Today was my lucky day!

[heavenly_pearl]

Regular readers of this journal might remember how disappointed I was when I learned that most of the major figure skating events, including Nationals, were going to be televised on NBC instead of ABC like usual. For some reason, it is near impossible to get a good signal for our local NBC affiliate, so I had pretty much accepted the fact that the only competition I would be able to see this year was the World Championships, which are airing on ABC.

Well, today I decided I would at least try to get a signal for Channel 2 so I could watch tonights men's competition. I honestly did not expect to get anything, so imagine my surprise when I turned to Channel 2 and managed to get both a picture and audio (usually it's one or the other, if I can get anything at all)! Granted, the picture was fuzzy and colorless and the audio was static-y, but it wasn't so bad that I couldn't enjoy the competition.

And what a competition it was! My personal favorite, the reigning national champion Evan Lysacek won the title for the second year in a row (yay!), but he and Johnny Weir actually tied on their overall combined score, each earning a total of 244.77 points -- something that has never happened before under the new, very detailed scoring system. The odds of that happening... Well, it must have been astronomical. However, since Evan had a slightly higher score (162.72 to Johnny's 161.37) in the free skate, which is the tie-breaker, he won the title, Johnny settled for the silver, and 2007 Junior World champion Steven Carriere earned the bronze.

I only wish I had thought to check last night to see if I could have watched the ladies' competition. :( From what I've read online, it sounds like that was quite a shocking competition as well, what with three first time medallists and former World champion Kimmie Meissner ending up in a disappointing seventh place (although she was still named to the world team because Mirai Nagasu (1st), Rachael Flatt (2nd), and Caroline Zhang (4th) are too young to compete at Worlds and Katrina Hacker (6th) was judged to be too inexperienced on the international stage). *sigh* Oh, well. At least I got to see some of Nationals. (And hopefully once everything goes digital next year, I won't have this stupid problem anymore. *crosses fingers*)

Comments

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

Plenty of good karma to go 'round, I suppose. And you're right that the digital conversion should take care of the issue, at least once you get the necessary converter box (which the government is supposed to be distributing on at least a partially free basis).