2023-24 Challenger Series

[sus2850]

Ice Challenge had the best free stream with the fun English commentary

Ice Challenge 2022 - Day 1

9.11.2022 - Graz, AustriaShort Program Junior WomenShort Program Junior Men

m.youtube.com

Here is his channel:

https://m.youtube.com/@Ryanntthornton1982

 

[nuage]

Ice Challenge had the best free stream with the fun English commentary

Ice Challenge 2022 - Day 1

9.11.2022 - Graz, AustriaShort Program Junior WomenShort Program Junior Men

m.youtube.com

Here is his channel:

https://m.youtube.com/@Ryanntthornton1982

Was that the one with the Junior Ice Dancer commentating?

 

[Samurina]

Was that the one with the Junior Ice Dancer commentating?

no that was nebelhorn with savitsky

 

[sus2850]

It was a „figure skating stand up comedian“, Ryan Thomas Thornton., an English guy living in Graz. I think he did the commentary up to 2019 (in 2017 he made drawings to show the scores, which was cute, the streams are still stored in his channel)

 

[Frau Muller]

The famous ON THE ROCKS channel!

 

[Jammers]

Why is there no Senior B at all in the US this year? Even when it wasn't part of the Challenger series it was still held in September.

 

[Karen-W]

Why is there no Senior B at all in the US this year? Even when it wasn't part of the Challenger series it was still held in September.

There are 4 different Senior Bs in the US this year -

Lake Placid Ice Dance International (ice dance) - 7/31 through 8/2
Cranberry Cup (singles) - 8/9 through 8/13
John Nicks Pairs Challenge (pairs) - 9/6 through 9/9
US Autumn Classic (singles) - 10/5 through 10/8

 

[Karen-W]

Starting to see skaters announce their Challenger assignments -

Lindsay van Zundert plans on debuting at Nebelhorn per her IG story earlier today.

Emmanuelle Proft & Nicolas Nadeau will make their International debut at Autumn Classic next month! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvez6FULwI4/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

And Edrian Paul Celestino has also been assigned to Autumn Classic by the Philippine federation.

 

[danafan]

Lombardia entries are up

https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00117401.htm

 

[Marta24]

Lombardia entries are up

https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00117401.htm

Dance entries are great. Crossing my fingers for a livestream

 

[Karen-W]

Lombardia entries -

Men
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Georgii RESHTENKO CZE 1
2 Arlet LEVANDI EST 2
3 Makar SUNTSEV FIN 3
4 Landry LE MAY FRA 4
5 Corentin SPINAR FRA 4
6 Nika EGADZE GEO 5
7 Nikita STAROSTIN GER 6
8 Lev VINOKUR ISR 7
9 Daniel GRASSL ITA 8
10 Matteo RIZZO ITA 8
11 Yuma KAGIYAMA JPN 9
12 Nozomu YOSHIOKA JPN 9
13 Kornel WITKOWSKI POL 10
14 Milosz WITKOWSKI POL 10
15 Andrii KOKURA UKR 11
16 Camden PULKINEN USA 12
17 Andrew TORGASHEV USA 12
Goku ENDO USA 12 S

Women
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Nina PINZARRONE BEL 1
2 Niina PETROKINA EST 2
3 Janna JYRKINEN FIN 3
4 Anastasiia GUBANOVA GEO 4
5 Alina URUSHADZE GEO 4
6 Daria ZSIRNOV HUN 5
7 Lara Naki GUTMANN ITA 6
8 Hana YOSHIDA JPN 7
9 Chaeyeon KIM KOR 8
10 Seoyoung KIM KOR 8
11 Ahsun YUN KOR 8
12 Angelina KUCHVALSKA LAT 9
13 Mia RISA GOMEZ NOR 10
14 Ekaterina KURAKOVA POL 11
15 Julija LOVRENCIC SLO 12
16 Ema DOBOSZOVA SVK 13
17 Ava Marie ZIEGLER USA 14
Hannah HERRERA USA 14 S

Pairs
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Barbora KUCIANOVA / Martin BIDAR CZE 1
2 Milania VAANANEN / Filippo CLERICI FIN 2
3 Aurelie FAULA / Theo BELLE FRA 3
4 Oceane PIEGAD / Denys STREKALIN FRA 3
5 Anastasia VAIPAN-LAW / Luke DIGBY GBR 4
6 Minerva Fabienne HASE / Nikita VOLODIN GER 5
7 Annika HOCKE / Robert KUNKEL GER 5
8 Lucrezia BECCARI / Matteo GUARISE ITA 6
9 Sara CONTI / Niccolo MACII ITA 6
10 Rebecca GHILARDI / Filippo AMBROSINI ITA 6
11 Daria DANILOVA / Michel TSIBA NED 7
12 Nika OSIPOVA / Dmitry EPSTEIN NED 7

Ice Dance
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Natalia PALLU-NEVES / Jayin PANESAR BRA 1
2 Katerina MRAZKOVA / Daniel MRAZEK CZE 2
3 Natalie TASCHLEROVA / Filip TASCHLER CZE 2
4 Maria KAZAKOVA / Giorgi REVIA GEO 3
5 Charise MATTHAEI / Max LIEBERS GER 4
6 Leia DOZZI / Pietro PAPETTI ITA 5
7 Giorgia GALIMBERTI / Matteo Libasse MANDELLI ITA 5
8 Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI ITA 5
9 Victoria MANNI / Carlo ROETHLISBERGER ITA 5
10 Olivia OLIVER / Filip BOJANOWSKI POL 6
11 Maria Sofia PUCHEROVA / Nikita LYSAK SVK 7
12 Anna SIMOVA / Kirill AKSENOV SVK 7
13 Zoe LARSON / Andrii KAPRAN UKR 8
14 Emily BRATTI / Ian SOMERVILLE USA 9
15 Caroline GREEN / Michael PARSONS USA 9
Oona BROWN / Gage BROWN USA 9 S
Christina CARREIRA / Anthony PONOMARENKO USA 9 S
Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER USA 9 S
Raffaella Adele KONCIUS / Alexey SHCHEPETOV USA 9 S
Angela LING / Caleb WEIN USA 9 S
Lorraine MCNAMARA / Anton SPIRIDONOV USA 9 S
Eva PATE / Logan BYE USA 9 S
Emilea ZINGAS / Vadym KOLESNIK USA 9 S

 

[Rukia]

Torgy and Kagiyama?? That is hype.

 

[Karen-W]

Torgy and Kagiyama?? That is hype.

Add in Rizzo, Pulkinen and Grassl for good measure. Not the deepest of fields, but certainly a decent one. And, men are always gonna men, especially early in the season, so just watch someone unexpected like Levandi or Egadze win here.

 

[ChelleC]

Torgy and Kagiyama?? That is hype.

You're forgetting Camden. We have Torgy and Camden both in an early season competition. My nerves are never going to survive this.

 

[Karen-W]

You're forgetting Camden. We have Torgy and Camden both in an early season competition. My nerves are never going to survive this.

just wait - wanna bet we're gonna wind up with Naumov and Jimmy at Autumn Classic together?

 

[rfisher]

You're forgetting Camden. We have Torgy and Camden both in an early season competition. My nerves are never going to survive this.

Just assume both will crash and burn then the only surprise would be a good one.

 

[Gris]

Autumn Classic entries: https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00117403.htm

Copying out:

Men
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Wesley CHIU CAN 1
2 Boyang JIN CHN 2
3 Tomas-Llorenc GUARINO SABATE ESP 3
4 Kevin AYMOZ FRA 4
5 Mark GORODNITSKY ISR 5
6 Nikolaj MEMOLA ITA 6
7 Sota YAMAMOTO JPN 7
8 Donovan CARRILLO MEX 8
9 Edrian Paul CELESTINO PHI 9
10 Jimmy MA USA 10
11 Ilia MALININ USA 10
12 Daniil MURZIN USA 10

Women
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Kaiya RUITER CAN 1
2 Eliska BREZINOVA CZE 2
3 Emmi PELTONEN FIN 3
4 Ella CHEN ISR 4
5 Elizabet GERVITS ISR 4
6 Mone CHIBA JPN 5
7 Kaori SAKAMOTO JPN 5
8 Dabin CHOI KOR 6
9 Minchae KIM KOR 6
10 Eugenia GARZA MEX 7
11 Sofia Lexi Jacqueline FRANK PHI 8
12 Tara Maria IENCIU ROU 9
13 Amanda HSU TPE 10
14 Audrey SHIN USA 11
15 Bradie TENNELL USA 11
16 Lindsay THORNGREN USA 11

Pairs
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE AUS 1
2 Sophia SCHALLER / Livio MAYR AUT 2
3 Caidence DERENISKY / Raine EBERL CAN 3
4 Emmanuelle PROFT / Nicolas NADEAU CAN 3
5 Deanna STELLATO-DUDEK / Maxime DESCHAMPS CAN 3
6 Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV FRA 4
7 Anastasia VAIPAN-LAW / Luke DIGBY GBR 5
8 Riku MIURA / Ryuichi KIHARA JPN 6
9 Isabella GAMEZ / Aleksandr KOROVIN PHI 7
10 Chelsea LIU / Balazs NAGY USA 8
11 Isabelle MARTINS / Ryan BEDARD USA 8

Ice Dance
Entries
No. Name Nation
1 Holly HARRIS / Jason CHAN AUS 1
2 Sandrine GAUTHIER / Quentin THIEREN CAN 2
3 Marjorie LAJOIE / Zachary LAGHA CAN 2
4 Alyssa ROBINSON / Jacob PORTZ CAN 2
5 Olivia SMART / Tim DIECK ESP 3
6 Evgeniia LOPAREVA / Geoffrey BRISSAUD FRA 4
7 Leia DOZZI / Pietro PAPETTI ITA 5
8 Hannah LIM / Ye QUAN KOR 6
9 Allison REED / Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS LTU 7
10 Mariia HOLUBTSOVA / Kyryl BIELOBROV UKR 8
11 Eva PATE / Logan BYE USA 9
12 Katarina WOLFKOSTIN / Dimitry TSAREVSKI USA 9

 

[Orm Irian]

Stassy and Hektor! Awesome!

 

[Karen-W]

Loving these line-ups!

I'm a bit surprised that the Mokhovs aren't being sent in Pairs, especially since they don't have any GP assignments yet.

 

[danafan]

Canada only sending one woman and one man to their host challenger?

 

[Aaron MB Fan]

Autumn Classic entry list looks great!! I’ll be attending and can’t wait for it to be here

 

[yurokis40]

Easy win for LALA, hopefully stellato and deschamps can challenge that overrated japanese pair.

 

[ChelleC]

just wait - wanna bet we're gonna wind up with Naumov and Jimmy at Autumn Classic together?

You were half right.

Just assume both will crash and burn then the only surprise would be a good one.

Hope is the last thing to die, and mine isn't gone yet.

 

[Karen-W]

Easy win for LALA, hopefully stellato and deschamps can challenge that overrated japanese pair.

Over ReedAmbru? Quit sniffing that glue, 'kay?

You were half right.

Yeah, I'm a bit worried there's some sort of injury issue going on with Max.

 

[ChelleC]

Yeah, I'm a bit worried there's some sort of injury issue going on with Max.

He's not competed in any of the summer club competitions has he?

 

[TanithandBenFan]

He's not competed in any of the summer club competitions has he?

He did an exhibition of his free skate at Cranberry, but I haven't seen any reports from it. I know Kat Cornetta was there because she tweeted about it.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Canada only sending one woman and one man to their host challenger?

kind of like Italy and Lombardia , one woman, and I think two men

 

[Lara]

Autumn Classic entry list looks great!! I’ll be attending and can’t wait for it to be here

Lots to look forward to for sure.
Agree Canada should really have entered more, there can't be much financial excuse in this case.

 

[yurokis40]

Over ReedAmbru? Quit sniffing that glue, 'kay?

Yeah, I'm a bit worried there's some sort of injury issue going on with Max.

Lol in what universe id reed and ambru in the same ball park as lala lol

 

[skateblessing]

kind of like Italy and Lombardia , one woman, and I think two men

But for the Italians skaters I would think at least that the possibility to go to other international competitions are easier and more likely. It´s hardly any international senior B events for Canadians without crossing oceans, it´s hard to believe that the cost of sending skaters to a Challenger they host themselves, can be more costly than sending them to Europe to do senior B events or so. We have seen it in the last couple of seasons, a lot of Canadian skaters don´t get international competition experience. And without experience it´s hard to do well when they finally get a chance in major competitions. I would believe the cost of sending skaters to Europe was part of the reasons, but when you see now that they don´t even grab the chance when they host themselves, it´s just sad. They should at least give 1-2 more skaters a chance in each discipline.

To compare, Norwegian skating Fed hasn´t really be sending a lot of skaters to Challengers either, because they require a certain level to have earned it. But this season they are finally sending some ladies to early Challengers because they showed good results last season (Risa Gomez and Kilsand). Despite this, they have in the recent years sent a lot of skaters, both in senior, junior and novice level at all levels to senior B competitions in Europe to get experience.

Norway is even considered a small fed, and for me, at least, I did use to consider Canada as one of the big skating feds. It´s just so strange to see them not giving the skaters a chance to compete internationally, particular when they are hosting a event themselves which solves the issues of expensive travel costs.