2019 Skate Canada Challenge

[mag]

So Jane Grey behind Michelle Long ... okay then.

 

[Wyliefan]

Three falls for Hannah Dawson, but she still managed to win! I didn't expect her to hang onto first. She had great expression but didn't seem to have much speed going into the jumps.

 

[danafan]

I'm sure Austman will break 60 with that then. Honestly since she has a bye anyway, it would have made more sense for her to go to Golden Spin or another international so she could get her worlds TES minimums.

 

[4rkidz]

Hannah Dawson is at least attempting the more difficult jumps and although didn’t win the long won overall. Her jumps are so tiny though. Must say I’m impressed with Larkyn Austman, she seems so mature and her jumps are so clean I liked that program. Likely not the difficulty she needs but she’s in a good place after being off. I like her more this year

 

[Wyliefan]

Larkyn got 62 and change. That's a cute haircut on her.

 

[4rkidz]

I'm sure Austman will break 60 with that then. Honestly since she has a bye anyway, it would have made more sense for her to go to Golden Spin or another international so she could get her worlds TES minimums.

I agree she’s likely one of our best if Gabby not back and Osmond retired. We need her to have the TES will there be another opportunity?

 

[danafan]

I agree she’s likely one of our best if Gabby not back and Osmond retired. We need her to have the TES will there be another opportunity?

Yeah she could get it at 4CC, since she has the 4CC minimums.

 

[4rkidz]

Well I’m underwhelmed with our junior and senior skaters, feels like years ago when our woman were not world class level. Maybe someone will surprise me at nationals.

 

[Flora]

I enjoyed Austman, Cotop, and Bulawka. They're very well-rounded skaters. Cotop's skating skills have noticeably improved and it looks like she's attempting to step up in the axel instead of whipping it around. Bulawka has major potential once she gets her harder triples.

 

[Braulio]

Laurence Fournier-Beaudry & Nikolaj Sorensen Tango

https://youtu.be/IVKAMDDiDyY

 

[Colonel Green]

Bulawka has major potential once she gets her harder triples.

Bulawka's technical development is really weird to me. I remember how strange it seemed at JGP Austria when she landed a fully rotated 3T-3T, but was only doing a 2F. There are a bunch of girls who have the triples as individual jumps but can't doing a 3-3 combo, but she has that while lacking some of the other individual jumps.

I agree she's got a ton of potential, though. Some real performance charisma.

 

[haribobo]

For senior ladies (and yes I know Challenge scores don't count for ISU)

TES over 29 (Worlds min)
Austman 33.62, Cotop 32.31, Tamura 32.78, Carle 29.10, Lavoie-Leonard 30.55

In reality, the only skaters with Worlds min currently are Chartrand, Daleman, Pineault, and Mallet. Austman has 4cc minimums.

Junior Ladies
SP TES over 29 (Worlds min)
Dawson- 33.22, Schizas 29.24

FS TES over 49 (Worlds min)
Orzel- 51.65

FS TES over 40 (4cc min)
Bulawka 47.56, Vincent 43.95, Dawson 43.34, Hatzis 42.45, Schizas 41.43, Lee 44.42, Proft 41.12, Ivanova 43.37, Chen 40.92

 

[Sylvia]

Junior Ladies who qualified for Canadians:

Rank Score Name Segment1 Segment2
1 141.28 Hannah Dawson - ON 57.34 (1) 83.94 (4)
2 138.02 Emma Bulawka - BC/YK 47.62 (7) 90.40 (1)
3 134.47 Madeline Schizas - ON 53.04 (2) 81.43 (6)
4 131.73 Rosalie Vincent - QC 47.06 (8) 84.67 (3)
5 130.45 Amelia Orzel - ON 41.84 (20) 88.61 (2)
6 129.09 Elizabeth Hatzis - QC 45.68 (12) 83.41 (5)
7 128.23 Sandrine Bouchard - QC 48.07 (5) 80.16 (8)
8 127.65 Leah Lee - BC/YK 46.39 (11) 81.26 (7)
9 126.77 Reagan Scott - ON 50.32 (3) 76.45 (10) (CC: @Jozet )
10 122.60 Daria Carr - BC/YK 49.04 (4) 73.56 (20)
11 122.46 Élodie Adsuar - QC 43.75 (14) 78.71 (9)
12 121.81 Natalie Walker - ON 46.78 (10) 75.03 (13)
13 121.77 Lilika Zheng - ON 48.00 (6) 73.77 (19)
14 121.67 Natalie D Alessandro - ON 46.86 (9) 74.81 (14)
15 118.20 Lititia Chen - BC/YK 44.40 (13) 73.80 (18)
16 117.29 Emmanuelle Proft - ON 41.05 (26) 76.24 (11)
17 117.08 Lissa Anne McGaghey - NB 43.01 (16) 74.07 (16)
18 115.92 Haley Gillett - AB/NT/NU 43.38 (15) 72.54 (21)

Final 2 events on Sunday:

Senior Women's FS: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6x8n1o
Live scoring: http://vsatech.ca/liveresults/csslive_results.cfm?StrRink=1

Junior Men's FS: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6x8mp3
Live scoring: http://vsatech.ca/liveresults/csslive_results.cfm?StrRink=2

 

[danafan]

Sad to see Deguise-Leveillee struggle here. It's unlikely she'll qualify for nationals now.

 

[danafan]

Wow Deidre Russell landed a ton of stuff. Rotations maybe iffy but she stayed upright on two triple lutzes (the second in combo), and two triple flips, and also landed a triple loop.

 

[shutterbug]

Wow Deidre Russell landed a ton of stuff. Rotations maybe iffy but she stayed upright on two triple lutzes (the second in combo), and two triple flips, and also landed a triple loop.

GREAT skate for her! She missed the cut for Canadians by one placement a couple of times in the past. Fingers crossed that she might make it this year.

 

[danafan]

Farrow got my eye at sectionals and wow she's delivering here! Oops I jinxed her as she just fell on a very bad waxel - but comes back with a triple loop. I think she has a lot of potential. And down on a double toe loop. Still she landed a ton of stuff.

 

[danafan]

Wow too bad Kim Decelles couldn't build on her solid triple lutz double toe combo. She's in second now and might not qualify (She's probably my favourite Canadian skater not named Chartrand).

 

[danafan]

If only Emy could do her other elements as well as that opening double axel triple toe which was a beauty. Triple flip double toe looked good too. Please I need at least one Decelles to qualify!

 

[danafan]

Emy Decelles is third with 12 skaters to go so I think she qualified. Her marks took forever to come up. Her double axel triple toe got 8.84 points!

 

[danafan]

Blanchard had a decent skate, not her best, but I think she looks great out there and she's not tentative. Edge jumps aren't her thing though. Highest total score of the Canadians on the JGP this year so a definite contender for the junior worlds spot.

 

[puglover]

I just got home and am happy to hear Deirdre Russell skated well. Her mother coached at the rink my kids skated at and she actually was my son's pairs coach. Her daughters were just little girls then. Great to see her having success with her girls, and hats off to any mother who can coach their own daughters.

 

[Sylvia]

Jane Gray looked so relieved to have placed 2nd - Dr. Zhivago is fitting music for her elegant style.

ETA: WOW, Alison Schumacher! This may be the best/cleanest I've ever seen her skate.

Her jumps as listed in the live scoring protocol:
3Lz
3S+2T
2A+3T<
3Lo+2T
3F
3S
2A

Current top 3:

Rank Score Name Segment1 Segment2
1 163.32 Alison Schumacher - ON 50.95 (10) 112.37 (1)
2 145.52 Sarah-Maude Blanchard - QC 50.23 (12) 95.29 (2)
3 139.09 Jane Gray - AB/NT/NU 50.79 (11) 88.30 (3)

 

[danafan]

So happy to see Schumacher skate well in the free. Wow wow wow. This will be very hard to beat today!

 

[honey]

So happy to see Schumacher skate well in the free. Wow wow wow. This will be very hard to beat today!

Love her absolutely nonplussed reaction to it as well lol. Great skate from her!!

 

[danafan]

I've been a big fan/supporter of Schumacher since her JGP debut. I honestly think she has the most potential of the skaters who competed on the JGP the last two years. I hope she didn't peak here and can deliver at nationals!

 

[danafan]

Well that was by far the best Michelle Long has skated this season. She finally landed the triple flip.

 

[Flora]

Gran can jump but everything else needs work. Spins, posture, speed. She's young so hopefully works on the other aspects of her skating.

 

[danafan]

Gran didn't carry a lot of speed out there but she landed a lot of jumps. Nice to see after not competing much since winning juniors last year.

 

[Sylvia]

Junior Men unofficial live scores of the top 18 who have qualified for Canadians:

Rank Score Name Segment1 Segment2
1 168.22 Alistair Lam - ON 63.71 (2) 104.51 (3)
2 159.65 Jack Dushenski - ON 52.08 (9) 107.57 (1)
3 157.70 Beres Clements - BC/YK 52.72 (7) 104.98 (2)
4 157.31 Aleksa Rakic - BC/YK 70.52 (1) 86.79 (11)
5 156.89 Koen Kucher - SK 56.93 (4) 99.96 (5)
6 155.16 Corey Circelli - ON 51.47 (10) 103.69 (4)
7 146.98 Dawson Nodwell - AB/NT/NU 48.25 (15) 98.73 (6)
8 146.80 Brian Chiem - AB/NT/NU 54.33 (5) 92.47 (7)
9 146.56 Alec Guinzbourg - ON 62.42 (3) 84.14 (13)
10 142.16 Bruce Waddell - ON 53.78 (6) 88.38 (8)
11 139.82 Justin Hampole - BC/YK 52.38 (8) 87.44 (10)
12 138.36 Gabriel Blumenthal - BC/YK 50.39 (11) 87.97 (9)
13 132.83 Alexis Lay - QC 49.85 (12) 82.98 (14)
14 132.57 Loucas Éthier - QC 47.93 (16) 84.64 (12)
15 130.12 Bryan Pierro - QC 47.78 (17) 82.34 (15)
16 123.18 Antoine Goyette - QC 48.43 (13) 74.75 (17)
17 122.16 Hugo Li - ON 44.42 (18) 77.74 (16)
18 120.08 Tristan Taylor - SK 48.38 (14) 71.70 (19)

The final skater, Rakic, had a boot issue mid-program and lost time (and 2 jumping passes) re-tying his skate -- his music never stopped -- before resuming and landing his final 3 jumps cleanly. I was very impressed how he kept his composure!