2019-20 U.S. Regional Singles & Sectional Pairs/Dance Challenges (spanning October 2019)

[Sylvia]

2020 Regional and Sectional Challenges (first round of qualifying competitions in all 4 disciplines)

NBC Sports Gold subscribers will be able to view the Senior & Junior events on demand sometime after each Regional concludes.
The Juvenile, Intermediate & Novice events will be made available for free, on demand viewing on the USFS Fan Zone Video Corner platform like last year.

South Atlantic Regional Singles Challenge: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/27725/index.asp
Eastern Sectional Ice Dance/Pairs Challenge (Oct. 2-3): https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28836/index.asp
hosted by IceWorks SC
Aston, Pennsylvania
Oct. 2-6, 2019
http://www.saregionals.com

Eastern Great Lakes Regional Singles Challenge: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/27729/index.asp
Midwestern Sectional Ice Dance Challenge (Oct. 2-3): https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28835/index.asp
hosted by Lansing SC
Lansing, Michigan
Oct. 2-6, 2019
http://www.eglregionals.com

Northwest Pacific Regional Singles Challenge: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/27734/index.asp
hosted by Seattle SC
Mountlake Terrace, Washington
Oct. 2-6, 2019
http://www.nwpregionals.com

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Southwestern Regional Singles Challenge & Midwestern Sectional Pairs Challenge
hosted by Broadmoor SC
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Oct. 16-20, 2019
http://www.swregionals.com

Southwest Pacific Regional Singles Challenge & Pacific Coast Pairs Challenge
hosted by All Year FSC
Irvine, California
Oct. 16-20, 2019
http://www.swpregionals.com

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New England Regional Singles Challenge*
hosted by NorthStar FSC
Westborough, Massachusetts
Oct. 23-27, 2019
http://www.neregionals.com

North Atlantic Regional Singles Challenge*
hosted by NorthStar FSC
Westborough, Massachusetts
Oct. 23-27, 2019
http://www.naregionals.com

*Note: New England & North Atlantic Regional Challenges will be held in the same location, but will be run as two separate competitions.

Upper Great Lakes Regional Singles Challenge
hosted by St. Paul FSC
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Oct. 23-27, 2019
http://www.uglregionals.com

Central Pacific Regional Singles Challenge & Pacific Coast Ice Dance Challenge
hosted by Salt Lake Figure Skating
Salt Lake City
Oct. 23-27, 2019
http://www.cpregionals.com

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My unofficial list of skater byes through Regionals and/or Sectionals is posted here: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...ying-pipeline-info.105692/page-3#post-5649580

 

[Sylvia]

South Atlantic Regional Singles Challenge starting orders are posted on the results page: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/27725/index.asp
Gracie Gold is scheduled to skate #13 of 20 in the Senior Ladies SP on Friday afternoon.

Top 4 Senior NQS scorers listed in the starting order:
Jill Heiner 152.76 at Philadelphia Summer Champs (she has a NQS bye to the Eastern Sectional Final)
Julia Biechler 146.61 at Skate Wilmington
Kristine Levitina 139.16 at Atlanta Open
Cailey Weaver 129.36 at Southwest Florida Fall Classic
Also listed: Emily Zhang (6th in Junior at 2019 U.S. Nationals with a score of 146.64)

Senior Men include: William Hubbart, Peter Liu (J4 at Nationals)
Junior Men include: Nicholas Hsieh, Joseph Kang (both are in ISP)
In Junior Ladies, Lara Annunziata and Haley Scott both have NQS byes to Easterns and the top 4 in addition to them will advance to Easterns.

Eastern Sectional Ice Dance + Pairs Challenge also begins tomorrow in Aston PA (Oct. 2-3) - starting orders/results page: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28836/index.asp
9 ice dance teams are listed in the Juvenile, Intermediate & Novice events; 2 in Junior (Tkachenko/Kiliakov, Ling/Wein), 0 Senior.
Pairs: 1 Senior (Timlen/Highgate-Brutman), 5 Junior (Fleming/Isbell and the 4 new teams of Gonzalez/Jerosch, Varvoutis/Griffin, Cooke/Chapman, Hanns/Garbutt), 0 Novice, 2 Intermediate, 3 Juvenile.

 

[Debbie S]

So essentially, 5 Senior Ladies (Jill H + 4) will advance to Easterns from South Atlantics?

Are the NQS standings listed anywhere publicly? I can't seem to find a link on the USFS website.

 

[Sylvia]

So essentially, 5 Senior Ladies (Jill H + 4) will advance to Easterns from South Atlantics?

That is my understanding, yes.

Are the NQS standings listed anywhere publicly? I can't seem to find a link on the USFS website.

Members Only section, under EMS. I would like to include the info in my Scoretracker blog (for those without access) IF all goes well this week.

 

[sk8nlizard]

That is my understanding, yes.

Members Only section, under EMS. I would like to include the info in my Scoretracker blog, if all goes well this week.

Will regionals be streamed anywhere? I can’t remember if it was last year or not.

 

[Sylvia]

I just edited in a note about streaming (not live) in my post #1:

NBC Sports Gold subscribers will be able to view the Senior & Junior events on demand sometime after each Regional concludes.
The Juvenile, Intermediate & Novice events will be made available for free, on demand viewing on the USFS Fan Zone Video Corner platform (like last year).

 

[haribobo]

EGL Results link will be here-

2020 Eastern Great Lakes Regional Singles Challeng

Event Results for 2020 Eastern Great Lakes Regional Singles Challeng

www.usfigureskating.org

NWP Results link will be here-

2020 Northwest Pacific Regional Singles Challenge

Event Results for 2020 Northwest Pacific Regional Singles Challenge

www.usfigureskating.org

Midwestern Pairs/Dance link here-

2020 Midwestern Sectional Ice Dance Challenge

Event Results for 2020 Midwestern Sectional Ice Dance Challenge

www.usfigureskating.org

And these links are all coming from here-

2022-23 Figure Skating Schedule - U.S. Figure Skating Fan Zone

The official figure skating, synchronized skating and adult skating schedules for Team USA, the U.S. Qualifying Season and the U.S. Figure Skating Championships®.

usfigureskatingfanzone.com

(which I came to on the regionals pages by click on "2019 Results")

 

[haribobo]

FYI, the only senior dance and pairs teams besides GP teams that I know of (and I'm sure there are others out there) are-

DANCE
Shilling/Petrov 140.64 Dance Pairs Chicago (M I think, possibly bye through Sectionals because of top 3 NQS score)
Carhart/Vlasenko 120.15 Cactus Classic (E, possibly bye through Sectionals because of top 3 NQS score)
Melton/O'Donnell 119.50 Dance Pairs Chicago (M, possibly bye through Sectionals because of top 3 NQS score)
Reynolds/Reynolds 114.65 Chesapeake Open (E, hmm)
Jahrling/Russell 101.04 Dance Pairs Chicago (M)

PAIRS
Serafini/Tran 162.69 Mid Atlantics (should be E but have a bye)
Digerness/Neudecker 148.09 Detroit (M, possibly bye through Sectionals due to top 3 NQS score)
Mokhova/Mokhov 143.77 Detroit (M, possibly bye through Sectionals due to top 3 NQS score)
Timlen/Highgate Brutman 114.66 Mid Atlantics (E)
Lockley/Prochnow 112.69 Skate Milwaukee (M)
Chan/Howe (M)
Pfund/Santillan (I would think E since they train in Florida but he is a P club so maybe they will show up there?)

 

[Sylvia]

Brynne McIsaac/Mark Sadusky are a new Senior pair based in Ellenton, Florida; however, they are not competing in Aston. I've posted more about them in the U.S. Pairs thread in GSD.

First results for the Midwestern Sectional Ice Dance Challenge in East Lansing, MI, are posted: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28835/index.asp

Nice to see the Peals' younger brother has found a partner in Juvenile.

Eva Pate & Logan Bye will debut in Senior Dance; Shilling/Petrov are the only other team listed.

ETA that the singles events at Eastern Great Lakes take place from Friday to Sunday, Oct. 4-6, which is why the starting orders page is not up yet. Ditto for the Northwest Pacific Juvenile to Senior singles events (Oct. 4-5).

 

[Sylvia]

In the Mids Senior RD, Pate/Bye placed 1st (58.58) and Shilling/Petrov 2nd (55.95): https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28835/CAT005SEG012.html

Top 2 in the Mids Junior RD are the new team of Karnes/Slevira (48.72) and Nicklas/Ryan (47.71): https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28835/CAT004SEG010.html

In the Easterns Junior RD: Ling/Wein (52.84) and Tkachenko/Kiliakov (51.89): https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28836/CAT008SEG016.html

 

[haribobo]

Looking at 2019 Nationals scores- that RD score from both Mids senior dance teams puts them in Manta/Johnson range, and well above the TES score of the 4 lowest teams who wouldn't have made this year's total (RD + FD) TES of 65 with their Nationals performances.

For Easterns pairs- Timlen/Highgate-Brutman's 22 TES is 5 points lower than any team at Nationals (including themselves who had 29 TES at Nationals), so hopefully they can increase that by the pairs final....I think they are coming back from injury?

On a side note, will Pfund/Santillan, Lochley/Prochnow, and Chan/Howe be competing this year? Perhaps some of them will show up at Pacs which is in a few weeks in SLC? Santillan is/was All Year FSC and Howe is/was LA FSC. Perhaps they chose Pacs to give them more time to prepare?

 

[jlai]

In the Mids Senior RD, Pate/Bye placed 1st (58.58) and Shilling/Petrov 2nd (55.95): https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28835/CAT005SEG012.html

Top 2 in the Mids Junior RD are the new team of Karnes/Slevira (48.72) and Nicklas/Ryan (47.71): https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28835/CAT004SEG010.html

In the Easterns Junior RD: Ling/Wein (52.84) and Tkachenko/Kiliakov (51.89): https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28836/CAT008SEG016.html

Congrats to Ling/Wein for winning the event (though a small field)

 

[Sylvia]

Midwestern Sectional Senior Dance final standings from yesterday: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28835/CAT005SEG013.html

1	1	Livvy Shilling, Columbus FSC Alexander Petrov, Hershey FSC	2	55.95	1	88.46	144.41
2	2	Eva Pate, Strongsville SC Logan Bye, SC of New York (their comp. debut)	1	58.58	2	84.45	143.03

Layla Karnes/Kenan Slevira won Junior Dance: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28835/CAT004SEG011.html

The Peals won Novice Dance: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/28835/CAT003SEG009.html

 

[Sylvia]

South Atlantics Senior Ladies is going on right now and Gracie skates in the next (3rd) group: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/27725/CAT029SEG023.html

 

[Sylvia]

Photo of Rink 1 (from the few benches on the far side opposite the judges): https://twitter.com/simplyallysonn/status/1180216662987100160

 

[Theoreticalgirl]

Gracie currently in second with a score of 51.21!

 

[sk9tingfan]

51.21

 

[Sylvia]

Gracie's jumps were 3Lz+2T, 1F, 2A (step) based on this 2 min. 20 sec. fan cam: https://twitter.com/Jacobskate633/status/1180221803995811842

ETA links to her full program:

Part 1: https://twitter.com/simplyallysonn/status/1180226430472527872
Part 2: https://twitter.com/simplyallysonn/status/1180227295660953601

 

[meggonzo]

Gracie is 3rd after SP. Do top 4 go to Sectionals, and then that's where the technical minimums come into play for going to Nationals?

 

[Debbie S]

Gracie is 3rd after SP. Do top 4 go to Sectionals, and then that's where the technical minimums come into play for going to Nationals?

Yes, top 4. Although Jill Heiner has an NQS bye but elected to compete, so it's really top 5 in this case. And yes, Gracie will need the TES minimum either here or at Easterns.

 

[sk8nlizard]

South Atlantics Senior Ladies is going on right now and Gracie skates in the next (3rd) group: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/27725/CAT029SEG023.html

I feel for her. In some ways I am sure this is one of the toughest competitions for her ever and there are so many people there for a regionals!

Yes, top 4. Although Jill Heiner has an NQS bye but elected to compete, so it's really top 5 in this case. And yes, Gracie will need the TES minimum either here or at Easterns.

I just looked and she got a little over 25 TES for the short. I was really hoping she would get a bit higher tech to give her some wiggle room in the long. She definitely looked significantly better than she did at her Grand Prix last year but still not where she was (obviously). To me, it looked like her jumps were trained but the program was under trained. I am also sure that the pressure she feels is enormous!!! Even though I think most of us are just rooting for her to feel good about her comeback, she was 4th at an Olympics! People expect a lot out of her (even when we understand that she has been through a lot). I don’t know Gracie personally, but it takes some major guts to get out there and compete again. Getting through Regionals will be a feat in and of itself! I really wish the minimum score could be from regionals and sectionals combined. That might be her biggest hurdle...however we will see how the long goes...I hope she has been running the program enough that she is able to get her levels on non-jump levels, that did help her out on the short here. Her levels were pretty good. Back when she was in top form, she tended to get her levels on non-jump elements so fingers crossed! I’m rooting for her, and hope she feels good about herself. As a fan, I’m incredibly proud of her!

 

[Sylvia]

Here's the direct link to SP protocols: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/27725/SEGM023.html

Gracie will skate #4 in group 3 tomorrow (there were 2 withdrawals, including Levitina who was a contender to advance, so it's now 3 groups of 6): https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2020/27725/CAT029SEG024.html

ETA on Saturday that 19 ladies competed in the SP yesterday and it looks like the FS starting order was redrawn later because now Gracie is listed to skate second to last now.

 

[Spun Silver]

The first step back into the cold light of judging has to be the hardest. She handled the pressure well. I hope she'll be able to shine tomorrow!

 

[rosewood]

Sending good vibes to Gracie!

 

[bardtoob]

For the record, Gracie messed up the SP like she used to, although the jumps are better now. Let's see how the LP goes.

 

[ZilphaK]

Looks like Emily Zhang had a cracker jack SP! 3S+3L and 3F, all positive GOE and good levels.

 

[ZilphaK]

Also, Cailey Weaver had a strong SP skate. I know she said on social media that this is her last competition, and looks like it will be a high note to finish her competitive career. Very happy for her. I've loved watching her at Regionals all these years.

 

[Debbie S]

I'm here in Aston. Just had a sandwich since I figured I'd eat while there are still seats on the bleachers in Rink 1, lol. Watching the first group from the snack bar. It's bedlam in the lobby but pretty quiet here, lol. I'd like to see a skater I used to skate with in Junior Ladies but i'm thinking the timing is not going to cooperate so I may just go straight to Rink 1.

ETA: OK, so I was confused about the sched. There are 19 skaters in Senior (I could have sworn there were only 18 in the initial start order) so there are 4 groups and i assume an ice cut after the 2nd group, which just started.

 

[Debbie S]

Group 3 warming up. Stands are packed. This reminds me of Senior Men at Liberty back in the day when Patrick Chan and Jeremy Abbott competed.

People are grumbling about why didn't they put the Senior Ladies in (the much larger and warmer) Rink 2. I agree. Sigh.

And now it's time for Adele....

 

[Hedwig]

Have fun, Debbie -thanks for letting us "watch" through you!