Practice, Fluff & all the In-betweens 

 

ISU GP Skate Canada International 2017

ISU Grand Prix

Regina, SK / CAN

27.10.2017 - 29.10.2017

 

 

 

All pre-comp discussion, practice reports, as well as fluff and other in-betweens during the competition goes here!

Competition threads for all disciplines will be opened separately!

 

 

Date	Event	Location
October 20 - 22	2017 Rostelecom Cup	Moscow / RUS
October 27 - 29	2017 Skate Canada	Regina, Saskatchewan / CAN
November 3 -5	2017 Cup of China	Beijing / CHN
November 10 - 12	2017 NHK Trophy	Osaka / JPN
November 17 - 19	2017 Internationaux de France	Grenoble / FRA
November 24 - 16	2017 Skate America	Lake Placid, New York / USA
December 7 – 10	2017–18 Grand Prix Final	Nagoya / JPN

 

 

 

 

*times listed hereon are in your local time

Instructions for Streaming

Live QQ Hosted and commentated by Hua Hua (also formerly known as pandaguy?) Good quality the user comments flying across the screen can be turned off with a toggle on the bottom right of the video SportBox (Russian language commentators) Great quality, free   Requires VPN service, so use any extension like Hola, or others in various browser stores Ad-block disabled CBC Great quality, free Requires VPN service, the Opera in-built free VPN set for Canada works Other links will be added later on All OPs for individual disciplines will contain links for streaming too for easy access

Time and Practice schedule

 

Entry lists:

 

	Men	Ladies	Ice Dance	Pairs
1	Brendan KERRY (AUS)	Kailani CRAINE (AUS)	Carolane SOUCISSE / Shane FIRUS (CAN)	Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD (CAN)
2	Jorik HENDRICKX (BEL)	Larkyn AUSTMAN (CAN)	Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR (CAN)	Liubov ILYUSHECHKINA / Dylan MOSCOVITCH (CAN)
3	Patrick CHAN (CAN)	Alaine CHARTRAND (CAN)	Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE (CAN)	Sydney KOLODZIEJ / Maxime DESCHAMPS (CAN)
4	Keegan MESSING (CAN)	Kaetlyn OSMOND (CAN)	Kavita LORENZ / Joti POLIZOAKIS (GER)	Cheng PENG / Yang JIN (CHN)
5	Nicolas NADEAU (CAN)	Laurine LECAVELIER (FRA)	Natalia KALISZEK / Maksym SPODYRIEV (POL	Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES (FRA)
6	Michal BREZINA (CZE)	Marin HONDA (JPN)	Alla LOBODA / Pavel DROZD (RUS)	Aliona SAVCHENKO / Bruno MASSOT (GER)
7	Paul FENTZ (GER)	Rika HONGO (JPN)	Olivia SMART / Adria DIAZ (ESP)	Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT (RUS)
8	Takahito MURA (JPN)	Anna POGORILAYA (RUS)	Alisa AGAFONOVA / Alper UCAR (TUR)	Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER (USA)
9	Shoma UNO (JPN)	Maria SOTSKOVA (RUS)	Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER (USA)
10	Jun Hwan CHA (KOR)	Karen CHEN (USA)	Madison HUBBELL / Zachary DONOHUE (USA)
11	Alexander SAMARIN (RUS)	Courtney HICKS (USA)
12	Jason BROWN (USA)	Ashley WAGNER (USA)

 

So, as said earlier in the general skating chat, apparently both Patrick and Shoma will not be using a 4S here. I guess Shoma will go for 6 quads across both programs and Patrick for 3. Going clean seems to be both their priority for this competition. 

Jun Hwan Cha is in this competition?! I can't wait to see him skate. This is his first senior? 

 

Eta: I just noticed the rest of the line up. I'm excited. 

Go Patrick, I want to see clean Patrick so much and someone will be motivated

[weeps] i astill have my skate canada tickets... If i had money and time i would go but... sigh, that money is lost now! Oh well...

 

I have no idea what I'll be able to see, if anything out of this, when it comes to watching live. I have a very busy week and staying up most of the night is probably not wise. 

I think the ladies appeal to me the most, especially with Anna being there as I want to see her so if I give anything a try it'll be that though Pairs line up is fab. Hm hm. 

sigh.... the ladies SP starts at 22.00 for me .... and the other SPs goes through almost all the night ... I will try to watch it ... no promise, tho 

For the streams, CBC won't be streaming it, but Skate Canada will be streaming the practices and events on Dailymotion

 

ETA: Nevermind Skate Canada will only stream practices, to watch the official streams we'd have to subscribe to either TSN or CTV for those Canada

I'm going to have to miss pairs for my sleep's sake but I'm happy with these times, so different from ACI and US Classic that it doesn't run over past 2am for me, on a weekend. This is not bad as schedules go.

The Pair lineup is indeed sooo exciting !

 

I'm curious about Jun Hwan's senior debuts, too.

 

 

 

Friday and Sunday are super busy but I'll catch what I can on Saturday.  I'm curious about Jun Hwan too - also want to see Morgan/Cipres

Eurosport player will be streaming all of SC!

Men’s sp and fs are listed wrong, a day early, but I’m sure it’ll be fine when the time comes.