Finlandia Trophy 2012 Oct 5 - Oct 7

[Kalina]

It's going to be held from Oct. 5 to 7, 2012 at the Barona Areena in Espoo.

Official website: here

Entries: here



Results are here
http://www.stll.fi/finlandia_trophy/...s-and-results/

Schedule (Espoo time is GMT + 2 )
http://www.stll.fi/finlandia_trophy/schedule/

[ImaginaryPogue]

Men: A fascinating battle between the Orser students (Hanyu, Fernandez) and the Americans (Dornbush, Wier). Schultheiss, Ge, Bush and Bacchini in some order make the rest of the top eight.

Ladies: Nagasu gets to demonstrate we shouldn't ignore her this season. Lipnitskaia makes her senior international debut. Korpi skates at home.

Dance: V/M should win easily, but C/L vs B/S vs H/D should be fascinating. We'll get a chance to see where B/S are at with Zhulin. If C/L and H/D drill those levels, they should sneak ahead of B/S, which would be awesome.

[dorispulaski]

MEN

Samuel Koppel EST
Matthias Versluis FIN
Viktor Zubik FIN
Valtter Virtanen FIN
Julian Lagus FIN
Paolo Bacchini ITA
Yuzuru Hanyu JPN
Kenta Nakamura JPN
Maciej Cieplucha POL
Zhan Bush RUS
Javier Fernandez ESP
Javier Raya ESP
Adrian Schultheiss SWE
Mikael Redin SUI
Ricky Dornbush USA
Johnny Weir USA
Misha Ge UZB

LADIES
Ira Vannut BEL
Jasmine Costa EST
Kiira Korpi FIN
Juulia Turkkila FIN
Alisa Mikonsaari FIN
Beata Papp FIN
Fleur Maxwell LUX
Yulia Lipnitskaya RUS
Sonia Lafuente ESP
Isabelle Olsson SWE
Natalia Popova UKR
Mirai Nagasu USA

ICE DANCE
Lesia Volodenkova & Vitaly Vakunova BLR
Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir CAN
Irina Shtork & Taavi Rand EST
Olesia Karmi & Max Lindholm FIN
Henna Lindhom & Ossi Kanervo FIN
Dóra Turóczi & Balázs Major HUN
Anna Capellini & Luca Lanotte ITA
Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri ITA
Bryna Oi & Taiyo Mizutani JPN
Justyna Plutowska & Peter Gerber POL
Ekaterina Bobrova & Dmitri Soloviev RUS
Ramona Eisener & Florian Roost SUI
Siobhan Heekin-Canedy & Dmitri Dun UKR
Madison Hubbell & Zachary Donohue USA

And...SYNCHRONIZED SKATING

FIN Rockettes
FIN Marigold IceUnity
FIN Team Unique
FIN Revolutions
RUS Paradise

[golden411]

Official website: here

Thanks, Kalina.
Another easy-to-remember way to reach the Finnish URL is to type in "finlandiatrophy.com" - which will automatically redirect to the official website.

Men: A fascinating battle between the Orser students (Hanyu, Fernandez) and the Americans (Dornbush, Wier). ...

I had been wondering what this tweet meant:

Richard Dornbush ‏@RichardDornbush

Might be seeing @JohnnyGWeir sooner than I had expected. We'll be #RightOnTime
10:31 PM - 30 Aug 12

[sky_fly20]

I cannot wait, such an exciting and deep field competing in all disciplines

[fairly4]

sorry not a deep ladies field,
unless mirai is gifted should have a battle between her and kira korpi for 2nd,
yulia might and should win it , if skates like last year,
2nd =3rd between mirai and kira, but than mirai might want to show up franks and say see i didn't need you. i can do it by myself without you.

Nebelhorn has more of deep ladies field,
mirai again is in easy ones should finish in top 3.

[sky_fly20]

sorry not a deep ladies field,
unless mirai is gifted should have a battle between her and kira korpi for 2nd,
yulia might and should win it , if skates like last year,
2nd =3rd between mirai and kira, but than mirai might want to show up franks and say see i didn't need you. i can do it by myself without you.

Nebelhorn has more of deep ladies field,
mirai again is in easy ones should finish in top 3.

ummm.. Nebelhorn isn't much of a deep field either
you only have Sotnikova, Shelepen and Zhang

[golden411]

From Finlandia Trophy's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/377541022270103/

Suomen Taitoluisteluliitto
You may watch the best parts of Finlandia Trophy Espoo tv-broadcast on www.yle.fi/areena. It is not live but will be shown soon after the competition on YLE`s (national TV) website. We will inform about schedule here in Facebook and on our website www.finlandiatrophy.com.

[The tentative schedule for the competition (not for the web viewing), from http://www.stll.fi/finlandia_trophy/schedule/:

Friday, October 5 at 17.00 - 21.25

Short Program Men
Opening Ceremony
Short Program Synchronized Skating

Saturday, October 6 at 13.30 - 21.00

Short Program Ladies
Short Dance Ice Dance
Free Skating Men

Sunday, October 7 at 12.00 - 16.30

Free Dance Ice Dance
Free Skating Ladies

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Please note that the practice on Thursday is not open for public.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday practice sessions are only open for event ticket holders.
There is no ticket sale for practice sessions.]

[dorispulaski]

Excellent! There are some great skaters at Finlandia this year; it would be wonderful to see video of them.

[let`s talk]

Results page:
http://www.figureskatingresults.fi/results/1213/FT2012/

Online stream Oct 6th, Ladies SP and Dance SD:
http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1683053
Oct 7th, Ladies FS and Dance FD:
http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1683057
(no Men )

Upd. Men's FP was added to the stream on Oct 7th, the same link ^.

[FSGMT]

Results page:
http://www.figureskatingresults.fi/results/1213/FT2012/

Online stream Oct 6th, Ladies SP and Dance SD:
http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1683053
Oct 7th, Ladies FS and Dance FD:
http://areena.yle.fi/tv/1683057
(no Men )

Yes!!!

[bigsisjiejie]

Any reason no Japanese ladies are entered? Quite conspicuous by their absence.

[Macassar88]

So excited for this to start! I can't wait to see Tessa and Scott's programs! Also, I can't wait for the battle between Bobrova and Soloviev and Capellini and Lanotte (I think that this is more of a battle than the battle of the Carmens since it may set the tone for Euros and Worlds)

[sky_fly20]

Zlobina/Sitnikova have really improved
from representing Russia to switching to Azerbaijan was a very wise decision

[FSGMT]

I just noted that Ira Vannut is listed here: is this her first international competition since Worlds 2011? She was really good, technically...