Group 1
Viktor Pfeifer, AUT
- He will be performing a circus themed program
- Opening triple toe-triple toe is clean with a nice flow between the jumps
- Triple axel nice landing
- A little bobble on the ending of his third triple
- Triple-double combo good but a little slow
- Footwork seems a little simple but he did the majority of it on one foot--a little more stretch on his free leg would really help with his GOE
- Triple salchow-double toe with a little bit of a skid on the landing of the first jump
- Turned out of his next triple lutz but didn't put his free leg down
- Doubled his next jump
- Nice camel spin but a little slow, showing some good flexibility
- Double axel tilted in the air and he falls
- Awkward position in his combination spin and misses the end of the music for his ending pose
Shawn Sawyer, CAN
- Alice in Wonderland themed program
- I really love Sawyer's artistry and I hope he works on the jumps to back it up because he has some really great qualities
- Triple axel was slightly tilted in the air and he too footed the landing
- Triple flip-triple toe was nice
- Tilted on his next triple lutz but holds onto the landing
- Flying sit spin with some nice arm positions
- Gorgeous spiral that a lot of the women would kill for
- Great triple jump with almost no prep into it
- Doubled his flip and turned out of it but was able to tack on the triple loop
- Nice interaction with the judges
- I like that his whole body is engaged in the footwork sequences
- Nice triple out of his footwork sequence
- Great camel position but I prefer the traditional donut spins
- Hits the triple-double-double combo but with almost no speed at the end
- Hits his trademark Y spin
- Some jump problems but a pretty solid program for him
- I love that someone gave him a Mad Hatter hat and he totally played it up as he exited the ice
Stephen Carriere, USA
- I'm not sure I would have picked this costume for West Side Story but we'll see where he goes with it, interesting choice of the bandages on the hands as well
- Nice axel to start the program
- Two foots his quad toe and takes a fall
- Step sequence he takes a bobble but there is a whole section where I'm not sure if he's actually falling or if that's the choreography
- Nice triple on the music change
- Camel spin with arms back into a donut--could use a little more flexibility in his back
- Lands his next triple
- Double axel-triple toe combo is solid
- Double toe with one arm over the head and two arms over the head but weren't very well done
- Spins are very slow and almost came to a stop
- Triple salchow out of footwork
- Hand down on triple-triple combo with overhead arm variation again
- Last spin comes to a virtual stop
- Some real highlights in this program and a lot of so-so moments, maybe some stamina problems toward the end
- Priscilla Hill has different scarves to match each of her skaters costumes!
Nan Song, CHN
- Yellow River Concerto and he's wearing a top with multiple shades of yellow
- Doubles his opening quad attempt
- Great height on his triple axel-triple toe but he nearly stops between he jumps
- Falls on his next jump
- Combination spin has some so-so positions which could be more stretched out
- Triple lutz-double toe good, but slow between jumps and he doesn't ride out the landing
- Tilted in the air on his triple axel and he turns out of it but he doesn't put the foot down
- He needs to really stretch his free leg during the footwork and add a little more speed and flow across the ice
- Fighting for the endings on all of his jumps but he's staying on his feet
- Camel spin into broken camel spin, needs more flexibility through the triangle spin
- Finished after his music
Kevin van der Perren, BEL
- Mummy soundtrack is his music and it looks like he has a wing on the back of his costume
- Nice quad toe with a little bit of a lean on his landing
- Triple axel with a lot of height
- Nice combination
- Sit spin was good, nice low postion but he lost a lot of speed
- Footwork seems a little slow and he's not getting his whole body involved in the movement
- Solid triple with great flow out of the landing
- A little bobble on the landing of his triple loop
- Doubled his toe and bobbled on some footwork out of it
- Lands a triple-double but fights for the second landing
- Slow on his second sit spin combination
- double axel-triple toe combo
- Really slow camel position in his combination spin
Adrian Schultheiss, SWE
- Romeo and Juliet--quite a departure from his free program last year where he was insane
- Huge opening quad toe
- Triple axel-double toe combination
- Another triple-double combo
- Some really awkward positions in his camel spin
- Singled his next jump
- Sword-fighting through his step sequence but its very slow and lacks the intensity one would see in a duel, this part of the music also sounds like its been dramatically slowed down
- Nice triple
- Good low position in the sit portion of his combination spin
- Pops his next jump
- Turns out of the landing of the triple flip
- Nice sit spin positions but he loses some speed when he changes feet
- I'm not sure this program suits Schulheiss very well and it doesn't seem like he has a lot of connection to the program or the audience, it looks like he's just going through the motions
Warm up group is on the ice. Ten took a fall on a jump attempt. Murakami takes a fall on a jump. Oda lands a nice three jump combo. Takahashi two foots a jump. Mahbanoozadeh lands a nice jump.
Group 2
Denis Ten, KAZ- Ten taking his time at the boards before heading out on the ice
- Fall on his opening triple axel
- Fall on his next jump--tilted air position and he couldn't correct
- Triple double combo and he turns out of the double and puts both hands down
- Some nice attack on this step sequence
- Takes a hard fall on his next jump and slides toward the boards and takes a second to get back up
- Lands a triple loop
- Hands down on his next jump
- Nice triple
- Takes a fall on a double axel out of a difficult entry
- Combination spin is a little slow
- Nice stretched out camel position
- Really going for it here in his choreographic step sequence but he takes a little bobble
- A tough program but I really admire how much he still put into the program and he still tried to put on a performance
Daisuke Murakami, JPN
- Triple lutz-triple toe was solid with a lot of speed but his air position looks odd
- Triple axel-double toe
- Great camel position
- I don't like when skaters go to the board, stop and prep for their step section and announce it's coming
- Nice entertaining step section and he's really performing to the crowd and engaging them in his performance
- Great height and landing on his triple axel
- Lands another nice triple and he looks like he's having a ball on the ice
- Takes an awkward landing on his next jump and puts both of his hands on the ice
- Nice triple triple sequence
- Could be a little lower and more stretched out in his sit spin positions
- Interesting variation of a spin in the pike position at the end of his program
- Very energetic, entertaining and mostly clean skate for this young Japanese skater
Armin Mahbanoozadeh, USA
- He is skating to Avatar soundtrack and wearing a blue costume
- Nice opening triple toe
- Great triple axel with a nice landing and flows right into the next movement
- Triple-double with one arm variation
- Another nice triple
- Some playful choreography through the step sequence and a really nice difficult sequence done on one foot
- He could work on performing some of these character moves a little more and making sure not just to execute the movement
- Triple axel double toe was nice
- Nice sit spin position
- Triple flip with a difficult entry
- Another interesting spin sequence
- Another clean triple
- Singles the first jump of his three jump combo but tacks on the double toe-double loop
- The smile has really come out for this step sequence
- Camel spin into a really nice donut spin and picking up speed into his sit spin and a nice fast scratch spin
- Fantastic program from Mahbanoozadeh! I hope he can keep this up and continue to land clean programs.
- Priscilla is now wearing her final scarf of the night.
Adam Rippon, USA
- I love the way the fabric of his costume ripples when he skates
- Doubles his triple axel
- Nice triple with great flow out of it
- Fought for the ending of his Rippon Lutz but holds on
- Nice position on his flying sit spin
- Puts a hand down on his second triple axel
- I wonder if he'll be able to hold off Mahbanoozadeh with these errors on his jumps
- Nice triple toe-triple toe
- Lutz with one arm over his head and he's able to add the sequence
- Falls on his next jump attempt
- Interesting cross foot spin position
- Nice foot work sequence and the crowd is getting behind him
- Nice triple
- Great donut position in his combination spin
- Not a great program for Adam and we'll see if he can hold on to the podium
Daisuke Takahashi, JPN
- Turns out of his opening jump
- A little forward on his triple axel but he holds on to the landing
- Solid triple for his next jump
- Nice spin position in his sit spin but he slows through the rest of the combination spin
- Great footwork sequence right in front of the judges and really performing and engaging his entire body
- Triple flip double toe he looks a little odd in the air but he hangs on
- Takes a hard fall on his next triple and lands on his side
- Layback spin variation
- Next triple is clean
- Great triple with very little set up
- Triple toe combo but he loses a lot of speed on the last jump
- Another great step work sequence for Takahashi
- He needs to straighten his bottom leg in the last spin sequence
- Another tough program in the mens competition but he didn't give up and gave the program everything he had
Nobunari Oda, JPN
- Takahashi left the door open so Oda just has to go relatively clean to win gold
- Falls on his first jump attempt
- Low landing on his next triple but he hangs on
- Triple-triple, maybe two footed on the second jump
- Really interesting position in his sit spin and he gets very low in his traditional sit spin
- Nice triple axel
- Triple double combo
- Nice triple jump right on the music
- Triple salchow-double toe-double loop
- You shouldn't do the spread eagle jump unless you can hit the full position
- Really hitting all these jumps at the end of the program
- Nice position in his camel spin and good speed throughout the sequence
- That should be good enough to win
Top three free skaters:
Top TES: Mahbanoozadeh
Top PCS: Takahashi
Gold: Takahashi
Silver: Oda
Bronze: Mahbanoozadeh
Takahashi and Oda will qualify for the Grand Prix Final.
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