23 Japan Nationals Men Free PBP

[Tak]

Kao Miura Make sure to get points for spins!
Attack on Titan
3A+3S
4T hangs on
4S so
FCamSp4
3A 2.17
StSq4
4T+3T 3.80
3Lo+2A
3F
CSSp3
Choreo 2.00
CComSp4
TES Tracker over 100 and about 3 points over Shun.
Spectacular! Another Standing Ovation! 3 in a row!
186.17 280.08 Leads

 

[Jarrett]

I know I harp on this constantly, but if I was Miura's coach, I would tell the choreographer that his free is NOT ending on a spin. Put a step sequence there.

Yes that would be the for the best or a quad toe.

 

[Hedwig]

Kao in tears

Yuma!

4sal, there it is!
4toe e 3sal stumble
3loop
3axel 2axel
his skating is so wholesome
3axel
3z3toe<
3flip
oh stumbles in the steq seq

simply wow, I cannot remember ever having seen a better competition. and the top two are still to come

 

[Jarrett]

Not understanding all the GOEs for jumps were errors on the exits or the stumble in the step sequence.

 

[npavel]

just wow. A pitty for that stumble in the step sequence

 

[Holy Headband]

Visibly nervy performance from Yuma with some tentative landings and a stumble on the iconic step sequence, but he held it together and hit every musical accent on top of that.

 

[Tak]

Yuma Kagiyama
Rain in your black eyes
4S 4.16 Perfect
4T+3S
3Lo
3A+2A
3A 2.93
3Lz+3T
Choreo
3F 1.86
StSq3
CComSp4
FCComSp4
TES Tracker over 105!
4th Full Standing Ovation in a row!
Any of the previous four skates would win Nationals anywhere, except in USA or France!
198.16 292.10 Leads
This is insane level of skating here!

 

[Holy Headband]

Thank you JSF for propping up the little goat. For once your schemes make sense to me.

 

[Hedwig]

Sota Yamamoto

4sal
4toe3toe
4toe
3axel 3 sal
great jumps but no in between so far, just jump clinic
3axel
3flip 2axel
3z

I mean he deserves it,, that was a great skate but meh to the most boring skater from Japan now likely getting the nod for Worlds.

 

[npavel]

wow Sota, all green that was brilliant but after Yuma in my eyes

 

[Holy Headband]

OK, Sota is just on today in a way Yuma wasn't and he should lead even though I kinda hate this program for him... Why can't such a quality skater get programs from somewhere other than the Canadian men's reject pile?

 

[Jarrett]

Too many fist pumps. 4? 5? Distracting and boring program.

 

[Tak]

Sota Yamamoto
Exogenesis #3
4S
4T+3T
4T
3A+3S
FCamsp4
3A pumps fist Wow
Choreo
3F+2A
3Lz pumps fist again!
cssp4
StSq4
Tracker is over 106 slightly over Yuma.
Another Full Standing Ovation
There is some sort of magic on the ice today.
Last 5 skates are all unbelievable!
192.42 287.00 just behind Yuma in Second!

 

[Jarrett]

Sota Yamamoto

4sal
4toe3toe
4toe
3axel 3 sal
great jumps but no in between so far, just jump clinic
3axel
3flip 2axel
3z

I mean he deserves it,, that was a great skate but meh to the most boring skater from Japan now likely getting the nod for Worlds.

Are they just going with top 3? Or 4CC factoring in?

 

[npavel]

yesss, Yuma leads, his skating skills are so good

 

[Holy Headband]

Not complaining about the blatant favouritism when the result is correct in a cosmic sense.

 

[npavel]

the feed is broken, in the beginning of Uno

 

[Holy Headband]

the feed is broken, in the beginning of Uno

This link works: https://live.qq.com/10174243

 

[Hedwig]

Shoma Uno

that must be hard to skate now after the brilliant last few skates

4loop< step out
4flip perfect
3axel2axel
the way he generates speed with just one cross over
3axel
4toe2toe
4toe
3sal

another brilliant skate

what a treat!

 

[Jarrett]

Fantastic last group! Thanks Japan!

 

[Tak]

Shoma Uno
Time Lapse
4Lo so
4F clean
3A+2A
3A
StSq4
4T+2T
4T
3S
FCamSSp4
CSSp4
Choreo
CComSp4
ETC: Sixth Standing Ovation in a row. ETA: Actually, eight skaters in a row, Yoshioka, Tsuboi, Tomono, Sato, Miura, Kagiyama, Yamamoto and Uno received standing ovation! Unbelievable!
TES Tracker 2-3 points behind Yuma. He did have 10 point lead from SP.
Two jumps under review.
The final group was simply unbelievable series of great skates!
193.35 298.04 Winner!
Congratulations Shoma!

 

[npavel]

This link works: https://live.qq.com/10174243

I am on that link and it worked fine except on Uno's first jump

 

[Hedwig]

1	Kagi Yama Yu Makoto	Oriental Bio/Chukyo University	198.16	105.51	92.65	9.32	9.14	9.36	0.00	#twenty two
2	Masa Uno	toyota motors	193.35	98.81	94.54	9.46	9.54	9.39	0.00	#twenty four
3	Sota Yamamoto	Chukyo University	192.42	107.04	85.38	8.36	8.71	8.57	0.00	#twenty three
Four	Yoshio Miura	Oriental Bio Meguro Nidai High School	186.17	100.29	85.88	8.61	8.64	8.54	0.00	#twenty one
Five	Kazuki Tomono	Uenoshiba Skate Club	184.64	99.49	85.15	8.57	8.61	8.39	0.00	#19
6	Shun Sato	Emu Service/Meiji University	183.24	98.32	84.92	8.57	8.43	8.50	0.00	#20
7	Tatsuya Tsuboi	sysmex	166.49	87.74	78.75	7.86	7.75	8.04	0.00	#18
8	Nozomi Yoshioka	Hosei University	164.11	87.51	76.60	7.75	7.50	7.75	0.00	#17
9	Minami Miyake Hoshi	kansai skating	148.96	72.61	76.35	7.61	7.68	7.64	0.00	#15
Ten	Takeshi Honda Lucas	Kinoshita Academy	144.04	72.47	71.57	7.14	7.21	7.14	0.00	#11
11	Takeshi Kataise Amin	Kansai University	141.85	68.91	72.94	7.29	7.32	7.29	0.00	#7
12	Takashiro Shimada	Kinoshita Group	139.40	64.68	75.72	7.71	7.46	7.57	1.00	#14
13	Haruya Sasaki	Kyoto University	137.99	69.15	68.84	6.96	6.96	6.75	0.00	#8
14	Ryu Kakiuchi	Hyogo Nishinomiya FSC	131.72	67.05	64.67	6.46	6.46	6.50	0.00	#Four
15	Daiya Ebihara	Meiji Jingu Gaien FSC	131.11	69.73	61.38	6.29	6.00	6.14	0.00	#1
16	Takumi Sugiyama	Okayama University	130.96	63.40	67.56	6.79	6.82	6.68	0.00	#Ten
17	Riki Nakata	TOKIO Inkarami	128.82	61.53	67.29	6.86	6.46	6.89	0.00	#9
18	Kazuki Kushida	Kurashiki FSC	128.73	59.06	70.67	7.18	7.11	6.93	1.00	#13
19	Shunsuke Nakamura	Kinoshita Academy	127.54	59.71	69.83	7.11	6.86	7.00	2.00	#16
20	Makoto Tanouchi	Fuji FC	126.12	63.08	65.04	6.46	6.50	6.57	2.00	#2
twenty one	Noboru Kishina	Kansai University	123.60	58.84	65.76	6.64	6.68	6.43	1.00	#3
twenty two	Hoshi Takahashi name	Kinoshita Academy	123.49	62.84	61.65	6.29	6.11	6.11	1.00	#6
twenty three	Hikaru Oshima	Meiji University	122.47	56.47	66.00	6.50	6.71	6.61	0.00	#Five
W.D.	Shuto Shu	ID Gakuen High School	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	#12

 

[Holy Headband]

Gotta say that I like Tsuboi more than a couple of the guys who finished above him, but Japan's top 6 is harder to break into than the final group at Worlds probably. (Edit: OK, that's an exaggeration when I thought about it, but basically...?) It's a shame this field is so deep a skater like him can't even get a 4CC assignment... Hopefully next year!

 

[Carina]

Are they just going with top 3? Or 4CC factoring in?

Think I read in the common Japanese National tread, that only the winner is safe, for second and third place to worlds it’s BOW counting.

 

[maureenfarone]

Thanks @Tak and @Hedwig for PBP!!

 

[Holy Headband]

Lambiel bitching that "this circus is done" in the KnC was really annoying BTW. Save the self-victimisation for the hotel room! How does he keep finding new ways to make the KnC all about him in every competition and with every skater?

 

[Tak]

Thank you for your patience and kind understanding.
The last six skates for me are the best ever continuous display of Mens skating, not just at Nationals but Worlds included!
Good Night, Folks!

 

[Jarrett]

Lambiel bitching that "this circus is done" in the KnC was really annoying BTW. Save the self-victimisation for the hotel room! How does he keep finding new ways to make the KnC all about him in every competition and with every skater?

Yikes he said that?

So it is the Worlds probably going to be Shoma Yuma and Kao according the selection criteria since Sota didn't make the GPF or have a top 3 score?

 

[Holy Headband]

Yikes he said that?

So it is the Worlds probably going to be Shoma Yuma and Kao according the selection criteria since Sota didn't make the GPF or have a top 3 score?

Good question. I assumed they would just go with the national podium. (And yeah, that line was very audible.)