Denis Ten Memorial Challenge 2021 - Astana KAZ - October 2-5, 2024

[Desperado]

A few minutes behind, had high hopes for Uliana, then saw her coach.

 

[her grace]

So this is the skater that’s up so high on the subs list that I had no recollection of. Well, weak basics and underrotating her technical content. Not exactly GP standard.

 

[Belsornia]

Iushchenkova has a very matronly dress so I was not expecting The Winner Takes It All (actual ABBA, not Mirai’s sad girl cover).

Solid skate and she looks happy; don’t think I’ve seen her before.

 

[Karen-W]

Rewound the feed to watch Gubanova, Gutmann & Shiryaeva because I chose, unwisely, to watch Shanghai Trophy pairs.

Gubanova - good skate today. It really is a Euros battle between she and Loena at this point. It may be beating a dead horse in the third season now of no Russian tweens competing, but women's skating is so much better off with the likes of fully-grown, mature women ruling the podiums.

Gutmann - I didn't like this program at Lombardia and I still don't like it. 'Nuff said. Although, I do sort of like that hand position practically on the ice during her sit spin.

Shiryaeva - I vaguely remember her from the JGP last season. Hmmmmm.... Well, that was not terrible. I'm going to have to root for her to medal here and achieve a score high enough to put her ahead of everyone else except Elyce & Sarah on the GP Alternates List and then for at least 3 more vacancies so she can get a GP.

 

[Karen-W]

And Samodelkina proves, once again that there really is a "skating while Russian" bonus. Score seems fair for what she did, but we all know she'd have broken 70 with that program if she was still a Russian and not an OAS skater now.

 

[Karen-W]

Women's SP results - https://results.d2024.kz/SEG003.htm

Judges Protocols - https://results.d2024.kz/FSKWSINGLES-----------QUAL000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

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Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +		PCS +	CO	PR	SK	Ded. -	StN.
1​	Anastasiia GUBANOVA	GEO	69.07​	36.81​		32.26​	8.00​	8.20​	8.05​	0.00​	#12​
2​	Uliana SHIRYAEVA	CAN	64.43​	36.30​		28.13​	7.15​	6.85​	7.15​	0.00​	#14​
3​	Sofia SAMODELKINA	KAZ	63.84​	34.18​		29.66​	7.30​	7.45​	7.55​	0.00​	#18​
4​	Lara Naki GUTMANN	ITA	61.21​	31.02​		30.19​	7.65​	7.55​	7.50​	0.00​	#13​
5​	Alexandra FEIGIN	BUL	59.73​	33.19​		26.54​	6.70​	6.50​	6.75​	0.00​	#19​
6​	Starr ANDREWS	USA	59.10​	30.43​		29.67​	7.45​	7.50​	7.35​	1.00​	#1​
7​	Mariia SENIUK	ISR	55.56​	28.77​		26.79​	6.65​	6.55​	6.95​	0.00​	#15​
8​	Yi ZHU	CHN	55.45​	28.84​		26.61​	6.50​	6.50​	7.00​	0.00​	#2​
9​	Anastasia GOZHVA	UKR	53.64​	27.51​		26.13​	6.55​	6.40​	6.70​	0.00​	#10​
10​	Kaiya RUITER	CAN	52.78​	26.65​		27.13​	6.90​	6.70​	6.80​	1.00​	#5​
11​	Anastasia GRACHEVA	MDA	50.33​	27.12​		23.21​	5.75​	5.90​	5.80​	0.00​	#17​
12​	Sofiya FARAFONOVA	KAZ	48.64​	26.17​		22.47​	5.65​	5.55​	5.70​	0.00​	#6​
13​	Eliska BREZINOVA	CZE	47.88​	23.21​		24.67​	6.25​	6.00​	6.30​	0.00​	#3​
14​	Viktoriia IUSHCHENKOVA	ISR	46.51​	23.90​		22.61​	5.60​	5.80​	5.60​	0.00​	#16​
15​	Antonina DUBININA	SRB	45.60​	22.79​		22.81​	5.70​	5.75​	5.70​	0.00​	#7​
16​	Karina ISSAKOVA	KAZ	38.27​	18.79​		21.48​	5.40​	5.20​	5.55​	2.00​	#9​
17​	Kristina TIMOSHENKO	KAZ	34.74​	16.46​		18.28​	4.70​	4.40​	4.65​	0.00​	#8​
18​	Amina ALEXEYEVA	KAZ	29.59​	12.70​		16.89​	4.45​	4.30​	3.95​	0.00​	#11​
19​	Russalina SHAKROVA	KAZ	22.24​	7.94​		15.30​	3.90​	3.85​	3.75​	1.00​	#4​

 

[Belsornia]

Men’s SP underway. Choosing the same music as Torgy really does Egadze no favours.

 

[her grace]

Rewound the feed to watch Gubanova, Gutmann & Shiryaeva because I chose, unwisely, to watch Shanghai Trophy pairs.

Ladies > Pairs

Gubanova - good skate today. It really is a Euros battle between she and Loena at this point. It may be beating a dead horse in the third season now of no Russian tweens competing, but women's skating is so much better off with the likes of fully-grown, mature women ruling the podiums.

We haven’t seen Pinzarrone yet this season, have we? I wouldn’t count her out. And the Swiss women are strong, too.

 

[Frau Muller]

Didn’t see but thanks for notes. Was Eteri there, with Egadze in KnC?

 

[Belsornia]

Was Eteri there, with Egadze in KnC?

Yes, Eteri and Mariam Georgiobani from the Georgian fed.

A huge tech box has just appeared on the screen in time for Litvintsev. Clean skate for him, but this programme isn’t half as fun as last year’s Tiger King.

 

[Belsornia]

Return of Grassl - fall out of 4 loop in combo and nearly ran into boards, 4 lutz (ur?) fall, 3 ax fall, programme a whole lot of nothing, weird shirt with a moon under his left armpit. Welcome back!

 

[Belsornia]

Shaidorov - jumps were great, huge 3ax, makes 4T from a drag look easy. Another Dune programme and gets more into it when jumping is out the way. Very slow in sit spin and struggling to get the rotations.

ETA 95.50 and local fans are screaming.

 

[Karen-W]

Men's SP results - https://results.d2024.kz/SEG001.htm

Pl.	Name	Nation	TSS =	TES +		PCS +	CO	PR	SK	Ded. -	StN.
1​	Mikhail SHAIDOROV	KAZ	95.50​	56.76​		38.74​	7.70​	7.75​	7.75​	0.00​	#11​
2​	Nika EGADZE	GEO	90.06​	52.06​		38.00​	7.65​	7.50​	7.60​	0.00​	#3​
3​	Vladimir LITVINTSEV	AZE	84.03​	47.38​		36.65​	7.20​	7.30​	7.45​	0.00​	#5​
4​	Semen DANILIANTS	ARM	73.70​	41.05​		32.65​	6.55​	6.40​	6.60​	0.00​	#7​
5​	Valtter VIRTANEN	FIN	67.38​	33.14​		34.24​	6.95​	6.70​	6.85​	0.00​	#2​
6​	Daniel GRASSL	ITA	66.79​	32.22​		36.57​	7.60​	6.90​	7.40​	2.00​	#6​
7​	Dias JIRENBAYEV	KAZ	65.69​	31.95​		34.74​	6.95​	6.90​	6.95​	1.00​	#1​
8​	Ze Zeng FANG	MAS	62.85​	32.04​		30.81​	6.15​	6.15​	6.15​	0.00​	#12​
9​	Goku ENDO	USA	62.50​	27.10​		35.40​	7.20​	6.75​	7.25​	0.00​	#4​
10​	Kyrylo MARSAK	UKR	62.33​	31.27​		32.06​	6.35​	6.30​	6.55​	1.00​	#13​
11​	Rakhat BRALIN	KAZ	61.94​	31.05​		30.89​	6.10​	6.20​	6.20​	0.00​	#8​
12​	Daniel MARTYNOV	USA	58.54​	25.55​		33.99​	6.95​	6.60​	6.80​	1.00​	#10​
13​	Aleksa RAKIC	CAN	56.06​	23.16​		33.90​	6.90​	6.45​	6.95​	1.00​	#9​

Judges Protocols - https://results.d2024.kz/FSKMSINGLES-----------QUAL000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

 

[Debrah]

Before calling out Ruiter to change her sp program, or give up on both her and Schizas, this early on in the season, etc., watch this video example (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNz-Ivos5Xg) to understand what she likely expected to do, based on her summer preparation, test skates. She's not the 1st, and will not be the last to have a subpar skate. This being her 1st actual SR competition of the season, with other far more experienced skaters, while feeling the weight of her National title for the first time, etc., yeah it was not the sp she expected, or hoped, to deliver. I'm hoping for a better FS, it will be interesting to see how she will process what happened today, going forward. Skating is always a journey, ice is slippery, and Rome was not built in a day, neither are champion skaters, sometimes you learn best from the bumps along the podium pathway. Happy for Shiryaeva, who was able to seize the opportunity, will she be as able to deliver her free with more attention on her now? We will have to wait and see, at this point in the season, clean programs from anyone are in short supply; I will be thrilled with satisfied smiles from both gals, regardless of final placement.

 

[Wyliefan]

I like Ruiter, and I'm not giving up on her. I just don't think that somber style plays to her strengths. It reminded me of Kurakova trying to skate to "Gangsta's Paradise."

 

[Sylvia]

Day 2 livestream will appear here: https://www.youtube.com/@denistenforever9324/streams

Results page: https://results.d2024.kz/index.htm

Friday's event order:

CS Ice Dance - Rhythm Dance Starting Order
Time schedule (11:00-14:07 local/2:00-5:07 am Eastern time): https://results.d2024.kz/FSKXICEDANCE----------QUAL000100--_StartListwithTimes.pdf
StN. Name Nation
Warm-Up Group 1
1 Lou TERREAUX / Noe PERRON FRA
2 Natalia PALLU-NEVES / Jayin PANESAR BRA
3 Milla Ruud REITAN / Nikolaj MAJOROV SWE
4 Marie DUPAYAGE / Thomas NABAIS FRA
Warm-Up Group 2
5 Maxine WEATHERBY / Oleksandr KOLOSOVSKYI AZE
6 Natalie TASCHLEROVA / Filip TASCHLER CZE
7 Lily HENSEN / Nathan LICKERS CAN
8 Katerina MRAZKOVA / Daniel MRAZEK CZE
Warm-Up Group 3
9 Phebe BEKKER / James HERNANDEZ GBR
10 Victoria MANNI / Carlo ROETHLISBERGER ITA
11 Kristina DOBROSERDOVA / Alessandro PELLEGRINI ARM - senior int'l debut: https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00119196.htm
12 Jennifer JANSE van RENSBURG / Benjamin STEFFAN GER
Warm-Up Group 4
13 Daniela IVANITSKIY / Matthew SPERRY FIN - new/senior int'l debut for both: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00121325.htm
14 Isabella FLORES / Ivan DESYATOV USA
15 Zoe LARSON / Andrii KAPRAN UKR
16 Oona BROWN / Gage BROWN USA
Warm-Up Group 5
17 Hannah LIM / Ye QUAN KOR
18 Diana DAVIS / Gleb SMOLKIN GEO
19 Angelina KUDRYAVTSEVA / Ilia KARANKEVICH CYP
20 Lucy HANCOCK / Ilias FOURATI HUN
21 Alicia FABBRI / Paul AYER CAN

Junior Women FS time schedule (14:30-16:07 local/5:30-7:07 am ET): https://results.d2024.kz/FSKWSINGLES-JUNIOR----FNL-000100--_StartListwithTimes.pdf

CS Women FS time schedule (16:30-19:34 local/7:30-10:34 am ET): https://results.d2024.kz/FSKWSINGLES-----------FNL-000100--_StartListwithTimes.pdf

 

[Karen-W]

So, Terreaux/Perron WD. Pallu-Neves/Panesar - issues on their twizzles for both and that's all I really recall - one disco program to "Hot Stuff" begins to meld with another and we're barely 6 weeks into the season, lol.

 

[Karen-W]

Reitan/Majorov skated to "Proud Mary" and she's in red. Just because it's shiny red pants and a loose, sleeveless top doesn't mean that I'm not having Smart/Diaz flashbacks, lol.

Ohhhhhhh... JvRStef are also listed as WD now. Something to keep an eye on with regard to the GP openings.

 

[Belsornia]

Here for some early morning disco!

Pally Neves / Panesar - Disco (Donna Summer medley). Lots of energy and finger pointing. Overall they seemed more fluid over through the elements but both messed up twizzles in a different way. He seems to be doing better at matching her level of commitment to the programme this year. the choreo Bekker/Hernandez were doing on social media over the summer which made me think they were doing disco too was the start of PN/P’s choreo step.

Ruud - Ballroom Blitz / Proud Mary - She’s looking fab in a red body suit. Seemed fast after the Britzilians. Nicely timed crossrolls to “rolling, rolling”.

Dupayage / Nabais - They have such a distinct style and make the theme fit it. Nice build in intensity through the White Rabbit section. Twizzle issues for Marie.

 

[Belsornia]

Reitan/Majorov skated to "Proud Mary" and she's in red. Just because it's shiny red pants and a loose, sleeveless top doesn't mean that I'm not having Smart/Diaz flashbacks, lol.

The borrowed choreography at the music change didn’t help!

 

[Rukia]

Ohhhhhhh... JvRStef are also listed as WD now. Something to keep an eye on with regard to the GP openings.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1842089676230033456

it's the skam curse

 

[Karen-W]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1842089676230033456

it's the skam curse

Oh no!!!! I have thoughts... Especially with the way the GP Alternate process now works, but that speculation and belongs in the GP thread. Suffice it to say, I'm wondering what the status of Lauriault/LeGac, Tkachenko/Kiliakov and Lajoie/Lagha are and looking down that list and chuckling at the thought of Skate Canada potentially having to issue an invitation to Soucisse/Firus as a replacement, lol.

 

[Marta24]

Sigh. Mrazeks are doing cartwheels in the warm-up. Why?

 

[Karen-W]

So, we've got another KoKo/WangLiu height differential here with Weatherby/Kolosovskyi, but somehow it doesn't bother me as much with this team as it did with the other two. I think it's because he's still standing up straight instead of hunching over to try and shrink himself to more closely match height.

They're not too shabby. Who knew Florida was home to so many Azeri female figure skaters?

 

[Belsornia]

Weatherby/Kolosovskyi - Have I seen him in that pleather jacket when he was with Carhart? Not disco! Quite slow but secure through the elements; a decent debut. Interesting choice to open with the choreo rhythm sequence. Massive height difference so they look a bit awkward in the choreo steps. She was in Montreal for a while but they’re with John Kerr here so I guess IAM didn’t want two Azeri teams.

 

[Karen-W]

The Mrazeks have some manic energy today, especially in the character choreo sequence!

 

[Belsornia]

Taschlers - Already looking much sharper than at Nebelhorn. Massive step up in ice coverage comps with the other teams here. He’s a lot more into this music choice for them than I am.

 

[Karen-W]

Taschlers - Already looking much sharper than at Nebelhorn. Massive step up in ice coverage comps with the other teams here. He’s a lot more into this music choice for them than I am.

And yet their score is 2 points lower! And I agree with you - they were looking much sharper today.

Hensen/Lickers - WTH is this first song? Second song - well, it's far more appropriate for a Sr team to skate to "Brick House" than it was for one of the JGP teams earlier this season. By the way, this open-necked dress shirt has a v almost as deep as Deniss'.

 

[Belsornia]

Hensen/Lickers - oh yay Brick House. He has sparkly chest hair rather than a bowling shirt. He didn’t seem to have his feet quite under him today, which was affecting their unison. I’m admiring her core strength in the rotational lift but also it was ugly.

 

[Belsornia]

And yet their score is 2 points lower! And I agree with you - they were looking much sharper today.

Yeah, it’s early days so far but my early prediction is that this event won’t have such a deep field next year.