2022 US Nationals: Pre-game Chat

[norwegianfairytale]

It´s quite concerning with all the WD because of covid-19. I don´t have a clue where the different pairs skate, but it makes me keep wondering if it may be a rink related outbreak. Or it could just be a coincidence and they got it from family and friends, because literally everybody catch it now. I hope they manage to isolate all the cases and that they won´t bring it into the bubble.

It´s quite bad timing having the Championship right after the holidays where you gather a lot of family and friends. I wonder if the skaters must been extra stressed about Christmas holiday this year with the rise of Omicron and being so close to the Championship which will decide the OG-spots. I realize though that Nats have been arranged always at this time before Covid, so it´s just bad timing.

 

[Kapeesh]

Anybody know the scoop on Ian Somerville? He’s had 3 partners in the past 3ish seasons and it sounds like he dines & dashes on each one of them. I’m surprised to see his name up there

 

[sworddance21]

Per USFS rulebook (Rule 2521), "For the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, there are no alternates for the championship (senior events)."
Does not matter whether the senior skater(s) who withdrew had a bye or not.

Junior events at Nats do have alternates.

(I am echoing what I previously posted in the U.S. Men thread at the time of Naumov's withdrawal.)

But in case anyone is wondering about junior dance: Even before the news that Flores/Tsarevski and the Browns will not be at Nats, there were no more junior dance competitors from Championship Series who would have been potential additions.
Freeman/Bennett already had filled the slot created by the earlier withdrawal of Larson/Appel.

The only junior couple from Championship Series who will be missing from Nats is the late Joshua Soto and Mila Guberman.

Oh, my goodness, I didn't know what happened to Joshua Soto. How absolutely devastating.

 

[LoisAGOEs]

Anybody know the scoop on Ian Somerville? He’s had 3 partners in the past 3ish seasons and it sounds like he dines & dashes on each one of them. I’m surprised to see his name up there

There’s been nothing said about how he and Katarina DelCamp ended as far as I’m aware. Neither of them announced the end of the partnership, just showed up with new partners.

But the end of his 10 year partnership with Eliana Gropman was not pretty.

 

[gsk8]

Rebecca Krescher / Davis Ortonward withdrew

 

[alexocfp]

Just saw the odds for this event


Figure Skating. U.S. Championship. Women. Outright

Winner	YES	NO
Liu Alysa	2.95	1.35
Bell Mariah	4.70	1.15
Chen Karen	7.00	1.07
Glenn Amber	10.00	1.03
Thorngren L	15.00	—
Izzo Gabriella	15.00	—
Venetta Sierra	25.00	—
Shin Audrey	25.00	—
Andrews Starr	25.00	—

Mariah at 4.70 isn’t that bad.

 

[gsk8]

Just saw the odds for this event


Figure Skating. U.S. Championship. Women. Outright

Winner	YES	NO
Liu Alysa	2.95	1.35
Bell Mariah	4.70	1.15
Chen Karen	7.00	1.07
Glenn Amber	10.00	1.03
Thorngren L	15.00	—
Izzo Gabriella	15.00	—
Venetta Sierra	25.00	—
Shin Audrey	25.00	—
Andrews Starr	25.00	—

Mariah at 4.70 isn’t that bad.

Where did you see the "odds"?

 

[Charlotte 71]

As of Jan 3, 2022

Official Results

Seniors​

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
Jason Brown	Starr Andrews	Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc	Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville
Nathan Chen	Mariah Bell	Jessica Calalang / Brian Johnson	Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko
Artur Dmitriev Jr.	Karen Chen	Emily Chan / Spencer Howe	Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov
Ryan Dunk	Amber Glenn	Sydney Cooke / Keyton Bearinger	Madison Chock / Evan Bates
Mitchell Friess	Gracie Gold	Kate Finster / Matej Silecky	Cayla Cottrell / Uladzislau Palkhouski
Tomoki Hiwatashi	Hanna Harrell	Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier	Caroline Green / Michael Parsons
William Hubbart	Finley Hawk	Chelsea Liu / Danny O'Shea	Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
Liam Kapekis	Jill Heiner	Audrey Lu / Misha Mitrofanov	Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donahue
Jimmy Ma	Rena Ikenishi	Kate McBeath / Nathan Bartholomay	Raffaella Koncius / Alexey Shchepetov
Ilia Malinin	Gabriella Izzo	Maria Mokhova / Ivan Mokhov	Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spiridonov
Maxim Naumov	Isabeau Levito	Valentina Plazas / Maximiliano Fernandez	Cara Murphy / Joshau Levitt
Yaroslav Paniot	Alysa Liu	Anastasia Smirnova / Danil Sianitsya	Avonley Nguyen / Grigory Smirnov
Sebastien Payannet	Audrey Shin		Eva Pate / Logan Bye
Camden Pulkinen	Bradie Tennell		Livvy Shilling / Ryan O'Donnell
Eric Sjoberg	Lindsay Thorngren		Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen
Dihn Tran	Sierra Venetta
Paul Yeung	Kate Wang
Vincent Zhou	Wren Warne-Jacobsen

Juniors​

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice dance
Will Annis	Sonia Baram	Sonia Baram / Danil Tioumentsev	Kristina Bland / Matthew Sperry
Philip Baker	Gwen Bloesch	Brooke Barret / Levon Davis	Oona Brown / Gage Brown
Lucas Broussard	Elsa Cheng	Winter Deardorff / Jake Pagano	Helena Carhart / Volodymyr Horovyi
Goku Endo	Hazel Collier	Cate Fleming / Chase Finster	Olivia Dietrich / Eduard Pylypenko
Allan Fisher	Sarah Everhardt	Ashley Fletcher / Aiden Brown	Isabella Flores / Dmitry Tsarevski
Jonathan Hildebrandt	Hannah Herrera	Ellie Kam / Ian Meyh	Madeline Freeman / Christian Bennett
Joseph Klein	Mia Kalin	Isabella Martins / Ryan Bedard	Madeleine Gans / Jim Wang
Kai Kovar	Katie Krafchik	Lilianna Murray / Jordan Gillette	Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr
Lake Liao	Ashley Leahy	Catherine Rivers / Timmy Chapman	Rebecca Kerscher / Davis Ortonward
Samuel Mindra	Josephine Lee	Mandy Romero / Kristofer Ogren	Romy Malcom / Noah Lafornara
Antonio Monaco	Soho Lee	Cayla Smith / Andy Deng	Anabelle Larson / Lucas Appel
Nhat-Viet Nguyen	Elyce Lin-Gracey	Megan Wessenberg / Blake Eisenach	Angela Ling / Caleb Wein
Matthew Neilsen	Hannah Lofton	Sylvia Wong / Skylar Weirens	Leah Neset / Artem Markelov
Jacob Sanchez	Abigail Ross		Caroline Mullen / Brendan Mullen
Taira Shinohara	Clare Seo		Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal
Beck Strommer	Katie Shen		Vanessa Pham / Jonathan Rogers
Michael Xie	Adele Zheng
Robert Yampolsky	Ava Ziegler
Maxim Zarkhov

What happened with Paige Rydberg? I thought she qualified this year?

 

[alexocfp]

Where did you see the "odds"?

From fonbet.ru

I didn’t make them up, I promise. Haha

 

[moonvine]

I’m so nervous and it’s days before Gracie skates.

 

[yelyoh]

I’m so nervous and it’s days before Gracie skates.

Save you nerves because you will need them when she does. You won't be alone.

 

[TontoK]

It's been kind of a ho-hum season. I hope Nationals brings the Bang and shakes things up in every discipline.

I want to see an upset - minor or major - where the expected podium is not at all what get. Or at least a bolt out of the blue finishes 4th - and yes, I know about the pewter, I just ignore it.

I hope the top flight in each discipline skates so spectacularly well that we're fighting over the results for months. I want the selection panel (since we insist on having one) to leave the deliberation room with black eyes from the brawl they've had sorting out the impact from Nationals. I want some FUN.

 

[Tinymavy15]

I’m so nervous and it’s days before Gracie skates.

Just want Gracie to kill it and leave the ice happy. Placements whatever.

 

[saturdaysun]

Unless I'm missing it, looks like no practice cam for the senior ladies' first practice tomorrow morning?

 

[Moxiejan]

Unless I'm missing it, looks like no practice cam for the senior ladies' first practice tomorrow morning?

Very likely, the cam is only for practices on the main rink; the senior women will be there early Wednesday night.

 

[CoyoteChris]

My internet is down...maybe for a week or more....y'all have fun....

 

[moonvine]

Just want Gracie to kill it and leave the ice happy. Placements whatever.

Always.

 

[moonvine]

My internet is down...maybe for a week or more....y'all have fun....

What????? I’d have to get a hotel.

 

[moonvine]

Alexa was on a plane today. I was like No, Alexa! Ash and Tim are driving.

 

[el henry]

Alexa was on a plane today. I was like No, Alexa! Ash and Tim are driving.

I saw both those posts. To be fair, Ashley and Tim have a nine hour drive. Alexa's trip would be three days of ten hour drives. Ash and Tim would probably not be driving to San Jose.