I’ll take the word of people who are actually in the arena, than those watching bootleg streams on whether the audience is bad. Interesting how the posts of those there are still getting glossed over. No thread like this was opened at other GP’s and audience reactions wasn’t picked up by the tv/ stream. But we all know why there wasn’t.
Obviously it wasn't as bad there but we have seen some examples of bad audience this season: another one is the audience that at first didn't bother of Pogorilaya visibly looking in pain on the ice at Skate Canada.
How can it be manufactured when we keep hearing the announcer begging the audience to cheer?
Ross's comments sound like typical canned PC stuff. What's he going to say? The audience sucks? Obviously they support him as an American anyway...
I don't know where you were sitting at Skate Canada, but my section immediately started clapping to give Anna encouragement, hoping that would give her the will to go on. Not quite sure what you expected us to do, and I don't know what you mean when you say "didn't bother of Pogorilaya".
Don’t lie please. I was there at CoR and we clapped for everyone.Rostelecom Cup this season was NHK 2 considering the japanese bought almost all the tickets and they were clapping only for japanese skaters.
I am not even sure about what you’re saying. We gave Carolina Kostner standing ovations both time. We also gave Dennis and Lambiel standing ovations. Even the ice dance which was the most boring event. And I was in B2, everyone was very nice towards all skaters.Yes i know, at NHK they are always THE best, but at the Rostelecom Cup they were clapping/standing ovation only for Yuzuru, and the japanese girls, the rest was like "meh, i don't care".
So as i wrote on the other posts, audience can be bad everywhere, including US and Japan.
PS: Carol Lane was referring to one single person who looked tired, pretending that was the entire audience.
I agree. I also was at COR and it was amazing to see how supportive everyone was. For example fans from Japan were waving israeli flag when Samohin finished his skating. And he wasnt even close to the podium.Don’t lie please. I was there at CoR and we clapped for everyone.
And not to mention, the only Asian skater who got whole standing ovations both times was Hanyu. The rest of standing ovations we did were all for European and Russian skaters. Not sure why now this person say the fans only clapped for the Japanese. It’s undermined our support to other skaters. And I was super lazy yet I still stood up for Kostner as well as others.I agree. I also was at COR and it was amazing to see how supportive everyone was. For example fans from Japan were waving israeli flag when Samohin finished his skating. And he wasnt even close to the podium.
How can it be manufactured when we keep hearing the announcer begging the audience to cheer?
Ross's comments sound like typical canned PC stuff. What's he going to say? The audience sucks? Obviously they support him as an American anyway...
Here is my take on the announcer asking people to cheer, as someone who is in the audience. Some skaters were slow to get from their ending position to center ice for bows. When that happened the applause started to die down while the audience waited. Then, the announcer would say something about being louder. It happened with Scimeca-Knierim/Knierim too.
How can it be manufactured when we keep hearing the announcer begging the audience to cheer?
More scandalous is the state of the kiss and cry.. it's a flowered bench that if anyone manspreads in everyone else is falling off of. :shame:
I guess it at least doesn't have the ad stream behind it like in last week's dental office waiting room in France.
Obviously it wasn't as bad there but we have seen some examples of bad audience this season: another one is the audience that at first didn't bother of Pogorilaya visibly looking in pain on the ice at Skate Canada.
I don't understand the point of classifying which is the worst audience: again, you can find a bad, disrespectful audience everywhere. The fact that they are cheering for the skaters you like doesn't make the audience more respectful if they start to not bother other skaters.
Having said it i don't think this audience at SA is particularly bad, there are some fair complaints though: at Worlds 2016 Tarasova was rightfully disappointed that the audience was screaming for Adam Rippon triple jumps, but then none of that happened for Boyang Jin's 4ltz which was the best example athleticism that figure skating could have offered.