2017 Canadian Nats General Info

[Mango]

The 2017 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships (CTNSC17 for short) are in Ottawa, Ontario at The Arena at TD Place from January 16-22, 2017. The championships kick off Canada's 150th anniversary in the nation's capital. The national novice, junior, and senior medallists in all four disciplines will be determined here. About 250 skaters will be competing. Along with medals Skate Canada will be determining the athletes to be sent to the 2017 Junior World Championships, Four Continents, and World Championships based on the results of CTNSC17.

Single event tickets go on sale Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 10 AM: https://skatecanada.ca/2016/11/2017...ships-single-event-tickets-on-sale-wednesday/
All event tickets are already on sale.

Official website: https://skatecanada.ca/events/2017-canadian-tire-national-skating-championships/
Live streaming: http://www.dailymotion.com/SkateCanada

CTV/TSN will likely be broadcasting the last groups of the senior events and the entire pairs event.

 

[Mango]

The schedule, which is subject to change: https://skatecanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2017-Cnds-Public-Schedule-12-5.pdf

As we thought, all the senior free programs are split, with only pairs kept whole. But you can also see the broadcasting schedule (the red boxes). We'll be seeing some short programs on TV.

I think this is going to be the real event website, not the site I've linked above: https://skatecanada.ca/event/2017-canadian-tire-national-skating-championships/

 

[nadster]

The cool thing is that there are 21 senior men at nationals this year.

That means that Messing , Sadovsky and Nadeau's Golden Spin slots did not reduce the number of people who qualified through the challenge.

Usually it is 18 - byed skaters that make it to nationals out of challenge to ensure only 18 skate at nationals.

 

[Ellie493]

All-event package for sale

Hey guys, I'm selling an all-event package I bought on the day that the same were released (excellent seats!) for it's face value, since the person who was supposed to join me cannot attend.
Let me know if you're interested by sending me a private message.
If you're looking for not one but two event packages, please be aware that I might be willing to sell the one I intended to use myself as well, given that I am not yet sure as to whether I'll be able to make it.

 

[Mango]

Ellie you may want to post this in the 'For Sale' subforum on here. You'd be more likely to find a buyer.

 

[syl20c]

Starting orders are up!

https://skatecanada.ca/events/2017-canadian-tire-national-skating-championships/

 

[Sackie]

So Veronique M is not listed. Anyone have any word on her? Is she just still injured or has she given up completely?

 

[Skatergal101]

So Veronique M is not listed. Anyone have any word on her? Is she just still injured or has she given up completely?

I was wondering the same thing

 

[syl20c]

I was wondering the same thing

Surgery in November at the earliest? I am not sure anyone could make it back that fast. Tough sport!

 

[Sackie]

Also noticed a couple others who are not listed: Selena Zhao and Roxanne Rheault. Any news on either of them.

 

[Ellie493]

Ellie you may want to post this in the 'For Sale' subforum on here. You'd be more likely to find a buyer.

Thank you!

 

[cathlen]

Only 9 Senior Ice Dance Teams, but there 14 Junior ones, I guess it's not bad Top3 is pretty much decided, but I'm curious how other teams will do. And as always a fight in Ladies will be really interesting!

 

[Mango]

The schedule was updated January 6: https://skatecanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2017-Cnds-Public-Schedule-01-06.pdf

Also can we make this the general info thread? I couldn't fit 'gen info' into the title due to character limits.

 

[skatefancanada]

Does anyone know what the actual rule is on this? I thought the number of skaters with a 'bye' was deducted from 18 and the remaining spots filled from Challenge. That seems to be what has always occurred in the past, but not in this case. Good news though for skaters like S. Davis who I enjoy watching.

The cool thing is that there are 21 senior men at nationals this year.

That means that Messing , Sadovsky and Nadeau's Golden Spin slots did not reduce the number of people who qualified through the challenge.

Usually it is 18 - byed skaters that make it to nationals out of challenge to ensure only 18 skate at nationals.

 

[Kypma]

Does anyone know what the actual rule is on this? I thought the number of skaters with a 'bye' was deducted from 18 and the remaining spots filled from Challenge. That seems to be what has always occurred in the past, but not in this case. Good news though for skaters like S. Davis who I enjoy watching.

I thought so too - the relevant page from Skate Canada's website appears to agree with your math. Excerpt re-posted here:

In novice, junior and senior events a maximum of 18 men, 18 women, 12 pairs and 15 ice dance teams. [snip] For example, if there are two senior women byes awarded then a maximum of 16 women only could qualify at the Skate Canada Challenge for the Canadian Figure Skating Championships, where a total field of 18 women would be entered.

I find it odd that the men's field was expanded and not the women's as well...

 

[Mango]

I wanted to mention here that Ted Barton and Debbi Wilkes are doing commentary before and after performances. They have also planned to have Tarrah Harvey doing interviews with the leaders after an event and the last skater in each group. They plan to air a clip from Tessa & Scott's novice days.

 

[TGee]

For anyone having difficulty finding the results from last December's Skate Canada Challenge 2017 [the qualifier for nationals for those who don't have a bye], here is the web link...

https://skatecanada.ca/event/2017-skate-canada-challenge/

 

[coucou84]

Last year, Skate Canada had live scoring...... anyone knows if they are doing that this year too or not?

 

[coucou84]

Nevermind, literally seconds after I posted that I saw the "live scoring" button

 

[TGee]

Live Scoring is now a separate web page with a button link off the main page...which seems to work better than having it as an additional tab in the chart on the main page.