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In addition to Bash-Beau, don't forget about Fabbri-Ayer. This is a team that due to a variety of reasons, hasn't gotten the profile internationally. The audience at Cdns certainly appreciated their skating and emotional connection and so did our domestic judges and tech reps (195.61). It will be interesting to see what international judges think of them once Piper-Paul and other older Cdn teams have retired.
 
I think Fabbri/Ayer may end up going to worlds. But having such little International experience they will be hard pressed to make the top 10 even though they may deserve it.
 
Sackie said:
I think Fabbri/Ayer may end up going to worlds. But having such little International experience they will be hard pressed to make the top 10 even though they may deserve it.
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Nothing against Fabbri/Ayer but even if they were more established internationally, top 10 would still be very, very difficult for them.

Ice Dance is such a deep field, even way more established teams (that are certainly no worse than F/A) like Green/Parsons will have to skate lights out to get into the top 10 at Worlds based on what we've seen so far this season. 7 teams (from 5 different countries) have scored above 200, 14 (from 9 countries) above 190 and 24 (from 11 countries) over 180 this season at this point (and who knows what 4CC will bring us).
 
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Oh well see I have no doubt that all 3 USA dance teams will be in the top 10 come worlds. They always seem to score way better come worlds.
 
Sackie said:
Oh well see I have no doubt that all 3 USA dance teams will be in the top 10 come worlds. They always seem to score way better come worlds.
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C/P barely made the top 10 last season and there are a number of teams that have improved massively this season (or weren't even competing at Worlds back then).
 
Jumping_Bean said:
Some of these teams have a clearly easier path to building reputation (and that's unfortunately a huge part of Ice Dance scoring) than others.
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Of course... I suspect that BB will have a boost when Piper and Paul retire.. at the same time, they are good... Very good.. so I have no problem with it ;)
 
Cutting the ice said:
In addition to Bash-Beau, don't forget about Fabbri-Ayer. This is a team that due to a variety of reasons, hasn't gotten the profile internationally. The audience at Cdns certainly appreciated their skating and emotional connection and so did our domestic judges and tech reps (195.61). It will be interesting to see what international judges think of them once Piper-Paul and other older Cdn teams have retired.
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I adore them. I just never put them there because they are indeed low profile for now say the judges... and I don't want to have too high hopes...
 
Yes but I am thinking that if Fabbri/Ayer get to go to worlds it is because Lala and FBS are out. So that moves others up a couple spots.
 
4everchan said:
Of course... I suspect that BB will have a boost when Piper and Paul retire.. at the same time, they are good... Very good.. so I have no problem with it ;)
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Still, building a significant reputation in maybe a season or two (where you still aren't a Country's top team, if LaLa survive any injuries) is not easy either. 😬 They lost a bit of momentum at the end of last season when they just managed to hang on to a podium finish at Jr Worlds, and throughout this season, as they had less competition opportunities than some of the same gen teams that moved up at the same time (Mrazeks and Lim/Quan, in particular), picking that back up isn't guaranteed in skating.

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Yes but I am thinking that if Fabbri/Ayer get to go to worlds it is because Lala and FBS are out. So that moves others up a couple spots.
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It moves most teams up two spots. Even that would be very tight for C/P based on current SB scores, which would then have them in 11th (and yes, of course, SB scores are not the end all be all of skating, some teams fall or get injured, others polish their performances and have their best skates of the season at Worlds).

Teams are very close in scoring potential this year, and anything could happen, but I wouldn't be surprised if only one or at most two of the US teams place in the top 10.

And, should anyone have forgotten or never stumbled across this information, there will not be any judges from the USA or Canada on the Ice Dance panel at Worlds. France, Finland and Lithuania will have no interest in scoring the Americans particularly favourably when their (2nd in France's case) teams too are wanting to place in the top 10.
 
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Jumping_Bean said:
Oh, and I think Megan Yudin/Aidan Wright (8th at Jr Nationals) also split, he updated his Ice partner search profile only a few days ago (though I don't think he ever really took it down, so 🤷‍♀️).
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Looks like he's aging out of juniors since he'll be 23 in May and has senior as the level he wants to compete at. I did like them as a team, but it's understandable why they would split if that's the case.
 
A couple of notes from Youth Olympic Games:

Rose Savard-Ferguson, the daughter of 1998 Olympian pair skater Marie-Claude Savard-Gagnon, competed in snowboarding. Rose has also competed in figure skating earlier in her athletic career. (Her brother, James, is also a competitive snowboarder.)

https://olympics.com/en/news/canada...nowboard-success-after-getting-her-skates-off

Gabby Daleman's cousin, Angel Daleman, won two gold medals for the Netherlands in speed skating: link

So far Canada has one medal, silver, in snowboard cross. Hoping figure skating will net us another medal or two.
 
I went down a pairs rabbit hole and came across this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReTmpfiimoc

What a skate! Underhill and Martini surely deserve to be on the list of all-time great pairs teams. The arch in her back on the death spirals is unparalleled in today's competition. The really unusual (and beautiful lifts) like the side hip one and the final lift where her balance is all over his one hand. HUGE throws.

So funny to see the changes in the rules. That lift/twist combination at the end — I wonder if someone would be allowed to do something like that now. And so many side by side jumps, lol.

Just incredible really. And look at the size of that crowd in the 80s.
 
RatedPG said:
The entry list is now available for the Pre-Novice / Novice Challenger event.

See below link:

2023-2024 Skate Canada Challenge - Pre-Novice/Novice

skatecanada.ca skatecanada.ca

I’m looking forward to this event!! But, will be difficult to follow along with Youth Olympics and 4CC, at the same time.
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I'll probably check out some of it after, especially Pre-Novice Ice Dance :) Sugino/Marr are competing, and it looks like there's another same-gender team also competing in that category.

Skate Canada posted an Instagram reel of Sugino/Marr too ❤️
 
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