2018 ISU Challenger Series announced

[Dobre]

Why would Gabby be going to US Classic instead of Autumn Classic?

On GS, someone speculated that it might be because Medvedeva might be doing Autumn Classic.

 

[Erin]

Why would Gabby be going to US Classic instead of Autumn Classic?

Because she is already doing Skate Canada and wants to do some international assignments outside of Canada?

 

[Frida80]

Because she is already doing Skate Canada and wants to do some international assignments outside of Canada?

But Satoko will be there. She wins it every time. Plus there's the monstrous altitude that takes out half the competitors. Lombardía may have been a better option.

 

[Cleo1782]

But Satoko will be there. She wins it every time. Plus there's the monstrous altitude that takes out half the competitors. Lombardía may have been a better option.

Marin Honda won it last year. Kaori Sakamoto was 5th or 6th I think, so I don't think it's indicative to the future of the season (except for maybe Nathan winning last year). It is usually a pretty messy event and the altitude is killer so early in the season.

 

[SamuraiK]

But Satoko will be there. She wins it every time. Plus there's the monstrous altitude that takes out half the competitors. Lombardía may have been a better option.

Challenger events are taken by the top elite skaters as just warm up for the season. I really doubt they lose sleep over winning or who they are facing in any of those events. The real start to gain momentum and hype begins with the Grand Prix.

 

[A.H.Black]

Marin Honda won it last year. Kaori Sakamoto was 5th or 6th I think, so I don't think it's indicative to the future of the season (except for maybe Nathan winning last year). It is usually a pretty messy event and the altitude is killer so early in the season.

I agree that it's usually messy and no one skates at their best (with the exception of Davis and White). However, we have always found it to be a sort of good luck competition - mostly for the US, but often for international competitors as well.

 

[A.H.Black]

U.S. International Classic (Sept. 12-16, Salt Lake City, USA)
Gabrielle Daleman
Nam Nguyen
Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe
Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker

Entry by names deadline for both SLC and Lombardia Trophy is this Friday.

 

[A.H.Black]

U.S. International Classic (Sept. 12-16, Salt Lake City, USA)
Gabrielle Daleman
Nam Nguyen
Camille Ruest / Andrew Wolfe
Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker

Entry by names deadline for both SLC and Lombardia Trophy is this Friday.

I'm brain dead this afternoon.

This is the first time we have seen all these Canadian skaters at the Classic. Looking forward to the ladies competition.

 

[Sylvia]

Lombardia Trophy entries & subs as of August 13: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111602.htm

Men
1 Jiri BELOHRADSKY CZE 1
2 Petr KOTLARIK CZE 1
3 Daniel Albert NAURITS EST 2
4 Luc ECONOMIDES FRA 3
5 Adrien TESSON FRA 3
6 Philip WARREN FRA 3
7 Harry MATTICK GBR 4
8 Matteo RIZZO ITA 5
9 Kazuki TOMONO JPN 6
10 Shoma UNO JPN 6
11 Igor REZNICHENKO POL 7
12 Jaeseok KYEONG KOR 8
13 June Hyoung LEE KOR 8
14 Dmitri ALIEV RUS 9
15 Matthew SAMUELS RSA 10
16 Timothy DOLENSKY USA 11
Patrick FROHLING USA 11 S
Alexander JOHNSON USA 11 S
Alexei KRASNOZHON USA 11 S
Tony LU USA 11 S

Ladies
1 Michaela Lucie HANZLIKOVA CZE 1
2 Klara STEPANOVA CZE 1
3 Eva Lotta KIIBUS EST 2
4 Kristina SHKULETA-GROMOVA EST 2
5 Viveca LINDFORS FIN 3
6 Sofia SULA FIN 3
7 Sandra RAMOND FRA 4
8 Lea SERNA FRA 4
9 Nathalie WEINZIERL GER 5
10 Fruzsina MEDGYESI HUN 6
11 Ivett TOTH HUN 6
12 Sara CONTI ITA 7
13 Micol CRISTINI ITA 7
14 Chenny PAOLUCCI ITA 7
15 Kaori SAKAMOTO JPN 8
16 Mako YAMASHITA JPN 8
17 Veronika SHEVELEVA KAZ 9
18 Elzbieta KROPA LTU 10
19 Greta MORKYTE LTU 10
20 Alisson Krystle PERTICHETO PHI 11
21 Boyoung KIM KOR 12
22 Antonina DUBININA SRB 13
23 Valentina MATOS ESP 14
24 Anita ÖSTLUND SWE 15
25 Zahra LARI UAE 16
26 Amber GLENN USA 17
Mariah BELL USA 17 S
Ashley LIN USA 17 S
Emmy MA USA 17 S
Angela WANG USA 17 S

Pairs
1 Lana PETRANOVIC / Antonio SOUZA-KORDEIRU CRO 1
2 Coline KERIVEN / Antoine PIERRE FRA 2
3 Nicole DELLA MONICA / Matteo GUARISE ITA 3
4 Rebecca GHILARDI / Filippo AMBROSINI ITA 3
5 Aleksandra BOIKOVA / Dmitrii KOZLOVSKII RUS 4
6 Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT RUS 4
7 Laura BARQUERO / Aritz MAESTU ESP 5
8 Nica DIGERNESS / Danny NEUDECKER USA 6
Winter DEARDORFF / Max SETTLAGE USA 6 S

Ice Dance
1 Katerina BUNINA / German FROLOV EST 1
2 Juulia TURKKILA / Matthias VERSLUIS FIN 2
3 Julia WAGRET / Pierre SOUQUET FRA 3
4 Robynne TWEEDALE / Joseph BUCKLAND GBR 4
5 Chiara CALDERONE / Pietro PAPETTI ITA 5
6 Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI ITA 5
7 Carolina MOSCHENI / Andrea FABBRI ITA 5
8 Jasmine TESSARI / Francesco FIORETTI ITA 5
9 Sara HURTADO / Kirill KHALIAVIN ESP 6
10 Victoria MANNI / Carlo ROETHLISBERGER SUI 7
11 Rachel PARSONS / Michael PARSONS USA 8
Lorraine MCNAMARA / Quinn CARPENTER USA 8 S

 

[Jeschke]

So many french entries DG has new tactics?

 

[A.H.Black]

Website for the US Classic has been updated to 2018 - https://www.usfigureskatingclassic.com/
Not much information yet, except the prices have gone up. $40 for the all-event.

The athletes link is still for 2017 so don't believe it yet.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Lombardia Trophy entries & subs as of August 13: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111602.htm

Men
1 Jiri BELOHRADSKY CZE 1
2 Petr KOTLARIK CZE 1
3 Daniel Albert NAURITS EST 2
4 Luc ECONOMIDES FRA 3
5 Adrien TESSON FRA 3
6 Philip WARREN FRA 3
7 Harry MATTICK GBR 4
8 Matteo RIZZO ITA 5
9 Kazuki TOMONO JPN 6
10 Shoma UNO JPN 6
11 Igor REZNICHENKO POL 7
12 Jaeseok KYEONG KOR 8
13 June Hyoung LEE KOR 8
14 Dmitri ALIEV RUS 9
15 Matthew SAMUELS RSA 10
16 Timothy DOLENSKY USA 11
Patrick FROHLING USA 11 S
Alexander JOHNSON USA 11 S
Alexei KRASNOZHON USA 11 S
Tony LU USA 11 S

Ladies
1 Michaela Lucie HANZLIKOVA CZE 1
2 Klara STEPANOVA CZE 1
3 Eva Lotta KIIBUS EST 2
4 Kristina SHKULETA-GROMOVA EST 2
5 Viveca LINDFORS FIN 3
6 Sofia SULA FIN 3
7 Sandra RAMOND FRA 4
8 Lea SERNA FRA 4
9 Nathalie WEINZIERL GER 5
10 Fruzsina MEDGYESI HUN 6
11 Ivett TOTH HUN 6
12 Sara CONTI ITA 7
13 Micol CRISTINI ITA 7
14 Chenny PAOLUCCI ITA 7
15 Kaori SAKAMOTO JPN 8
16 Mako YAMASHITA JPN 8
17 Veronika SHEVELEVA KAZ 9
18 Elzbieta KROPA LTU 10
19 Greta MORKYTE LTU 10
20 Alisson Krystle PERTICHETO PHI 11
21 Boyoung KIM KOR 12
22 Antonina DUBININA SRB 13
23 Valentina MATOS ESP 14
24 Anita ÖSTLUND SWE 15
25 Zahra LARI UAE 16
26 Amber GLENN USA 17
Mariah BELL USA 17 S
Ashley LIN USA 17 S
Emmy MA USA 17 S
Angela WANG USA 17 S

Pairs
1 Lana PETRANOVIC / Antonio SOUZA-KORDEIRU CRO 1
2 Coline KERIVEN / Antoine PIERRE FRA 2
3 Nicole DELLA MONICA / Matteo GUARISE ITA 3
4 Rebecca GHILARDI / Filippo AMBROSINI ITA 3
5 Aleksandra BOIKOVA / Dmitrii KOZLOVSKII RUS 4
6 Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT RUS 4
7 Laura BARQUERO / Aritz MAESTU ESP 5
8 Nica DIGERNESS / Danny NEUDECKER USA 6
Winter DEARDORFF / Max SETTLAGE USA 6 S

Ice Dance
1 Katerina BUNINA / German FROLOV EST 1
2 Juulia TURKKILA / Matthias VERSLUIS FIN 2
3 Julia WAGRET / Pierre SOUQUET FRA 3
4 Robynne TWEEDALE / Joseph BUCKLAND GBR 4
5 Chiara CALDERONE / Pietro PAPETTI ITA 5
6 Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI ITA 5
7 Carolina MOSCHENI / Andrea FABBRI ITA 5
8 Jasmine TESSARI / Francesco FIORETTI ITA 5
9 Sara HURTADO / Kirill KHALIAVIN ESP 6
10 Victoria MANNI / Carlo ROETHLISBERGER SUI 7
11 Rachel PARSONS / Michael PARSONS USA 8
Lorraine MCNAMARA / Quinn CARPENTER USA 8 S

YAYYYY AMBER!!!!!

Now SLAY!!!!!

Is Economides a Senior now?

Is Andrea Fabbri related to Marco?

 

[pairskatingfan]

Who is this new French pair team?

 

[Sylvia]

Who is this new French pair team?

Keriven/Pierre have competed twice internationally, starting with CS Tallinn Trophy last November: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00104009.htm

ETA: I'm happy to see Digerness/Neudecker listed for their first ISU Challenger! They had no international assignments last season and have looked good on the online streams I've watched this summer.

 

[Dobre]

5 Chiara CALDERONE / Pietro PAPETTI ITA 5

Oh, that's interesting. Senior debut.

 

[kirkbiggestfan]

So many french entries DG has new tactics?

He can't block his ex-wife students...she can blackmail him with all the dirt she knows.

 

[SamuraiK]

Is Andrea Fabbri related to Marco?

Yes he's his younger brother. He used to skate with Misato Komatsubara and went to Euros 2015 and 2016 but failed to make the FD both times. His new partner, Carolina Moscheni used to skate with Adam Lukacs for HUN and made it to the finals at Worlds 2015.

 

[YukiNieve]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—U.S. Figure Skating announces the 20 athletes which will represent the United States at the U.S. International Classic in Salt Lake City from Sept. 12-16, 2018.

Ladies
Karen Chen
Courtney Hicks
Brynne Mcisaac
Akari Nakahara

Men
Jimmy Ma
Vincent Zhou

Pairs
Ashley Cain/Timothy Leduc
Audrey Lu/Misha Mitrofanov
Jessica Pfund/Joshua Santillan
Nadine Wang/Akira Spencer Howe

Ice Dance
Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko
Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue
Karina Manta/Joseph Johnson

https://www.usfigureskatingclassic.com/news_article/show/668859

Why are there only 2 US men??

 

[haribobo]

Alex Johnson, Emmanuel Savary, and Sean Rabbitt are probably scheduled for other events, Tim Dolensky will be at Lombardia, and maybe Jason, Alex K., and Nathan aren't quite ready. The rest of the ISP guys are juniors on the JGP, for the most part. Keep in mind Ondrej Nepela and Autumn Classic are a week later, and Nebelhorn is a week after that. Max, Adam, Ross, and Grant being out of the picture really takes a big chunk out of the senior field. Perhaps by next season we will finally see Torgashev, Tomoki, and Camden moving up to senior internationally...

For Ladies, looking forward to seeing Katie McBeath, Megan Wessenberg, and Ashley Lin getting an assignment in one of those upcoming comps based on their strong summer showing.

For Pairs, hoping to see Calalang/Johnson, Deardorff/Settlage, and Timlen/Highgate-Brutman get something soon also.

In Dance, we have a ton of junior teams doing JGP and then our GP teams, and then Manta/Johnson who I assume will get SA.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—U.S. Figure Skating announces the 20 athletes which will represent the United States at the U.S. International Classic in Salt Lake City from Sept. 12-16, 2018.

Ladies
Karen Chen
Courtney Hicks
Brynne Mcisaac
Akari Nakahara

Men
Jimmy Ma
Vincent Zhou

Pairs
Ashley Cain/Timothy Leduc
Audrey Lu/Misha Mitrofanov
Jessica Pfund/Joshua Santillan
Nadine Wang/Akira Spencer Howe

Ice Dance
Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko
Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue
Karina Manta/Joseph Johnson

https://www.usfigureskatingclassic.com/news_article/show/668859

Why are there only 2 US men??

Now I'm extra sad that I missing SLC for the first time since some of my favorites will be there.

 

[pairskatingfan]

I wonder when the full roster will be released for SLC? And the other CS events that are soon after.

 

[Sylvia]

U.S. Classic often has been slow to publish the full entries for whatever reason.

The deadline for the federations to submit their entries by name for both Ondrej Nepela and Autumn Classic International is "not later than Friday, August 17, 2018 - 20:00 h (local time city of event)."

Nebelhorn Trophy enty deadline: Friday, August 24, 2018 (20:00 local time).

Finlandia Trophy entry deadline: Friday, August 31, 2018 at 20:00 (local time Espoo)

 

[A.H.Black]

The Classic is always slow. Which brings me to a request. We always have a very hard time finding a list of competitors in the challenge skate - novice and junior. If anyone happens to see a list - please post it.

 

[peibeck]

Yeah for Jimmy Ma, even in his disappointing skates he still manages to be massively entertaining.

They need 8 entries for pairs (from 3 countries) in the Challenger series to get ISU points or is it only 6?

 

[Sylvia]

From ISU Communication 2151: https://www.isu.org/docman-document...munications/16903-isu-communication-2151/file

The International Competition must include entries in at least 3 disciplines from minimum ten (10)
different ISU Members, all disciplines combined.
In addition, the minimum number of entries per discipline are as follows:
• Ladies/Men: minimum of eight (8) entries each, from at least four (4) ISU Members;
• Pair Skating: minimum of five (5) entries from at least three (3) ISU Members;
• Ice Dance: minimum of six (6) entries from at least four (4) ISU Members.

Scroll down to section 6. WORLD STANDING POINTS for the breakdown by discpline.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

I wonder when the full roster will be released for SLC? And the other CS events that are soon after.

Well know Gabby and Nam will be there

 

[barbarafan]

Well know Gabby and Nam will be there

Is there any kind of live streaming for this competition?

 

[TanithandBenFan]

Is there any kind of live streaming for this competition?

It will be streamed on the new NBC Sports Gold skating pass site.

 

[barbarafan]

It will be streamed on the new NBC Sports Gold skating pass site.

so it is not free then.
will the live scoring be posted anywhere? I used to be able to see the live scoring on icenetwork site without a pass

 

[Tavi]

so it is not free then.
will the live scoring be posted anywhere? I used to be able to see the live scoring on icenetwork site without a pass

1. The ISU streams all JGP competitions free on its YouTube channel.
2. Some Federations stream their Challenger Series events, but not all do. Some of them are free, some are not.
3. GP competitions are most easily available by paid stream or broadcast.

4. Most of the time people also find and share links free live streams (often from Russia, China etc) for Challenger and GP events. Two ways to find out about them are :

A. This website has information on competitions including info on free streams, where available:

http://soyouwanttowatchfs.tumblr.com/tagged/how-to-watch

B. The competition forums here on FSU and on Golden Skate. Both require a paid subscription. Not sure what FSU costs. Golden Skate just started charging this year and the cost is pretty low. Each forum has threads for each comp where people trade links for live streams and the Admins usually provide links to the live scoring data.

With all live streams, you need to be careful of malware.

You should also be able to access live scoring results on the ISU and federation websites in pretty much real time, but links to the event pages aren’t usually available until near the time the competitions start.

Hope that helps.