Nice to see USFS has finally "officially" released the tentative schedule. In 14 trips to Nationals I've never seen the first "official" schedule come out this late. Since Juvenile/Intermediate events start the morning of 1/16, this doesn't really give those fans any time at all to print this thing and make any plans.
Still nothing official on practice groups. Championship pairs has been rearranged into 3 groups rather than 4. I quickly looked to see if Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir ended up in the same group....but no they did not
The change in Championship Pairs was caused by the injury of Taylor Wilson (don't know injury) and the withdrawal of de la Mora/Wilson.
Many thanks for posting this latest info to Sylvia and golden411
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Thanks for all of your hard work!I guess Sylvia gave the scoop somewhere re these two pairs?
(I discovered the published schedule and the Jan 14 practice groups draft on my own, lest she or anyone else wonder why I did not cite her. I hadn't forgotten my manners.
To be precise, not two whole days before, AFAIK. That would have been first thing Wednesday morning ET, and unless my eyes failed me, I could swear that the official link was not up yet.
The other thing that is odd to me is that the official link to the schedule was so silently added to northcarolina2015.com. I found it there only by repeatedly checking back to look for it.
Absolutely nothing -- even as of this morning [Thu], with barely 24 hrs to go -- has been posted on the Twitter and Facebook accounts of USFS and northcarolina 2015.com to indicate that the detailed schedule finally has been published.
Sorry golden411 I did see a post with the updated schedule and updated practice groups from Sylvia elsewhere. Her post was from about 10:30p.m. on 1/14. I didn't find the detailed schedule on the LOC website until this morning. Congratulations on finding the practice groups cause the only other place I could find them was from Sylvia's link.
Actually 1 championship (senior) pair withdrew - del a Mora/Wilson. The original pairs groups were kind of unbalanced so when they took 1 pair out they realigned it all and went from 4 groups down to 3.
You do a great job finding all of this stuff
(I updated my post a little later with the latest practice groups after I remembered to experiment with the parallel URL.)
re Wilson being a member of the del a Mora/Wilson pair. Fancy that. 
The names had not registered on me ... still waking up this morning.)
Thx for your reply, MFarone.
(Duh ... please forgive my oblivion
Naturally you need to get your beauty sleep when you can, so you will be well-rested to support all the skaters 
when you're at competitions. :yes:
btw/fyi: I see today that USFS finally has officially published the Practice Groups pdf. It is dated Jan 14, the same as the latest unofficial draft.
The link above is from the handy-dandy "Competition Central" page of usfigureskatingfanzone.com.
The Competition Central page consolidates a lot of links/information from elsewhere. Includes also the link to the same version (Jan 14) of the color-coded matrix schedule that is on northcarolina2015.com.
Thanks for your good humor and generous spirit, Chris. Even from afar, I will enjoy Nats more than ever this year because of you.
We will miss you at Nats...please think about attending in the future.....its like being at one party for 7 days...very tiring but very satisfying! There was never a nats I regreted going to....although one was close....
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