World Senior Synchronized Skating Championships, April 13th & 14th, Göteborg, Sweden

[dorispulaski]

Event website:

http://iof2.idrottonline.se/template....aspx?id=11920

Participating teams:

Australia Fire on Ice
Belgium Team Temptation
Canada 1 Nexxice
Canada 2 Les Supremes
Croatia Zagreb Snowflakes
Czech Orion
Finland 1 Marigold IceUnity
Finland 2 Rockettes
France Team Zoulous
Germany Team Berlin 1
Hungary Team Passion
Italy Hot Shivers Senior
Japan Jingu Ice Messengers Grace
Latvia Amber
Russia 1 Paradise
Russia 2 Tatarstan
Switzerland Team Dancers
Sweden 1 Team Surprise
Sweden 2 Team Boomerang
USA 1 Haydenettes
USA 2 Chrystallettes

The ISU website is not up yet.

Information about Synchro rules and protocols may be found here:

http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sho...cols-2011-2012

If you have any technical questions, please feel free to ask on the info thread?

[Précision]

In the event website there's lots of really interesting articles about participating teams and synchro skating in general.

This event will be super exciting. Sweden's own number one team Team Surprise is 5(?) time world champion, but has missed the podium for I think 3 seasons in a row. Last year they were 3rd in the Free program, but finished 4th overall. Last time the World Championships were in Sweden they won, so I'd think their goal is to glimp back to the top in front of their home audience. Their free program (Moulin Rouge) looks really strong.

The two finnish teams, Marigold IceUnity (Finland 1, 2nd last season) and Rockettes (Finland 2, reigning world champions) have set their goals high too, both want to be champions again. Both are 3 time world champions already. ROckettes' season hasn't gone so well, but they came back strong for finnish nationals which they won. Marigold's season started really stong and they won both finnish qualifying events and their first international event in Salzburg, but lost to 3rd finnish team, Team Unique in Rouen, France.

USA's Haydenettes have been 3rd two seasons in a row. Their coach Saga Kranz is form Finland. They have had some technical difficulties this season, but I think they will be stronger than ever this year. They are skating to Lady Gaga for their free program.

Canadas Nexxice is really strong team too! They won the Championship 2008, but have missed the podium since then. They won Rockettes and Haydenettes in international competition held in Canada in december, but lost to both finnish teams in Salzburg in January.

Synchro fans have been waiting the coming of russians for many years now, they have been technically really good skaters, but when the skaters are put together, they really haven't got their act together, unfortunately. This year, their free program is really good (they too are skating to moulin rouge) but the program had many technical mistakes. I hope they have fixed them for worlds. I think they have shot for top 5 if they have. They were 7th last year.


I think that for top 10 the other competitors will be Canadas 2nd team, Les Supremes, Sweden's 2nd team Team Boomerang, Germany's Team Berlin 1 and USA's 2nd team the Chrystallettes.

[dorispulaski]

I'll have to go hunt through the website, for sure. I'm still recovering from Worlds and Easter.

[Précision]

It's been a rough month for figure skating fans, and team trophy still coming up!

Good news to all synchro fans that can't make it to Göteborg, Synchro Worlds will be broadcasted live! The competition will be shown in the web by both finnish and swedish TV-channels.

Shortprograms is broadcast on Friday between 7:30pm-9:15pm
Freeprograms is broadcast on Saturday between 6:30pm-8:10pm
SVTplay

[dorispulaski]

That's great news! I hope it will not be geoblocked!

[snowflake]

Results page

SVT play GMT+1(for Europe + some nations in North Africa and the Middle East) Can probably be watched for a month after the competitions.

Friday April 13

19:30-21:30 Play/Mobile SP LIVE (from third group)
Saturday April 14

18:30-20:10 Play/Mobile FS LIVE

Finnish webTV GMT + 2 (don't know if it's geoblocked) Choose muodostelmaluistelun.

Friday April 13

18.30 SP (from first group)
Saturday April 14

16.00 FS

Hard to learn the rules when there are few opportunities to watch synchro skating. I'll watch this world's as entertainment and try to learn something. I'l know what I like, but maybe can't pick the "right" podium.

In addition to the Golden Skate synchro rule-thread I find this interesting.

Cool that the teams can include both men and women. I remember a German team with four men. Sweden also had two men at some point. Anyone knows the rules about this? Is it still allowed to have mixed teams?

Btw I found this

And here is Andrea Dohany teaching synchronized skating for the gala final at world's 2008 in Göteborg; Easy peasy doing wheels.

Gold luck to Andrea with team Surprise

Go all teams! Have fun

[dorispulaski]

Russia team 1 won the SP:

Pl. Name Nation TSS
= TES
+ PCS
+ SS TR PE CH IN Ded.
- StN.
1 Team Russia 1 RUS 65.07 31.42 33.65 8.50 8.18 8.54 8.39 8.46 0.00 #11
2 Team Sweden 1 SWE 64.63 29.29 35.34 8.57 8.86 8.93 8.89 8.93 0.00 #18
3 Team Canada 1 CAN 63.76 29.73 34.03 8.50 8.25 8.61 8.50 8.68 0.00 #17
4 Team United States of America 1 USA 62.14 29.14 33.00 8.21 8.04 8.50 8.32 8.18 0.00 #19
5 Team Finland 1 FIN 61.66 26.96 34.70 8.61 8.57 8.79 8.82 8.57 0.00 #21
6 Team Finland 2 FIN 61.02 25.62 35.40 8.79 8.71 9.00 8.89 8.86 0.00 #20
7 Team Canada 2 CAN 58.51 27.99 30.52 7.61 7.36 7.86 7.68 7.64 0.00 #16
8 Team Sweden 2 SWE 57.65 27.59 30.06 7.36 7.18 7.75 7.61 7.68 0.00 #14
9 Team Russia 2 RUS 51.57 23.73 27.84 7.29 6.82 7.11 6.82 6.75 0.00 #15
10 Team Germany GER 51.47 24.89 27.58 7.00 6.57 7.11 6.96 6.82 1.00 #12
11 Team United States of America 2 USA 51.19 23.08 28.11 7.04 6.68 7.29 6.96 7.18 0.00 #13
12 Team Italy ITA 46.19 22.99 23.20 5.82 5.43 5.96 5.96 5.82 0.00 #1
13 Team Japan JPN 43.18 22.22 22.96 5.68 5.43 5.89 5.89 5.82 2.00 #9
14 Team France FRA 37.27 19.27 19.00 4.75 4.43 4.86 4.96 4.75 1.00 #5
15 Team Czech Republic CZE 37.12 15.61 21.51 5.43 5.07 5.61 5.39 5.39 0.00 #7
16 Team Australia AUS 34.56 16.67 17.89 4.50 4.07 4.64 4.57 4.57 0.00 #6
17 Team Switzerland SUI 34.44 16.07 18.37 4.71 4.36 4.75 4.71 4.43 0.00 #2
18 Team Croatia CRO 30.49 14.86 15.63 3.82 3.46 4.18 4.04 4.04 0.00 #8
19 Team Belgium BEL 25.03 13.67 12.36 3.21 2.71 3.14 3.18 3.21 1.00 #10
20 Team Hungary HUN 25.02 12.05 14.97 3.96 3.57 3.68 3.68 3.82 2.00 #4
21 Team Latvia LAT 23.33 11.38 12.95 3.36 3.00 3.36 3.32 3.14 1.00 #3

[gmyers]

The lead is all TES! They are behind so many other teams in PCS I stopped counting!

[snowflake]

Actually Russia1 is 5th in PCS, less than 2 points behind the best. I enjoyed them. They did a great performance, light with very good skating skills. Well deserved surprise of the evening.

I liked Canada1 and Russia1 best. Sweden1 was different, but the Super Mario music sounds a bit childish to me. I also think France was fun. Don't know why they got such really low points.

The Finnish teams were disappointed with their scores. Overall I understand the points were lower than usual. The performances I saw were impressing to me though. Just one fall from the Japanese team.

Anyway it's close in the top. The FS will be exciting with harder elements, like lifts.

Lots of atmosphere in the audience. 5 000 noisy people clapping, cheering and booing. Seems like real fun to be there.

Opening ceremony presenting the teams.

[dorispulaski]

Thanks for the links!!

It looks like the feed is only available in Europe

However, it looks like the LP will be broadcast by the CBC in Canada at 2:00 PM EST. Possibly, youtube videos will happen.

And I've heard this link to Swedish TV works in the US, at least on phones and tablets:

http://svtplay.se/

The LP starts at 12 to 12:30 PM.

http://svtplay.se/v/2770234/konstakn...p104182,1,f,-1

Is the direct link.

At the Swedish TV site, look for Sport, then Konstĺkning, and one of the videos, labelled LIVE, will be VM Team Konstĺkning.
That's it. Right now, it's showing a clock to the start time.

Archival footage of yesterday's SP is geoblocked outside Sweden.


skatebuzz has an archive of the Canadian synchro championships which is viewable in the US, and perhaps everywhere:

http://www.skatebuzz.com/ViewNewsArt...c-8e709f30a54f

[snowflake]

So people in US (maybe all over the world) can watch the Swedish broadcast on phones/tablets? That's great

The two last groups then + probably the best earlier teams during ice surface.

Looking forward to some comments This will be really exciting

[dorispulaski]

I'm geoblocked, even on my tablet today

Current standings in the LP with 4 teams left to skate:

1 Team Finland 2 FIN 131.73 60.52 71.21 8.79 8.79 9.04 8.96 8.93 0.00 #15
2 Team Finland 1 FIN 119.30 50.27 71.03 8.75 8.82 8.79 9.04 9.00 2.00 #16
3 Team Canada 2 CAN 118.99 56.16 63.83 7.86 7.71 8.11 8.14 8.07 1.00 #17
4 Team Sweden 2 SWE 115.79 52.69 63.10 7.75 7.79 8.04 7.86 8.00 0.00 #14
5 Team Germany GER 109.01 53.42 56.59 6.96 6.86 7.18 7.25 7.11 1.00 #10
6 Team Russia 2 RUS 104.98 48.62 59.36 7.46 7.21 7.39 7.54 7.50 3.00 #13
7 Team United States of America 2 USA 103.42 47.98 56.44 7.18 6.89 7.14 7.00 7.07 1.00 #12
8 Team Japan JPN 94.39 48.87 46.52 5.75 5.75 6.00 5.79 5.79 1.00 #6
9 Team Italy ITA 92.79 43.01 49.78 6.11 5.86 6.25 6.50 6.39 0.00 #11
10 Team France FRA 81.45 39.28 42.17 5.14 5.04 5.36 5.39 5.43 0.00 #7
11 Team Switzerland SUI 69.57 31.43 39.14 4.96 4.68 4.93 5.00 4.89 1.00 #5
12 Team Australia AUS 66.06 30.69 35.37 4.50 4.32 4.61 4.46 4.21 0.00 #9
13 Team Czech Republic CZE 63.48 26.64 40.84 5.21 4.89 4.96 5.21 5.25 4.00 #8
14 Team Hungary HUN 58.38 30.00 29.38 3.86 3.36 3.71 3.79 3.64 1.00 #1
15 Team Croatia CRO 55.22 26.15 31.07 3.89 3.57 3.89 4.11 3.96 2.00 #3
16 Team Latvia LAT 48.14 22.73 26.41 3.39 3.04 3.36 3.43 3.29 1.00 #4

Overall standings:

Pl. Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Team Finland 2 FIN 192.75 6 1
2 Team Finland 1 FIN 180.96 5 2
3 Team Canada 2 CAN 177.50 7 3
4 Team Sweden 2 SWE 173.44 8 4
5 Team Germany GER 160.48 10 5
6 Team Russia 2 RUS 156.55 9 6
7 Team United States of America 2 USA 154.61 11 7
8 Team Italy ITA 138.98 12 9
9 Team Japan JPN 137.57 13 8
10 Team France FRA 118.72 14 10
11 Team Switzerland SUI 104.01 17 11
12 Team Australia AUS 100.62 16 12
13 Team Czech Republic CZE 100.60 15 13
14 Team Croatia CRO 85.71 18 15
15 Team Hungary HUN 83.40 20 14
16 Team Latvia LAT 71.47 21 16
17 Team Belgium BEL 66.51 19 17


17 Team Belgium BEL 41.48 21.02 24.46 3.21 2.79 2.93 3.29 3.07 4.00 #2

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Gold Medal: Sweden 1
Silver medal: Canada 1
Bronze medal: USA 1



Final LP results:

Pl. Name Nation TSS
= TES
+ PCS
+ SS TR PE CH IN Ded.
- StN.
1 Team Finland 2 FIN 131.73 60.52 71.21 8.79 8.79 9.04 8.96 8.93 0.00 #15
2 Team United States of America 1 USA 130.64 63.76 67.88 8.43 8.39 8.57 8.54 8.50 1.00 #20
3 Team Sweden 1 SWE 130.24 58.07 72.17 8.86 9.00 9.14 9.07 9.04 0.00 #18
4 Team Canada 1 CAN 129.88 59.83 70.05 8.71 8.50 8.93 8.89 8.75 0.00 #19
5 Team Russia 1 RUS 127.18 58.04 71.14 9.00 8.71 8.79 8.96 9.00 2.00 #21
6 Team Finland 1 FIN 119.30 50.27 71.03 8.75 8.82 8.79 9.04 9.00 2.00 #16
7 Team Canada 2 CAN 118.99 56.16 63.83 7.86 7.71 8.11 8.14 8.07 1.00 #17
8 Team Sweden 2 SWE 115.79 52.69 63.10 7.75 7.79 8.04 7.86 8.00 0.00 #14
9 Team Germany GER 109.01 53.42 56.59 6.96 6.86 7.18 7.25 7.11 1.00 #10
10 Team Russia 2 RUS 104.98 48.62 59.36 7.46 7.21 7.39 7.54 7.50 3.00 #13
11 Team United States of America 2 USA 103.42 47.98 56.44 7.18 6.89 7.14 7.00 7.07 1.00 #12
12 Team Japan JPN 94.39 48.87 46.52 5.75 5.75 6.00 5.79 5.79 1.00 #6
13 Team Italy ITA 92.79 43.01 49.78 6.11 5.86 6.25 6.50 6.39 0.00 #11
14 Team France FRA 81.45 39.28 42.17 5.14 5.04 5.36 5.39 5.43 0.00 #7
15 Team Switzerland SUI 69.57 31.43 39.14 4.96 4.68 4.93 5.00 4.89 1.00 #5
16 Team Australia AUS 66.06 30.69 35.37 4.50 4.32 4.61 4.46 4.21 0.00 #9
17 Team Czech Republic CZE 63.48 26.64 40.84 5.21 4.89 4.96 5.21 5.25 4.00 #8
18 Team Hungary HUN 58.38 30.00 29.38 3.86 3.36 3.71 3.79 3.64 1.00 #1
19 Team Croatia CRO 55.22 26.15 31.07 3.89 3.57 3.89 4.11 3.96 2.00 #3
20 Team Latvia LAT 48.14 22.73 26.41 3.39 3.04 3.36 3.43 3.29 1.00 #4
21 Team Belgium BEL 41.48 21.02 24.46 3.21 2.79 2.93 3.29 3.07 4.00 #2


Final overall results

FPl. Name Nation Points SP FS
1 Team Sweden 1 SWE 194.87 2 3
2 Team Canada 1 CAN 193.64 3 4
3 Team United States of America 1 USA 192.78 4 2
4 Team Finland 2 FIN 192.75 6 1
5 Team Russia 1 RUS 192.25 1 5
6 Team Finland 1 FIN 180.96 5 6
7 Team Canada 2 CAN 177.50 7 7
8 Team Sweden 2 SWE 173.44 8 8
9 Team Germany GER 160.48 10 9
10 Team Russia 2 RUS 156.55 9 10
11 Team United States of America 2 USA 154.61 11 11
12 Team Italy ITA 138.98 12 13
13 Team Japan JPN 137.57 13 12
14 Team France FRA 118.72 14 14
15 Team Switzerland SUI 104.01 17 15
16 Team Australia AUS 100.62 16 16
17 Team Czech Republic CZE 100.60 15 17
18 Team Croatia CRO 85.71 18 19
19 Team Hungary HUN 83.40 20 18
20 Team Latvia LAT 71.47 21 20
21 Team Belgium BEL 66.51 19 21

[snowflake]

Oh, so you couldn't watch in US after all. Next season world's is in Boston, US and then I suppose we can't watch in Europe

I don't know how to comment on this competition. The 5 best are really close. Different styles, but oh so entertaining. Nail biting all along. Some falls and bumping into each other, but I'm surprised there are not more mistakes with 16 skaters fast speeding like this on the ice.

Poor, poor Russia. For me they had the best performance style wise. A fall in the circle element destroyed them. It took soooo long for her to get back in place; deductions -2 and a drop from first to fifth place

Congrats to Sweden, Canada and USA

Over all WHAT A GREAT SHOW

[gmyers]

Poor Finland .03 loss