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As far as I know, they have cut the Grand Prix series a while back, including Skate Canada... but usually would have Nationals and Worlds coverage on TV. At least, that's what it was last year. Everything else is on streaming.
2024-25 Canadian Figure Skating
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I got rid of my TV set and watch news etc on the computer. I just go to the CBC sports website and watch skating (and Olympics in general in those years) on my laptop. The events are still all shown there, but I don't know if they're listed in general programming on a bigger TV set. It's live now, though, so I miss any competition that doesn't air at a time in awake hours in the Pacific time zone.
I'm assuming their thinking is that the audience now gets news streamed live and isn't willing to wait to evening prime time to see an event and its results. I switched to computer-watching maybe close to ten years ago, so I don't know how many years longer after that the competitions were also shown on regular television.
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Go to CBC website, sports, video, replays. You should find the whole cup of china.I have now searched three times for Canada's Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha that scored 205.16 and there only 1 version from YouTube of free program winning silver at the Cup of China, they should have won
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This is from a different camera angle but hopefully you can see this https://youtu.be/66_fT1nPEk8?si=pngbhC2Snzj_vkrJI have now searched three times for Canada's Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha that scored 205.16 and there only 1 version from YouTube of free program winning silver at the Cup of China, they should have won
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I need to make up my mind before next Wednesday, Dec 4, the deadline to submit a program component list for the 2024 BC/YT Synchro and Adult competition.
To explain: A few people in BC, Ted among them, have tried a number of times to persuade me to train as a pairs judge/evaluator/specialist, since you have to have an appropriate skating background and I gather there's a dearth of us with pairs experience. I'm not that keen -- I really don't like to have people not liking me!
-- and I don't like making kids unhappy if I have to mark them down, but I do feel a certain responsibility to volunteer my services.
However. Before you start training as a judge/specialist, you have to have had competition experience as a pairs skater in the past within a certain length of years, and although I've often performed since I retired in the 1980s, I've avoided competing, figuring I'd had enough of being judged by then, between academia and skating, dance, music, etc etc etc. The upcoming BC Synchro and Adult event will be near where I live, but there are only singles events for adults. No pairs, no dance. When I pointed this out, there was some discussion, I gather, and my partner and I were told we'd be allowed to enter as the only pair and just be judged as if it were a test. We already have a program worked up for our club show in December, and my costume is ready, so that's not a problem. But our program components are at Skate Canada's Adult Masters level, so they'd need to bring in some sort of judge(s) qualified for that level to make it legal. Um. So if we said we'd appear, we'd have to go through with it to justify the effort being made just for me. (My partner doesn't want to get into judging.)
I'm torn. It's a chance to give our program an extra performance even though it's essentially just for an exhibition. But I'm not even positive I want to go over to the dark side and become a judge, I just feel I *should*. If I don't do this event next month, I'll have to wait almost a year even to attend a clinic and start training and will probably ditch the idea.
Help? Will I be shunned on GS if I become a judge
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To explain: A few people in BC, Ted among them, have tried a number of times to persuade me to train as a pairs judge/evaluator/specialist, since you have to have an appropriate skating background and I gather there's a dearth of us with pairs experience. I'm not that keen -- I really don't like to have people not liking me!
-- and I don't like making kids unhappy if I have to mark them down, but I do feel a certain responsibility to volunteer my services.However. Before you start training as a judge/specialist, you have to have had competition experience as a pairs skater in the past within a certain length of years, and although I've often performed since I retired in the 1980s, I've avoided competing, figuring I'd had enough of being judged by then, between academia and skating, dance, music, etc etc etc. The upcoming BC Synchro and Adult event will be near where I live, but there are only singles events for adults. No pairs, no dance. When I pointed this out, there was some discussion, I gather, and my partner and I were told we'd be allowed to enter as the only pair and just be judged as if it were a test. We already have a program worked up for our club show in December, and my costume is ready, so that's not a problem. But our program components are at Skate Canada's Adult Masters level, so they'd need to bring in some sort of judge(s) qualified for that level to make it legal. Um. So if we said we'd appear, we'd have to go through with it to justify the effort being made just for me. (My partner doesn't want to get into judging.)
I'm torn. It's a chance to give our program an extra performance even though it's essentially just for an exhibition. But I'm not even positive I want to go over to the dark side and become a judge, I just feel I *should*. If I don't do this event next month, I'll have to wait almost a year even to attend a clinic and start training and will probably ditch the idea.
Help? Will I be shunned on GS if I become a judge
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my understanding is that you'd become a low level judge at first and it would take years before you'd be judging events we watch on GSNot sure if this is the right place to ask, but I need to make up my mind before next Wednesday, Dec 4, the deadline to submit a program component list for the 2024 BC/YT Synchro and Adult competition.
To explain: A few people in BC, Ted among them, have tried a number of times to persuade me to train as a pairs judge/evaluator/specialist, since you have to have an appropriate skating background and I gather there's a dearth of us with pairs experience. I'm not that keen -- I really don't like to have people not liking me!
However. Before you start training as a judge/specialist, you have to have had competition experience as a pairs skater in the past within a certain length of years, and although I've often performed since I retired in the 1980s, I've avoided competing, figuring I'd had enough of being judged by then, between academia and skating, dance, music, etc etc etc. The upcoming BC Synchro and Adult event will be near where I live, but there are only singles events for adults. No pairs, no dance. When I pointed this out, there was some discussion, I gather, and my partner and I were told we'd be allowed to enter as the only pair and just be judged as if it were a test. We already have a program worked up for our club show in December, and my costume is ready, so that's not a problem. But our program components are at Skate Canada's Adult Masters level, so they'd need to bring in some sort of judge(s) qualified for that level to make it legal. Um. So if we said we'd appear, we'd have to go through with it to justify the effort being made just for me. (My partner doesn't want to get into judging.)
I'm torn. It's a chance to give our program an extra performance even though it's essentially just for an exhibition. But I'm not even positive I want to go over to the dark side and become a judge, I just feel I *should*. If I don't do this event next month, I'll have to wait almost a year even to attend a clinic and start training and will probably ditch the idea.
Help? Will I be shunned on GS if I become a judge
so no worries there 
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It's not that you would be shunned @Diana Delafield, it might limit your posting possibilities. You wouldn't (but only at a higher level as @4everchan points out} be able to join debates about judge x being biased or skater y being under/overscored or just anything relating to (wrongful) judging. At least I think this could lead to issues here (here's this judge who also thinks skater y is underscored).
You could still help skaters in The Lutz Corner, or post about (the level of) skating in general. I used to have a contact who was a judge and on GS at the time. He did not post often, and definitely not about issues we would have heated discussions about. Just my few cents.
You could still help skaters in The Lutz Corner, or post about (the level of) skating in general. I used to have a contact who was a judge and on GS at the time. He did not post often, and definitely not about issues we would have heated discussions about. Just my few cents.
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I realized that, and was hoping nobody would then noticemy understanding is that you'd become a low level judge at first and it would take years before you'd be judging events we watch on GS
. And I'd never be able to judge international competitions because for those you have to be under 50 when you're first appointed, after working your way up the ladder domestically. I'm already over 50, so I'm safe there. Probably it would take so long to work my way out of local juveniles and the lowest test levels 
, I'd hit the mandatory retirement age for judges of 70 also before I even got to juniors.
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I never join in those threads about results and judging anyway, and I very seldom have any favourites whose careers I follow, so that wouldn't be a problem at all. I didn't even get into dressing-room mutterings about judging when I was a competitor. I spent so much time getting marked or scored or adjudicated for so many activities growing up, and things always seemed to level out overall. So how I was judged was never that important to me, just how I felt about my own performance. Every skater says that (in public) and for many of us it's actually true
.As long as I didn't get a label of Judge pinned to my back, so to speak. I have an old friend who became a dentist. She says she tries to avoid telling that to strangers at parties because there's always a slight shrinking away even if the stranger smiles and says "How interesting!", and quickly changes the subject
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Like when I tell people what my profession is (I am a nutritionist), everybody obviously knows more than me or - indeed doesn't dare to eat from their crisps anymore (which is silly, as I do eat them myself)! But - no I don't think that label will be pinned to your back @Diana Delafield!
Why don't you change your username on here? That way people wouldn't connect you on here with the judge at competition X. There must be a way of changing your username.I never join in those threads about results and judging anyway, and I very seldom have any favourites whose careers I follow, so that wouldn't be a problem at all. I didn't even get into dressing-room mutterings about judging when I was a competitor. I spent so much time getting marked or scored or adjudicated for so many activities growing up, and things always seemed to level out overall. So how I was judged was never that important to me, just how I felt about my own performance. Every skater says that (in public) and for many of us it's actually true
As long as I didn't get a label of Judge pinned to my back, so to speak. I have an old friend who became a dentist. She says she tries to avoid telling that to strangers at parties because there's always a slight shrinking away even if the stranger smiles and says "How interesting!", and quickly changes the subject
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For those missing skating as there is no GP nor Challenger events this week...
Skate Canada is hosting its challenge event (qualification for Nationals).
There is a lot of talent in both junior men and women. Junior women and pairs are done... Ice dance RD starts in five minutes and Junior men did their SP yesterday (my son won the SP !!!!)
Today, there are so many things to watch all at once :
Junior RD
Senior RD
and Senior Women short on Rink A (for streaming)
Junior Men and Senior Men LPs on Rink B
Schedule
Skate Canada is hosting its challenge event (qualification for Nationals).
There is a lot of talent in both junior men and women. Junior women and pairs are done... Ice dance RD starts in five minutes and Junior men did their SP yesterday (my son won the SP !!!!)
Today, there are so many things to watch all at once :
Junior RD
Senior RD
and Senior Women short on Rink A (for streaming)
Junior Men and Senior Men LPs on Rink B
Schedule
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Other way around. My username here is that of my older sister-in-law who did all the driving and accompanying me when I was a kid, to spare my parents who both had professions that couldn't be just worked around my schedule. The Real Diana never learned how to skate, so I use her name as a sort of in-joke between the two of us. She feels she's part of the skating world this way
.The people on the Christmas Card Exchange know my real name, but even that's not the name I used as a skater, before I was married and when I'd been using my middle name on stage since I started acting/singing/dancing in kindergarten and it seemed natural to use that for skating competitions as well later. Multiple personalities. But you're right, it hadn't occurred to me that my real name on a list of judges wouldn't register with most GS users. Thank you!
Enjoy your competition and then your judging career.Other way around. My username here is that of my older sister-in-law who did all the driving and accompanying me when I was a kid, to spare my parents who both had professions that couldn't be just worked around my schedule. The Real Diana never learned how to skate, so I use her name as a sort of in-joke between the two of us. She feels she's part of the skating world this way
The people on the Christmas Card Exchange know my real name, but even that's not the name I used as a skater, before I was married and when I'd been using my middle name on stage since I started acting/singing/dancing in kindergarten and it seemed natural to use that for skating competitions as well later. Multiple personalities. But you're right, it hadn't occurred to me that my real name on a list of judges wouldn't register with most GS users. Thank you!
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Enjoy your competition and then your judging career.
My daughter was a synchronized swimming judge when she was in University. Like you, she was guilted into it and did it as a public service. I don't think she judged any competitions, only tests. Everyone was VERY happy to see her show up so the swimmers could be tested.
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Artistic swimming as it is called nowadays is the hardest sport ever. Bravo to your daughter.
