2015 ISU Challenger Series Confirmed

Layback11 said:

I must not be the only one who thinks Mordavian(Sp?) Ornament sounds like a European sports car or something like that?

... It's so fun to speculate about what weird things could potentially be called "Mordavian Ornament," lol

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Layback11 said:

But of course!


Long ago, Princess Elena I of Mordavia arranged-married to Prince Nikita I of Crazytown. Indifferent to this arrangement, Elena obliged, only to be devastated when Nikita ran off in the middle of the night. The seething princess ordered a full-scale manhunt for the backstabbing nutjob, but in the peasants' crazed search for the one who had so wounded their beloved princess, the wrong man was convicted. Some random guy named Ruslan was arrested in Nikita's place by somebody who had no idea what Nikita actually looked like. In return for his freedom, he gave the princess an ancient pendant that had been in his family for centuries. Though they never met again, she never forgot the man they thought was Nikita, so she passed the necklace down to her children, and they to theirs, to remember him by. It survived over twelve wars, always secreted away to a trusted palace official when it was in danger. But once, it did not return. (Nobody searched for it, knowing that one day, it would find an owner who needed it more than they.) It had ended up in the hands of a young girl named Yulia, who discovered that it had an incredible power: the ability to give the owner the skill to become an elite athlete. When Yulia first set foot on ice, there was no going back. The necklace began to work its magic. And some magic it worked! She became one of the greatest figure skaters the world had ever seen.

When Yulia won Olympic (team) gold, she told her teammates about the pendant. Upon learning its history, she returned it to Elena Ilinykh (this one was Elena XVII). The Mordavian Ornament had returned to its rightful owner. The characters of its colorful history could rest in peace knowing its mission was complete.

And as a reward for its gift to the world, the storied jewel became a skating event.

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golden411 said:

Мордовские узоры is the Russian name of the Challenger event in Saransk, as mentioned on the previous page of this thread.

http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...es-Confirmed&p=1141210&viewfull=1#post1141210 (post #21)​

Мордовские узоры is the name also of a store in Saransk that sells clothing/costumes/uniforms.

https://vk.com/mordovskieuzory​

So perhaps the store is sponsoring the Challenger comp???

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TMC said:

How is it that Finlandia Trophy is a CS event even though there is no pair skating? I would think that all disciplines would be mandatory at least in order to get CS status?

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TMC said:

I'm too dense to be able to use the search effectively, so before I go to "Stupid questions" thread, I'll ask this here (again, since another poster already wondered about it above):

How is it that Finlandia Trophy is a CS event even though there is no pair skating? I would think that all disciplines would be mandatory at least in order to get CS status? ...

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YesWay said:

If I remember correctly, they only need to host 3 out of 4 disciplines to qualify joining the Challenger series.

They are not the only Challenger series competition only hosting 3 this year, and (not sure, but) I don't think they were the only one last year either.

They have included pairs about three times before, but it's been quite a while since the last time - I guess they couldn't attract enough teams to compete (I believe there is a minimum number of countries that must participate, for a discipline to be included)

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