Denis Ten Memorial 2025 (October 1-4), Almaty KAZ

[Karen-W]

Announcement (ISU):

https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.azurefd.net/isudamcontainer/CMS/Fansite/Figure-Skating/2025-2026/Events/Challenger-Series/Documents/Announcements/CSKAZ2025-26-Announcement-250729-1753862373-0492.pdf

Event Organizer website:

DENIS TEN MEMORIAL CHALLENGE

DENIS TEN MEMORIAL CHALLENGE 2025 - ALMATY - HALYK ARENA

denistenmemorial.kz

Note 1: In conjunction with CS Denis Ten Memorial for senior skaters, there will also be Denis Ten Memorial for junior singles skaters.

CS Denis Ten Memorial/Denis Ten Memorial
Place: Almaty, KAZ
Dates: October 1-4, 2028

Colored Time Schedule:

2025 CSKAZ Coloured Schedule.pdf

drive.google.com

Almaty time zone - GMT+5 (9 hours ahead of EDT)

Oct 2, 1:00pm-4:00pm - Jr Women's SP
Oct 2, 4:15pm-5:45pm - Sr Women's SP
Oct 2, 6:30pm-9:10pm - Sr Men's SP

Oct 3, 12:20pm-1:05pm - Jr Men's SP
Oct 3, 1:30pm-4:40pm - Jr Women's FS
Oct 3, 5pm-6:20pm - Sr Dance RD
Oct 3, 6:40pm-8:30pm - Sr Women's FS

Oct 4, 10am-10:50am - Jr Men's FS
Oct 4, 11:05am-12:35pm - Sr Dance FD
Oct 4, 12:50pm-3:50pm - Sr Men's FS

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@denistenforever9324/streams

Entries for CS Denis Ten Memorial:
Men -
1 Semen DANILIANTS ARM
2 Vladimir LITVINTSEV AZE
3 John KIM CAN
4 Matthew NEWNHAM CAN
5 Yudong CHEN CHN
6 Qihan ZHAO CHN
7 Nika EGADZE GEO
8 Raffaele Francesco ZICH ITA
9 Dias JIRENBAYEZ KAZ
10 Nikita KRIVOSHEYEV KAZ
11 Oleg MELNIKOV KAZ
12 Mikhail SHAIDOROV KAZ
13 Junhwan CHA KOR
14 Younghyun CHA KOR
15 Sihyeong LEE KOR
16 Andreas NORDEBACK SWE
17 Jason BROWN USA
18 Taira SHINOHARA USA

Women -
1 Madeline SCHIZAS CAN
2 Yi ZHU CHN
3 Olesja LEONOVA EST
4 Sofiya FARAFONOVA KAZ
5 Amira IRMATOVA KAZ
6 Veronika KOVALENKO KAZ
7 Nuriya SULEIMEN KAZ
8 Russalina SHAKROVA KAZ
9 Haein LEE KOR
10 Ahsun YUN KOR
11 Josephine LEE USA

Dance -
1 Kristina DOBROSERDOVA / Alessandro PELLEGRINI ARM
2 Alicia FABBRI / Paul AYER CAN
3 Philomene SABOURIN / Raul BERMEJO ESP
4 Sofia VAL / Asaf KAZIMOV ESP
5 Diana DAVIS / Gleb SMOLKIN GEO
6 Charise MATTHAEI / Max LIEBERS GER
7 Gaukhar NAURYZOVA / Boyisangur DATIEV KAZ
8 Milla Ruud REITAN / Nikolaj MAJOROV SWE
9 Oona BROWN / Gage BROWN USA
10 Leah NESET / Artem MARKELOV USA

Jr Men -
1 Jakhongir ABYLKASSYMOV KAZ
2 Timur ADYLKHANOV KAZ
3 Kenan BERDIBAYEV KAZ
4 Nikita KOZLOV KAZ
5 Semyon REZNIK KAZ
6 Artur SMAGULOV KAZ

Jr Women -
1 Sienna KACZMARCZYK AUS
2 Arina KALUGINA AZE
3 Valentina ANDRIANOVA GER
4 Sabina BOTINA KAZ
5 Anna SANNIKOVA KAZ
6 Zere SARBALINA KAZ
7 Amina SHALIMBEKOVA KAZ
8 Karina SHEINA KAZ
9 Milana VORONTOSOVA KAZ
10 Valeriya ZORKINA KAZ
11 Geonhee KIM KOR
12 Minsong KIM KOR
13 Jiyoon LEE KOR
14 Zhasmin SHLAGA KGZ
15 Uliana TORBENKOVA KGZ
16 Veronika LUCKO LTU
17 Jasmine COETZEE RSA
18 Varvara KOROTKOVA UZB
19 Arina NESKOROMNIKH UZB
20 Latifakhon SHOISAEVA UZB

 

[victorskid]

Jason Brown has arrived in Almaty according to his series of travel posts on X.

Almaty is 9 hours ahead of EDT, by the way.

 

[Karen-W]

Results link is finally available -

https://turnir.rline.kz/2025/cskaz2025/index.htm

 

[victorskid]

Results link is finally available -

https://turnir.rline.kz/2025/cskaz2025/index.htm

I get various security warnings when trying to go to that page!

 

[Karen-W]

I get various security warnings when trying to go to that page!

Same. I had to tell my Chrome browser to let me go there. I'm hoping they upload the start orders, etc, to their Google Drive and I can copy/paste those from there.

ETA - starting orders are already available in their Google Drive, so I'll transcribe the Sr events starting orders!

 

[Karen-W]

Sr Dance RD Starting Order/Detailed Time Schedule - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s34vN8p6n1ooqC_i0yOK3rn_AZiWq5Xv/view

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Oona BROWN / Gage BROWN USA
2 Leah NESET / Artem MARKELOV USA
3 Gauhkhar NAURYZOVA / Boyisangur DATIEV KAZ
4 Alicia FABBRI / Paul AYER CAN
5 Charise MATTHAEI / Max LIEBERS GER

Warm-up Group 2
6 Kristina DOBROSERDOVA / Alessandro PELLEGRINI ARM
7 Milla Ruud REITAN / Nikolaj MAJOROV SWE
8 Philomene SABOURIN / Raul BERMEJO ESP
9 Sofia VAL / Asaf KAZIMOV ESP
10 Diana DAVIS / Gleb SMOLKIN GEO

Sr Women SP Starting Order/Detailed Time Schedule - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LkNuPcJ3jThbDSlnlMskNdfxVe_2IV7e/view

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Sofiya FARAFONOVA KAZ
2 Amira IRMATOVA KAZ
3 Nuriya SULEIMEN KAZ
4 Ahsun YUN KOR
5 Yi Zhu CHN

Warm-Up Group 2
6 Russalina SHAKROVA KAZ
7 Veronika KOVALENKO KAZ
8 Madeline SCHIZAS CAN
9 Josephine LEE USA
10 Olesja LEONOVA EST
11 Haein LEE KOR

Sr Men SP Starting Order/Detailed Time Schedule - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G4udNSCRe13XJGl2EYc3Cd2HiJKK4BXd/view

Warm-Up Group 1
1 Junhwan CHA KOR
2 Yudong CHEN CHN
3 Andreas NORDEBACK SWE
4 Nikita KRIVOSHEYEV KAZ
5 Dias JIRENBAYEV KAZ
6 Raffaele Francesco ZICH ITA

Warm-Up Group 2
7 Sihyeong LEE KOR
8 Mikhail SHAIDOROV KAZ
9 Qihan ZHAO CHN
10 Oleg MELNIKOV KAZ
11 Taira SHINOHARA USA
12 John KIM CAN

Warm-Up Group 3
13 Matthew NEWNHAM CAN
14 Semen DANILIANTS ARM
15 Younghyun CHA KOR
16 Vladimir LITVINTSEV AZE
17 Jason BROWN USA
18 Nika EGADZE GEO

 

[victorskid]

Same. I had to tell my Chrome browser to let me go there. I'm hoping they upload the start orders, etc, to their Google Drive and I can copy/paste those from there.

ETA - starting orders are already available in their Google Drive, so I'll transcribe the Sr events starting orders!

My warning wasn't from my Firefox browser it was from my Bitdefender antivirus and included warnings about multiple unsafe URLs. I opted not to override it (yet).

 

[Karen-W]

My warning wasn't from my Firefox browser it was from my Bitdefender antivirus and included warnings about multiple unsafe URLs. I opted not to override it (yet).

Yeah, I commented on an X from the FS competition times acct, asking if they were getting the same warning and they said yes, buy that this was common. I don't find it common at all, so I'm likely to proceed with extreme caution.

 

[SkateFanBerlin]

Anyone with women`s results?

 

[HaNguyen]

I think Madeline took herself out of the running. She fell on a jump.

 

[honey]

I think Madeline took herself out of the running. She fell on a jump.

And doubled the lutz.

She is still in first place right now in this competition though.

But that was a mess to say the least.

 

[honey]

Just catching bits and pieces before meetings today.

Schizas was 55, Josephine Lee 54 into second.

I missed most of Lee, only saw a 3F+3T that looked questionable on both jumps.

 

[HaNguyen]

Wow! I love Haein’s costume.

 

[honey]

Was not ready for how bad this female vocal of My Way is for Haein Lee.

3Z+3T, lutz looked questionable, 3T maybe even <<.

3F was better.

 

[honey]

64 with those jumps is very generous for Haein, but clearly the best of the day.

 

[victorskid]

From Absolute Skating on X

 

[her grace]

Really weak field. Too bad Samodelkina couldn't skate here.

 

[Desperado]

The YouTube link was withdrawn after I watched the first two women. Good to know I didn't miss much.

 

[Lana K]

Heh, the feed has already been taken down twice for violating YouTube's streaming guidelines, so hopefully it doesn't happen again during Men's SP...

 

[Ross H]

Wow, today was not Jun's day. Even his step sequence and final spin (normally both brilliant) received an inital level 3 call.

Jumps: 2S*, 2T*, 3A (shaky)

 

[TanithandBenFan]

Beautiful program from Taira! That 3A was excellent!

 

[Karen-W]

I rewound and watched Shaidorov's SP - decent 4z+3t, hand down on the 3a, gorgeous 4t, one of his spins was fairly slow, step sequence wasn't as sharp as it could & likely will be later in the season. All in all, not a bad program at all.

 

[Karen-W]

Imperfect combo from Jason - sketchy landing on the 3z and had to put a hand down on the 3t; the 3a looked to be at least a q short. The rest of the program was great - the revisited Riverdance step sequence is even better than the original, IMO and the spins were top-notch. Can't wait for fans to pick apart his score much like they did Keegan's NQS score yesterday, lol.

 

[HaNguyen]

I just had a thought. Is the reason why Riverdance is so popular this year is because Jason is doing it?

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Good Lord, how many times are we going to hear this real around the sun even though I know he did it 11 years ago. I don’t like the costume in all black.

The jumps don’t really seem to be there. But a good score for that.

86.61.

OK apparently neither of Jason’s costumes are ready.

 

[Karen-W]

I just had a thought. Is the reason why Riverdance is so popular this year is because Jason is doing it?

No, it's because last year/this year is the 30th anniversary of the show.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

Imperfect combo from Jason - sketchy landing on the 3z and had to put a hand down on the 3t; the 3a looked to be at least a q short. The rest of the program was great - the revisited Riverdance step sequence is even better than the original, IMO and the spins were top-notch. Can't wait for fans to pick apart his score much like they did Keegan's NQS score yesterday, lol.

The difference is Jason deserves the high PCS.

 

[Karen-W]

The difference is Jason deserves the high PCS.

We don't even have video of Keegan's program. He was no slouch in the PCS department when he last competed - and deservedly so.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

We don't even have video of Keegan's program. He was no slouch in the PCS department when he last competed - and deservedly so.

I always thought he was overscored in that department.

 

[Karen-W]

I always thought he was overscored in that department.

I mean, we're talking about a USFS NQS event where there's always a degree of score inflation, especially for skaters of a certain level/reputation. Would Keegan get 43+ at an int'l competition with the jump content he put out yesterday? Probably not, but it wouldn't surprise me if he still got 40-41 and his total score was 80-ish.