Agreed. Even I can see the shaving of rotation by Rinka. Her jumps were smaller than Alysa’s, her expresssion better than both of the other skater, and her skills seem more well-rounded than Gubanova.
Rinka yes has good skating skills, but I don’t find her particularly artistic in her performance or interpretation. She was pretty stone faced the whole time. That said, Alysa didn’t sparkle as much as usual this time either.
Yes, I was watcing those too as she skated and thought the fix is in here. Rinka is NOT going to win this event. I don't know .... I have nothing against Alysa at all ....she had a great skate and she doesn't give out the scores AND good on her for saying she'd have to watch her skate on video to see if it was good enough. So absolutely NO shade on Alysa from me but I think this result is just wrong ....and too much of this kind of judging isn't doing the sport any favors (not that fs judging hasn't been questionable forever).
Ehhhh... Rinka's program does peter out at the end, which I'm guessing has a bit of a dampening effect on her PCS marks. But even if she was given PCS to match Alysa, it still wouldn't have been enough to win.
Duh. We already saw what they did to KniFraz in Saitama at 2023 Worlds. You can bet it's going to be a tough environment for Alysa (and hopefully Amber) to win in. But it will also be a pressure cooker if there are 4 Japanese women there because you know none of them wants to be the last placed Japanese woman there heading into J-Nats.
Shame the judges had to put the SKAM in Skate America with such great skates in this final flight
I don't think she should have PCS better than Alysa but better than Gubanova? Yes.
Agreed. (Wait... she has a day job?)Ashley, whatever you do, don't quit your day job.
She's already said they have a new music cut for the Gaga program nearly complete, so it seems quite clear they've been working on that program and only rolled out MacArthur Park again for SkAm because Gaga isn't quite ready yet. I'm fairly confident she'll bring Lady Gaga to the GPF and see how the revamped version is received by the international judges with little concern for her placement at the GPF.
I thought the entire event was crap. A lot of skaters looking like they just weren't feeling it. So many errors. Personally I liked both Gubanova and Alysa better than Rinka.
Ashley, whatever you do, don't quit your day job.
I think her daughter is about two, so if she doesn't have any more kids, she's got 16 years before she can quit her day job.
I thought Alysa looked like she was giving about 90% effort. She also looked very slow from my video view, but I know that can often look much different in person. I think she's bored with this program, and it doesn't work as well without 100% energy.
