The event begins at 9:45am EST.
The warmup group is on the ice.
Group 1
Sergei Voronov, RUS: 29.51 TES + 31.64 PCS = 61.15
- Two footed and under rotated his quad toe attempt
- Nice tight and fast rotation on his triple axel
- Good triple loop
- Nice camel spin position with good arm variations but he could use more speed
- Fun music for his step sequence and a lot of movement--he looks a little off balanced at times and I'd like to see him really perform this and it could be a huge crowd pleaser
- Good camel into a sit spin and a triangle variation
- Flying entry to his final sit spin with a nice low, tucked position but a loss of speed through the twist variation
Brandon Mroz, USA: 36.55 TES + 33.80 PCS -1.00 = 69.35 and into 1st place
- I like this easy style on Brandon Mroz but I'd like to see him really commit to the choreography instead of going through some of the motions
- Fall on his quad lutz attempt
- Step out on his triple axel
- His transitions have really improved and his skating in between the elements is really improved and right on the music
- Nice camel spin
- Nice triple lutz + triple toe combination
- Good low sit spin
- Very nice one foot sequence and good flow through his footwork
- Good triangle spin and twisted sit variation
Konstantin Menshov, RUS: 30.41 TES + 31.50 PCS -1.00 = 60.91 and into 3rd place
- Really wild on his triple axel with a very open air position and he two foots the landing
- Quad toe + double toe with not a lot of flow in between the jumps
- Really hard fall on his triple lutz
- Good camel spin position but he loses a lot of speed in the end
- Good speed and flow through the step sequence but not a lot of difficulty in the upper body
- Nice sit spin
- Good speed through the final combo spin with nice stretched out positions
Andrei Rogozine, CAN: 33.32 TES + 31.79 PCS = 65.11 and into 2nd place
- Opens with a nice triple flip + triple toe combination
- Spread eagle into a triple axel with a step out
- He could use a little more flexibility through the catchfoot position in his camel spin
- A little tight on the landing of that triple lutz
- Nice position in his twisted sit variation
- Good one foot section in his step sequence and nice timing with the music; a lot of movement through the upper body but he needs deeper edges
- Nice speed in the camel spin but loses a lot of it in the sit position and almost falls out of it
Group 2
Javier Fernandez, ESP: 40.11 TES + 38.39 PCS = 78.50 and into 1st place
- Very nice opening quad toe
- Popped his lutz into a double with a triple toe combo
- Nice triple axel
- Great upright spin
- Nice sit spin in a low position but he could use a little more stretch through his free leg
- Very nice one foot section that covers half the ice in his step sequence--this step sequence looks so easy and flows very nicely but is full of difficult content
- Great camel spin position into a good triangle variation but a loss of speed through the change foot
- Great ending pose hit right out of the scratch spin
Yuzuru Hanyu, JPN: 45.20 TES + 37.58 PCS = 82.78 and into 1st place
- Sits too far back on the landing of the quad toe and has to step out and put his hands down
- Nice recovery with his triple axel
- Decent donut position
- Good triple lutz + triple toe
- I like his freedom through this step sequence and how low he gets to the ice in some of these steps
- Nice cross leg sit spin with no hands holding his leg
- Good camel position into a nice low sit position with a stretched free leg and ending with a scratch spin
Jeremy Abbott, USA: 42.04 TES + 41.50 PCS = 83.54 and into 1st place
- He looks so calm and relaxed out on the ice
- Nice opening triple flip + triple toe with great height and fast rotation
- Beautiful triple axel
- He looks like he's having so much fun in these steps
- Nice low sit spin with good positions and speed
- Great timing with the music and he's really skating to the music and not through it
- Great triple lutz to end the jumps
- Nice twisted upright spin into a scratch spin
- Very nice edgework and speed in his step sequence and the crowd is really behind him; I don't like the step in the middle where he puts his hand down because it almost looks like a fall and he could lose points for it
- Nice final combination spin with good flexibility through the upright position
Artur Gachinski, RUS: 38.30 TES + 37.43 PCS -1.00 = 74.73 and into 4th place
- Fall on his opening quad toe
- Good triple axel
- Triple loop--but with no combination he'll be docked for not completing hte required elements
- He needs a lot more flexibility through that catchfoot position of his camel spin
- Good speed in his sit spin
- Nice one foot section in his footwork but he loses some of his flow out of the illusion spin
- Nice Y spin but he leans too far away from his foot and will lose some GOE points on that
Michal Brezina, CZE: 40.62 TES + 38.39 PCS = 79.01 and into 3rd place
- Big triple axel but a lot of lead time into the jump
- Triple flip + triple toe
- Triple lutz
- He needs to really stretch through his free leg in the sit spin
- Very nie camel position but his catchfoot position is not very attractive and needs a lot more flexibility
- Nice speed, quality of movement, flow and edge work in this step sequence
- Very slow final combination spin but good position variations
