Sylvia
TBD
- Messages
- 79,978
Since the ISU Congress is scheduled for June 5-10, 2016, my guess is that the GP selection meeting most likely will take place either right before or after the Congress.
Last edited:
Thank you, kwanfan, for all your hard work!
So if Virtue & Moir are only planning to do one GP, does that mean Skate Canada? I would assume no, except then why not do two GPs? Is Canada really going to start off the season by pitting Weaver & Poje against Virtue & Moir? Doing so with Patrick & Nam this season made sense, as Nam really wasn't established yet; but in dance . . . political conundrum. And since W&P are not top three, that would mean someone else--Chock & Bates?--from the current top three is going to be there.
So Monko & Khaliavin really did go from eighth place in the World to dropping clear off the GP lists. Another moral of the story; send your dance teams out early on the Challenger Series. You never know when a mid-season injury or virus could take you clear out of the picture. (Paul & Islam are off the lists as well. And Yanovskaya & Mosgov).
I know my math with dates is poor; but Lauriault & Le Gac are no longer junior eligible this coming season, are they? She was born in '96.
@Dobre is correct. She is 19 and he will turn 21 next month, also aging out: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00015087.htm...Lauriault & Le Gac are no longer junior eligible this coming season, are they?
As reported in the "From Russia with Love" news thread, Betina Popova, 19, has split from Yuri Vlasenko and teamed with Sergey Mozgov, 21 (6th in both his GPs with Anna Yanovskaya last year).Dance:
...
Top 24 SB, guaranteed one, weren't also Top 10 at Worlds:
- Lauriault/Le Gac, SB 21 --
junior-eligible- Popova/Vlasenko, SB 23 -- he turned 21 in 2015.
^^^ Nope. Tweeted by David Molina on May 4: https://twitter.com/_David_Molina/status/727810946194931713
"The ISU Sr Grand Prix assignments of #figureskating 2016/17 will be decided at GP selection meeting on June 29th & 30th in NYC"
Really??? Thats late..... Last year wasnt it the first week of June.. HOW DO I COPE UNTIL THEN????? lol...
Euros are in CZE? I wonder if Brezina can kick it into gear next year and medal there.... Is the junior pairs team going to move up to seniors?
ISU World Standings are updated (4/30/16) for the 2016-17 season:The WS are based on projected calculation at season end, where points from 2013-14 will be dropped and points from 2014-15 will be factored by 70%.
HOW DO I COPE UNTIL THEN????? lol...
I also think it's weird they don't count both 4CC/Euros and Worlds. Just one or the other.
Will someone please tell me why OGANESIAN / BARDEI are still on the ICE DANCE World Standings with their points from PAIRS?
They were on there all last season, but I thought they would be scrubbed with the updates.
I also think it's weird they don't count both 4CC/Euros and Worlds. Just one or the other.
The ISU rankings are really, really basic. Tennis and golf have much thorough ranking systems, although those sports have a much larger competition calendar to draw upon.
At the minimum, it wouldn't be hard to come up with a strength of field factor for each competition, some senior B fields are stacked and almost GP calibre and some are extremely weak, yet they all are worth the same world ranking points.
And to your point, with a limited competition calendar, it makes it even more preposterous that 4CC, Euros, or Worlds results are ignored for a majority of skaters.
Am I still on topic?
They figure almost everyone they want will attend the three pre-Olympic Worlds and Euros, but the GP is what they try to encourage with up to three points slots/season and six over two seasons counting. All of the markwting-speak about the best-of-the-best...Especially considering they count 2 GPs. It underscored how important it is to get GP assignments for your ranking.
It is likely they didn't waste time and resources programming for the very fringe case that a team would switch intact from one discipline to the other.Will someone please tell me why OGANESIAN / BARDEI are still on the ICE DANCE World Standings with their points from PAIRS?
They were on there all last season, but I thought they would be scrubbed with the updates.
The ISU rankings are really, really basic. Tennis and golf have much thorough ranking systems, although those sports have a much larger competition calendar to draw upon.
Am I still on topic?
Data entry errors happen sometimes. They were removed from the ice dance standings on 5/14/16.Will someone please tell me why OGANESIAN / BARDEI are still on the ICE DANCE World Standings with their points from PAIRS?
Will the two new Chinese teams get two automatic grand prix this year?
Konstantin Menshov has retired, and his guaranteed one from Top 24 WS goes back into the Men's pool.
http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/index.php?threads/konstantin-menshov-retired.98703/
Cross-referencing from Skate America thread...
USFSA.ORG has updates its site to reflect TEAMS A B C D and reserve for the 16-17 season (even tho it still says 15-16)
http://usfsa.org/story?id=84023
Also the ad for Skate America features all USA Nats medalists (not Ash). So I am assuming they will be going to bat for Gracie, Adam, K&O and the Shibs for its spots.