2025-2026 Junior Channel One Cup

[AlexBreeze]

2025-26 Junior Channel One Cup


Date: 6 December 2025
Time: 16.00-19.30
Venue: Tsentralniy Sports Palace, Kaluga, Russia
Categories: Junior
Disciplines: Single and Pair Skating, Ice Dance


Current local time in Kaluga, Russia (UTC+3)
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• Announcement
• Preliminary participant list
• Regulations
• Live Streams
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Schedule:

Saturday, 06 December
16.11 - Junior Ice Dance - Free Skate
16.46 - Junior Pairs - Free Dance
17.38 - Junior Women - Free Skate
18.37 - Junior Men - Free Skate

Entries​

Men	Women	Pairs	Ice Dance
Lev Lazarev	Sofia Dzepka	Polina Shesheleva & Egor Karnaukhov	Elizaveta Maleina & Matvei Samokhin
Arseniy Fedotov	Sofia Smagina	Zoya Kovyazina & Artemiy Mokhov	Maria Fefelova & Artem Valov
German Lenkov	Viktoria Streltsova	Kira Domozhirova & Ilya Vegera	Taisia Sheptalina & Dmitri Pekin
Aldar Sambuev	Lidiia Pleskacheva
Roman Khamzin	Agata Petrova
Gleb Kovtun	Diana Milto

 

[AlexBreeze]

Regulations

Three teams take part in the competition. Each team consists of one pair, one ice dance team, two women singles and two men singles. The event is held only in the free skate.

Invitations are based on the Russian Junior Grand Prix Series. If a skater can't participate in a competition, they are replaced by the next skater in the standings.

Points for places.

Place	Points
1.	10
2.	9
3.	8
4.	7
5.	6
6.	5

If skaters score the same, they share a place.

If a competitor is unable to finish the performance, their team will receive the lowest possible number of points for this discipline.

Tie-breakers:
1) Capitan's points.
2) Team's total score.

 

[AlexBreeze]

I've got a ticket.

 

[lariko]

I've got a ticket.

Lucky you! It should be a blast!

 

[flanker]

I've got a ticket.

Congrats

 

[lariko]

I just saw that the team captains are going to be Anna, Sasha and Alyona. WOW! I love this so much!

 

[Skating91]

Will be interesting to see how Kostyleva goes. I wonder if they will protect her by putting her in the short program.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Will be interesting to see how Kostyleva goes. I wonder if they will protect her by putting her in the short program.

Junior Channel One Cup never had short programs.

 

[Mathematician]

Will be interesting to see how Kostyleva goes.

Most interesting to me would be the comparison between a clean Kostyleva and Dzepka. I wonder how close Dzpeka would be with 2 4Ts. Both earn high levels, and it looks like Dzpeka's GOEs are just slightly higher for comparable elements (mostly on spins). It's actually a little uncanny how many identical GOE scores they get based on their Skating Scores profiles. Elena with more risk of losing points towards the end on timing and rushing spins. It would be more interesting if the PCS wasn't rigged... Kostyleva with 61 & 59 meanwhile Dzepka earns 62s. At least a 5 point gap between them plus a couple on GOE would liven the competition.

I think Dzepka in general matches Kostyleva best, as Streltsova only earns 54s. It's an enormous shame Bazyluk missed this event by less than half a point... she finished 7th and has a higher total than Agata. She would be more interesting than Streltsova or anyone else here. Maybe it's good for her to rest though and keep recovering for nationals.

 

[Skating91]

Junior Channel One Cup never had short programs.

Is it the senior one where half do the short, the next other half do the free?

Edit. Never mind. I don't know what I'm thinking of.

 

[Skating91]

Most interesting to me would be the comparison between a clean Kostyleva and Dzepka. I wonder how close Dzpeka would be with 2 4Ts. Both earn high levels, and it looks like Dzpeka's GOEs are just slightly higher for comparable elements (mostly on spins). It's actually a little uncanny how many identical GOE scores they get based on their Skating Scores profiles. Elena with more risk of losing points towards the end on timing and rushing spins. It would be more interesting if the PCS wasn't rigged... Kostyleva with 61 & 59 meanwhile Dzepka earns 62s. At least a 5 point gap between them plus a couple on GOE would liven the competition.

I think Dzepka in general matches Kostyleva best, as Streltsova only earns 54s. It's an enormous shame Bazyluk missed this event by less than half a point... she finished 7th and has a higher total than Agata. She would be more interesting than Streltsova or anyone else here. Maybe it's good for her to rest though and keep recovering for nationals.

It's too bad Dzepka isn't doing the short program that's where she shines, but a clean Dzepka will really demonstrate how she and Kostyleva are world's apart.

 

[Mathematician]

Is it the senior one where half do the short, the next other half do the free?

Edit. Never mind. I don't know what I'm thinking of.

What do you mean you don't know what you're thinking of? Yes, you were right: the senior cup presents half the athletes in free and half short.

It's too bad Dzepka isn't doing the short program that's where she shines, but a clean Dzepka will really demonstrate how she and Kostyleva are world's apart.

Yea, but TBH I think Dzepka is just as good in the free as the short. The short can get repetitive as enjoyable as it is.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Elena Kostyleva WD.

Unfortunately not surprising considering recent events.

 

[flanker]

Margo is a replacement.

 

[Azikin]

Margo is a replacement.

Awesome!

 

[Mathematician]

Unfortunately not surprising considering recent events.

Did I miss something? Is this regarding the formal investigation of her mother?

Margo is a replacement.

This is good, but it's also unfortunate we won't see her against Elena—that was the appeal after all.

It will still be interesting to watch Bazyluk vs Dzepka clean.

Also upsetting we won't see direct PCS comparison between Elena and Bazyluk.

The latter will at least more justifiably be closer to Dzepka especially in the FS. Should make the results more bearable.

 

[Skating91]

I just hope Elena goes back to Plushenko. There is no future there.

 

[AlexBreeze]

Did I miss something? Is this regarding the formal investigation of her mother?

Probably this too but she's also ill and injured.

 

[flanker]

Did I miss something? Is this regarding the formal investigation of her mother?


This is good, but it's also unfortunate we won't see her against Elena—that was the appeal after all.

It will still be interesting to watch Bazyluk vs Dzepka clean.

Also upsetting we won't see direct PCS comparison between Elena and Bazyluk.

The latter will at least more justifiably be closer to Dzepka especially in the FS. Should make the results more bearable.

We surely shall see that at Nationals unless one of them is injured/sick. But IMO now meeting of Margo with Sofia Dzepka will be more interesting to me as for the components and performance quality overaly, because Margo lost her stability with jumps but she is developing amazingly from artistic perspective.

 

[Remilia]

It's a shame Lena withdrew, but it's for the best. She competed here last year after having barely recovered from a fever (strange coincidence that got sick the exact same time 2 years in a row) and had a disaster performance. Most likely she'll qualify for normal channel one cup, so no need to rush her recovery for this.

I just hope Elena goes back to Plushenko. There is no future there.

Judging by everything that has come out so far in the whole Irina-Plushenko mess, Lena will definitely go back and won't allow anything else. Thankfully, she's old enough now to where Irina can't just drag her from coach to coach without her say.