#skating awards

[myjunkisyuzuruhanyu]

I mean, seeing what the ISU Awards has become... do we really want Shoma (and Stephane) to be involved in that mess? It's so... self-celebratory, lol. The phrase "I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine" comes to mind. Saw a FS fan who was at Zurich tweeted that the crowd don't even know or care much about the skaters when they were given awards... honestly even Stephane, a Switzerland citizen (!!!) chose to go to Tokyo this week to do dance classes and watch the Paris Opera Ballet. Anyway if people really want to watch a really good ice show, Daisuke's ice show KASSOUYA in Fukuoka was also running this weekend and they allow fancams... from what I can see on X/Twitter it's much better than AOI, sorry not sorry.

KASSOUYA seems indeed a wonderful ice show. The snippets look very cool. I wonder what brought them to allow fancams and if they keep it that way or only because they wanted to promote the show in sns 🤔 In Japan ice shows are growing. I am glad for every opportunity for the skaters.

In a way Shoma is involved in the award anyway. He was in the nominations, even if he didn't win. Not that this award has any sort of negative or positive impact on anyone really. I think Shoma would just deserve more recognition by the ISU. That's all, not that the award itself is worth anything. I guess nobody will be remembered for earning a skating award. Yet Shoma and Kaori not winning against Ilia when Ilia is here for two seasons and did get one title only feels odd. If it's solely on social media engagement well than Adam's backflip gained huge attention at Euros, Kaori's SP last season was literally retweeted by Janet Jackson herself, Livia Kaiser's FS was retweeted by Rachel Zegler and beside that it shows that ISU is not aware of what Shoma did for the sport. OPOI brought another crowd to figure skating. (SOI in the US just got canceled for the season for a lack of interest as it appears btw) But ofc this whole award show is playing into the hand of those ppl who always had a say in skating North America and Europe. Ilia's management is practically involved in the show, so winning an award two times in a row - one which was just invented for him last season - a devlish thought may come to mind 🙃

I think the crowd for an ice show is different than for a competition. At Nebelhorn Trophy usually the arena is more packed for the gala than for the actual competition. Those ppl there don't come bc of the names of the skaters, they come for a fun evening like going to the circus. I also went couple of times to Holiday on Ice, I was also at Disney on Ice (ice shows that come to my hometown are an easy choice to go to). At Holiday on Ice last year Papadakis/Cizeron were invited and I totally chose a date where they would perform in the show bc of them, however in the crowd most ppl didn't know who they were and didn't care. They liked their performance but you could see just a few excited fans. You can see by the reactions to the jumps (which are usually just doubles) that the cast performs there that ppl don't come bc of the sport but bc of the show. They would clap as enthusiatically for a double than for a triple. So I am not surprised the ppl didn't care much for the winners at Art on Ice, most ppl there probably didn't even know them but came for an ice show.

Stephane performed often on Art on Ice so I don't think it had anything to do with that, probably didn't rather fit his schedule. Makes you wonder though if he would have won if he would have performed there. Because very comically all winners were also present at Art on Ice...🙃

Maybe Shoma didn't win because he would not attend Art on Ice at this point of the season 🤔😂 just kidding...

I am not against those ppl that won at all, even happy for Deanna Stellato Dudek, she deserves the world as a role model. Just being the only Pairs skater to even get anything is showing how much ISU cares for all disciplines. Also the nominations of most categories just show that ice dance and Pairs have no value.

[ingravinoveritas]

"I knew you would come through for me. You always do." "Well, you said 'trust me.'" "And you did."

| GO Season 2 vs. the night of the 2021 NTA Awards.

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Satoko Miyahara & ELLE: Stone Cold » 2023 Art on Ice: Zürich

[jennibeultimate]

I see that Tumblr fs fandom isn't caring for the ISU awards...not a single post in the fs tag about it...Tumblr fs fandom best fs fandom 😁

[resssistance]

Stéphane Lambiel at the Golden Skate Awards 2022 / photo by Claudia Greco

[lonewolflink]

sometimes i think about how mike green didn't win a norris trophy the season he scored THIRTY GOALS AS A DEFENSEMAN in the fucking dead puck era and i want to break something

[virtchandmoir]

Grandview Skating Club: Congratulations Alex for getting the BC/YT Section Programs Assistant of the Year Award - a special shout out to Jessica Chapelski for being an amazing/exceptional coach and mentor! Thanks to Julie Ng for the photos!

[picturebookshelf]

Roller Girl (2015)

Story and Art: Victoria Jamieson

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[myjunkisyuzuruhanyu]

the isu awards are just such a self-report of their favouritism, politics and what the isu actually sees as valuable (and it’s obviously not the longevity, consistency, artistry and musicality that Shoma represents)… they’re literally saying the quiet part out loud with those awards, no shame at all.

For sure. It's a popularity contest but not played with any rules we know.

If you see the fan reactions and everything that fans have said about the awards you see that ISU doesn't care at all for the fans or skaters.

I think @ skatingscores (on X/Twt) said it best:

"The whole concept of an awards show run by the organizing body in a judged sport is yikes."

Also a few things that are crap about this award show:

Giving an award for a year when the skating season is not from year to year but from July to June and the biggest event - the World championship - is yet to come.

Saying fans should vote but then not taking the fans into consideration. Does it make sense?

Also in general if you look at the interactions of sns towards this award, then most ppl are not interested. If you compare the award winning tweets and the normal competition winning tweets it's nothing. If you look at the number of YT views it's laughable. 26+k is not much. 4CC Men SP has 55k+ and that's when countries are blocked to watch the official stream.

This is not making more ppl interested in the sport but makes it look like even more than a fake sport.

[abnormallybetrayed]

tagged by @lightningzombie for three random facts about myself

over quarantine i made like a billion cardboard weapons to pass the time so my closet is just filled with dinky fake swords and the like

i carry a mini stuffed jesus plushie in my bag with me everywhere i go because you would be surprised how often you need to pull out jesus for something

as someone from new mexico i believe with all my heart and soul that the farmington roller skating rink is way better than the one in albuquerque and im so sad thats not the one everyone talked about after stranger things (this is probably all nostalgia though)

i dont have many people to tag so uhhh @cheerskirtgerard @plxmisland @otherwiseromantic @unholyverse if you want to get in on this ^w^

[denissvasiljevs1999]

Deniss Vasiljevs, AOI ensemble & Gjon's Tears – Queen Medley – 2023 Art on Ice

[sk8rambler]

dear sting and stewart lovers,

i fully understand why u love them

- an andy summers lover

[jennibeultimate]

Yuna Kim ❤️ in Dior at MAMA Awards 2023

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Carolina Kostner at the Golden Skate Awards 2022 / photo by Claudia Greco

[unprocione]

gracie just leans against him because sleepy.

Leon goes still, silent, until the collar button on his jacket clicks together under her chin, Leon carefully draping the leather jacket around Gracie's shoulders and snapping the buttons closed. "If you need to take a rest, now is the best time, alright? You're doing great, I know all of this has to be really scary, and you're being very brave about it, I just need you to stick by me a little longer until I figure out all this.. Alpha Corp, stuff, and then I promise, we'll get far, far away from here. I'll be working on my report in the meanwhile, so i'm not going anywhere, no need to worry."