2023 Mezzaluna Cup | Oct 18-22

[gsk8]

The 2023 Mezzaluna Cup is scheduled to take place Oct 18-22, 2023, in Mentana, Italy, at the Palaghiaccio della Mezzaluna. The event will feature the Ice Dance disciplines in the Novice, Junior and Senior categories and will be conducted in accordance with the 2022 ISU Constitution and General Regulations, the Technical Rules for Ice Dance 2023/24 (ISU Communication 2560) and relevant ISU Communications.

• ISU Event Page
• Announcement
• Results

 

[Andrea82]

Result page

Mezzaluna Cup Ice Dance 2023

Event results for Mezzaluna Cup Ice Dance 2023

www.fisg.it

20 entries in Senior event

 

[ladyjane]

Great to see both our Dutch couples there. The rivalry continues!

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Great fields in both Srs and Jrs.

Personally very excited for the slightly older baby Germans (Karla Maria Karl and Kai Hoferichter) to make their Sr debut, and for the two new Italian baby dance teams (Giulia Isabella Paolino/Andrea Tuba and Noemi Maria Tali/Noah Lafornara) to be up against each other in the same competition.

(Side note - Giulia and Noah skated together for the US back in Novices, so it's kind of cute that they have both switched to Italy independently of each other at the same time).

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

I know that I'm biased because I have adopted them, but is anybody else getting concerned that there has been no sign of Elisabetta Leccardi / Mattia dalla Torre at any events this season yet? I would have expected them to have been here at least.

Is Mattia still not fully recovered from his injury? Has there been further injury issues for either of them? Or have they maybe stopped skating together? Neither of them has posted anything skating related since way last season (Elisabetta in September; and Mattia in February).

Mind you, if they are no longer skating together, they are still friends because Elisabetta is with Mattia in his most recent Instagram post, from the start of September.

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I'm very intrigued by the fact that there are two competitions (at Junior and Senior levels) scheduled for guest partnerships. Yet there is nobody listed in the entries for either of them.

These "out of competition" competitions are normally for skaters where at least one partner has switched countries but is not eligible to represent their new country yet.

The fact that these competitions are in the schedule indicates that there are partnerships that are planning to compete that fall into this situation. But the fact that there is nobody listed in the entries is interesting. Of course, it could be a simple case of the partnerships involved withdrawing. However, there could be an alternative explanation. That it is not public knowledge yet that these partnerships have been formed, and their teams want to keep it quiet until the last minute.

We all love a bit of cloak and dagger stuff!

CaroLiza_fan

 

[gsk8]

It doesn't appear that there will be a live stream, but something on FB might be a possibility if they can work it out.

 

[Andrea82]

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I'm very intrigued by the fact that there are two competitions (at Junior and Senior levels) scheduled for guest partnerships. Yet there is nobody listed in the entries for either of them.

These "out of competition" competitions are normally for skaters where at least one partner has switched countries but is not eligible to represent their new country yet.

The fact that these competitions are in the schedule indicates that there are partnerships that are planning to compete that fall into this situation. But the fact that there is nobody listed in the entries is interesting. Of course, it could be a simple case of the partnerships involved withdrawing. However, there could be an alternative explanation. That it is not public knowledge yet that these partnerships have been formed, and their teams want to keep it quiet until the last minute.

Those "out of competition" seem to be
Senior: Casteller LAVINIA / Kasinskii VLAD
Junior: Arianna SOLDATI / Nicholas TAGLIABUE

They are listed in the result page of the domestic competition which takes place on the same days in the same rink.

Kasinskii VLAD is actually Vladislav KASINSKII. He is a former Russian who lastly skated for Bosnia.

Soldati/Tagliabue are skating out of competition because she was 12 years old.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Those "out of competition" seem to be
Senior: Casteller LAVINIA / Kasinskii VLAD
Junior: Arianna SOLDATI / Nicholas TAGLIABUE

They are listed in the result page of the domestic competition which takes place on the same days in the same rink.

Kasinskii VLAD is actually Vladimir KASINSKII. He is a Russian-born who skated for Bosnia.

Soldati/Tagliabue are skating out of competition because she was 12 years old.

Thank you for the information.

Just to let you know, dummy ISU Bio links were added to the names when you copied them over. But, whereas Casteller / Kasinskii don't have an ISU Bio yet, Soldati / Tagliabue do have one already:

https://results.isu.org/bios/isufs00112367.htm

According to it, Nicholas turns 18 in November, and Arianna turns 13 in December. So, will they be eligible to compete internationally in Juniors next season? With all these age changes that are going on, I haven't a clue what the boundaries are any more!



CaroLiza_fan

 

[viennaskater]

My French faves Marie and Thomas are there!

 

[labgoat]

For @elektra blue

REWATCH 2023 Mezzaluna Cup - Oct 18-22, 2023
Mentana, Italy - Palaghiaccio della Mezzaluna | Entries / Results
So far, I got nothing - no stream and no videos...

Junior Rhythm Dance Warm-up Group 1 1 Eva BERNARD / Amedeo BONETTO FRA 2 Sofiia BEZNOSIKOVA / Max LELEU BEL 3 Celina FRADJI / Jean-Hans FOURNEAUX FRA WD 4 Alexia KRUK / Jan EISENHABER GER Warm-up Group 2 5 Natalie BLAASOVA / Filip BLAAS CZE 6 Enna KESTI / Oskari LIEDENPOHJA FIN 7 Lena MALIQUEO-REPOUX / Illia SYNELNIKOV FRA 8 Sofiia DOVHAL / Wiktor KULESZA POL Warm-up Group 3 9 Alice PIZZORNI / Massimiliano BUCCIARELLI ITA 10 Hilda TAYLOR / Nolen HICKEY FIN 11 Martina LAVAZZA / Davide PETTIGIANI ITA 12 Lea HIENNE / Baptiste FERRAND FRA Warm-up Group 4 13 Noemi Maria TALI / Noah LAFORNARA ITA 14 Vittoria PETRACCHI / Daniel BASILE ITA 15 Giulia Isabella PAOLINO / Andrea TUBA ITA 16 Alessia ROCCI / Andrea CAPUCI ITA 17 Beatrice VENTURA / Stefano FRASCA ITA

Senior Rhythm Dance Warm-up Group 1 1 Natacha LAGOUGE / Arnaud CAFFA FRA 2 Anna SIMOVA / Kirill AKSENOV SVK 3 Chelsea VERHAEGH / Sherim van GEFFEN NED 4 Marie DUPAYAGE / Thomas NABAIS FRA 5 Anastasia POLIBINA / Pavel GOLOVISHNIKOV POL Warm-up Group 2 6 Lucy HANCOCK / Ilias FOURATI HUN 7 Hanna JAKUCS / Alessio GALLI NED 8 Victoria MANNI / Carlo ROETHLISBERGER ITA 9 Yuka ORIHARA / Juho PIRINEN FIN 10 Karla Maria KARL / Kai HOFERICHTER GER Warm-up Group 3 11 Adrienne CARHART / Oleksandr KOLOSOVSKYI AZE 12 Leia DOZZI / Pietro PAPETTI ITA 13 Maria Sofia PUCHEROVA / Nikita LYSAK SVK 14 Zoe LARSON / Andrii KAPRAN UKR 15 Charise MATTHAEI / Max LIEBERS GER Warm-up Group 4 16 Emma KIVIOJA / Erik PELLNOR SWE 17 Samantha RITTER / Daniel BRYKALOV AZE 18 Olivia Josephine SHILLING / Leo BAETEN BEL 19 Elisabetta INCARDONA / Rafael Marc Drozd MUSIL DEN 20 Olivia OLIVER / Filip BOJANOWSKI POL

Spoiler: Free Skate Start Orders

Junior Free Dance Warm-up Group 1 1 Alessia ROCCI / Andrea CAPUCI ITA 2 Enna KESTI / Oskari LIEDENPOHJA FIN 3 Martina LAVAZZA / Davide PETTIGIANI ITA Warm-up Group 2 4 Lena MALIQUEO-REPOUX / Illia SYNELNIKOV FRA 5 Hilda TAYLOR / Nolen HICKEY FIN 6 Lea HIENNE / Baptiste FERRAND FRA 7 Natalie BLAASOVA / Filip BLAAS CZE Warm-up Group 3 8 Sofiia BEZNOSIKOVA / Max LELEU BEL 9 Beatrice VENTURA / Stefano FRASCA ITA 10 Vittoria PETRACCHI / Daniel BASILE ITA 11 Alice PIZZORNI / Massimiliano BUCCIARELLI ITA Warm-up Group 4 12 Sofiia DOVHAL / Wiktor KULESZA POL 13 Eva BERNARD / Amedeo BONETTO FRA 14 Noemi Maria TALI / Noah LAFORNARA ITA 15 Celina FRADJI / Jean-Hans FOURNEAUX FRA

Senior Free Dance Warm-up Group 1 1 Elisabetta INCARDONA / Rafael Marc Drozd MUSIL DEN 2 Samantha RITTER / Daniel BRYKALOV AZE 3 Chelsea VERHAEGH / Sherim van GEFFEN NED 4 Emma KIVIOJA / Erik PELLNOR SWE 5 Olivia Josephine SHILLING / Leo BAETEN BEL Warm-up Group 2 6 Karla Maria KARL / Kai HOFERICHTER GER 7 Lucy HANCOCK / Ilias FOURATI HUN 8 Charise MATTHAEI / Max LIEBERS GER 9 Adrienne CARHART / Oleksandr KOLOSOVSKYI AZE 10 Anastasia POLIBINA / Pavel GOLOVISHNIKOV POL Warm-up Group 3 11 Hanna JAKUCS / Alessio GALLI NED 12 Leia DOZZI / Pietro PAPETTI ITA 13 Olivia OLIVER / Filip BOJANOWSKI POL 14 Zoe LARSON / Andrii KAPRAN UKR 15 Victoria MANNI / Carlo ROETHLISBERGER ITA Warm-up Group 4 16 Maria Sofia PUCHEROVA / Nikita LYSAK SVK 17 Anna SIMOVA / Kirill AKSENOV SVK 18 Marie DUPAYAGE / Thomas NABAIS FRA 19 Natacha LAGOUGE / Arnaud CAFFA FRA 20 Yuka ORIHARA / Juho PIRINEN FIN

 

[Andrea82]

Interesting Junior RD result

Paolino/Tuba are leading Fradji/Fourneaux 62.99 to 60.54. Fradji struggled on the twizzle (level 1, minus GOEs)
Tali/Lafornara and Bernard/Bonetto are just behind with 58.8/58.9

Highest TES to Paolino/Tuba.
Highest PCS to Fradji/Fourneaux

 

[Andrea82]

Orihara/Pirinen leading the RD.
Very close between Lagouge/Caffa and Dupayage/Nabais. Both 69.xx
Then the 2 Slovak teams with 67.4 and 65.9

Carhart/Kolosovskyi with a big lead over Ritter/Brykalov in the Azeri battle.


Jakucs/Galli achieved the minimum TES for Worlds. They already have the FD one. They didn't have the new RD one after ISU raised it from 33 to 35.

 

[Andrea82]

Fradji/Fourneaux wins the Junior event (156.36).
Paolino/Tuba stays marginally ahead of Tali/Lafornara (155.51 to 153.32)

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Uff, the battle for the one Jr Worlds spot will be really tough between Tali/Lafornara and Paolino/Tuba
And Taylor/Hickey have Jr Worlds minimums now

 

[labgoat]

Did anyone ever find a stream or videos for me to link to in the rewatch? So far I have nothing.