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I just received an e-mail from one of the Groups I travel with. Does everyone know about this? and what do you think of it?
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2011 Tokyo Worlds
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Yes, it is part of the mammoth new round of proposals that this ISU is voting on in mid June.
I am particularly distressed that the option the technical committee appears to be favoring is a mess of a thing that sort of combines the OD and a Golden Waltz CD in one event.
A portion of the items being discussed are being hashed out in the ISU/Single Skaters thread, but some of the most insidious problems come from the qualifications for Olympics and Worlds and the changes in age for juniors that will affect negatively an entire group of skaters (and particularly dancers and pair teams) who should have been vying for Jr GPF and Jr World titles this year and instead are going to be thrown into the senior pool with no entre to GP events, and so reduced to regionals/sectionals, without being able to get the qualifying scores to even compete at Worlds without going to Senior B event or something like that, and no senior B events are held in North America.
I haven't digested all this stuff yet-I have to read it again to make sure I haven't gotten it all wrong, but it is fairly apocalyptic.
I am particularly distressed that the option the technical committee appears to be favoring is a mess of a thing that sort of combines the OD and a Golden Waltz CD in one event.
A portion of the items being discussed are being hashed out in the ISU/Single Skaters thread, but some of the most insidious problems come from the qualifications for Olympics and Worlds and the changes in age for juniors that will affect negatively an entire group of skaters (and particularly dancers and pair teams) who should have been vying for Jr GPF and Jr World titles this year and instead are going to be thrown into the senior pool with no entre to GP events, and so reduced to regionals/sectionals, without being able to get the qualifying scores to even compete at Worlds without going to Senior B event or something like that, and no senior B events are held in North America.
I haven't digested all this stuff yet-I have to read it again to make sure I haven't gotten it all wrong, but it is fairly apocalyptic.
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Thanks Doris for your input. Did you think it affects the number of days for the Worlds if one is planning to see it all? There is also planned a decrease in the number of contestants. I have no objection to that but I wonder why they are cutting out some competitors.
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Reducing the number of days they have to rent the arena may well be the goal of the reduced number of competitors in the finals, but there is also a proposal about putting back a qualifying round, and the CD will be eliminated, almost surely. We won't know till they all vote. Mid to late June, I think.
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I hope this minimum score proposal will voted down at the congress!
