Russian Nationals, Dec 24-28, Saransk

Do you miss Plushy? Got nothing better to do come Sunday? Watch Russian nats!

Entries and times:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fskate.ru%2Fresults%2Ftour%2F1042.html


Sunday Dec 25

Watch on NTV Plus Sport Online:

http://moetv.ucoz.ru/index/ntv_sport/0-199

And with a 10-20 min delay:

http://tvali.eu/index.php?action=sat&channel=70954

http://www.eurosmi.ru/tv/show/74778c07af6e4edd1f2652902d675863/132/70954


14:00 (11:00 CET) Live:

Opening ceremony
SD
Pairs SP
Men SP

Monday Dec 26

13:40 (10:40 CET) Live:

Ladies SP
Men FS
FD

Tuesday Dec 27

15:40 (12:40 CET) Live:

Pairs FS
Ladies FS

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Yuko Kavaguchi - Alexander Smirnov WD

(to be updated)

Thanks, hsuhs~

Does Plusy really compete in National?
very very interesting....

Anyway,
Look at the ladies' field!! Just amzing..
I really wonder if Adelina can depend her title against Leonova, Tutamysheva, Julia Lipnitskaya & etc.
And I was very impressed by Julia Lipnitskaya's performance at JGPF.

I can't wait see....

fosse wrote:

Does Plusy really compete in National?
very very interesting....

Well, he says he will be there. But he still may WD at the very last sec

fosse wrote:

Anyway,
Look at the ladies' field!! Just amzing...

True. It took years for the ladies field in Russia to become the most interesting one of all, but now it is!

fosse wrote:

And I was very impressed by Julia Lipnitskaya's performance at JGPF.

Me too! She's phenomenal.

Men SP results

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffsrussia.ru%2Fupl%2Fresults%2F1112%2Fnat2012%2FSEG103.HTM

Thanks, hsuhs~

When i saw the result, i felt those were too high of all.

But suddenly rememberd, Russian has their own scoring system.
At the Russian scoring system, those marks were mediocre, rather too low.

Anyway
certainly all great kings are regaining their crown now!!!
Verner, Joubert, Daisuke. Is this time Plusy's turn..??

fosse wrote:

When i saw the result, i felt those were too high of all.

That's what I thought too, fosse.

42.30 TES for a saved quad, solid 3A and a 3Lz+2T combo? Mostly 9's in PCS?

Too high or not, everyone can see for themselves:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=2012+Russian+Nationals&search_sort=video_date_uploaded

fosse wrote:

But suddenly rememberd, Russian has their own scoring system.
At the Russian scoring system, those marks were mediocre, rather too low.

Yes, Russians used to give their skaters the so called 'bonus points' for 'difficult elements', at nationals.

But I've seen these Nats protocols, there isn't a trace of a 'bonus' in there.

fosse wrote:

Anyway
certainly all great kings are regaining their crown now!!!
Verner, Joubert, Daisuke. Is this time Plusy's turn..??

Oh yes they do! But some of those kings are naked, imo.

hsuhs wrote:

42.30 TES for a saved quad, solid 3A and a 3Lz+2T combo? Mostly 9's in PCS?

It's unbelievable judges gave him so high scores. Yes, it's National Championship, but, imo, scores should be realistic. 9.11 for SS and 8.61 for transitions
I feel sorry for young skaters like Gachinski and Zhan Bush. They performed much better than Plushenko and one of these two should be the leader after the short, imo.

Adelina performed her best sp this season, but 68.** were just ridiculous..
Her jumps were solid but other elements were not great.

Most of all, She needs to develop her heart and soul. and improve SS.

And changed costume really awful.

I think Adelina will stay in 1 st. At least in SP she will.

Yeah, the costume could go.