2023 Grand Prix Final - Men FS: “Succession of the Quad Squad”

[Gris]

His ease of entry into the quad Lutz is truly something.

Yep - I was stunned by how easy it looked.

Unfortunately Ilia’s gliding looked rough right after Yuma and Shoma, but the jumps are truly crazy.

 

[Wyliefan]

Good job, Ilia. Now please forget to put that costume in your suitcase before you go home.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

I think he pretty much could have stopped jumping in the middle of the program and still reach the technical mark of Shoma.

I'm not liking his skating skills and choreo, but a)it's better than the SP, and b)there's as much as one can bitch about skating skills when the boy literally doesn't have any triples lower than axel.

 

[Frau Muller]

ILIA MY GOD OF SKATING!!!

That final March with The Raspberry is EVERYTHING!

 

[Wyliefan]

Dad had Scary Face when he finished.

 

[Karen-W]

Good job, Ilia. Now please forget to put that costume in your suitcase before you go home.

Better yet, bring it to Nats and let the other IM use it for his FS so that we can still see snark about it but not care since we'll never see it again after that.

 

[leilaofpaper]

Personally I prefer this costume to the electrocuted heart he had earlier this season.

 

[Firedancer]

His jumps just look so easy. There really wasn’t a lot of performance. But this should be an easy win

 

[leilaofpaper]

Holy score, imagine if he had landed the 4A.

 

[victorskid]

FS results

1​	Ilia MALININ	USA	207.76​	121.49​		87.27​	8.82​	8.71​	8.68​	1.00​	#6​
2​	Shoma UNO	JPN	191.32​	98.95​		93.37​	9.25​	9.36​	9.43​	1.00​	#5​
3​	Adam SIAO HIM FA	FRA	189.92​	102.55​		88.37​	8.86​	8.86​	8.82​	1.00​	#1​
4​	Yuma KAGIYAMA	JPN	184.93​	93.12​		91.81​	9.07​	9.11​	9.39​	0.00​	#4​
5​	Kao MIURA	JPN	166.67​	82.82​		83.85​	8.43​	8.36​	8.39​	0.00​	#3​
6​	Kevin AYMOZ	FRA	126.71​	50.42​		80.29​	8.14​	7.86​	8.11​	4.00​	#2​

Overall results

1	Ilia MALININ	USA	314.66	1	1
2	Shoma UNO	JPN	297.34	2	2
3	Yuma KAGIYAMA	JPN	288.65	3	4
4	Adam SIAO HIM FA	FRA	278.28	6	3
5	Kao MIURA	JPN	261.53	4	5
6	Kevin AYMOZ	FRA	219.91	5	6

Protocols: http://www.isuresults.com/results/s...------FNL-000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

 

[beckab81]

I think he pretty much could have stopped jumping in the middle of the program and still reach the technical mark of Shoma.

I'm not liking his skating skills and choreo, but a)it's better than the SP, and b)there's as much as one can bitch about skating skills when the boy literally doesn't have any triples lower than axel.

He had a 3Z-3A combo. Just insane tech.

 

[skatingguy]

Shame about the quad axel, but got the quad loop! First man to land all six different types of quads in competition.

I initially thought my eyes had deceived me and waited for the tracker to confirm.

No flip - what a slacker.

 

[Lizziebeth]

Ilia is just bummed he biffed the 4A lol

 

[Karen-W]

Dad had Scary Face when he finished.

Dad got a haircut between GPdF and now and it's not making him more attractive. But, I do believe he needs a PCOTY nomination.

 

[Wyliefan]

Okay, now dad's happy. And Ilia's just like, "Oh, that's nice."

 

[PRlady]

Beats Shoma by 15 with a fall on the 4A. It must be so demoralising for the other guys. He’s a freak of nature.

 

[NinjaTurtles]

My hip shattered watching the 4A fall.

Hideous costume confirms he’s EldestBoy(TM) Kendall Roy?

 

[Frau Muller]

They need a live cam on his Mom’s face!!! Two generation as Sr GP champs!

 

[Lizziebeth]

That costume was just so heavy looking. I blame the costume for the failed 4A.

 

[BittyBug]

Malinin's technical prowess is truly phenomenal.

 

[Karen-W]

They need a live cam on his Mom’s face!!! Two generation as Sr GP champs!

So many firsts for our boy this week! First 4A in the SP, first person to land all 6 jumps as quads, first child of a past GPF champion to win the GPF!

 

[NinjaTurtles]

Legacy admission to GPF gold

 

[AYS]

I don't care for this costume either, but man is Ilia exciting to watch. That choreo flipping thing (whatever he calls) hit the music so perfectly, and of course, the jumps. Amazing.

 

[Wyliefan]

Personally I prefer this costume to the electrocuted heart he had earlier this season.

I kind of liked that one. The colors and the general look of it suited him.

 

[Holy Headband]

Beats Shoma by 15 with a fall on the 4A. It must be so demoralising for the other guys. He’s a freak of nature.

Putting a bazillion quads in your program is a high-risk, high-reward strategy. Sometimes it works out for Malinin, like it did today, and he runs away with the event, and sometimes it doesn't. The other guys know he's fallible.

What would demoralise me personally was seeing him get 87 in PCS for a jumping drill with a fall when he could barely move through his steps and didn't hit an edge once, but I guess they're used to it. He totally deserved to win today, but the judges didn't need to do all that.

 

[Wyliefan]

Putting a bazillion quads in your program is a high-risk, high-reward strategy. Sometimes it works out for Malinin, like it did today, and he runs away with the event, and sometimes it doesn't. The other guys know he's fallible.

Yeah, well, if there's one thing we learned today, it's that they all are.

 

[Karen-W]

Personally I prefer this costume to the electrocuted heart he had earlier this season.

Nope. This costume is a straight up fail. The jacket is too long and flaps around obnoxiously at his hips. And the less said about the stoning applied to look like suit lapels on the front and suspenders in the back, the better. Spend some of your GP earnings, kid, on an actual shirt and suit jacket instead of that cheap faux effect.

ETA - I guess it is an actual suit jacket and shirt. The problem is that there's no contrast. It's really just a terrible costume. His original shirt was much better.

 

[Frau Muller]

Medals! ILIA GOLD! Oh yeah, baby!!!

Good weekend for USA: Golds for Sr Men and Sr & Jr Dance!

 

[Frau Muller]

Oh, REAL MEDALS this time! Not the fake AI cardboard, LOL!

 

[Private Citizen]

Malinin's technical prowess is truly phenomenal.

I've not seen a skater so far ahead of their contemporaries since Midori Ito. Like Ito, it may take 30 years for Malinin's tech content to become commonplace.

What would demoralise me personally was seeing him get 87 in PCS for a jumping drill with a fall when he could barely move through his steps and didn't hit an edge once, but I guess they're used to it. He totally deserved to win today, but the judges didn't need to do all that.

Well, the judging is broken all around. Please tell me why Uno got hugely positive GOEs for barely landed jumps.

I don't feel like Malinin got any more of an "unfair boost" than the other guys. I'm not going to pick on Kevin Aymoz given how awful he was today, but he receives enormous PCS for programs that are spent almost entirely on two feet with a few highlight moves thrown in.

They're all ending up with ~10 points more than is fair, one way or another, with the exception of Kagiyama. I'm not an uber of his the way other people here, but he's the only skater in this field whose marks are unassailable.