2025 Grand Prix Assignments

[tony]

ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix

The ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix Series started in 1995 (previously known as the “ISU Champions Series”) and consists of six international senior events that culminate with the ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix Final. The Skaters are seeded and invited to the six ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix...

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Pairs: https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.az...d-Prix/Documents/GP-Pairs-1749222193-8456.pdf
Women: https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.az...d-Prix/Documents/GP-Women-1749222194-2746.pdf
Dance: https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.az...rix/Documents/GP-IceDance-1749222194-7097.pdf
Men: https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.az...and-Prix/Documents/GP-Men-1749222195-1762.pdf

 

[tony]

Of note- only two US men at Skate America?!

 

[Karen-W]

Of note- only two US men at Skate America?!

WTH?! That's nuts!

These are crazy! Les Kovs aren't even assigned to GPdF!

 

[nylynnr]

Of note- only two US men at Skate America?!

Guess Malinin wanted to get his GPs done and over with as quickly as possible.

 

[Marta24]

Finally!

Mrazkovi at SkAm for the third time and Skate Canada. Taschlerovi got NHK this year, which could be great since NHK usually has very generous scoring in dance. I am bit surprised to see Tali/Lafornara only with one assignment. I hope F/F will get one of the host spots at GPDF.

 

[Sabine-Yuna]

Do organizers start picking from the end of the seasons best list? I wonder why Vuillamoz/Bouvart, Bombardier/Mimar, Shin/Nagy... got an assignment before Ghilardi/Ambosini, Hocke/Kunkel, the Poles, the Brits (who got one assignment for WS24 and are on top of the SB). I would habe assumed the ones with a higher SB to get a second assignment before the lower ranken teams.

 

[danafan]

Medland-Spence got NHK and they saved a women’s host pick for SCI!
But there is no TBD for the men and no assignment for Chiu.

 

[Karen-W]

Okay, reviewing the Pairs assignments... Two teams that should have been guaranteed 1 each were not assigned -

Holichenko/Darenskyi and Beccari/Guarise

LaurEth & PerMich got 2 - basically because CAN used all their host spots to ensure that their top 3 teams had 2 right out of the gate.

As expected, Flores/Wang are doing the Sr GP. USFS gave PlaFern a SkAm host spot. Fight between ChanHowe, McBPark and ShiNagy for the SkAm host TBD spot. EfiMit and KamOSh are elsewhere, which makes sense since they were guaranteed 2 GPs.

MiuKih did not choose NHK and JPN only held one TBD spot.

FRA has 2 TBD host spots, Les Kovs are at NHK & probably penciled in for one of the GPdF host spots.

CHN has 2 TBD host spots - one will likely go to Zhang/Huang, who are at Finlandia.

No host spots for FIN, so that means Milania Vaananen is still searching for a new partner or, if she has one that's unannounced, the Finnish fed doesn't believe they'll be ready to compete at a GP by the end of November.

 

[victorskid]

The ISU press release about the series:

Star-studded ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating to set the stage for the 2025/26 Olympic season

The thrill of an Olympic season awaits when the world’s best Figure Skaters take to the ice in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series 2025/26 and start building towards the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games. Top stars such as reigning ISU World Champions Ilia Malinin (USA), Alysa Liu...

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[Firedancer]

Surprised by only 2 US men at Skate America and would have thought we would see either K/O or E/M there

 

[kwanette]

A few surprises to be sure.. My boy Kazuki doing 2 in North America..

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

The USA gave away one of its men’s spot? In what crazy world does this make sense? I’ve never understood the USFSA I don’t understand them any better today, maybe this has already been answered in your posts above I’ll have to look

 

[Debbie S]

Of note- only two US men at Skate America?!

Even Ilia doesn't want to go to LP.

But seriously, why wouldn't USFS leave a 3rd spot TBD? Esp with Camden, Max, and Jacob only getting 1 event. Is there some mathematical reason I'm missing?

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

OK I’m just going to chime in as I’m having my coffee and going over the grids now … these are the worst grids I have ever seen ever.. so much crap doesn’t make sense, more than normal lol

Why is Lucrezia and Matteo not getting squat? Not even as European champions that were injured last year they don’t get Two? Three us dance teams going to China

Bestie @SidelineSkater and @Karen-W called it with Amber going to China but who saw Alysa going there? I thought people said that it was touch and go for her to go there because of her dad or some stuff from last Olympics. I did, however have Amber going to Finland.

I haven’t even gotten to the men’s field yet, but my Besty said there’s a surprise there, which I don’t even know what it’s going to be, so far I’m not happy with anything lol

They should just let the fans compile and a sign out these assignments, they clearly don’t know what they’re doing. At all.

 

[zebobes]

Only Alysa is going to Skate America, with two TBD? Does the US really need the TBD in women? Why did they choose to give up a spot for men instead?

Also, I'm a little shocked that Jia Shin only got one GP spot. I know her SB was not great last year, but I thought that the ISU would find a way to make room for the three time wjc silver medalist.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

I love that France did not even pick Les Kovs, but another Federation did, who is France going to fill with these two spots if not Les Kovs.

And for skate America being such a schlep for west coasters, and into a destination I have zero feelings about or even care about I think I’m even happier decided to go to Prague.

OK I need to go over these grids a second third and fourth time now. Lol

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Surprised by only 2 US men at Skate America and would have thought we would see either K/O or E/M there

I know I’m like why are skate America for pairs picking the two what I’m still gonna call very very very Junior teams and not even the US champions? Does Misha have a dentist appointment that weekend?

Can we just fast forward to next year and skate America goes first and hopefully things will be semi-crappy instead of crappy?

?

Not only does the USFSA kiss and cry coordinator need to be canned so does the selection committee lol

 

[Karen-W]

Quick review of Dance -

Finlandia is going to be a BLOODBATH with potentially 3 GP winners going at it - GilPoir, FBCiz and the Shibs.

USFS, Skate Canada & FFSG give ZERO f*cks about FearGib and GuigFab - head-to-head at both GPdF and NHK. And, of course, at GPdF, there's also FBCiz to contend with. And then at NHK, they get the Shibs making their debut.

BraSom came out with 2 on the initial assignments because both JPN & FIN threw their 3rd host spot back in the selection pool.

FradForn are likely to pick up a 2nd - their initial assignment is to SkAm while the FFSG is holding 2 TBD host spots.

USFS & Skate Canada doing their best by their clear #2s - CarPon & LajLag both assigned to SCI and SkAm.

So much to digest about these fields - early handicapping would have CoC as the easiest & a cakewalk for ChoBat. Silver will be a hard-fought battle between SmaDie & LopBri for either team's only medal on the GP this season. SmaDie's 2nd event is the stacked Finlandia (GilPoir, FBCiz, Shibs & TurkVers). LopBri's 2nd event is SkAm where they're not getting past ChoBat, CarPon & LajLag for the podium, IMO.

 

[Karen-W]

Even Ilia doesn't want to go to LP.

But seriously, why wouldn't USFS leave a 3rd spot TBD? Esp with Camden, Max, and Jacob only getting 1 event. Is there some mathematical reason I'm missing?

No, none at all. I really don't understand this decision. Going through the men's assignments next.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Everybody was all up in arms yesterday that Emilia and Vadim were not on the US team, clearly someone needs to be fired on the graphics department as well lol

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

I wanna go on a firing spree today.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Can someone ? me as soon as we find out why Lucrezia and Matteo got squat and why US only picked two men? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that…

And some of you said that Loena wasn’t guaranteed anything, and she got two…

 

[kwanfan1818]

Aymoz also doesn’t leave the continent.

 

[Aaron MB Fan]

Soooo glad I decided to make the trek to Sask for Skate Canada!! A great line-up!! Can't wait.

Now to decide how comfortable I feel about crossing the border and driving to Lake Placid for Skate America.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

WTH?! That's nuts!

These are crazy! Les Kovs aren't even assigned to GPdF!

Just post your grids, and let’s make them official, and we will notify the skaters…

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

How did Corey qualify for a Grand Prix spot?

 

[Debbie S]

I'm really surprised G/F picked France. Being 4th at Worlds, they had 1st pick among the 4-6 group.

At NHK, I could see the French fed engineering a takedown of both F/G and G/F to help clear the way for a spot on the Oly podium for FB/C. Which would also create a challenger to C/B for USA #1. Win-win for them. But depending on how much influence Marie-France has, maybe the Shibs will only take out G/F.

I hate Oly year dance politiks. Last time seemed relatively calm, but that was probably b/c of the pandemic plus lack of contenders outside the top 4.

 

[tony]

Aymoz also doesn’t leave the continent.

Although he does, because he trains on his own in Switzerland/sometimes treks to Grenoble now.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

@SidelineSkater and @Karen-W I told that Amber was not going to do skate America, she prefers to skate outside the country not at home events.

I’m also noticing there’s plenty of skaters doing back to backs.

 

[honey]

Kind of surprised that Alysa is at Cup of China. As world champion doesn’t this imply that she asked for this assignment? Interesting if that’s the case.