2021-22 ISU Challenger Series announced

[Frau Muller]

Gubanova

Skating for Georgia for the first time!

Epic line-up!

 

[Hanna]

Finlandia Trophy Entries

https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00110970.htm

This list I don't even know where to start with my gushing! It's basically GP level stuff + a lot of extra and soooo many of my faves!

 

[Ka3sha]

This list I don't even know where to start with my gushing! It's basically GP level stuff + a lot of extra and soooo many of my faves!

If only Finland had opened its borders for Russians

 

[PRlady]

There are some killer matchups here. Canadian pairs, Spanish ice dancers, Gribbles vs C/J, Karen vs Amber… boy oh boy I’m jealous I can’t see this in person.

 

[Andrea82]

I guess the Dutch dance team being entered in Pairs is a mistake.

 

[Hanna]

If only Finland had opened its borders for Russians

It's not open, even with two vaccines? I mean, the skaters get here somehow. You should be able to sneak in, too!

Ok after calming down a little , wow these are still some freaking fabulous entries! Now begins the annual agony of repeatedly refreshing the page and worrying about who's going to withdraw.

Can't believe we got Papadakis/Cizeron, although they're on my prime withdrawal worry list but then again, they're in Europe anyway for the Masters, right?? And it would be wise to have an international event before the GPs.

And it was just two days ago that I said I want to see L/L Rio FD so badly at FT and I'm getting it!!

Kostornaia Enough said

The men's list is fab, including all the AUS, MEX and PHI guys! Pairs list is absolutely fab too! This is really too good to be true.

And so many interesting early season duels, like PRLady said.

 

[Frau Muller]

If only Finland had opened its borders for Russians

The Russians are listed - for women’s, Valieva, Tuk and Kos. That’s as of today, 14 Sept.

 

[Ka3sha]

The Russians are listed - for women’s, Valieva, Tuk and Kos. That’s as of today, 14 Sept.

I was talking about myself, haha
The border between Russia and Finland is open for business trips only or in case a person has property across the border

 

[Frau Muller]

There's no schedule for the Canadian Classic which runs about the same time as the US event.

The overlaps appear to be between the US and Canada events, in the early evenings on Thurs & Friday.

For ex:

Thursday, Sept 16:

Canada: W SP at 5:50pm
versus
US: M SP at 7:25pm...I’ll switch to this if/once the above is over

Friday, Sept 17, the toughie for Women’s discipline fans:

US: W SP at 5:53pm
versus
Canada: W LP at 6:20 pm...so I’ll have to catch this on replay

No real conflicts on Saturday. Canada’s all during mid-day; US in evening.

As for JGP Krasnoyarsk: no conflicts at all with either of the N.Am. competitions. I just have to get up really early!

 

[ChelleC]

Finlandia!!!! So many names that just made me joyful. Gubanova, Kostornaia, and Karen Chen in the same competition.

Papadakis and Cizeron!!!

I can't wait!!!

 

[Karen-W]

Finlandia will be great! Hopefully all the skaters/teams listed will show up, especially PapCiz, C/B StepBuk and F/G. Pairs has some great matchups too - Canadian showdown between M-T/M and J/R! B/K and M/G! C-G/L and C/J from the US! It will also be great to see how Barquero/Zandron match up with those teams (they already face off against the German teams at Nebelhorn). Lots of Aussies! Could be considered an early mini-Nats in Men, Women and Dance for them especially since their own Nats have been cancelled .

 

[Panja]

I guess the Dutch dance team being entered in Pairs is a mistake.

It must be. Chelsea and Sherim definitely are Ice Dancers, not a Pair.

 

[euterpe]

The overlaps appear to be between the US and Canada events, in the early evenings on Thurs & Friday.

For ex:

Thursday, Sept 16:

Canada: W SP at 5:50pm
versus
US: M SP at 7:25pm...I’ll switch to this if/once the above is over

Friday, Sept 17, the toughie for Women’s discipline fans:

US: W SP at 5:53pm
versus
Canada: W LP at 6:20 pm...so I’ll have to catch this on replay

No real conflicts on Saturday. Canada’s all during mid-day; US in evening.

As for JGP Krasnoyarsk: no conflicts at all with either of the N.Am. competitions. I just have to get up really early!

There are problems with the Canadian ANNOUNCEMENT schedule. It doesn't mention PAIRS, and it was probably issued before the withdrawal of so many men. So the times stated aren't reliable, which makes planning watching both the US and Canadian competitions very difficult.

Skate Canada should be updating the event page soon, one would hope before the start of the competition. I'll wait for that.

I know I won't be watching the JGP in Krasnoyarsk, as I don't plan on having 3 days of no sleep!

 

[greenapple]

Apparently the schedule for Autumn Classic has been completely changed with events being switched around and start times earlier than were originally published.

 

[Frau Muller]

It would be great if the final Autumn Classic schedule would eliminate the overlaps among the two Women’s events on Friday...I want to see both Trusova (in US) & Starr Andrews (in Canada) live!

 

[Sylvia]

Finlandia Trophy Entries

https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00110970.htm

Men
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Brendan KERRY AUS 1
2 James MIN AUS 1
3 Luc MAIERHOFER AUT 2
4 Konstantin MILYUKOV BLR 3
5 Keegan MESSING CAN 4
Nam NGUYEN CAN 4 S
6 Matyas BELOHRADSKY CZE 5
7 Tomas Llorenc GUARINO SABATE ESP 6
8 Arlet LEVANDI EST 7
9 Aleksandr SELEVKO EST 7
10 Makar SUNTSEV FIN 8
11 Valtter VIRTANEN FIN 8
12 Luc ECONOMIDES FRA 9
13 Paul FENTZ GER 10
14 Nikita STAROSTIN GER 10
15 Gabriele FRANGIPANI ITA 11
16 Matteo RIZZO ITA 11
17 Donovan CARRILLO MEX 12
18 Christopher CALUZA PHI 13
19 Michael Christian MARTINEZ PHI 13
20 Mikhail KOLYADA RUS 14
21 Andrei MOZALEV RUS 14
22 Evgeni SEMENENKO RUS 14
Dmitri ALIEV RUS 14 S
Makar IGNATOV RUS 14 S
23 Lukas BRITSCHGI SUI 15
24 Nurullah SAHAKA SUI 15
25 Micha STEFFEN SUI 15
26 Nikolaj MAJOROV SWE 16
27 Jason BROWN USA 17
28 Maxim NAUMOV USA 17
Camden PULKINEN USA 17 S

Women
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Victoria ALCANTARA AUS 1
2 Kailani CRAINE AUS 1
3 Viktoriia SAFONOVA BLR 2
4 Kristina GRIGOROVA BUL 3
5 Madeline SCHIZAS CAN 4
6 Maia SORENSEN DEN 5
7 Eva-Lotta KIIBUS EST 6
8 Kristina SHKULETA-GROMOVA EST 6
Nataly LANGERBAUR EST 6 S
Niina PETROKINA EST 6 S
9 Oona OUNASVUORI FIN 7
10 Emmi PELTONEN FIN 7
11 Jenni SAARINEN FIN 7
Linnea CEDER FIN 7 S
Laura KARHUNEN FIN 7 S
12 Natasha MCKAY GBR 8
13 Karly ROBERTSON GBR 8
14 Anastasiia GUBANOVA GEO 9
15 Nicole SCHOTT GER 10
16 Nathalie WEINZIERL GER 10
17 Dimitra KORRI GRE 11
18 Aldis Kara BERGSDOTTIR ISL 12
19 Haein LEE KOR 13
20 Lindsay VAN ZUNDERT NED 14
21 Sofia Lexi Jacqueline FRANK PHI 15
22 Alena KOSTORNAIA RUS 16
23 Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA RUS 16
24 Kamila VALIEVA RUS 16
Maiia KHROMYKH RUS 16 S
Anna SHCHERBAKOVA RUS 16 S
25 Livia KAISER SUI 17
26 Matilda ALGOTSSON SWE 18
27 Josefin TALJEGARD SWE 18
28 Karen CHEN USA 19
29 Amber GLENN USA 19

Pairs
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Bogdana LUKASHEVICH / Alexander STEPANOV BLR 1
2 Vanessa JAMES / Eric RADFORD CAN 2
3 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Michael MARINARO CAN 2
Evelyn WALSH / Trennt MICHAUD CAN 2 S
4 Elizaveta ZHUK / Martin BIDAR CZE 3
5 Laura BARQUERO / Marco ZANDRON ESP 4
6 Dorota BRODA / Pedro BETEGON MARTIN ESP 4
7 Milania VAANANEN / Mikhail AKULOV FIN 5
8 Anastasia VAIPAN-LAW / Luke DIGBY GBR 6
9 Minerva Fabienne HASE / Nolan SEEGERT GER 7
10 Annika HOCKE / Robert KUNKEL GER 7
11 Sara CONTI / Niccolo MACII ITA 8
12 Rebecca GHILARDI / Filippo AMBROSINI ITA 8
13 Nika OSIPOVA / Dmitry EPSTEIN NED 9
14 Chelsea VERHAEGH / Sherim VAN GEFFEN NED 9 (competed as ice dancers at Worlds)
15 Aleksandra BOIKOVA / Dmitrii KOZLOVSKII RUS 10
16 Anastasia MISHINA / Aleksandr GALLIAMOV RUS 10
Daria PAVLIUCHENKO / Denis KHODYKIN RUS 10 S
Evgenia TARASOVA / Vladimir MOROZOV RUS 10 S
17 Ashley CAIN-GRIBBLE / Timothy LEDUC USA 11
18 Jessica CALALANG / Brian JOHNSON USA 11

Ice Dance
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Holly HARRIS / Jason CHAN AUS 1
2 Chantelle KERRY / Andrew DODDS AUS 1
3 Marjorie LAJOIE / Zachary LAGHA CAN 2
4 Carolane SOUCISSE / Shane FIRUS CAN 2
Molly LANAGHAN / Dmitre RAZGULAJEVS CAN 2 S
5 Sara HURTADO / Kirill KHALIAVIN ESP 3
6 Olivia SMART / Adrian DIAZ ESP 3
7 Aleksandra SAMERSOVA / Kevin OJALA EST 4
8 Yuka ORIHARA / Juho PIRINEN FIN 5
9 Juulia TURKKILA / Matthias VERSLUIS FIN 5
10 Evgeniia LOPAREVA / Geoffrey BRISSAUD FRA 6
11 Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON FRA 6
12 Lilah FEAR / Lewis GIBSON GBR 7
13 Lara LUFT / Maximilian PFISTERER GER 8
14 Katharina MUELLER / Tim DIECK GER 8
Jennifer JANSE VAN RENSBURG / Benjamin STEFFAN GER 8 S
15 Paulina RAMANAUSKAITE / Deividas KIZALA LTU 9
16 Anastasia POLIBINA / Pavel GOLOVISHNIKOV POL 10
17 Sofia SHEVCHENKO / Igor EREMENKO RUS 11
18 Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN RUS 11
19 Christina CARREIRA / Anthony PONOMARENKO USA 12
20 Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES USA 12

S - Substitute Entry
14/09/2021 12:19:08 UTC

 

[rfisher]

I was talking about myself, haha
The border between Russia and Finland is open for business trips only or in case a person has property across the border

Buy @Hanna /USER] house for a Euro then sell it back when you go home

 

[Panja]

13 Nika OSIPOVA / Dmitry EPSTEIN NED 9
14 Chelsea VERHAEGH / Sherim VAN GEFFEN NED 9 (competed as ice dancers at Worlds)

Chelsea and Sherim are also competing as ID'ers at Nebelhorn. This is a mistake. Either Chelsea and Sherim should be in the ID section, or the other Dutch Pair will be here. However, Chelsea and Sherim often train in Finland (with Maurizio Gargaglio), so I expect it's Chelsea and Sherim who will compete here. It's around the corner so to speak.

 

[Hanna]

I was talking about myself, haha
The border between Russia and Finland is open for business trips only or in case a person has property across the border

We need to find you some property!

Buy @Hanna house for a Euro then sell it back when you go home

Ah, I see rfisher already had the same idea.

 

[Gris]

Nothing official yet, but Wang / Liu is rumored to have withdrawn from ACI on Weibo. I assume the situation is the same for Chen / Sun.

Wang / Liu, Chen / Sun and Shan Lin are now off the ACI entry list.

 

[Karen-W]

Wang / Liu, Chen / Sun and Shan Lin are now off the ACI entry list.

So, it would seem they are pulling all their skaters from the early season comps, similar to Japan (thankfully Japan is letting their only pairs team compete still). I wonder if they'll have them compete at Asian Open Trophy.

Also, while I'm sad to see both fields reduced, I'm not as sad about the ladies since that drops the entries down to 12 and 2 flights instead of 3.

 

[euterpe]

No start orders yet for ACI. I guess the late withdrawals are to blame?

 

[Jammers]

So, it would seem they are pulling all their skaters from the early season comps, similar to Japan (thankfully Japan is letting their only pairs team compete still). I wonder if they'll have them compete at Asian Open Trophy.

Also, while I'm sad to see both fields reduced, I'm not as sad about the ladies since that drops the entries down to 12 and 2 flights instead of 3.

I don't get what the strategy is for China and Japan pulling or just not sending skaters to competitions this season. They are almost acting like it's last season when their wasn't a skating season but it's not the case this year and it's a Olympic year to boot.

 

[On My Own]

I don't get what the strategy is for China and Japan pulling or just not sending skaters to competitions this season. They are almost acting like it's last season when their wasn't a skating season but it's not the case this year and it's a Olympic year to boot.

But Japan and China are sending skaters to competitions, Miura/Kihara are at ACI, Sui/Han (and I expect the two main Chinese men) will be at Asian Open. Asian Open is probably going to see a lot of the Asian seniors who would like to stay closer to home or can't fly outside for whatever reason (I think we might see Hanyu and/or Kagiyama there, too). Japanese seniors are also going to be at GP events, though it's looking more unclear by the passing second if the Chinese ones will be sent to anything outside China.

 

[mackiecat]

Finland is also features Canada’s ice dance battle for the 3rd Olympic spot (L&L S&F)

 

[Finnice]

We need to find you some property!


Ah, I see rfisher already had the same idea.

I could sell our garden shed to Ka3sha.

 

[DreamSkates]

Wrong thread. Not sure why my computer jumped to this one.

 

[DreamSkates]

Men
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Brendan KERRY AUS 1
2 James MIN AUS 1
3 Luc MAIERHOFER AUT 2
4 Konstantin MILYUKOV BLR 3
5 Keegan MESSING CAN 4
Nam NGUYEN CAN 4 S
6 Matyas BELOHRADSKY CZE 5
7 Tomas Llorenc GUARINO SABATE ESP 6
8 Arlet LEVANDI EST 7
9 Aleksandr SELEVKO EST 7
10 Makar SUNTSEV FIN 8
11 Valtter VIRTANEN FIN 8
12 Luc ECONOMIDES FRA 9
13 Paul FENTZ GER 10
14 Nikita STAROSTIN GER 10
15 Gabriele FRANGIPANI ITA 11
16 Matteo RIZZO ITA 11
17 Donovan CARRILLO MEX 12
18 Christopher CALUZA PHI 13
19 Michael Christian MARTINEZ PHI 13
20 Mikhail KOLYADA RUS 14
21 Andrei MOZALEV RUS 14
22 Evgeni SEMENENKO RUS 14
Dmitri ALIEV RUS 14 S
Makar IGNATOV RUS 14 S
23 Lukas BRITSCHGI SUI 15
24 Nurullah SAHAKA SUI 15
25 Micha STEFFEN SUI 15
26 Nikolaj MAJOROV SWE 16
27 Jason BROWN USA 17
28 Maxim NAUMOV USA 17
Camden PULKINEN USA 17 S

Women
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Victoria ALCANTARA AUS 1
2 Kailani CRAINE AUS 1
3 Viktoriia SAFONOVA BLR 2
4 Kristina GRIGOROVA BUL 3
5 Madeline SCHIZAS CAN 4
6 Maia SORENSEN DEN 5
7 Eva-Lotta KIIBUS EST 6
8 Kristina SHKULETA-GROMOVA EST 6
Nataly LANGERBAUR EST 6 S
Niina PETROKINA EST 6 S
9 Oona OUNASVUORI FIN 7
10 Emmi PELTONEN FIN 7
11 Jenni SAARINEN FIN 7
Linnea CEDER FIN 7 S
Laura KARHUNEN FIN 7 S
12 Natasha MCKAY GBR 8
13 Karly ROBERTSON GBR 8
14 Anastasiia GUBANOVA GEO 9
15 Nicole SCHOTT GER 10
16 Nathalie WEINZIERL GER 10
17 Dimitra KORRI GRE 11
18 Aldis Kara BERGSDOTTIR ISL 12
19 Haein LEE KOR 13
20 Lindsay VAN ZUNDERT NED 14
21 Sofia Lexi Jacqueline FRANK PHI 15
22 Alena KOSTORNAIA RUS 16
23 Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA RUS 16
24 Kamila VALIEVA RUS 16
Maiia KHROMYKH RUS 16 S
Anna SHCHERBAKOVA RUS 16 S
25 Livia KAISER SUI 17
26 Matilda ALGOTSSON SWE 18
27 Josefin TALJEGARD SWE 18
28 Karen CHEN USA 19
29 Amber GLENN USA 19

Why are so many Russian ladies allowed to enter?

 

[Andrea82]

Why are so many Russian ladies allowed to enter?

It is 3 women (which is the limit per country allowed). The ones listed with the "S" next to the name are only alternates/substitutes.

 

[Foolhardy Ham Lint]

Marilena KITROMILIS. ACI 2021, FS

www.youtube.com

I wonder if Marilena has been rifling through Surya's skate bag?

Of course, back in the dayMadame Bonaly was accused of stealing this exact cut from Usova and Zhulin.

To bad Kostornia isn't using this version for her free skate.