Practice, Fluff & all the In-betweens 

 

ISU GP Audi Cup of China 2017

ISU Grand Prix

Beijing / CHN

03.11.2017 - 05.11.2017

 

 

 

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 (currently unavailable) 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 YouTube (Russian language commentators) Good quality, free   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	Kevin REYNOLDS (CAN)	Gabrielle DALEMAN (CAN)	Hong CHEN / Yan ZHAO (CHN)	Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Michael MARINARO (CAN)
2	Boyang JIN (CHN)	Xiangning LI (CHN)	Shiyue WANG / Xinyu LIU (CHN)	Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN (CHN)
3	Han YAN (CHN)	Zijun LI (CHN)	Xiaotong WANG / Kaige ZHAO (CHN)	Xiaoyu YU / Hao ZHANG (CHN)
4	He ZHANG (CHN)	Ziquan ZHAO (CHN)	Angelique ABACHKINA / Louis THAURON (FRA)	Mingyang ZHANG / Bowen SONG (CHN)
5	Keiji TANAKA (JPN)	Wakaba HIGUCHI (JPN)	Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON (FRA)	Anna DUSKOVA / Martin BIDAR (CZE)
6	Mikhail KOLYADA (RUS)	Marin HONDA (JPN)	Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV (RUS)	Nicole DELLA MONICA / Matteo GUARISE (ITA)
7	Alexander PETROV (RUS)	Mai MIHARA (JPN)	Tiffani ZAGORSKI / Jonathan GUERREIRO (RUS)	Valentina MARCHEI / Ondrej HOTAREK (ITA)
8	Javier FERNANDEZ (ESP)	Dabin CHOI (KOR)	Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES (USA)	Ashley CAIN / Timothy LEDUC (USA)
9	Alexander MAJOROV (SWE)	Elena RADIONOVA (RUS)	Lorraine MCNAMARA / Quinn CARPENTER (USA)
10	Max AARON (USA)	Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA (RUS)	Elliana POGREBINSKY / Alex BENOIT (USA)
11	Grant HOCHSTEIN (USA)	Alina ZAGITOVA (RUS)
12	Vincent ZHOU (USA)	Amber GLENN (USA)

 

This ladies field is not okay, I demand we just post-actively cancel Skate Canada and split the CoC ladies into 2 competitions

19 minutes ago, Joey said:

This ladies field is not okay, I demand we just post-actively cancel Skate Canada and split the CoC ladies into 2 competitions

 

Your icon perfectly encompasses what I feel about COC. Thanks, Zu!

24 minutes ago, xeyra said:

 

Your icon perfectly encompasses what I feel about COC. Thanks, Zu!

 

Haha, there's a Zu face for every situation!

So will this be an easy win for Javi?

49 minutes ago, Joey said:

 

Haha, there's a Zu face for every situation!

Sorry for the selfish request, but can we not make this "Zu" a thing please .. I keep getting confused thinking that we are talking about a different skater named Zu or something. 

 

I swear I am not trying to pick on you or anything but I always had really hard time remembering names (with very embarrassing consequences), so it is easier for me if the same names or nicknames were used most of the time 

59 minutes ago, GreatLakesGal said:

So will this be an easy win for Javi?

 

Probably.I am not sure what's Boyang's form but that program on top of that .... it'll be interesting to see how Mika does. 

 

Of course, I want to see what happens with Zhou and if they're going to call his URs or not. 

 

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The ladies event makes me want to go into a quiet, dark corner, with a bottle of vodka.

The ladies field is just a bloody massacre of so much talent. Yeah, Skate Canada should have adopted at least three of those... but they wouldn't have wanted to. 

Men will be interesting. I wonder if Mika (Misha for me) will be able to fight for a higher spot than the third place. 

Pairs and dancers seem to be more predictable. 

Mika has the potential to win, I just don't know if he quite believes it yet. Since I like Javi, Mika, and Boyang, I don't want to make a prediction!

I will be heartbroken no matter what the result for the ladies end up be.. I want half of these ladies to medal and that is impossible 

 

Boyang and Javi please don't implode, you really don't have to follow Yuzu and Patrick's example   

Men's field is hard to say. I see at least five strong contenders for podiums and let's not forget about Max and Kevin who might also give a shot. Ladies...I decide to give up on predicting long time ago

 

This is my first time following the Grand Prix Series real time since I got into figure skating right after GPF last year. Boy, it really gives you no rest! I've got tickets to CoC and I'm so excited to see so many skaters I like for the first time! I can't even begin to name them. But here are my biggest wishes: Sui/Han bring their new programs to life. See some exquisite lutz's from Boyang and maybe Mikhail.(I'm still on a 4Lz high from CoR honestly...) Mai continues to skate clean and Wakaba joins her. Just to see PC's beautiful free dance. All that depends, though, on whether my internship duties call on me on Fri. and Sat. afternoons or not... Figure skating gods, please stay by my side!

we are just missing satton before we can call this the japanese nationals ladies preview...