2024-25 Grand Prix assignments: Updated 11/12/24

[gsk8]

Pairs - Updated: 11/12/24
Aurelie Faula / Theo Belle (FRA) added to GP France
Daria Danilova / Michel Tsiba (NED) added to Skate America
Yixi YANG / Shunyang DENG (CHN) added to COC
Siyang ZHANG / Ziqi JIA (CHN) W/D from COC
Cheng Peng and Lei Wang W/D from GP France and COC (rumored split; unconfirmed)
Yuchen Wang and Lei Zhu (CHN) added to COC
Katie McBeath and Daniil Parkman (USA) added to Skate America
Oceane PIEGAD / Denys STREKALIN (FRA) W/D from GP France (split)
Alisa EFIMOVA / Misha MITROFANOV (USA) added to GP France
Ekaterina GEYNISH / Dmitrii CHIGIREV (UZB) added to Skate Canada and GP France
Valentina PLAZAS / Maximiliano FERNANDEZ (USA) W/D from NHK Trophy and COC (injury)
Anastasia Vaipan-Law / Luke Digby (GBR) added to NHK Trophy
Ioulia Chtchetinina / Michal Wozniak (POL) added to COC
Katie McBeath / Daniil Parkman (USA) added to COC
Lucrezia Beccari / Matteo Guarise (ITA) W/D from Skate Canada and NHK Trophy (injury)
Ioulia Chtchetinina / Michal Wozniak (POL) added to Skate Canada
Isabella Gamez and Aleksandr Korovin (PHI) cannot attend NHK Trophy (short notice as last-minute replacements)
Isabelle Martins and Ryan Bedard (USA) added to NHK Trophy
Anastasia GOLUBEVA / Hektor GIOTOPOULOS MOORE (AUS) W/D from Finlandia Trophy (Golubeva COVID)
Yuna NAGAOKA/ Sumitada MORIGUCHI (JPN) added to Finlandia Trophy
Yixi Yang and Shunyang Deng (CHN) W/D from COC
Isabella GAMEZ / Aleksandr KOROVIN (PHI) added to COC

Women - Updated: 11/6/24
Ava Marie Ziegler (USA) W/D from Skate Canada & COC (medical procedure)
Haein Lee (KOR) removed from Skate America/NHK Trophy (suspension)
Young You (KOR) removed from Skate America/GP Finlandia (suspension)
Minchae Kim (KOR) added to Skate America & COC
Olga Mikutina (AUT) added to Skate America & NHK Trophy
Janna Jyrkinen (FIN) added to Finlandia Trophy
Olivia Lisko (FIN) added to Finlandia Trophy
Yi ZHU (CHN) added to COC
Xiangyi AN (CHN) added to COC
Yuna Aoki (JPN) added to NHK Trophy
Sarah Everhardt (USA) added to Finlandia Trophy
Elyce Lin-Gracey (USA) added to Skate America and Skate Canada
Maia Mazzara (FRA) added to GP France
Nella Pelkonen (FIN) W/D from Skate Canada
Loena Hendrickx (BEL) W/D from GP France and Finlandia Trophy (not ready)
Maia Mazzara (FRA) W/D from GP France
Clemence Mayindu (FRA) added to GP France
Isabeau Levito (USA) W/D from Finlandia Trophy
Lara Naki Gutmann (ITA) added to Finlandia Trophy
Ashun Yun (KOR) added to Finlandia Trophy

Ice Dance - Updated: 10/16/24
Zixi XIAO / Linghao HE (CHN) added to COC
Jungei REN / Jianing XING (CHN) added to COC
Isabella Flores and Ivan Desyatov (USA) added to Skate America
Natacha LAGOUGE / Arnaud CAFFA (FRA) added to GP France
Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Nikolaj SOERENSEN (CAN) removed from Skate America/NHK Trophy (Soerensen banned)
Jennifer JANSE VAN RENSBURG / Benjamin STEFFAN (GER) W/D from Skate America (medical issue)
Marie DUPAYAGE / Thomas NABAIS (FRA) added to NHK Trophy
Alicia FABBRI / Paul AYER (CAN) added to Skate America
Isabella Flores / Ivan Desyatov (USA) removed from Skate America (Desyatov under possible investigation)
Annabelle Morozov / Jeffrey Chen added to Skate America

Men - Updated: 11/4/24
Adam Harga (SVK) W/D from NHK Trophy (competing in JGP)
Daniel Grassl (ITA) added to NHK Trophy
Daiwei DAI (CHN) added to COC
Tatsuya Tsuboi (JPN) added to NHK Trophy
Lucas Broussard (USA) added to Skate America
Stephen Gogolev (CAN) W/D from NHK Trophy
Andrew Torgashev (USA) added to NHK Trophy

 

[Jontor]

Replacement List

Women

1. Yuna Aoki - Jpn 184.46 has one assignment
2. Minchae Kim - Kor 184.03
3. Sarina Joos - Ita 180.83
4. Anna Pezzetta - Ita 179.58
5. Nella Pelkonen - Fin 179.31 has one assignment
6. Elyce Lin-Gracey - USA 179.16
7. Olga Mikutina - Aut 177.76
8. Audrey Shin - USA 177.14 (will she switch to pairs?) she has switched
9. Mariia Seniuk - Isr 175.75
10. Starr Andrews - USA 174.82
11. Kaiya Ruiter - Can 172.68 has one assignment
12. Sara-Maude Dupuis - Can 172.45 has one assignment
13. Clare Seo - USA 171.94
14. Tzu-Han Ting - Tpe 171.87
15. Dabin Choi - Kor 171.00
16. Justine Miclette - Can 169.24
17. Mana Kawabe - Jpn 168.98
18. Alexia Paganini - Sui 168.96
19. Sarah Everhardt - USA 168.69
20. Hongyi Chen - Chn 168.66 has one assignment
21. Julia Sauter - Rou 168.40

This women's list is really really short. You can see the effect of no juniors coming in due to the senior age change. Most of these women will get a spot, or some competitions will probably not have 12 entries.
And no, Josefin Taljegård is not eligible for the replacement list as she was only 78th in SB list last season. Neither is Lara Naki Gutmann (77th) and Sofja Stepcenko (99th) even though they already have an assignment due to their world ranking.

Men

1. Andrew Torgashev - USA 237.20 has one assignment
2. Juheon Lim - Kor 234.86 has one assignment
3. Nozomu Toshioka - Jpn 233.56 has one assignment
4. Donovan Carrillo - Mex 232.67 has one assignment
5. Hyungyeom Kim - Kor 230.46 has one assignment
6. Vladimir Samoilov - Pol 230.17 has one assignment
7. Georgii Reshtenko - Cze 226.67
8. Adam Hagara - Svk 225.61 has one assignment
9. Mihhail Selevko - Est 223.95
10. Tomoki Hiwatashi - USA 223.79 has one assignment
11. Roman Sadovsky - Can 221.57 has one assignment
12. Liam Kapeikis - USA 220.15
13. Daniel Martynov - USA 220.09
14. Landry Le May - Fra 219.04
15. Yudong Chen - Chn 218.66 has one assignment
16. Hangil Kim - Kor 217.31
17. Tatsuya Tsuboi - Jpn 216.98
18. Arlet Levandi - Est 216.12
19. Lucas Broussard - USA 216.10
20. Ivan Shmuratko - Ukr 215.68
21. Shunsuke Nakamura - Jpn 215.46
22. Maxim Naumov - USA 215.00 has one assignment
23. Semen Daniliants - Arm 213.99
24. Takeru Amine Kataise - Jpn 212.75
25. Nikita Starostin - Ger 211.85
26. Aleksa Rakic - Can 211.74 has one assignment
27. Andreas Nordebäck - Swe 211.45
28. Younghyun Cha - Kor 211.15
29. Beck Strommer - USA 210.92
30. Sammy Hammi - Fra 209.71
31. Sihyeong Lee - Kor 209.13
32. Maurizio Zandron - Aut 207.59
33. Gabriel Folkesson - Swe 205.79
34. Edward Appleby - Gbr 205.55
35. Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabaté - Esp 205.41
36. Fedir Kulish - Lat 205.23
37. Jimmy Ma - USA 205.16
38. Naoki Rossi - Sui 204.79
39. Kai Jagoda - Ger 204.62
40. Michael Xie - USA 204.13
41. Jacob Sanchez - USA 201.49

A few of these guys might remain in juniors.

Any errors? Did I miss anyone??

 

[surimi]

wow, Grassl is back? Does that mean his case was dropped, or would he be eligible anyway due to his world ranking? I wonder.

 

[el henry]

Skate America does have a brain cell, maybe many! (referencing one of my earlier posts wishing for this very assignment )

Donovan at Skate America!

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Didn't Grimm/Savitskiy already say they are doing another season on the JGP circuit? If so, that would be a spot that would open up at Skate Canada.

Also, I had the right idea when I said Yuna Aoki might be at SkAm

 

[AlexBreeze]

wow, Grassl is back? Does that mean his case was dropped

I heard that it was.

or would he be eligible anyway due to his world ranking? I wonder.

He wouldn't be. He's outside of top 24. He is a returning skater.

 

[el henry]

Also Jason is competing the GP??? Wowza.

Skate Canada and NHK make perfect sense for him, but, again, wow.

 

[surimi]

And no GP for Tatsuya and just 1 for Nozomu... -_-

2 GP for Rino was a very pleasant surprise though! I'm quite happy to see all prominent JPN women represented well, including Yuna Aoki.

 

[gsk8]

....and Jason Brown! So thrilled! Hope he doesn't pull out!

 

[cheerknithanson]

Ilia doing Skate America and Skate Canada. Interesting.

 

[ramurphy2005]

I'm a little surprised that Ilia is doing Skate America and Skate Canada back to back.

Also interested to find out who will get the TBA Skate America spots.

 

[figureskatingandrainbows]

I'll do a full break-down later, but I'm especially excited for singles this year. The GP looks to be very competitive and deep, and I expect we'll start to see pieces of the Olympic puzzle lock into place. I'm happy to see Jason and Alysa back, and am intrigued that Yuma and Ilia are doing back-to-backs. Women will be a bloodbath, pairs fascinating, and we will see if any new dance teams can break into the top and disrupt the status quo. Overall, it should be a great fall!

 

[Jeanie19]

Ilia doing Skate America and Skate Canada. Interesting.

Travel wise its not too bad. Timezone one hour difference for him.

 

[yuki@thelake]

Interesting to see Naomi and Lachlan get a GP pairs assignment in their first senior year. Fresh blood in the senior circuit. Exciting!

 

[4everchan]

omg... this is going to be an intense season.... Dance is stacked... nobody seems to have retired from the top teams. WOOT! Go Piper and Paul !

Good on Skate Canada for only saving one TBD (pairs) and confirming things that we already know would happen early (Sara-Maude as third host spot for instance and Fabbri-Ayer as well)

Gogolev seems to be fit enough to compete. Good news.
Roman : only one spot but he is so popular, maybe he will get invited later on ?

Chiu not at Skate Canada is a bit of a surprise but then, he is on the West Coast and it makes sense for him to do China and Texas.

A bit bummed about the very few spots Canadians are getting but the rules are the rules they just need to skate better all season, and of course, well maybe one day Skate Canada will realize of the importance of Challengers.... and send more athletes there.

If I were to go somewhere, I'd pick Skate Canada to see Piper and Paul, LaLa and Deanna and Max, especially since Kaori , Lopareva Brissaud, and Liu will skate there.

Interesting that SKAM didn't invite any Canadians for pairs...

Glad to see other skaters like Bradie or Jason who have not been doing GPs or not at Worlds back.

Of course, these assignments are so early.... no idea why Grassl is there but happy Frangipani got SCI and Rizzo is back.

I never doubted that Marco and Charlène would return with home games just a couple seasons away... but since some were expressing doubt, well, glad they are confirmed. I sort of wondered if Maddie and Evan would retire... but I guess they want more.

I am going to end this post right away : this will change guys this will change but it's nice to have the making of the season somewhere... at least, knowing that injured skaters are returning, or ending the retirements rumours. I had enough with Conrad and Shoma... (and Patrick from retiring from SOI).

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

In terms of my kids, I have two sets.

Camille KOVALEV / Pavel KOVALEV (FRA) in Pairs in France and China.
Emilea ZINGAS / Vadym KOLESNIK (USA) in Ice Dance in Canada and Finland.

Staying with the Ice Dancers, I had been hoping that Sofía VAL / Asaf KAZIMOV (ESP) would get an assignment. But, alas. That said, you never know, they might still.

I would check where they are in the World Standings, but none of the pages on either version of the ISU Results site are loading. Given the time of year, I would normally say that they are probably getting updated. But, I am not so sure that is the case this year, because there are other problems.

You know the way that the new site (results.isu.org) was secure (https://) and the old site (www.isuresults.com) was unsecure (http://). And because of this, I replaced all the links in my Fan Fests so that they would point to the new site, and started using links to the new site in all my reminder posts.

Well, I noticed a week or so ago that the new site isn't secure any more. Which means that all the links in my posts are now coming up with security warnings when you click them!

The upshot is that both versions of the ISU Results site are well and truly up the creek.

As usual, the ISU have completely messed things up.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[Seven Sisters]

On first glance, best lineup—GP Finland
Second place winner—Skate Canada
JMHO

 

[SmileHappy34]

A few surprise since I thought a few listed is age ineligible to compete and some teams split or retired.

 

[Seven Sisters]

A few surprise since I thought a few listed is age ineligible to compete and some teams split or retired.

I will admit that I was surprised to see Brown, Grassl, Tennell, and FB/Sorensen listed—and somewhat surprised to see both Chock/Bates and Gilles/Poirier on the lists too!

 

[Remilia]

shocked Alysa didn't get skam