2023 U.S. Nationals: General Info and Pre-game chat

[Seven Sisters]

Just wanted to mention that I am eagerly awaiting a full account of the FOFS breakfast. @moonvine, @CoyoteChris, how about it?

Are any other GSers there?

 

[moonvine]

Just wanted to mention that I am eagerly awaiting a full account of the FOFS breakfast. @moonvine, @CoyoteChris, how about it?

Are any other GSers there?

Right now there is no one to let me in. I am sitting outside on my Walker. Only cops are here, no SAP center employees. SAP center office is not open.

 

[Seven Sisters]

Right now there is no one to let me in. I am sitting outside on my Walker. Only cops are here, no SAP center employees. SAP center office is not open.

This is unacceptable. What time is it supposed to start?

 

[CoyoteChris]

Just wanted to mention that I am eagerly awaiting a full account of the FOFS breakfast. @moonvine, @CoyoteChris, how about it?

Are any other GSers there?

Audry liu, rachel flatt, tom mcmannis, tim laduc, ashley cain and lots of bacon

 

[CoyoteChris]

They won't let me post pics any more but they are lecturing on what it takes to be a skater. They are talking about negative fan interactions

 

[moonvine]

Ashley is coaching full time. Audrey is in school and skating on the collegiate level. Rachel Flatt is completing her PhD and is on many skating related boards. They’re talking about people saying inappropriate things about them and their bodies. I mean…I totally agree these things should not be said. Oooh Ash is talking about TSL and how crappy they are basically.

 

[moonvine]

She’s asking people not to follow/engage with TSL without naming them.

 

[CoyoteChris]

Collin mcmannis

 

[moonvine]

The food is cold. Cold biscuits, cold hash browns, cold bacon. I didn’t dare try the eggs or sausage. Pastries are..not great. They had a cheese board and fruit up two steps, which is easy enough for me but not the people on scooters or wheelchairs

 

[moonvine]

I mean ..I understand we shouldn’t say bad things about the athletes or their bodies. I feel like I’m being lectured though. I don’t see a single other athlete including juniors. This is just…weird.

 

[Seven Sisters]

They won't let me post pics any more but they are lecturing on what it takes to be a skater. They are talking about negative fan interactions

This is so interesting. Is there a lot of that? Most skating fans I know are thrilled to meet skaters and very careful to not bother them. So it is interesting that they are naming this as an issue!

 

[el henry]

This is so interesting. Is there a lot of that? Most skating fans I know are thrilled to meet skaters and very careful to not bother them. So it is interesting that they are naming this as an issue!

it appears as though the Kaitlin H. incident got to them, but lecturing people who shell out for the FOFS breakfast is probably not getting the message to their target audience.

 

[moonvine]

This is so interesting. Is there a lot of that? Most skating fans I know are thrilled to meet skaters and very careful to not bother them. So it is interesting that they are naming this as an issue!

Mostly online, but Rachel was talking about inappropriate touching and people crowding around her at one comp and she was so freaked that her strength and conditioning coach had to come start physically moving them out of the way.

Ashley apparently was on YouTube one time (when she and Tim were at their peak, so last year pre Olympics? and saw a TSL meme or video or something listing out all the reasons Tim shouldn’t skate with her anymore and it really upset her. She asks we not share or comment on their stuff.

I talked to her after the breakfast and she’s very happy.

Talked to Tim, got him to sign my flag AT LAST! Got Rachel’s autograph. On my way out met up with Mark Sandusky and two (I think) junior pairs skaters. I tried low key to read their name tags. They were the ONLY athletes who showed up. I told them none of them were allowed to ever break up with their partners. You’re welcome.

 

[moonvine]

If I had shelled out for the Brian Boitano suite I would have been furious y’all. It is where the breakfast was held and it is nowhere near the ice. You have to watch it on TV. If I want to get drunk and watch skating on TV I can do that at home. I took a couple of pictures of the suite.

We’ve got the internal arena sound in the suite and Johnny asked Terry for a napkin to put us cough drop in.

Ok here’s Rusty.

 

[CoyoteChris]

I mean ..I understand we shouldn’t say bad things about the athletes or their bodies. I feel like I’m being lectured though. I don’t see a single other athlete including juniors. This is just…weird.

Depends on the skater. Some are very open touchy feely people, like Jason Brown. Some, like Yuna, run the other way when they see me (emoji for shrug).
Rachel Flatt has no worries about getting touched by me. (Emoji thumbs up)

 

[moonvine]

Depends on the skater. Some are very open touchy feely people, like Jason Brown. Some, like Yuna, run the other way when they see me (emoji for shrug).
Rachel Flatt has no worries about getting touched by me. (Emoji thumbs up)

I don’t think that the people who shell out to join FOFS are the people they need to be talking to.

 

[moonvine]

Let’s see what else. Oh a nice guy came up to me when I was getting flags signed. He said I saw you waving the Pride flag, that’s so nice! I said “yes, I am a flyer of many flags. If there’s a flag that needs to be flown, I’m your girl.” (I actually have a storage tub of them now so I can make sure the cats don’t decide they are a good barfing area)

USFS is apparently selling clear arena bags that are much much larger than what the SAP center supposedly allows (about the size of my bag and all NCAA and NFL regulation bags). I would be incensed if I purchased a bag from them and wasn’t allowed to enter the arena with it next year.

This area is super super sketch (I ran across some unhoused people while on my morning “let’s find this breakfast” adventure) and these people have no clue at all what they are doing. I asked two different arena personnel how to get to an Uber. They told me across the parking lot and past the gates. The ticket taker says oh you have to go to the other side of the building. Oh absolutely not. What’s the address here right here at this booth. He told me the street and I got the address off the boarded up house across the street.

So I will post pics of the view from the suite, Boitano lounge, few other pics I have taken on my IG later.

 

[CoyoteChris]

If anyone wants to sit in my seat for the gala, its 107, row 1 seat 13

 

[yesterday]

If anyone wants to sit in my seat for the gala, its 107, row 1 seat 13

you:

GSer be like:

 

[CoyoteChris]

If anyone wants to sit in my seat for the gala, its 107, row 1 seat 13

No one? Ok