Practice, Fluff & all the In-betweens 

 

ISU GP Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final®  2017/2018

ISU Grand Prix

Aichi / Nagoya, Japan

07.12.2017 – 10.12.2017

 

 

 

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 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 (In order of qualification):

 

	Men	Ladies	Ice Dance	Pairs
1	Nathan CHEN (USA)	Alina ZAGITOVA (RUS)	Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON (FRA)	Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN (CHN)
2	Shoma UNO (JPN)	Kaetlyn OSMOND (CAN)	Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR (CAN)	Evgenia TARASOVA / Vladimir MOROZOV (RUS)
3	Mikhail KOLYADA (RUS)	Carolina KOSTNER (ITA)	Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI (USA)	Aljona SAVCHENKO / Bruno MASSOT (GER)
4	Sergei VORONOV (RUS)	Maria SOTSKOVA (RUS)	Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES (USA)	Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD (CAN)
5	Adam RIPPON (USA)	Wakaba HIGUCHI (JPN)	Madison HUBBELL / Zachary DONOHUE (USA)	Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV (RUS)
6	Jason BROWN (USA)	Satoko MIYAHARA (JPN)	Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE (ITA)	Xiaoyu YU / Hao ZHANG (CHN)

 

Just as well I will be working on Friday and Saturday (away at a conference) so I won't be watching this dumpster fire... 

I'm kidding. A little. It's going to suck to have to miss most of it but at the same time it's kind of depressing to think about it when it comes to the men.  

I keep trying to console myself with the idea of all the bad luck going into the GP series, so that the rest of the season can hopefully go a tad more smoothly. Sigh. 

 

Jr Ladies will have my full attention though and are honestly the thing I'm looking forward the most. 

Jason is just the sweetest kid..

 

I think I'm mostly interested in pairs - all the leaders are in place there. As for man... I will have a good laugh if let's say Kolyada wins it (will cheer for him and Sergei to have a good skate the most) but to keep things real more likely it will be Shoma or Nate.

Wait ... this is still happening   

I thought they would cancel it because it has become a health hazard for both skaters and fans   

 

Joking aside, this will be really hard to predict and I am not even sure I want to watch it (because of the aforementioned health risk) 

I'm still really sad about Evgenia

Moving the countdown here. It's Uncle Sergei this time!

 

I'm low key (maybe high key) rooting for uncle Sergei!

Did you hear that Franca Bianconi (ITA) will be the TS for the Ladies? https://twitter.com/stefionice/status/935896494456090624

 

I think that most of you know her because she is the coach of some single ladies, like Roberta Rodeighiero, and of Marchei/Hotarek too. More is one of the two ladies commentators of RAIsport (the two who says tipically "Mamma mia!" after the performance of Yuzuru).

These are the comps she took part as Specialist or Assistant in the Technical Panel: http://www.rinkresults.com/judge?judge_id=454

We will see what she will do...

3 hours ago, fireovertheice said:

Did you hear that Franca Bianconi (ITA) will be the TS for the Ladies? https://twitter.com/stefionice/status/935896494456090624

 

I think that most of you know her because she is the coach of some single ladies, like Roberta Rodeighiero, and of Marchei/Hotarek too. More is one of the two ladies commentators of RAIsport (the two who says tipically "Mamma mia!" after the performance of Yuzuru).

These are the comps she took part as Specialist or Assistant in the Technical Panel: http://www.rinkresults.com/judge?judge_id=454

We will see what she will do...

 

Interesting because she was very lenient at WTT'17. Then again, Caro wasn't competing... we'll see what she has in store then...

I think this is the K&C design?

 

Well, this really hasn't been going according to plan so really, anything might happen.