GP 2016-17 Pre-Announcement Thread

[Dobre]

TEN spots in dance!

 

[Tammi]

duplicate

 

[Jammers]

Wow Gracie and Ashley both at SA? Looks like the USFSA realizes that competition is good and will push them even more.

 

[oleada]

Sakhanovich getting a spot at SA, nice Higuchi moving up too Leonova with only 1 spot, her era is ending...

 

[Dobre]

And Nathan has two non-host spots. Please be healthy. (Late events. That may help).

 

[VGThuy]

Woohoo! Can't wait to see the full rosters.

 

[Ka3sha]

Leonova with only 1 spot, her era is ending...

She has TEB and NHK

 

[oleada]

She has TEB and NHK

Good it's hard to read In all the excitement!

Where are pairs and dance?

 

[burntBREAD]

THE COMPLETE LISTS

BOTH GOLD AND WAGNER AT SKATE AMERICA!!!!!, Nagasu has 2 phewww

http://static.isu.org/media/345774/gp_men.pdf

http://static.isu.org/media/345771/gp_ladies.pdf

Mirai was guaranteed two -- she finished top 12 at Worlds.

Rostelecom is definitely the weakest of the ladies' fields and it's pretty decent -- the rest are absolute bloodbaths.

 

[Marta24]

Ice Dance is out too http://www.isu.org/en/single-and-pair-skating-and-ice-dance/series/isu-grand-prix-of-figure-skating

Elena and Ruslan with Skate America and TEB!

 

[julieann]

NM

 

[Aerobicidal]

Kuchvalska at Skate America! YES!!!!!!!!!

 

[sandra_persch]

waiting for pairs .... I so want more than just S/M for Germany on it!

 

[Catherine M]

Here are the seven Pair teams at Skate Canada, till the grid comes out (from Skate Canada press release):
PAIR

Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford (CAN)

Lubov Ilyushechkina / Dylan Moscovtich (CAN)

TBD (CAN)

Xiaoyu Yu / Hao Zhang (CHN)

Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise (ITA)

Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat (RUS)

Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov (RUS)

Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier (USA)

 

[mgobluegirl]

Apparently McNamara/Carpenter really are staying junior.

 

[Jammers]

Apparently McNamara/Carpenter really are staying junior.

M/C really should be embarrassed that a vastly inferior US Junior team like Elliana POGREBINSKY / Alex BENOIT at least had the guts to go to the next level and challenge themselves on the GP against the Senior teams. M/C will gain nothing by domination another season on the JGP. And how many years will it be them skating as Juniors at Nationals again? A decade?

 

[Dobre]

Elena and Ruslan with Skate America

And Bobrova & Soloviev.

And Hubbell & Donahue & the Shibs. Wow!

 

[cris]

http://static.isu.org/media/1003/gp_pairs.pdf

 

[cocotaffy]

I don't see McNamara/Carpenter, so it sets then, they're not moving up. Don't get it, they have nothing to win staying in Junior.

 

[Debbie S]

There is the possibility that McNamara/Carpenter will still compete in Senior nationally (singles and pairs do it) but of course they would need a different SD, which would likely mean no, but with both pattern dances being a blues theme, it might be more feasible to do that this year than in other years.

 

[maatTheViking]

Oh to go to Canada or not... Lot more expensive than Chicago, but...

 

[Ka3sha]

Ice Dance at SA, SC, CoR and NHK

 

[cheerknithanson]

Honestly, well, I don't why they're staying in juniors again. I get that the US field is super deep in ice dance. But some risks are worth taking. And they need to take that risk to get to where they want to be eventually in a few years. Like Evgenia took a bit of a risk of going to seniors full-out right after winning the JWC title and look what happened. I'm pretty sure when the GP assignments came out last year, NO ONE expected Evgenia to win everything except COR. And look what happened: She had shown she's s force to be reckoned with (Even though some question her lutz). Sure ice dance is different from ladies, but the same principle.

 

[DobrinFan]

No A LOT of skaters so far

And now its confirmed

 

[cocotaffy]

Ice Dance at SA, SC, CoR and NHK

What a great time to be an ice dance fan With this much drama, I'll get to my 1000th post in no time

 

[jtpc]

delete

 

[rfisher]

Kuchvalska at Skate America! YES!!!!!!!!!

Well damn. Now, I do wish I were going after all just to fangirl her coach. I count on you to do this for me.

 

[SamuraiK]

Wow Gracie and Ashley both at SA? Looks like the USFSA realizes that competition is good and will push them even more.

That or they just want to sell as much tickets as possible. GPF qualification for the skaters has never been a big worry for them.

 

[SamuraiK]

M/C really should be embarrassed that a vastly inferior US Junior team like Elliana POGREBINSKY / Alex BENOIT at least had the guts to go to the next level and challenge themselves on the GP against the Senior teams. M/C will gain nothing by domination another season on the JGP. And how many years will it be them skating as Juniors at Nationals again? A decade?

I agree . Bad move. It didnt work for Monko/Khaliavin in 2011. It wont work for them now.

 

[mgobluegirl]

That or they just want to sell as much tickets as possible. GPF qualification for the skaters has never been a big worry for them.

Well Ashley is in seeding group 1-3 and Gracie in group 4-6 based on Worlds placements from last season. It wasn't highly unlikely that they'd meet somewhere in the GP series. Might as well help sell tickets at SA with it.