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ISU Four Continents Championships 2025 Donovan Carrillo (MEX) - Short Program ↳ Season Best Score: 68.50

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the door was left open and they said don't mind if we do! riku got a q call on the sbs but man just barely, hoping this means her rotation issues are improving

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i dont CARE about jumps, donovan is the hottest bitch here!!!!!!!!!!!!

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no matter what happens with his jumps you can never make me hate a guy that's really feeling it skating to exogenesis symphony

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HE'S SMILING, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS

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BELOVED CHAOS DISASTER MAN YOU DID IT!!!! LETS GOOOOOOOOOO

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ULRICH SALCHOW WHEN I FIND YOU 🔪🔪🔪

everything else was so good 😭😭😭 he even managed to hang onto that combo

also once again why can't we jsut give them the points for singles or doubles, what do we lose here.

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Really rough chibi sketch before I go watch the dub premier. This will eventually be a charm, but I can’t decide if I want to keep them in the warm up outfits or do them in their ice skating outfits. What do y’all think?

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Inktober 11 Victors so cute when he’s surprised

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gonna say that I'm not against europeans/4cc/worlds having a minimum score per se, HOWEVER I do think the minimum should be TES+PCS combined so it's more fair to the skaters who maybe don't have huge jumps but who routinely score level 4 in spins and steps and thus gain high PCS

like it could be something like 60-65 for men, 55-60 for women and pairs, and around 60 for ice dance for short program, for example

because as I've said plenty of times, last I checked this sport was still figure skating, not figure jumping

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GABRIELLA PAPADAKIS & MADISON HUBBELL Art on Ice Switzerland 2025

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What makes Gabi and Maddie remarkable is not just that they are two female Olympic champions performing together, but that they explicitly intend for this program to be an example, a statement, and a catalyst for change.

Text and interview by Anna Kellar.

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Hi Tumblr Newbies,

The inevitable new influx of people means a roundup of folks talking about "we don't have an algorithm here," "you NEED to reblog things," etc. and I would just like to offer some actually helpful advice.

One of tumblr's best assets is that it offers you multiple algorithmic feeds, including not having one at all. If you are on mobile, you will notice a "following" tab, followed by a "for you" tab, which is algorithmically generated. "Following" only includes posts from people you follow, in reverse chronological order. That's it. The vast majority of tumblr users prefer it this way, as we predate algorithms.

If you are new and looking to expand what you're finding quickly, you can browse under the algorithmic feed and tweak it once you've followed a few blogs and liked a few things - under "settings," you can choose to have posts related to your likes, or the likes of people you follow.

However - again, most users on this website do not use the algorithm. It's for that reason that reblogging posts is of such importance here. Liking a post is an appreciated sign of goodwill, but for the majority of users, it will not boost the post. Many of use use likes just as a save folder.

So if you genuinely like something you see on here, I encourage you to reblog it, because that is the only way the post will continue to spread around. Almost everyone started their blog with a theme they were loathe to ruin with an unrelated reblog, but by now most of us are just streams of consciousness showing each other things we find funny or interesting, and if you view your blog the same way you will have a much more enjoyable experience.

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TES minimum shows the flaws in the system

This weekend, Valtter Virtanen missed the TES minimum for Worlds by 0.83 points. He had no falls, no negative GOEs and Level 4 in all spins and in the step sequence.

Josefin Taljegard, who won the Tallink Hotels Cup this weekend, still doesn't have her Worlds minimum, either. She also regularly gets Level 4s.

Both skaters are loved in the skating fandom because of their entertaining performances and solid skating skills among others. Both skaters regularly win the national championship in their respective home countries. The reason that they have such a hard time to get their Worlds ticket is as simple as it is unfair: They don't have the big jumps. (Valtter is currently working on the 4T, but can't land it consistently.)

Josefin and Valtter are not the only ones. Every season, skaters chase their Worlds minimum by traveling to competition after competition, risking injury and exhaustion to compete at the most illustrious event of the season. It begs the question of whether a technical minimum score is a reasonable requirement to be eligible for Worlds and if there should be other ways for skaters to qualify because it disadvantages skaters whose PCS are higher than their TES, artistic skaters, natural entertainers - skaters who have other qualities than jumps.

The discussion of whether spins and steps should have higher base values (or likewise: the base values of jumps should be lowered) and if a stronger decoupling of PCS from the technical content of a programme is needed, arises every season because the current judging system rewards jumps and thus puts skaters who achieve quality in other aspects of this multi-faceted sprort at a disadvantage. The TES minimum is only a symptom of this flaw in the system, at the cost of skaters with low technical content no matter their other qualities.

In a discussion on Bluesky @skateguardblog suggested that every skating federation should be allowed to send one skater per discipline to a competition that is called "World Championship", regardless of their technical content. In the literal sense, a world championship is a championship of championships. The best of each skating nation should deserve their big moment. Let them skate in a big arena once a year. In addition to that, one could give two spots to nations whose skaters finished in the top 10 of their category the season before. Entry lists would explode, but sitting through a day-long short programme to see all those small-fed skaters would be so worth it.

Whatever a solution to better criteria to send skaters to Worlds might look like, a TES minimum is just not it. As with the overall scoring system, something needs to change. A better balance in the evaluation of the different aspects of a sport is past due.