2026/2027 ISU Challenger Series events

Also, Nepela Memorial is currently scheduled to hold a non-CS pairs competition. Their website lists the following entries:

Zarah Wood/Flavien Giniaux GBR
Olivia Flores/Mark Sadusky USA
Sarah Nunez/Blake Eisenach USA
 
https://ice-stars.tv/lombardia-trophy

ISU CS Lombardia Trophy 2026 | EARLY BIRD PASS
21.99 EUR
Enjoy discounted all access to all days of the ISU CS Lombardia Trophy 2026 live and whenever you want.
This pass gives you access to all streams and replays for a discounted price. This offer will end on September 14, 2026.
* Valid through 31 December 2026
 
Sylvia said:
https://ice-stars.tv/lombardia-trophy

ISU CS Lombardia Trophy 2026 | EARLY BIRD PASS
21.99 EUR
Enjoy discounted all access to all days of the ISU CS Lombardia Trophy 2026 live and whenever you want.
This pass gives you access to all streams and replays for a discounted price. This offer will end on September 14, 2026.
* Valid through 31 December 2026
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Hopefully this year's stream quality improves. Last year it was terrible.
 
Skate Canada updated their assignments:

Challenger Series Trialeti Trophy​

October 1-4, 2026
Batumi, Georgia

Women:

Breken Brezden
Uliana Shiryaeva

Ice Dance:

Alyssa Robinson & Jacob Portz
Nadiia Bashynska & Noé Perron
 
I got a prompt response from the Nepela Memorial organizing committee after I asked about this:
www.instagram.com

Okko Спорт | Футбол, MMA, баскетбол on Instagram: "⚡️ Okko эксклюзивно покажет Мемориал Ондрея Непелы! В «челленджере» примут участие российские фигуристы. В мужском одиночном катании заявлены Евгений Семененко, Глеб Лутфуллин и Григорий Федоров. В

475 likes, 5 comments - okko.sport on September 15, 2026: "⚡️ Okko эксклюзивно покажет Мемориал Ондрея Непелы! В «челленджере» примут участие российские фигуристы. В мужском одиночном катании заявлены Евгений Семененко, Глеб Лутфуллин и Григорий Федоров. В танцах на льду Россию представят Ирина...
www.instagram.com www.instagram.com

"Okko Sport holds exclusive broadcasting rights only for the territories of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

For viewers outside these territories, the competition will be available via livestream on Ice-Stars.tv, as in previous years. The link to purchase the livestream pass will be available on the official Nepela.sk website shortly."

Found the link: https://ice-stars.tv/nepela-memorial (early bird pass info to come?)

Looks like CS Trialeti Trophy will also be on Ice-Stars.tv again as well: https://ice-stars.tv/figure-skating
 
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Trialeti entries are finally out!

ISU CS Trialeti Trophy

isu-skating.com isu-skating.com

Men -
No Name Nation
1 Vasil BARAKHOUSKI AIN1
2 Alex LABOVICH AIN1
Pavel GAVDIS S AIN1
Heorhi KAZLOUSKI S AIN1
3 Andrei MOZALEV AIN2
4 Nikolai UGOZHAEV AIN2
Matvei VETLUGIN S AIN2
5 Mihhail SELEVKO EST
6 Valtter VIRTANEN FIN
7 Nika EGADZE GEO
8 Raffaele Francesco ZICH ITA
9 Nikita KRIVOSHEYEV KAZ
10 Oleg MELNIKOV KAZ
11 Kyrylo MARSAK UKR
12 Lucius KAZANECKI USA

Women -
No Name Nation
1 Viktoriia SAFONOVA AIN1
2 Anna FROLOVA AIN2
3 Adeliia PETROSIAN AIN2
Dina KHUSNUTDINOVA S AIN2
4 Mariia ARUTIUNIAN ARM
5 Breken BREZDEN CAN
6 Uliana SHIRYAEVA CAN
7 Niina PETROKINA EST
8 Anastasiia GUBANOVA GEO
9 Inga GURGENIDZE GEO
10 Mariia DMITRIEVA ISR
11 Evelina STAVICKYTE LTU
12 Salma AGAMOVA TUR
13 Chloe LEVINE USA
14 Erica MACHIDA USA

Pairs -
No Name Nation
1 Ekaterina CHIKMAREVA / Matvei IANCHENKOV AIN2
2 Anastasia MISHINA / Aleksandr GALLIAMOV AIN2
3 Anastasia MUKHORTOVA / Dmitry EVGENYEV AIN2
Taisiia SHCHERBININA / Artem PETROV S AIN2
4 Anastasiia METELKINA / Luka BERULAVA GEO
5 Sofiia HOLICHENKO / Artem DARENSKYI UKR
6 Chelsea LIU / Ryan BEDARD USA
7 Katie MCBEATH / Balazs NAGY USA

Ice Dance -
No Name Nation
1 Ekaterina ANDREEVA / Dzmitryi BLINOU AIN1
2 Viktoryia PLASKONNAYA / Uladzislau SYTSIK AIN1
3 Elizaveta PASECHNIK / Dario CIRISANO AIN2
4 Elizaveta SHICHINA / Pavel DROZD AIN2
5 Varvara ZHDANOVA / Timur BABAEV-SMIRNOV AIN2
Ekaterina RYBAKOVA / Ivan MAKHNONOSOV S AIN2
6 Samantha RITTER / Daniel BRYKALOV AZE
7 Maxine WEATHERBY / Oleksandr KOLOSOVSKYI AZE
8 Natalia PALLU-NEVES / Jayin PANESAR BRA
9 Nadiia BASHYNSKA / Noé PERRON CAN
10 Alyssa ROBINSON / Jacob PORTZ CAN
11 Zixi XIAO / Linghao HE CHN
12 Celina FRADJI / Jean-Hans FOURNEAUX FRA
13 Natacha LAGOUGE / Arnaud CAFFA FRA
14 Alisa OVSIANKINA / Maximilien RAHIER FRA
15 Diana DAVIS / Gleb SMOLKIN GEO
16 Mariia IGNATEVA / Danijil Leonyidovics SZEMKO HUN
17 Lara LUFT / Ilias FOURATI HUN
18 Denisa CIMLOVA / Stefano FRASCA ITA
19 Arianna SASSI / Luca MORINI SUI
20 Zoe LARSON / Andrii KAPRAN UKR
 
Are there any rules for a competition to be considered a challenger or something of the sort? In particular - pairs there are only 4 countries participating and if for some reason, say, URK withdraws (GEO can't because it's Georgia, AIN and USA have more than one pair, so that's the only reason am taking UKR as an exmaple) would a competition where only 3 countries participate still be considered a challenger? I do remember there is something of the sort but absolutely don't remember to which competitions does it apply and whether it's an ISU rule or a RusFed rule for their internal rankings.
 
From ISU Communication No. 2812:

2.5. Minimum requirements for competitions under paragraph 3.4 to be eligible for [ISU World Standings ranking] points:
2.5.1. Number of competitors
At least the following minimum number of competitors must finish the first segment of the respective competition:
• Men / Women: minimum of eight skaters out of four ISU Members.
• Pair Skating: minimum of five couples out of three ISU Members.
• Ice Dance: minimum of six couples out of four ISU Members.

ISU WS ranking points for the top 8 singles finishers at a Challenger Series event (higher than before):
350
310
275
240
210
185
165
150

For Pairs WS points are awarded to the top 5 and Ice Dance top 6 finishers.
 
The ISU decides which events are Chellenger Series events. I still haven’t seen the 2026-27 Announcement document listed on the ISU site, but, based on the 2025-26 Announcement document, the rules were:

1. Three/four disciplines have to be included.

2. For the discipline to be considered a CS event for cash (counts for CS standings) and prizes (winner gets to be put on the Alternates list if they don’t have two GP Assignment, plus higher World Standings points), the required judging, referee, and tech panels have to have the minimum numbers, geographic distribution, and credentials and

In addition, the minimum number of entries per discipline are as follows:

• Men / Women: minimum of eight entries each, from at least four ISU Members;

• Pair Skating: minimum of five entries from at least three ISU Members;

• Ice Dance: minimum of six entries from at least four ISU Members.
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ETA: based on the Communication document Sylvia linked above, nothing has changed for minimum competitors to qualify the discipline. It does say that four events are considered “core,” and the rest have to applied for.
 
ISU CS Denis Ten Memorial in Almaty, Oct. 7-10, 2026 - entries as of Sept. 18: https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-s.../isu-cs-denis-ten-memorial/?tab=entries_16369

MEN
1 Vasil BARAKHOUSKI AIN1
2 Heorhi KAZLOUSKI AIN1
3 Alex LABOVICH AIN1
4 Vladislav DIKIDZHI AIN2
5 Petr GUMENNIK AIN2
6 Gleb LUTFULLIN AIN2
7 Douglas GERBER AUS
8 Yudong CHEN CHN
9 Dias JIRENBAYEV KAZ
10 Yu-Hsiang LI TPE
11 Daniel MARTYNOV USA

WOMEN
1 Viktoriia SAFONOVA AIN1
2 Alina GORBACHEVA AIN2
3 Alexandra IGNATOVA AIN2
4 Mariia ZAKHAROVA AIN2
Dina KHUSNUTDINOVA S AIN2
5 Sienna KACZMARCZYK AUS
6 Veronika ZHILINA AZE
7 Ruiyang ZHANG CHN
8 Yi ZHU CHN
9 Marketa SUKUPOVA CZE
10 Valentina ANDRIANOVA GER
11 Michelle Edgina AXILLE INA
12 Amina ALEXEYEVA KAZ
13 Amira IRMATOVA KAZ
14 Alika KHALIMOVA KAZ
15 Sofia SAMODELKINA KAZ
16 Zere SARBALINA KAZ
17 Nuriya SULEIMEN KAZ
18 Zhasmin SHLAGA KGZ
19 Daria SNEGOVSKAIA KGZ
20 Yujae KIM KOR
21 Phattaratida KANESHIGE THA

ICE DANCE
1 Ekaterina ANDREEVA / Dzmitryi BLINOU AIN1
2 Viktoryia PLASKONNAYA / Uladzislau SYTSIK AIN1
3 Vasilisa KAGANOVSKAIA / Maxim NEKRASOV AIN2
4 Irina KHAVRONINA / Devid NARYZHNYY AIN2
5 Anna M. SHCHERBAKOVA / Egor GONCHAROV AIN2
Milana KUZMINA / Dmitrii STUDENIKIN S AIN2
Ekaterina MIRONOVA / Evgenii USTENKO S AIN2
Ekaterina RYBAKOVA / Ivan MAKHNONOSOV S AIN2
6 Olivia Josephine SHILLING / Leo BAETEN BEL
7 Junfei REN / Jianing XING CHN
8 Juulia TURKKILA / Matthias VERSLUIS FIN
9 Gaukhar NAURYZOVA / Boyisangur DATIEV KAZ
10 Isabella FLORES / Linus Colmor JEPSEN USA
11 Caroline GREEN / Michael PARSONS USA
12 Elliana PEAL / Ethan PEAL USA

Hopefully there will be a free livestream on YT again, like in past years. ETA: Junior entries in the same 3 disciplines are not listed (yet).
 
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Shaidorov has the first GP in France, October 23-25, 2026 - he's Olympic champion and is entitled to start his season whenever he wants. :)
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He's starting it at Nepela a couple weeks earlier. If DTM was before Trialeti like it was last year, then I suppose he would have chosen DTM but the timing really doesn't work out that well this season.
 
Re-posting here from the German news thread:

Hocke/Kunkel are not ready to compete at Nebelhorn due to Annika's foot injury sustained earlier this summer:
www.instagram.com

Deutsche Eislauf-Union | DEU on Instagram: "Annika Hocke & Robert Kunkel müssen ihren Saisonstart schweren Herzens verschieben ⛸️ Nach der Fußverletzung von Annika Hocke konnten die Olympia-Zehnten den Trainingsrückstand nicht wie erhofft aufholen

595 likes, 13 comments - deutsche_eislauf_union on September 18, 2026: "Annika Hocke & Robert Kunkel müssen ihren Saisonstart schweren Herzens verschieben ⛸️ Nach der Fußverletzung von Annika Hocke konnten die Olympia-Zehnten den Trainingsrückstand nicht wie erhofft aufholen und werden bei der...
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ETA that their names have yet to be removed from the ISU entries: https://isu-skating.com/en/figure-s...orn-trophy-2026/?tab=entries_16345&type=15781
 
34th Nepela Memorial competition thread in K&C: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...morial-2026-sept-25-27-bratislava-svk.114138/

Paid Livestream: https://slovakskating.tv/nepela-memorial (Early Bird All Access pass purchase expired deadline is on Sept. 22 - ETA - info corrected to: Early Bird All Access Pass is 19.99 EUR
"Enjoy all days of the Nepela Memorial live and in replay, wherever and whenever you want.
The early bird offer is only valid until 2026-09-22 at 23:59, after that the price is 24.99€.
NOTE: the livestreams are NOT available in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.")

Men - no changes since original entries were published
Women - Michaela MALKOVA CZE added (replaced Barbora VRANKOVA)
Ice Dance (19 to 18) - no longer listed: Shira ICHILOV / Mikhail NOSOVITSKIY ISR
Pairs Senior B (3 to 2) - no longer listed: Sarah NUNEZ / Blake EISENACH USA

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Nebelhorn Trophy competition thread in K&C: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/2026-cs-nebelhorn-trophy-sept-24-26-oberstdorf-ger.114137/

German federation's team & general preview article with streaming info (Sept. 18): https://eislauf-union.de/de/media1/pressemitteilungen/1373-heim-vorteil-für-genrikh-gartung-bei-nebelhorn-trophy-debüt

Men (15 to 14) - Mikayel SALAZARYAN ARM is no longer listed
Women - no changes excerpt Ireland's Sophia Tkacheva is now Sophia TRACEY
Pairs (14 to 11) - no longer listed:
Louise EHRHARD / Matthis PELLEGRIS FRA - recently announced their split: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdRyeDXtev4/
Annika HOCKE / Robert KUNKEL GER - "have had to postpone their season opener following Annika's foot injury" according to the GER preview article linked above
Maria PAVLOVA / Alexei SVIATCHENKO HUN
Ice Dance (still 13) - however, Pirouette Magazine's German newsletter reported that Fear/Gibson's participation is uncertain: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...ltz-tango-foxtrot.113856/page-18#post-6953999
 
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Trialeti tickets are 50% till 24/9. If someone in Europe (it's a far flight from outside Europe, of course) considers going - do. Batumi is easy to navigate, the sea may still be warm enough to swim and ... cheap
 
Skate Canada posted their Budapest Trophy Assignments:

Budapest Trophy​

October 15-18, 2026
Budapest, Hungary
Men:

Wesley Chiu
John Kim

Women:

Madeline Schizas
Sara-Maude Dupuis

Ice Dance:

Chloe Nguyen & Brenden Giang
Jamie Fournier & Everest Zhu

Interesting as I thought Schizas wasn't planning to skate until the grand prix.
 
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