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2022-23 Russian Local Events – Discussion

“For the prizes of Santa Claus”
If that’s not the greatest name ever for a competition, I don’t know what is.

And it doesn’t matter if you tell Santa you have been nice (most people lie to Santa anyway), you have to prove it on ice.
 
“For the prizes of Santa Claus”
If that’s not the greatest name ever for a competition, I don’t know what is.

And it doesn’t matter if you tell Santa you have been nice (most people lie to Santa anyway), you have to prove it on ice.
for Granddad Frost prizes, to be exact. This character differs from Santa Claus to a large extent, and one of these differences is that you does not need to talk with him about your behavior. To receive a prize, you need to sing a song, read a poem aloud, or, as in this case, perform two programs well. In addition, Granddad Frost appears always with a tall beautiful blonde girl.
 
for Granddad Frost prizes, to be exact. This character differs from Santa Claus to a large extent, and one of these differences is that you does not need to talk with him about your behavior. To receive a prize, you need to sing a song, read a poem aloud, or, as in this case, perform two programs well. In addition, Granddad Frost appears always with a tall beautiful blonde girl.
Granddad Frost sounds awesome too.
He makes you work for your prize. Smart, that builds character and he doesn’t have to hear the kids lie about being nice. Haha

Just to be clear, the beautiful blonde girl is not one of the prizes, correct?
 
Granddad Frost sounds awesome too.
He makes you work for your prize. Smart, that builds character and he doesn’t have to hear the kids lie about being nice. Haha

Just to be clear, the beautiful blonde girl is not one of the prizes, correct?
no, she's not a prize. This is just the eternal companion of Granddad Frost - Snegurochka (kind variant of Snow Maiden). So that their union does not look like something defiant, she is considered the granddaughter of Granddad Frost.
 
I found this information about the upcoming St Petersburg Championship

It's actually over one month ahead, but after the end of the Nationals I'm already feeling the withdrawal of chances to see Russian skaters! :biggrin:

Really hoping there will be a stream for this! 🤞


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I'll miss the local Moscow boys in January. One whole month without them competing. :(
After last year's event, personally I'm not interested in the Channel One Cup anymore, so that's not really a consolation for me.
Question: What about the Moscow novice championships (younger age)? They're supposed to be from the 17th to 20th of January and are the qualifier for the Russian novice championships (younger age), which, granted, aren't until the 9th to 13th of March, but still. They'd have to be rescheduled at the very least, if they're also affected.
 
Yeah I wonder what is going to happen with the novice championships? I guess they can move them to the end of the month? Im going to miss watching novice comps meanwhile.
 
Question: What about the Moscow novice championships (younger age)? They're supposed to be from the 17th to 20th of January and are the qualifier for the Russian novice championships (younger age), which, granted, aren't until the 9th to 13th of March, but still. They'd have to be rescheduled at the very least, if they're also affected.
No info about the Younger Age Novice Championships yet.
In fact, only one tournament in the January competition calendar has been updated so far. The Moscow Figure Skating Cup has been rescheduled to 7-9th February.

It boggles the mind, surely the Moscow Fed didn't learn about these changes in legislation just today, how could they not plan for this beforehand? None of the other local feds seem to have this problem.
 
It boggles the mind, surely the Moscow Fed didn't learn about these changes in legislation just today, how could they not plan for this beforehand? None of the other local feds seem to have this problem.
such an odd thing, If no one else is having issues then did Moscow fed just put the paper work off too long? Like how has this even happened, its the novice skaters that are going to pay the price here.
 
I've added the links to the Moscow Novice (younger age) Championships in the link collection thread. In classic (local) Russian Fed ambiguity they seem to go ahead as planned despite the earlier announcement that all competitions until 25th January will have to be cancelled.

Note that in this event skaters will compete in a Short Program, Elements, and a Free Skating segment. Only the top 24 athletes after the SP will advance to the Elements section.
 
I've added the links to the Moscow Novice (younger age) Championships in the link collection thread. In classic (local) Russian Fed ambiguity they seem to go ahead as planned despite the earlier announcement that all competitions until 25th January will have to be cancelled.

Note that in this event skaters will compete in a Short Program, Elements, and a Free Skating segment. Only the top 24 athletes after the SP will advance to the Elements section.
Can't wait!!! Hope the skaters are all healthy and in good form 🤗
 
Streaming links are already up. Here is Day 1, the rest can be found in the link collection thread:


PS: Go, littlest of the Moskvich Kirills, and out-smile them all! :cheer2:
 
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i find team tuts plan for novices so baffling this season from not competing at all to switching skaters like Kovyazina Zoya and Chereneva Yuliana to represent moscow instead of their former training locations to have an easy way of qualifying to novice nats like most coaches do.

Moscow is so stacked I don't thinks at the very least Zoya will be able to qualify to novice nats.:shrug:
 
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