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A new category of competition at an ISU-recognized international event, per the Challenge Cup 2015 Announcement:
Improv programs + judging solely on entertainment value + DJ playing contemporary music + inclusion of audience voting + possible celebrity tie-breaker.
Scheduled as the closing competition on the final day of the Challenge Cup, Sun Feb 22.
(No extra entry fee required.)
The same description is in the First Information for the Challenge Cup.
Figure Skate Freestyle Battle page (in Dutch) from the Challenge Cup website:
I'm labelling this thread as "News," b/c I don't think anything about The Ultimate Skate Battle previously had been posted on GS.
(But the information from the Dutch fed is not hot off the press.)
Mods, I'm posting this thread in The Edge b/c it seems of possible wider interest (beyond the Challenge Cup) as a "first" (AFAIK).
A new category of competition at an ISU-recognized international event, per the Challenge Cup 2015 Announcement:Improv programs + judging solely on entertainment value + DJ playing contemporary music + inclusion of audience voting + possible celebrity tie-breaker.
Scheduled as the closing competition on the final day of the Challenge Cup, Sun Feb 22.
(No extra entry fee required.)
The Ultimate Skate Battle
Improvisation Program
http://isuprod.blob.core.windows.net/media/180212/challenge-cup-2015-announcement.pdf (see pages 4 and 5 of 9)
Improvisation Program
A maximum of 32 skaters will battle it out in this new format:
• 1 minute improvised program on contemporary music
• a DJ will play a tune at random
• two skaters skate simultaneously against each other on a knock-out basis, one of them advances to the next round
• all skaters are drawn at random against each other in each round
• there is only one judging criterium: the entertainment factor!
• Judges:
• a DJ will play a tune at random
• two skaters skate simultaneously against each other on a knock-out basis, one of them advances to the next round
• all skaters are drawn at random against each other in each round
• there is only one judging criterium: the entertainment factor!
• Judges:
o 3 judges comprise one vote, on majority basis
o public audience gets one vote
o in case of a tie, a Dutch celebrity will cast the tie-breaker
o all judges and the public get a green an a red card to show their vote
• Prize money for The Ultimate Skating Battle:o public audience gets one vote
o in case of a tie, a Dutch celebrity will cast the tie-breaker
o all judges and the public get a green an a red card to show their vote
o 1st prize: € 1000
o 2nd prize: € 500
o 3rd prize: € 250
o 2nd prize: € 500
o 3rd prize: € 250
http://isuprod.blob.core.windows.net/media/180212/challenge-cup-2015-announcement.pdf (see pages 4 and 5 of 9)
The same description is in the First Information for the Challenge Cup.
http://isuprod.blob.core.windows.net/media/184323/cc2015-first-information.pdf (see pages 4 and 5 of 8)
Figure Skate Freestyle Battle page (in Dutch) from the Challenge Cup website:
I'm labelling this thread as "News," b/c I don't think anything about The Ultimate Skate Battle previously had been posted on GS.
(But the information from the Dutch fed is not hot off the press.)
Mods, I'm posting this thread in The Edge b/c it seems of possible wider interest (beyond the Challenge Cup) as a "first" (AFAIK).
:yay:
