#world team trophy

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2023 World Team Trophy - April 14, 2023 Haein Lee → Music from “The Phantom of the Opera” by Andrew Lloyd Webber, performed by Emmy Rossum: Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer, Phantasia, Wishing You Were Somewhere Here Again, Masquerade, choreographed by Shae-Lynn Bourne

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Adam Siao Him Fa at World Team Trophy 2023

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Jason Brown, always an honorary member of team Japan.

Pics taken from Jason's twitter.

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ryuichi was trying to give riku headpats but did it too hard, rikus face afterwards 🤣🤣

[sywtwfs]

Entries are officially announced for the 2023 World Team Trophy (Apr. 13-16, Tokyo, Japan)

Team Canada:

Stephen GOGOLEV

Keegan MESSING

Sara-Maude DUPUIS

Madeline SCHIZAS

Deanna STELLATO-DUDEK / Maxime DESCHAMPS

Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER

Team France:

Kevin AYMOZ

Adam SIAO HIM FA

Lorine SCHILD

Lea SERNA

Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV

Evgeniia LOPAREVA / Geoffrey BRISSAUD

Team Italy:

Daniel GRASSL

Matteo RIZZO

Lara Naki GUTMANN

Anna PEZZETTA

Sara CONTI / Niccolo MACII

Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI

Team Japan:

Kazuki TOMONO

Shoma UNO

Mai MIHARA

Kaori SAKAMOTO

Riku MIURA / Ryuichi KIHARA

Kana MURAMOTO / Daisuke TAKAHASHI

Team South Korea:

Junhwan CHA

Sihyeong LEE

Yelim KIM

Haein LEE

Hyejin CHO / Steven ADCOCK

Hannah LIM / Ye QUAN

Team USA:

Jason BROWN

Ilia MALININ

Amber GLENN

Isabeau LEVITO

Alexa KNIERIM / Brandon FRAZIER

Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES 

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And the saga continues

Queen Kaori and her bodyguards

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Jun picking up Ilia 🥹

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Does wtt work like the team event at the olympics (e.g. shoma would compete either sp or fs) or do all single skaters from the men/women compete both sp and fs? If it’s the former do you think shoma is more likely to compete the sp or the fs?

It's a team event but it's not working the same way as the Olympic Team Event.

Every competitor (singles and couples) skate both of their programs - SP/RD and FS/FD

They earn points based on placement for each segment. Also the scores of the SP ans FS are not added. So a skater earns individual points over the SP and FS. Means you could be 1st and get 12 point for the SP and place 5th and get 8 points for the FS.

The huge difference to Olympics is also TWO single skater for each men and women category are taken into account and only ONE ice dance couple and ONE pair. So there is an imbalance from the start as pairs and ice dance teams don't have the same value for the result as the single skaters, in other words it favors the countries with good single skaters aka Japan. (Even if now Japan does have a World Champion Pair, Japan didn't have good ice dance couples or pair skaters in the past, but still managed to win WTT titles bc of the single skaters. Imo Japan as the sole host country of this event and who even invented the event, also wanted a chance at gaining the title that is why there is an imbalance)

Because of the imbalance and well...quite some heavy overscoring through all disciplines...this competition isn't taken this seriously neither under skaters nor by fans. But you can still earn personal ISU best scores, so this is not exactly just a joke competition...let's say it's complicated and I am not sure anyone really knows how to value this 😅 Skaters also often try out stuff they wouldn't try in a normal competition. This is for example where Shoma tried 3A4T both times in 2019 and 2021.

Last WTT 2021 Shoma didn't have a good competition and ppl wrote him off afterwards and haters called his career over, well...they couldn't have been more wrong. Two time World Champion, GPF champion and 3 time Olympic medalists since then! 😁

Even when 2021 WTT isn't exactly fun memories, it's the last team competition Yuzu and Shoma did together and it gave dear memories 🥰

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Yuzuru Hanyu's World Team Trophy Through the Years

2015

(Ballade No. 1 / The Phantom of the Opera)

2017

(Let's Go Crazy / Hope and Legacy)

2021

(Let Me Entertain You / Ten to Chi to)

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2023 World Team Trophy - April 14, 2023 Haein Lee → Music from “The Phantom of the Opera” by Andrew Lloyd Webber, performed by Emmy Rossum: Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer, Phantasia, Wishing You Were Somewhere Here Again, Masquerade, choreographed by Shae-Lynn Bourne

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Can we just talk about how Jason is so supportive of Ilia 🥺

[petitmimosa]

100+ FOR KEVIN FUCKING FINALLY

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Team USA extends their lead after day two of the World Team Trophy. Team South Korea and Team Japan are in a tight fight for silver.

[sywtwfs]

Viewing information for World Team Trophy is now available on our website.

[thedollarprincess]

Jason is the best hype man!