#looks less like a deer on skates now but despite improvement much of the choreo is still a bit clumsy

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team event day 1:

- boyang 4Lz!!! shame about the fall though, it looked painful.

- shoma… I take back what I said about hating the red costume if it gets you the 3T combo. just skate like that in individual and it’ll all be fine.

- nathan was very emotive and had good interpretation today, it seemed like he connected in a way he didn’t at nats, even the SS were a bit better. overall the score wasn’t too egregious relative to the rest of the scores at the event (ie he was overscored but only a little more than everyone else).

- hubbell/donohue in first is interesting. nikita twizzles flopped (was his back acting up?), but s/k had the best blues. still h/d deserved win though, their midline stsq fucks

- koko were… koko, but somehow got lucky and weren’t the worst. good for japan’s team medal!

- rikuryu robbed. k/f had nothing on them besides passport

- the last two pairs were so stressful but seeing s/h and m/g one after another really makes the difference clear. glad s/h got to keep their well-deserved WR but m/g being so close with that bland program when mishina can’t even skate does not bode well for the individual event.