2026-27 Grand Prix assignments are out
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Fun fact: Isabeau and Gogo got the same events 
Both were seeded though, so they probably chose them.
Both were seeded though, so they probably chose them.
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Interesting that Finland did not choose Iida directly. Is she so high in rankings of subsitutes the fed waits if she could get another spot elsewhere?
I suppose Milla/Nikolaj, Kyrylo and Andreas replace Finland's host spots. Otherwise Kyrylo would have had only one spot of his own, am I right, or did he have two?
Probably I will not go to Finlandia this time expect if I have a meeting at Helsinki on that Saturday I may go to watch only SPs as I will be there anyway.
I suppose Milla/Nikolaj, Kyrylo and Andreas replace Finland's host spots. Otherwise Kyrylo would have had only one spot of his own, am I right, or did he have two?
Probably I will not go to Finlandia this time expect if I have a meeting at Helsinki on that Saturday I may go to watch only SPs as I will be there anyway.
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She's high enough to make it happen, escpecially that there some skaters like Alysa who, as we already know, are possible to WD. I was also confused but when you mentioned this it actually sounds like a smart strategy, if she gets other spot via ranking, they can get another skater one.
There is an article at Skatingfinland website informing that Iida will skate both in Canada and Finland. So it is just a mistake that Iida is not on the list.
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there is no requirement to even have any. It simply means that the US Men didn't earn as many spots as they sometimes do. Some years, we have 3 Japanese men or women at pretty much every event. That's the maximum. There is no minimum.
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And Jean-Luc also got NHK so they can enjoy the trip togetherSo happy for Olivia Smart and Tim Dieck getting an assignment at NHK. She's mentioned quite a few times how she has yet to skate in Japan, and it looks like it's finally happening!!!!
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Another interesting absences:
Max Naumov - his SB wasn't super high on the list to earn him guaranteed spot but he was still higher than some of the guys who got those spots plus he's popular olympian so I believe it means rather that he has no plans to compete in the fall.
Wang Liu - also, not very high SB but two other chinese teams are already entered as host spots so it probably means break or retirement.
Lea Serna - France only used one host spot for their GP; it's interesting, they didn;t give another one to Lorine so I wonder if Lea was just not considered at all or she declared she's not competing
Max Naumov - his SB wasn't super high on the list to earn him guaranteed spot but he was still higher than some of the guys who got those spots plus he's popular olympian so I believe it means rather that he has no plans to compete in the fall.
Wang Liu - also, not very high SB but two other chinese teams are already entered as host spots so it probably means break or retirement.
Lea Serna - France only used one host spot for their GP; it's interesting, they didn;t give another one to Lorine so I wonder if Lea was just not considered at all or she declared she's not competing
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Or the federations have some deal going on. There is only 1 US skater in Finland and Finland didn't name their hostspot yet. Do they have a Finish skater who has the tec minimum? If not they could invite an US skater since 2 skaters of one country are allowed unless it's your home GP (host gets one extra at home GP ?) right?
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For GP is no TES minimums, only total score minimums. To host spots minimums are not required, only highly recommended. Finland will fill open host spots, TBD, by Finnish skaters. The skaters will be selected after Finland's summer competition and announced 14th September.
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Another fun fact: Mao Shimada at her senior GP debut will face.. Jia Shin 
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Skating Finland's answer: The ISU list has the ISU selections and since the best of the season is not among the 1-24 on the list, they could only give one name and Olivia would be the best Finnish SB on the list.
So Iida is Fed's selection.
So Iida is Fed's selection.
Sports wise this is a disaster.
I will never understand why so many skaters get one GP assignment, when higher ranked skaters could have used a second one.
For me, the GP should be about the best of the best...now there are a lot of skaters who won't have a chance to reach the GPF.
I will never understand why so many skaters get one GP assignment, when higher ranked skaters could have used a second one.
For me, the GP should be about the best of the best...now there are a lot of skaters who won't have a chance to reach the GPF.
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I think Kyrylo was guaranteed 2 all the time. But it´s nice for him to go to Finlandia since he trains there.
Milla&Nikolaj were also high enough on the SB to get a GP spot after all the other two? spots were filled after WR, SB top 24 and placement at Worlds etc. However, that they ended up with Finlandia it´s not a surprise, same with Andreas. Nikolaj got Finlandia as well as a single skater. All of the top SB 24 and WR 24 were guaranteed 1 spot but would likely end up with two spots - and I think they all did expect those who did not retire/split?
Here is the SB list (from nr. 25) were the remaining spots would be filled up:
Harris/Chan - got SkAm
Wolfkostin/Tsarevski - got Skate Canada, might get SkAm host spot
Val/Kazimov - got GP France
Bekker/Hernandez - got SkAm
Reitan/Majorov - got Finlandia
Neset/Markelov - got GP France
Lagouge/Caffa - got SkAm (my bad - I thought they did not get a spot but I didn´t look close enough)
Yoshida/Morita - host spot NHK
Ichilov/Nosovitskiy - no spot yet
Manni/Roethlisberger - no spot yet
Ignateva/Szemko - no spot yet
Matthaei/Liebers - no spot yet
So yes, Milla&Nikolaj were going to end up with a spot before Neset/Markelov - who also got one. So if Finland would have used their 3rd host spot they would probably gotten GP France instead and Neset/Markelov would not have gotten that spot - or other teams would have been shuffled around. However it seems they got one of the last remaining spots at this point - if it wasn´t for all the retirements and splits I don´t think they would have gotten one from the beginning.
I´m not sure what happens now if someone WD (which is likely). Will Ichilov/Nosovitskiy get 1 spot or will Harris/Chan get the 2nd spot instead? I think after the initial assignments they usually rather give the teams on the replacement list two spots before they continue down the list?
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Honest question :can you name a skater who only has only one assignment who would be a favourite to get to GPF if they were given a second one ?Sports wise this is a disaster.
I will never understand why so many skaters get one GP assignment, when higher ranked skaters could have used a second one.
For me, the GP should be about the best of the best...now there are a lot of skaters who won't have a chance to reach the GPF.
It rarely happens. And I know that it does happen but it's often a surprise. Just like when Osmond won skate Canada early in the season and was NOT given a second assignment... that was terrible to see spots being reallocated and she, being passed down.
But, I don't see any names right now of skaters who have only one spots who are really potentially going to win their event.
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Exactly. From the current field I think maybe Lajoie/Baker can be GPF contenders but they are very new and we don't know how competitive the can be in the fall plus they still have a chance to get the host spot.
I actually think is good more skaters get chances to comepete at this level, especially considering the depth of the field in women or ice dance. We are at the beginning of new quad, there's been a lot of shifts so it's the right time.
We had two examples last year. Samodelkina and A Selevko. They were ranked 28th and 30th respectively going into last season - they only got one GP assignment. Both were 2nd in their respective GP but they didn't have the chance to compete at another one...
This year we have for women: Young You, Yuseong Kim, Saki Miyake, Olivia Lisko, Rino Matsuike who all have good capabilities to podium in their GPs. But they don't have a 2nd assignment (although Matsuike might get the host spot). Instead we have Sarina Joos, Gabrielle Daleman, Alina Bonillo, Mako Yamashita, Seojin Youn who are all ranked much lower, but still got an assignment.
For men there are no obvious choices although anything can happen between seasons. But Samoilov, Reshtenko, Y Chen, Pitot, Nordebäck are much higher ranked than Ma, Gartung, Rakic, Carrillo, Kazanecki.
I don't follow pairs and dance so I don't know what's going on there.
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