PAIRS PRACTICE
Langlois/Archetto : sbs 3T where one of the two doubling the jump, but at the end OK.
Scott / Dulebohn : sbs 2A ok, several thrown double jumps but triple came afterwards.
Zhang/Zhang : they have a difficult entry in the pair spin, more credit (my guess is +1).
Berankova/Dlabola : hmm, nothing written, so i guess all went OK ;-)

Lefrancois/Blanchard, practicing sbs 3T from spread eagle. She was very solid; he had more pb. One of their lift should be +1/+2 (see rules) as it rotates in the opposite direction and has a long spread eagle position for him.
Pla/Bonheur : yeehaa !! all the best for them ! At first did not recognize Marylin who has now dark hair (instead of red), that suits her very well. During their run through he doubled the sbs 3T and she fell, the th3Lp was high (great for them to do such a difficult jump so early in their carreer !). Later the sbs 3T was OK. Now France has two worth-seeing pairs !!
Totmianina/Marinin : good practice
As well as Borzenkova/Chuvilaev as i had no note....


LADIES PRACTICE
Group 1
All the skaters except Sasha Cohen started roughly at the same speed, with the 2A coming quite quickly during the practice, then the other jumps.
Sebestyen : 3F + other jumps...
Calvez : 3T-3T after several attempts.
Liang : never saw her skate, but quite impressed : not really smily, rather focussed, good jumps (2A, 3F solid) all to Lutz (edge debate : see lower...), good flow... better keep an eye on her, in a few year she'll be a beauty !. 
Cohen : took her time to really get into the practice session, didn't do much but what she did was good. Seemed really in confidence, secure. Cohen level 2 ! jumps included her sp jumps : 3F, 3fLz-2T.
Lautowa : very solid, 3Lp, 3F, 3Lz-2T. Not many mistakes. keeping an eye on her for the competition.

Group 2
Didier : 3F good with 2T, but about 2 good 3F for 7 tries... pop and falls all over the place. seems to be in her head as she can do it with no problem. Same for fLz.
Arakawa : started with 2A-3T. jumpy once, jumpy forever ! then 3Lz fall (!), 3Lz-2T, 3F twice, 3Lz again, 2A. during RT : 3Lz-3T, pop Lip, 2A.
Drei : 2A--2A, 3T-2T, 2Lz low-2T, 3Lz-2T then consistent. Good RT with only a 3Lz-1T, rest was good and well skated.
McCorkell :  good to see  an english skaters at this level ! 2A, steps into 3Lp, some 3Lz, on what seems a flat edge.
Dytrt :  cuty-cuty !!! several 2A, jumps up to 3fLz. (3fLz-2T twice)

Now time for the SP and OD !

Petetin/Jost : she in white, not a good choice. he has a interesting asymetric outfit
Dubreuil/Lauzon : he as a soldier but with sparkling sleeves (eurk !), she with a red dress with white spots. little off synch in // step sequence.me wrote hydroblading move into lift with change of rotation.
Denkova/Staviski : she in orange / pink. First part is 'blue' on the music of 'this is a men's world' : excellent ! Really a masterpiece. Second part is unfortunately too different, too bad they have to have two different rythmns... Overall joyfull, very pleasant to watch. Want to see i again. 
Kozlova/Baranov : Red + illusion fabric. a bit too simple ?

Fraser/Lukanin : He in black and white with 'NAVY' written on his torso (makes one think about village people... lol !), she with a  white shirt with dark spots, yellow top and pink hairband. Had a big loss of edge right at the beginning (sliver saw it better than me), like if they had pushed too much into something. had to skate the place their next step was starting. then he stumbles once or twice in the program. too bad as she is such s strong skater !!! (hmm, just to tease sliver, lol !). Pair spin was really slow. still managed to be ahead of P/B (!!)
Delobel/Schoenfelder : great, very good unison in twizzle, but had a bad fall something like 2 sec before the end of the program. would have them first without the fall.
Kulikova/Novikov : costumes are 'arrgghhh'. A bit like Eltsova/Bushkov during their last year : black leather and illusion fabric she with a purple skirt with yellow parts. really difficult. did not find any swing in their program, when the rythmns are supposed to be 'swing combo'. you could see the Tarassova influence by the toe picks she used at the beginning of the step sequence.
Belbin/Agosto : she with a pink dress with yellow spots; him with brown trousers; yellow shirt and pink bretelles. very fast, very good use of ice surface. lift with a knee-bent spread eagle position.

Press conf : -apart from the general comments on the programs, etc...-
Albena (mainly) and Maxim said they were not at their best yet; they mades changes after SA. Marie and Patch also said they made some changes, but had some mistakes 'cause they had not enough time after Germany to work sufficietlyl on what they changed.
Olivier said he had indeed a great fall, his foot didn't turn. he said it was his best fall so far; to what Albena added 'it was a level 3 fall' LOL !
My question to D/L and french D/S was how practice were going on in Lyon since they are very close to each other and rival on the ice. They answered everything is going well; they get along very well and like each other company. Marie said 'we are good sportmen, we change in the same room but we don't fight :-)'. To have 'sparing partner' of more or less the same level than them was considered a plus for Marie who said it's a great motivation.

Stanick JEANNETTE : nightmare on ice part 2. Stan had a bad fall on the 4T in warm-up (close to landing it again but pb with his right ankle he got operated this summer). went off-ice, got his boot loose a bit; when back on the ice and had the guts to go for the 4T in his SP. then 4T fall, popped 3A (singled), which could be understood after the fall on the quad, but popping the 3Lz is hard to understand at this level.when th skating gods are not with you...
Fedor ANDREEV : godd presentation, had some twizzles. 3A, 3F-3T, flying camel with both hand down on the ice and of balance, pop 3Lz (i heard him saying his pick didn't take), great final combo spin.
Stefan LINDEMANN : 2T instead of 4T-3T, 3A fall, single Lz.
Frederic DAMBIER : nightmare on ice part 3. all was perfect in warm-up. then 4S fall, 3A bad leaning an fall, 3F step out. too bad the choreography is really great.
Evgeni PLUSHENKO : 4T 'half fall' : 2 hand down, step out - 2T, 3A, circular step seq that only covers 3/4 of a circle, 3Lz snowy. not his best for sure.
Alexander SHUBIN : 4T a bit snowy-2T, 2A with very weak connecting steps (crossovers all the way through the ice), 3Lz 2 ft, very heavy.

The only two clean programs were Kevin and Daisuke. VERY disappointing comp, looked like a ladies SP to me. Was completely off the mood for a long time that evening. such a splatfest !
Press conf : Plushy said at his previous GP he did 4T-3T but no 3A, so here it's the opposite. Hope to skate better in CoR. Fought the ice was dangerous; not because of the colour but because they were lots of traces.
Daisuke said little, he seemed really shy ;-). Said he was very nervous.
Pushenko drew for at least half of the men as they did not show up at the draw.

Candice DIDIER : 3F-2T (!!), 3Lz fall, 2A. looked very juniorish, a bit slow. i think it's too much too soon for her, even if she is the French champion. What's the point of sending her to competitions where she will end last ? ok it builds experience, but i hope she is mentally very strong for it should not be particularly easy to end last in front of such a big audience, and your home crowd in addition. hope she will cope with that and develops well.
Shizuka ARAKAWA : light blue / purple dress. only 3Lz-2T (3Lz-3T planned), 3Lip, 2A. good program, you don't see the time going by.
Alisa DREI : Nice outfit, with lots of sparkles in yellow / brownish. 2A, 3Lz-2T (low as usual but there), 2Lp too bad she did the most difficult and has a problem on what is probably her best jump.Did not see any 3T-3T from her actually.
Jenna McCORKELL : didn't take any notes so maybe clean program ? i don't remember so. see stef' reports maybe.
Annette DYTRT : the cuty-cuty girl ! 3Lz fall, 3Toe OK, 2A.

Well, definitely a better competition than the men' one, and by far ! Still, we had the usual forbidden music played again (Carmen -Liang-, Malaguena -Cohen-, The umbrellas of Cherbourg -Arakawa-).
Press conf : well, Sasha didn't come and i guess Tatiana was seraching for her, so no press conf. Candice did most of the draw since several skaters didn't show up.

Zhang/Zhang : sbs 3T very good, th3Lp very good, 2Tw i let you guess, pair combo spin with difficult entrance (yay ! am bored of the simple usual entrance... ) but then a bit sloppy. Too bad most of their program was done at the right of the judges.
Pla/Bonheur : Swing Kids, good choice of music.
sbs 3T, th3Lp long but a bit low (in practice it's really a big thjump !), rest was OK
Langlois/Archetto : All good ! th3Sal, 2Tw, sbs 3T, ...
Borzenkova/Chuvilaev : he is still so tall, it's my guess he should have no pb to find a partner, ladies who want to skate pairs but are a bit tall have most probably not a lot of choice... Here their improvement was highly noticeable. she looks a bit like Elena B., same silhouette.
th3Lp, sbs 3T he 2.5T, 2Tw, their 'Group 4 lift' was very good.

Pres conf : 
T/M were happy with their performance, Tatiana was very interested in having the detailed results (she asked me ... what could i say ? nothing was printed yet. still i liked the way she seemed really eager to have some feedback from the judges).
For Zhang/Zhang their program was quite OK.
Scott/Dulebohn were happy, Philip was proud Tiff landed the throw jump.
the usual question asked by the same lady was 'did you change parts of your program with the feedback you had with the new system ?'
T/M and Z/Z : no time, no change.
S/D : they changed the sbs spin entrance (was more difficult before but didn't make them earn more credit), the entrance of the death spiral, and the footwork : basic steps were made more difficult with some bracketts and rockers. they also changed a lift.
My question was then 'do you now plan some more changes ?'
Answer was 'no'. S/D no more change, they now will try to make each elements better. Changes will be for next year ;-)

So ended the second day ! Honestly after the men splatfest i was really not in the mood anymore. So disappointed !After the ladies short which was much better i just wondered 'and there is still pairs short to come !', and pairs is probably the event i prefer.
Then went back to sleep, also because i could not type a thing that night. More sleep = more chances to see all men practice next morning !!!