2022 U.S. Club & NQS Competitions

[Sylvia]

The 96th Annual Middle Atlantic Figure Skating Championships (NQS for singles & pairs), Sept. 8-11, 2022. at Chelsea Piers' Sky Rink in New York City - starting orders are posted: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2022/30700/index.asp

Senior Women SP (22) incl. ISP skaters Thorngren, Levito, Ziegler, Bloesch, Cui, Ikenishi
Senior Men SP (3): Naumov, Baker, Chapple
Junior Women SP (22) incl. ISP skaters Barghout, Krafchik, Collier
Junior Men SP (8) incl. Fegan, Vinokur (ISR), Sanchez, Hildebrandt, Kuperman (ISR)

(I'll start a separate thread for the John Nicks International Pairs Challenge as soon as the entries are known/published.)

 

[Karen-W]

The 96th Annual Middle Atlantic Figure Skating Championships (NQS for singles & pairs), Sept. 8-11, 2022. at Chelsea Piers' Sky Rink in New York City - starting orders are posted: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2022/30700/index.asp

Senior Women SP (22) incl. ISP skaters Thorngren, Levito, Ziegler, Bloesch, Cui, Ikenishi
Senior Men SP (3): Naumov, Baker, Chapple
Junior Women SP (22) incl. ISP skaters Barghout, Krafchik, Collier
Junior Men SP (8) incl. Fegan, Vinokur (ISR), Sanchez, Hildebrandt, Kuperman (ISR)

(I'll start a separate thread for the John Nicks International Pairs Challenge as soon as the entries are known/published.)

We don't have entries/start orders yet, but here's the link to the results page - https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2022/30961/index.asp

 

[Sylvia]

Starting orders are not yet posted but here are the links for the other 3 NQS competitions for singles (also pairs in IL & CA) this week, Sept. 9-11:

Wagon Wheel FSC's Greater Chicagoland Fall Invitational (Robert Crown Community Center, Evanston, IL): https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2022/30707/index.asp

Carolinas FSC's John Smith Memorial (Extreme Ice Center, Indian Trail, NC): https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2022/30670/index.asp

St. Moritz ISC's 41st annual Skate St. Moritz (Oakland Ice Center, Oakland, CA): https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2022/30677/index.asp

 

[Sylvia]

Wagon Wheel FSC's Greater Chicagoland Fall Invitational (Robert Crown Community Center, Evanston, IL): https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2022/30707/index.asp

3 Senior men are listed in the SP starting order: Joonsoo Kim (did not compete last season), Joseph Klein & Daniel Martynov (WD from a JGP last year & did not enter any U.S. qualifying competitions), plus Taira Shinohara in Junior.
Women in ISP listed in Senior SP starting order: Warne-Jacobsen, Hawk, Lofton, Cheng; Adele Zheng in Junior group A (her first comp. of season, IIRC).
As @Karen-W has mentioned in the U.S. Pairs thread in GSD, Laiken Lockley & Edoardo Caputo are a new Senior team (he previously competed for Italy); ditto for Isabelle Martins & Aaron Felberbaum in Junior (he is new to pairs & they WD from Skate Detroit in July).

 

[Stephanie]

The 96th Annual Middle Atlantic Figure Skating Championships (NQS for singles & pairs), Sept. 8-11, 2022. at Chelsea Piers' Sky Rink in New York City - starting orders are posted: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2022/30700/index.asp

Senior Women SP (22) incl. ISP skaters Thorngren, Levito, Ziegler, Bloesch, Cui, Ikenishi
Senior Men SP (3): Naumov, Baker, Chapple
Junior Women SP (22) incl. ISP skaters Barghout, Krafchik, Collier
Junior Men SP (8) incl. Fegan, Vinokur (ISR), Sanchez, Hildebrandt, Kuperman (ISR)

(I'll start a separate thread for the John Nicks International Pairs Challenge as soon as the entries are known/published.)

I assume this is open to the public? Does anyone know if there's an admission fee (I couldn't find anything the SCNY website)?

 

[Sylvia]

I assume this is open to the public? Does anyone know if there's an admission fee (I couldn't find anything the SCNY website)?

From page 5 of the MidAtlantics' competition announcement that's linked from the club's event page: https://www.thescny.org/index.php/mids

ADMISSION: Each competitor will receive one (1) competitor’s pass, one (1) chaperone pass and one (1) pass for his or her coach, as named on the entry form. There will be a small admission fee for all other admissions; proceeds go to the SCNY Scholarship Fund.

I hope you can go!

ETA the link to the joint competition thread for Middle Atlantics & John Nicks: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...dle-atlantics-nyc-club-comp-sept-8-11.109893/

 

[Stephanie]

Thank you @Sylvia ! Obviously I read too fast. Hopefully I'll be able to make it on Saturday

 

[Frau Muller]

Whoa! At the St Moritz NQS competition (Oakland, CA), Jr Women’s field includes the elusive Kanon Smith. SPs today; FP tomorrow.

2022 Skate St. Moritz

Event Results for 2022 Skate St. Moritz

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[Sylvia]

Saturday at Skate St. Moritz - event order as listed on the results page: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2022/30677/index.asp

Junior Pairs SP (1): Naomi Williams, SC of Boston / Lachlan Lewer, Individual Member (previously represented AUS) - new team based at the World Arena in Colorado Springs who are debuting at this U.S. qualifying comp.
Senior Pairs SP (2): Mandy Romero/Kristofer Ogren, Nica Digerness/Mark Sadusky (Ellie Kam/Ian Meyh WD)
Junior Women SP includes: Sherry Zhang (JGP #4 ARM), Kanon Smith, Katie Shen
Senior Women SP includes: Alena Budko (Nepela), Kate Wang (season debut), Maryn Pierce
Junior Men FS - 2 competed last night: Michael Xie 68.33, Daniil Murzin 59.32
Senior Men FS (1): Max Lake

Greater Chicagoland Fall Invitational: https://ijs.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2022/30707/index.asp
Saturday events:
Senior Pair (Lockley/Caputo debut) & Junior Pairs SP (Church/Church, Martins/Felberbaum debut)
Junior Women Grp A FS (Adele Zheng won the SP)
Junior Women Grp B FS (Kaylee Dobson won the SP)
Senior Women FS (Finley Hawk 51.98 & Elsa Cheng 50.20 were top 2 in SP)
Senior Men FS (SP 1-3: Joseph Klein 65.18, Daniel Martynov 60.70, Joonsoo Kim 59.85)
Junior Men FS (SP won by Taira Shinohara 61.22)

U.S. National Solo Dance Final concludes today - free stream linked in the competition thread (Senior Solo Combined Free Dance is scheduled to start at 5:40 pm Eastern time and features quite a few skaters worth watching): https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...olo-dance-final-sept-8-10-valencia-ca.109895/

 

[Frau Muller]

Isabeau Levito leads Mid-Atlantics, ahead of Ava Ziegler by 50 pts!
Two left to skate: Gasparotto & Thorngren.

 

[Karen-W]

Isabeau Levito leads Mid-Atlantics, ahead of Ava Ziegler by 50 pts!
Two left to skate: Gasparotto & Thorngren.

And the live results seem to have gotten stuck. 20 minutes after Isabeau's score came up, still waiting for the last two. :-(

 

[Wyliefan]

29.77 for Lockley/Caputo at Greater Chicagoland. Rough first outing. Well, it's early days. I'm just so happy she's found a partner, I hope it's onward and upward from here!

Greater Chicagoland Fall Invitational

Event Results for Greater Chicagoland Fall Invitational

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[Frau Muller]

And the live results seem to have gotten stuck. 20 minutes after Isabeau's score came up, still waiting for the last two. :-(

I was wondering if the competition was halted due to accident…heaven forbid. We’ll find out soon enough.

 

[Karen-W]

I was wondering if the competition was halted due to accident…heaven forbid. We’ll find out soon enough.

Same! The scores will eventually appear, but the delay is worrisome.

 

[Debbie S]

Same! The scores will eventually appear, but the delay is worrisome.

This happened earlier, during the previous group. Most likely a tech issue.

 

[tony]

Results are up. Levito won by nearly 14 points.

1	18	Isabeau Levito, SC Of Southern New Jersey	1	72.58	1	137.91	210.49
2	20	Lindsay Thorngren, SC of New York	2	71.79	2	124.74	196.53
3	16	Ava Ziegler, SC of New York	3	61.36	3	98.65	160.01
4	19	Alexa Gasparotto, Arctic FSC	4	57.27	8	87.66	144.93

 

[Frau Muller]

Just updated.
1. Levito 210+
2. Thorngren 196.53
3. Ziegler 160.01

Someone Tony will did post the full thing!
Yeah, Isabeau! On to the CS Nepela.

Full results, with elements/protocols-

The 96th Annual Middle Atlantic Figure Skating Cha

Event Results for The 96th Annual Middle Atlantic Figure Skating Cha

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[Karen-W]

Much stronger pairs competition at Skate St Moritz this evening -

Senior Pairs SP:
Digerness/Sadusky - 55.00
Romero/Ogren - 37.48

Junior Pairs SP:
Williams/Lewer - 46.24

 

[ptvvibezz]

Isabeau's and Lindsay's FS has been posted!

 

[Karen-W]

Clearly the jumps weren't quite there for Lindsay today, but I still like her program better than Isabeau's. It's going to be stunning when/if she hits it perfectly.

 

[bladesofgorey]

rough skate for Lindsay- good to get that out of the way early in the season. I like the program for her. Isabeau's jump technique still looks wonky but less wonky than before? The two of them look like they've both gotten taller. (I no longer am in the NJ/NY area so they look tall all at once to me in these videos)

 

[Frau Muller]

St Moritz news: C’mon, Kate Wang!!! She had a rough SP yesterday (including a fall) & is in 4th. Sending her positive vibes for a lovely clean free skate.
#upagain!

Of course, I also wish clean skates for Alena Budko (current 1st place), Maryn Pierce (2nd) & Elizabeth Hong (3rd)! But I’m cheering loudest for Kate!!!

2022 Skate St. Moritz

Event Results for 2022 Skate St. Moritz

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[Karen-W]

Mixed bag in Pairs today.

Junior pairs - really solid showing from Williams/Lewer at Skate St Moritz, and good improvement for Church/Church at Greater Chicagoland, but Martins/Felberbaum have a lot of work to do, I suspect, to even qualify for Nationals (depending on what the USFS sets for the TES mins).

Senior pairs - probably not the showing Digerness/Sadusky were hoping for (about 8 points lower than their Colorado Cup score), and the scores for Romero/Ogren and Lockley/Caputo make me think they aren't likely to qualify for Nationals.

 

[Stephanie]

Don’t TES minimums only apply to the senior events?

 

[Karen-W]

Don’t TES minimums only apply to the senior events?

Not sure. The NQS document only says that TES minimums are still under discussion.

There are only 10 junior pairs teams that have competed in the NQS, so who knows what the USFS will do. We might not know for sure until after the NQS Pairs Final.

 

[Wyliefan]

Looking at L/C's protocols, I'm guessing this is a very, very new pairing. Maybe they shouldn't have had them competing just yet.

 

[Sylvia]

Looking at L/C's protocols, I'm guessing this is a very, very new pairing. Maybe they shouldn't have had them competing just yet.

I believe Lockley/Caputo had to compete here in order to advance to the U.S. Pairs Final, November 8-11 in Lansing, MI. They likely had planned to leave out the twist in both programs, and 2 of their lifts are marked * in their FS.

 

[Wyliefan]

Good to know, @Sylvia, thanks!

 

[Frau Muller]

Kate Wang did it! Pulled up from 4th to 1st, winning the St Moritz NQS event. Budko 2nd.

2022 Skate St. Moritz

Event Results for 2022 Skate St. Moritz

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Hope that Kate’s total score of 160.81 keeps her in the mix for future competitions.

 

[emilieh]

Kate Wang was great today at Skate St Moritz. She had an awkward moment at the beginning, took her position, then looked at her coach, got spooked that she might be in the wrong spot, moved places, and then her coach told her to go back to where she was. Then was quite wonderful as soon as she got set and the music began.

Budko had some jump problems, but I quite like her skating and choreography.

Maryn Pierce's SP to "Cold Hearted Snake" by Paula Abdul is so much fun, but some of her expression seems a bit rehearsed. Just a nitpick, otherwise it's so close to being excellent.

I also really liked Milena Markin, beautiful programs and great presence. Not the tech of the top skaters, but I don't mind that.

Digerness & Sadusky had a fall (just her) right after the twist. He caught her, but she fell on the set-down. Somehow I think she ended up with a cut on her head (very close to her eye) from the fall. Or maybe she sustained the cut later, I'm really not sure. I didn't notice the cut until the very end. They seemed okay physically, although he especially seemed very upset afterwards. Some good moments despite the accident.

Williams & Lewer seem to have a solid and supportive partnership. They lean on each other and support each other through the mistakes. I hope they continue to grow.

Michael Xie was very happy after his FS yesterday. Maybe the first one with two triple Axels? Just guessing, I don't memorize all the protocols.