Skate America 2017: Twenty Questions

As the final Grand Prix event (aside from the Grand Prix Final itself, of course) of the 2017 Grand Prix of Figure Skating season, Skate America 2017 in charming Lake Placid, NY proved to be a fitting ending to an unpredictable and generally weird Grand Prix season: withdrawals galore, on-ice injuries, insects lurking about, surprising podium results, system malfunctions . . . never let it be said that figure skating is staid and predictable! For in this brave new world where even Evgenia Medvedeva falters during a competition--there is no certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain . . .

Anyway, here are twenty questions that came to mind during Skate America 2017:

Grand Prix Final 2015: Everyone Else

The men were so awesome they get their own post. Everything else that happened at the senior Grand Prix Final 2015 goes in here.

Let's do this twenty questions style:

Worlds 2012: Pairs SP recap

The performance of the night, courtesy of Japan

If someone yesterday predicted to me that, after the pairs short program at the 2012 World Championships:

-Volosozhar/Trankov are in eighth place, out of the final group, and in a virtual tie with Berton/Hotarek
-Takahashi/Tran are in the top three
-Kavaguti/Smirov are out of the final 2 groups
-Bazarova/Larionov are the leading Russians

.....I would've laughed in their face.

Yet such has become reality. Insert platitude about ice being slippery here, etc.