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But without stuffies and flowers. :-(

Team Japan is so awesome in The Hague! It’s wonderful to be able to sit so close to the action. Too bad about the stream, though, even my iphone’s recordings are better, lol.

Shoma and Rika are coming to The Hague! Last year Rika came but Shoma WD, I anticipate the reverse this time...

Just gonna leave this here... Remember this is a promo for a FS event in the Netherlands. *coughs and grins*

Oh thank goodness!! A skater who actually has a HOBBY! Go go Shoma, stick with it!!

Yes well, two of the French guys are not coming. Kevin is the only one still coming. Apparently. edit: been looking for source info, sorry. One came from the ffsg on twitter, reportedly, but I am not a twitter user. I saw both reported WD on GS in the assignments topic. Let’s hope it’s just rumors, but knowing the French GP track record...

Hey Sota, there's two spots open at IdF! Okay, it's really really really short day (never mind the airfare would be too high for the paper-medals-so-obviously-not-too-rich French fed), but still.

Yes. :-)

Wait, where did this come from?! https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/isu/infront/ Infront...?

Aaaaaand... I bought the VPN for nothing! Because, lo and behold... the NOS and the Netherlands are no longer on the list!! https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/news/news-fsk/12731-where-to-watch-isu-grand-prix-of-figure-skating-series-2019?templateParam=15 (Yes, I know I can cancel the VPN service, but I'm not going to. It's honestly been on my To Do list for ages, I just never made the time and effort to look into it until now. Glad I've done so now. plenty of opportunities to use it still.)

Oddly enough, I can see them listed fine... and no hint whatsoever that the actual stream might be blocked. Would be funny if I just bought a VPN for nothing (nah, not nothing, I have been in need of one for quite a while, it was actually an item on my To Do list, lol). Tomorrow evening, we will know the truth!

From the sounds of it, it was a package deal everywhere. And of course a very high asking price. Dutch NOS probably paid whatever they had to to obtain the license for the speed skating... and got useless FS license along with it. For most other countries, it would be the other way around, lol. I wonder how many will bother airing or streaming any of the huge amount of speed skating they now have the rights to?! ;-)

sillycinnamon: well, shoot, if they sold it as a package to your home country, then that pretty much confirms my fear that that's what's happened to the Netherlands, too. Meaning there's no chance in heck I can watch FS either on television, nor on NOS livestream, nor on youtube. Because the NOS would *never* show figure skating, no matter how many broadcasting licences they have. edit: I have decided I don’t need more drama in my life, and so I have bought a VPN. Got a good deal, I think, just over 3 euros per month for three years, so that should take care of all this stupidity for the time being. :-)

Yes, horrible wasteland. Nebelhorn Trophy, Bavarian Open, that event in Dortmund... You’re very lucky. ;-)

Tsk. The NOS do *not* broadcast or stream figure skating, EVER, with the exception of the winners at Worlds, if you're lucky to happen to catch it. So if the ISU are claiming the NOS have the broadcasting rights for the figure skating GP, that means either they somehow managed to sell it in a full package together with the speed skating, or else they're simply lying and don't want to have to deal with blocking speed skating but not figure skating, and just block the whole thing. Either way, it sounds like I'm screwed and will have to look into a VPN. Never put a Dutch speed skater in charge of the ISU. *sigh* I'm sure he's perfectly happy with how this is turning out.