2018 Canadian Nationals - Gala

[Mango]

The gala is airing

Wednesday, January 24 at 7:30-9:30 PM on TSN4
Friday, January 26 at 7:30-9:30 PM on TSN3

In French

Saturday, January 20 at 7:30 - 9:30 PM on RDS
Sunday, January 21 at 4:00-6:00 PM on RDS2
Tuesday, January 23 at 3:00-5:00 PM on RDS
Thursday, January 25 at 12:00-2:00 AM on RDS


Line up and music (photo)
National champs photo

Kevin Reynolds had an interesting get up: https://twitter.com/mojalina/status/952697857500426240
Elladj backflipping: https://twitter.com/SkateTSN/status/952705725175799808
Nam the cameraman: https://twitter.com/SkateTSN/status/952705885612138496

 

[Tonichelle]

Keegan skating to the Blues Brothers is life! Can't wait to see a video of it!

 

[Mango]

Bev's article on Keegan mentions Shae-Lynn Bourne did some gala choreo to ensure Keegan and Elladj both do back flips together.

 

[Mango]

Meagan posted a clip from their EX - yikes!
https://twitter.com/mhjd_85/status/952719186475802624
And we got a clip of Keegan's back flip
https://twitter.com/TealePB/status/952740849707761664
Synchronzied back flips
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd87kl9HO_T/

Surya Bonaly's probably like 'but why wasn't I invited?'

More clips

Dylan & Trennt having fun doing pairs together
https://twitter.com/complex_ity_/status/952635960491089921
https://twitter.com/complex_ity_/status/952636075196923904

Elladj & someone (Dylan?) doing a lazy death spiral
https://twitter.com/complex_ity_/status/952636195904696321

Scott thanking everyone
https://twitter.com/Bernardo1130/status/952715297869279232

Photos

Kevin and his awesome get up
https://twitter.com/iwamariko/status/952771489131999238
Elladj in his MJ program outfit
https://twitter.com/Caroline0T7/status/952764042547904512

 

[NanaPat]

One nice thing about the gala was that they included all skaters from first to fifth in reverse order of finish. Before the intermission they had hall-of-fame inductions, all the fifth place finisher, all the fourth place finishers, then Shae-Lynn with support from all those skaters. (For these skaters, the placements were in the program but not announced).

After the intermission they had all the third place skaters, then all the seconds, then all the winners. Here, they did announce their finish/medal. That was followed by a group number with all of the skaters.

The only thing missing was the junior champions.

Fortunately all the sentimental favorites who are retiring after this year (Kevin, Eladj, Lubov/Dylan, etc) were in the top 5.

 

[ice coverage]

... Fortunately all the sentimental favorites who are retiring after this year (Kevin, Eladj, Lubov/Dylan, etc) were in the top 5.

Not Liam. :sad4:

 

[Ryan O]

The gala is airing on RDS on Saturday, January 20 at 7.30 PM EST.

Will the gala be airing on TSN/CTV?

 

[Mango]

Will the gala be airing on TSN/CTV?

Sorry there isn't anything showing up in the schedules for Friday-Sunday this week or next. And there hasn't been an announcement on TSN's skating Twitter account. So far I only know of this RDS date & time which was broadcast.

 

[Mango]

Oh looks like they heard us. Just about 15 minutes after my post they put up the English schedule.

Wednesday, January 24 at 7:30-9:30 PM on TSN4
Friday, January 26 at 7:30-9:30 PM on TSN3

The French schedule is

Saturday, January 20 at 7:30 - 9:30 PM on RDS
Sunday, January 21 at 4:00-6:00 PM on RDS2
Tuesday, January 23 at 3:00-5:00 PM on RDS
Thursday, January 25 at 12:00-2:00 AM on RDS

 

[Ryan O]

Thank you for posting the new schedules.

 

[Mango]

The RDS version of videos are up. Guess we'll have to wait for the TSN version.

Kevin Reynolds
Evelyn Walsh/Trennt Michaud
Aurora Cotop
Sarah Arnold/Thomas Williams
Alaine Chartrand
Lubov/Dylan
Elladj Baldé
Carolane Soucisse/Shane Firus
Shae-Lynn Bourne
Larkyn Austman
Kirsten/Michael
Nam Nguyen
Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
Kaetlyn Osmond
Julianne/Charlie
Keegan Messing (with sound)
Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier
Gabrielle Daleman
Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
Patrick Chan
Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir
Finale clip

 

[penniavaswen]

I can't find a working stream for TSN4, much less of the English broadcast of the gala. Does anyone have a link?