabbri/Ayer

Smooth skating, excellent edges through one foot steps, would like to see more emotional tension between the partners since they’re skating to “You don’t own me”

Taschlers win! All is right in my world again.

 

[her grace]

Not gonna lie, I was hoping L/Q would include an I Wanna be Your Dog section. Gotta give poor Ye something to do!

Maybe they can do an “I’m Just Ken” number someday.

 

[Karen-W]

As promised, after a bit of sleep, here are the videos I uploaded from today -

Reitan/Majorov - https://rumble.com/v5hjqv9-reitanmajorov-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fd.html
Bekker/Hernandez - https://rumble.com/v5hjrgc-bekkerhernandez-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fd.html
Dupayage/Nabais - https://rumble.com/v5hjrs1-dupayagenabais-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fd.html
Flores/Desyatov - https://rumble.com/v5hjsdp-floresdesyatov-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fd.html
Lim/Quan - https://rumble.com/v5hjsxu-limquan-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fd.html
Mrazkova/Mrazek - https://rumble.com/v5hjth9-mrazkovamrazek-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fd.html
Brown/Brown - https://rumble.com/v5hju11-brownbrown-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fd.html
Taschlerova/Taschler - https://rumble.com/v5hk2fh-taschlerovataschler-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fd.html
Fabbri/Ayer - https://rumble.com/v5hk3d9-fabbriayer-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fd.html

Shaidorov - https://rumble.com/v5hk4e9-shaidorov-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fs.html
Egadze - https://rumble.com/v5hk505-egadze-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fs.html
Litvintsev - https://rumble.com/v5hk5it-litvintsev-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fs.html
Grassl - https://rumble.com/v5hk64i-grassl-denis-ten-memorial-2024-fs.html

 

[Evgeniafan]

Top 5 FD videos are posted here: https://www.youtube.com/@figureskating2277/videos

Grassl's 1st place FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzFo0AMRiA

Gala livestream will begin in 2 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWnfVUR7ss

The gala hasn't started yet?

 

[PRlady]

Watched the FD on replay and that was enjoyable. By far Flor/Des had the best choreo, what an expressive performer she is! I note they beat both the Koreans and young Czechs in the FD, they really are on their way up.

Lim/Quan leaning into her own expressiveness as a villainess, well-done. The French Frenched and were interesting all the way through. Neither Czech team’s FDs wowed me as dances but their technical abilities can’t be denied. F/A, another generic Canadian team, I don’t get them.

I wish I liked the Browns more. They’re quite good but I was planning a dinner guest menu halfway through.

 

[jenny12]

I love that Flores and Desyatov are skating to the Poor Things soundtrack! I thought it was one of the most interesting film scores I’ve heard in a long time and I thought they really used it well! Flores is such a star!

 

[Dobre]

Fabbri/Ayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwgRsPknvSw
Taschlerova/Taschler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF4z6FMiVR8
Brown/Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScQzmw2esf8
Mrazkova/Mrazek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRsxTFdyGLo
Lim/Quan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt6D2eowoiM
Flores/Desyatov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saVd4HrzkPM
Dupayage/Nabais: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdXkVLWYiuY
Bekker/Hernandez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1XTqR3y-xk

Top 8 RD videos are in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVR2YFMED-PKuqndr3GZBqZuhfXiUF9Y0

Thank you, @Sylvia. I was hoping to be able to watch the RDs this morning and was disappointed to see the Day 2 video had disappeared.

This was a better mix of RD music choices than I have seen previously this season. Gives me hope.

About the Browns. Choosing James Brown--as I've previously mentioned about Travolta, MJ, Abdul--is ambitious. There's some potential in this choreography, and the Browns are blessed with all those years of skating together regarding unison; but they are going to have to work to really bring this program to the level of cleanliness and pow! for where it needs to be.

 

[her grace]

[discussing Canadian dance] Laj/Lag will hold down the fort in seniors for some time, Les Gacs are also doing well, and Fabbri/Ayer for whatever reason are getting boosted up the ranks. (Not that I don't like them; they just seem to have suddenly become the beneficiaries of the IAM "Your turn to get a boost!" M.O.)

They may be getting a boost as Canada’s new #4 or an IAM boost, however, they do have the skills to deserve a push. They’re like any number of good American teams, e.g., Bratti/Somerville, who quietly wait in the wings until it’s their turn.

And compared to their Canadian counterparts the Les Gacs, Fabbri/Ayer are the better skaters. Les Gacs are better performers, though, so I think their rise stops as first back-ups, domestically, anyway.

 

[Wyliefan]

Brown/Brown

Opening mini-lifts not particularly effective, good unison throughout, Good sliding moves, I think they’ve removed some of the repetitive use of “teenage wasteland” lyrics

No, I don't think they have. I just watched them and I heard as many wastelands as ever. I wish they would remove some. It's a powerful piece of music and it suits them, but the repetition grates.

 

[her grace]

No, I don't think they have. I just watched them and I heard as many wastelands as ever. I wish they would remove some. It's a powerful piece of music and ir suits them, but the repetition grates.

I think you’re right. Apparently, I already became acclimated and thought “Well, this isn’t as bad.”

 

[Karen-W]

No, I don't think they have. I just watched them and I heard as many wastelands as ever. I wish they would remove some. It's a powerful piece of music and it suits them, but the repetition grates.

I think you’re right. Apparently, I already became acclimated and thought “Well, this isn’t as bad.”

Yeah, I definitely noticed it today, so I'm not yet acclimated - and probably won't become acclimated since they're not one of my fave teams among the mid-tier US teams. I've said this before and I'll say it again, my allegiance to any of those teams depends solely upon the material they put out every season, lol.

 

[her grace]

Yeah, I definitely noticed it today, so I'm not yet acclimated - and probably won't become acclimated since they're not one of my fave teams among the mid-tier US teams. I've said this before and I'll say it again, my allegiance to any of those teams depends solely upon the material they put out every season, lol.

The Browns better hope the judges are more like me than you.

 

[Karen-W]

The Browns better hope the judges are more like me than you.

LOL! Or that they have the full IAM support behind them.