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2025 Junior Worlds: Info and pre-game chat

One question when did the ISU/USFS decide to put junior world on Peacock in the first place. This is a first. I mean I was one of the few major skating events that was not geoblocked in the US and now if do not want to pay the ransom to Peacock then you will have to have a VPN. How is having almost every skating event geoblocked or having to pay Peacock for access helping the sport grow. I saw it on Peacock but only an hour for each event that barely enough time to show one group of skaters. Is JGP going to be like this next year along with the standard GP events all on Peacock, hopefully they will be more than hour so we can see all the skaters at the Junior level events but still who started this nonsense.
 
One question when did the ISU/USFS decide to put junior world on Peacock in the first place. This is a first. I mean I was one of the few major skating events that was not geoblocked in the US and now if do not want to pay the ransom to Peacock then you will have to have a VPN. How is having almost every skating event geoblocked or having to pay Peacock for access helping the sport grow. I saw it on Peacock but only an hour for each event that barely enough time to show one group of skaters. Is JGP going to be like this next year along with the standard GP events all on Peacock, hopefully they will be more than hour so we can see all the skaters at the Junior level events but still who started this nonsense.
Wow....I had no idea....better get busy book marking. So does this mean anyone watching ISU youtube channel needs a VPN set to the Netherlands?
 
My child bride is gonna be at an agility competition all weekend so you guys will have to baby sit me... T-F -S -S
 
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Hmmm...I am half Austro Hungarian and I make a great Czechoslovakian Soup
that is a very much like Hungarian goulash......I hope they show some of the city......
Thanks to tsuyoboogie, I watched the lady's FS at the Japan High School Championships tonight. Mao did a cracker of a 3A and set a new season's best at 214 and change....
 
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The live RD is out for me, middle of the night, but the other three are late but might be doable! I have to say I am for more interested in the juniors than the seniors, so am going to try and stay up :coffee:
 
ISU World Junior Championships 2025
Debrecen / HUN
25.02.2025 - 02.03.2025

In order of Season Best of this season.
(PB) - personal best if no season best.
* - unofficial best if no official.

Junior Men
No. Name Nation Score
1 Rio NAKATA JPN 233.53
2 Yanhao LI NZL 230.09
3 Sena TAKAHASHI JPN 229.66
4 Jacob SANCHEZ USA 229.46
5 Adam HAGARA SVK 227.58
6 Minkyu SEO KOR 224.78
7 Patrick BLACKWELL USA 221.56
8 Jaekeun LEE KOR 220.26
9 Arlet LEVANDI EST 213.79
10 Shunsuke NAKAMURA JPN 212.73
11 Tamir KUPERMAN ISR 210.47
12 Tonghe TIAN CHN 210.39
13 Genrikh GARTUNG GER 208.77
14 Lukas VACLAVIK SVK 207.78
15 Habin CHOI KOR 200.76
16 David BONDAR CAN 196.86
17 Casper JOHANSSON SWE 195.88
18 Ean WEILER SUI 195.52
19 Anthony PARADIS CAN 192.70
20 Lloyd THOMSON GBR 190.56
21 Raffaele Francesco ZICH ITA 189.69
22 Jiarui LI HKG 182.99
23 Vladislav CHURAKOV EST 182.44*
24 Matias LINDFORS FIN 173.47
25 Yehor KURTSEV UKR 172.73
26 Furkan Emre INCEL TUR 170.69
27 Gianni MOTILLA FRA 169.55
28 Tao MACRAE GBR 169.11
29 David SEDEJ SLO 168.40
30 Denis KROUGLOV BEL 164.80
31 Ilia GOGITIDZE FRA 160.78
32 Nikita KRIVOSHEYEV KAZ 159.26
33 Deyan MIHAYLOV BUL 155.19
34 Oscar OLIVER POL 151.33
35 Andre ZAPATA ESP 151.05
36 Aleksei VLASENKO HUN 149.84
37 Kirills KORKACS LAT 148.77
38 Konstantin SUPATASHVILI GEO 148.62
39 Jakub TYKAL CZE 147.82
40 Mikayel SALAZARYAN ARM 140.54
41 Tobia OELLERER AUT 130.92
WD Luka IMEDASHVILI LTU 178.67
WD Hiro KAEWTATHIP THA 169.50*

Junior Women
No. Name Nation Score
1 Mao SHIMADA JPN 224.68
2 Elyce LIN-GRACEY USA 213.33
3 Ami NAKAI JPN 204.88
4 Kaoruko WADA JPN 198.22
5 Sophie Joline VON FELTEN USA 197.41
6 Yihan WANG CHN 194.71
7 Jia SHIN KOR 193.04
8 Anna PEZZETTA ITA 186.19
9 Stefania GLADKI FRA 182.61
10 Elina GOIDINA EST 182.23
11 Inga GURGENIDZE GEO 179.14
12 Yujae KIM KOR 178.79
13 Arina KALUGINA AZE 173.64*
14 Lulu LIN CAN 167.82
15 Leandra TZIMPOUKAKIS SUI 167.36
16 Iida KARHUNEN FIN 166.42
17 Hana BATH AUS 163.57
18 Anna GERKE GER 163.44
19 Sofya TITOVA ARM 161.64*
20 Yu-Feng TSAI TPE 161.23
21 Ariel GUO HKG 161.13
22 Anastasia BRANDENBURG SUI 160.95
23 Khrystyna HALIARETA UKR 158.40*
24 Venla SINISALO FIN 158.34
25 Polina DZSUMANYIJAZOVA HUN 156.45
26 Angel DELEVAQUE NED 155.48
27 Veronika KIM KAZ 154.87*
28 Kira BARANOVSKA LAT 154.63
29 Jana HORCICKOVA CZE 153.21
30 Phattaratida KANESHIGE THA 151.51
31 Petra LAHTI NZL 151.14
32 Sophia SHIFRIN ISR 149.67
33 Julija LOVRENCIC SLO 148.92
34 Kara YUN CAN 145.94
35 Gabriele JUSKAITE LTU 144.31(PB)
36 Alexandra ODMAN SWE 143.71
37 Olivia LENGYELOVA SVK 142.94
38 Ariadna GUPTA ESPADA ESP 139.77*
39 Elizabeth NOU EST 137.94
40 Eve DUBECQ FRA 136.78
41 Stefania YAKOVLEVA CYP 135.21
42 Flora Marie SCHALLER AUT 131.72
43 Alice SMITH GBR 131.54
44 Lena CUSAK CRO 125.11
45 Zhasmin SHLAGA KGZ 121.72
46 Lia LYUBENOVA BUL 120.67
47 Amanda GHEZZO ITA 120.17
48 Weronika FERLIN POL 115.55
WD Alica LENGYELOVA SVK 164.68
WD Maria Eliise KALJUVERE EST 159.92

Junior Pairs
No. Name Nation Score
1 Anastasiia METELKINA / Luka BERULAVA GEO 213.05
2 Jiaxuan ZHANG / Yihang HUANG CHN 176.09
3 Oxana VOUILLAMOZ / Tom BOUVART SUI 170.09
4 Ava KEMP / Yohnatan ELIZAROV CAN 168.83(PB)
5 Sofiia HOLICHENKO / Artem DARENSKYI UKR 164.95
6 Jazmine DESROCHERS / Kieran THRASHER CAN 159.77
7 Martina ARIANO KENT / Charly LALIBERTE LAURENT CAN 158.28(PB)
8 Olivia FLORES / Luke WANG USA 155.82
9 Naomi WILLIAMS / Lachlan LEWER USA 153.34
10 Romane TELEMAQUE / Lucas COULON FRA 146.38
11 Sae SHIMIZU / Lucas Tsuyoshi HONDA JPN 145.66
12 Polina POLMAN / Gabriel RENOLDI ITA 132.06
13 Irina NAPOLITANO / Edoardo COMI ITA 130.55
14 Louise EHRHARD / Matthis PELLEGRIS FRA 129.96
15 Megan YUDIN / Patrizio Romano ROSSI LOPEZ ESP 128.58*
16 Debora Anna COHEN / Lukas VOCHOZKA CZE 128.01
17 Reagan MOSS / Jakub GALBAVY USA 127.16
18 Lily WILBERFORCE / Mozes Jozsef BEREI HUN 127.02*
19 Laura HECKOVA / Alex VALKY SVK 118.44
20 Zarah WOOD / Alex LAPSKY GBR 103.61
WD Katalin Janne SALATZKI / Lukas ROESELER GER 116.07

Junior Ice Dance
No. Name Nation Score
1 Noemi Maria TALI / Noah LAFORNARA ITA 169.98
2 Iryna PIDGAINA / Artem KOVAL UKR 168.30
3 Katarina WOLFKOSTIN / Dimitry TSAREVSKI USA 166.88
4 Celina FRADJI / Jean-Hans FOURNEAUX FRA 162.86
5 Darya GRIMM / Michail SAVITSKIY GER 162.49
6 Caroline MULLEN / Brendan MULLEN USA 161.16
7 Sandrine GAUTHIER / Quentin THIEREN CAN 160.75
8 Hana Maria ABOIAN / Daniil VESELUKHIN USA 160.12
9 Ambre PERRIER GIANESINI / Samuel BLANC KLAPERMAN FRA 154.87
10 Gina ZEHNDER / Beda Leon SIEBER SUI 153.29
11 Laura FINELLI / Massimiliano BUCCIARELLI ITA 152.52
12 Chloe NGUYEN / Brendan GIANG CAN 150.97
13 Sara KISHIMOTO / Atsuhiko TAMURA JPN 139.97
14 Lilia SCHUBERT / Nikita REMESHEVSKIY GER 136.50
15 Aneta VACLAVIKOVA / Ivan MOROZOV SVK 133.16
16 Anita STRAUB / Andreas STRAUB AUT 132.60
17 Sofiia BEZNOSIKOVA / Max LELEU BEL 129.20
18 Irmak YUCEL / Danil PAK TUR 128.06
19 Charlotte CHUNG / Axel MACKENZIE SWE 124.92*
20 Shanjie YIN / Shirui YANG CHN 123.61
21 Zofia GRZEGORZEWSKA / Oleg MURATOV POL 120.17
22 Eliska ZAKOVA / Filip MENCL CZE 119.96
23 Ksenia SIPUNOVA / Miron KORJAGIN EST 114.69
24 Mimi MARLER DAVIES / Joseph BLACK GBR 109.55
25 Sarah MARCILLY VAZQUEZ / Jolan ENGEL ESP 98.24
 
Also : I find it quite unfair that Junior worlds is always so close to 4CC while skaters from Euros can actually double down...
 
The event tiles are (finally) up on the ISU YouTube channel.

Very bad times for me (west coast of North America).
Yeah, this is gonna have to be an on demand event. The positive thing is you just have to stay off of social media and then watch sans the zamboni breaks.
 
ISU World Junior Championships 2025
Debrecen / HUN
25.02.2025 - 02.03.2025

In order of Season Best of this season.
(PB) - personal best if no season best.
* - unofficial best if no official.

Junior Men
No. Name Nation Score
1 Rio NAKATA JPN 233.53
2 Yanhao LI NZL 230.09
3 Sena TAKAHASHI JPN 229.66
4 Jacob SANCHEZ USA 229.46
5 Adam HAGARA SVK 227.58
6 Minkyu SEO KOR 224.78
7 Patrick BLACKWELL USA 221.56
8 Jaekeun LEE KOR 220.26
9 Arlet LEVANDI EST 213.79
10 Shunsuke NAKAMURA JPN 212.73
11 Tamir KUPERMAN ISR 210.47
12 Tonghe TIAN CHN 210.39
13 Genrikh GARTUNG GER 208.77
14 Lukas VACLAVIK SVK 207.78
15 Habin CHOI KOR 200.76
16 David BONDAR CAN 196.86
17 Casper JOHANSSON SWE 195.88
18 Ean WEILER SUI 195.52
19 Anthony PARADIS CAN 192.70
20 Lloyd THOMSON GBR 190.56
21 Raffaele Francesco ZICH ITA 189.69
22 Jiarui LI HKG 182.99
23 Vladislav CHURAKOV EST 182.44*
24 Matias LINDFORS FIN 173.47
25 Yehor KURTSEV UKR 172.73
26 Furkan Emre INCEL TUR 170.69
27 Gianni MOTILLA FRA 169.55
28 Tao MACRAE GBR 169.11
29 David SEDEJ SLO 168.40
30 Denis KROUGLOV BEL 164.80
31 Ilia GOGITIDZE FRA 160.78
32 Nikita KRIVOSHEYEV KAZ 159.26
33 Deyan MIHAYLOV BUL 155.19
34 Oscar OLIVER POL 151.33
35 Andre ZAPATA ESP 151.05
36 Aleksei VLASENKO HUN 149.84
37 Kirills KORKACS LAT 148.77
38 Konstantin SUPATASHVILI GEO 148.62
39 Jakub TYKAL CZE 147.82
40 Mikayel SALAZARYAN ARM 140.54
41 Tobia OELLERER AUT 130.92
WD Luka IMEDASHVILI LTU 178.67
WD Hiro KAEWTATHIP THA 169.50*

Junior Women
No. Name Nation Score
1 Mao SHIMADA JPN 224.68
2 Elyce LIN-GRACEY USA 213.33
3 Ami NAKAI JPN 204.88
4 Kaoruko WADA JPN 198.22
5 Sophie Joline VON FELTEN USA 197.41
6 Yihan WANG CHN 194.71
7 Jia SHIN KOR 193.04
8 Anna PEZZETTA ITA 186.19
9 Stefania GLADKI FRA 182.61
10 Elina GOIDINA EST 182.23
11 Inga GURGENIDZE GEO 179.14
12 Yujae KIM KOR 178.79
13 Arina KALUGINA AZE 173.64*
14 Lulu LIN CAN 167.82
15 Leandra TZIMPOUKAKIS SUI 167.36
16 Iida KARHUNEN FIN 166.42
17 Hana BATH AUS 163.57
18 Anna GERKE GER 163.44
19 Sofya TITOVA ARM 161.64*
20 Yu-Feng TSAI TPE 161.23
21 Ariel GUO HKG 161.13
22 Anastasia BRANDENBURG SUI 160.95
23 Khrystyna HALIARETA UKR 158.40*
24 Venla SINISALO FIN 158.34
25 Polina DZSUMANYIJAZOVA HUN 156.45
26 Angel DELEVAQUE NED 155.48
27 Veronika KIM KAZ 154.87*
28 Kira BARANOVSKA LAT 154.63
29 Jana HORCICKOVA CZE 153.21
30 Phattaratida KANESHIGE THA 151.51
31 Petra LAHTI NZL 151.14
32 Sophia SHIFRIN ISR 149.67
33 Julija LOVRENCIC SLO 148.92
34 Kara YUN CAN 145.94
35 Gabriele JUSKAITE LTU 144.31(PB)
36 Alexandra ODMAN SWE 143.71
37 Olivia LENGYELOVA SVK 142.94
38 Ariadna GUPTA ESPADA ESP 139.77*
39 Elizabeth NOU EST 137.94
40 Eve DUBECQ FRA 136.78
41 Stefania YAKOVLEVA CYP 135.21
42 Flora Marie SCHALLER AUT 131.72
43 Alice SMITH GBR 131.54
44 Lena CUSAK CRO 125.11
45 Zhasmin SHLAGA KGZ 121.72
46 Lia LYUBENOVA BUL 120.67
47 Amanda GHEZZO ITA 120.17
48 Weronika FERLIN POL 115.55
WD Alica LENGYELOVA SVK 164.68
WD Maria Eliise KALJUVERE EST 159.92

Junior Pairs
No. Name Nation Score
1 Anastasiia METELKINA / Luka BERULAVA GEO 213.05
2 Jiaxuan ZHANG / Yihang HUANG CHN 176.09
3 Oxana VOUILLAMOZ / Tom BOUVART SUI 170.09
4 Ava KEMP / Yohnatan ELIZAROV CAN 168.83(PB)
5 Sofiia HOLICHENKO / Artem DARENSKYI UKR 164.95
6 Jazmine DESROCHERS / Kieran THRASHER CAN 159.77
7 Martina ARIANO KENT / Charly LALIBERTE LAURENT CAN 158.28(PB)
8 Olivia FLORES / Luke WANG USA 155.82
9 Naomi WILLIAMS / Lachlan LEWER USA 153.34
10 Romane TELEMAQUE / Lucas COULON FRA 146.38
11 Sae SHIMIZU / Lucas Tsuyoshi HONDA JPN 145.66
12 Polina POLMAN / Gabriel RENOLDI ITA 132.06
13 Irina NAPOLITANO / Edoardo COMI ITA 130.55
14 Louise EHRHARD / Matthis PELLEGRIS FRA 129.96
15 Megan YUDIN / Patrizio Romano ROSSI LOPEZ ESP 128.58*
16 Debora Anna COHEN / Lukas VOCHOZKA CZE 128.01
17 Reagan MOSS / Jakub GALBAVY USA 127.16
18 Lily WILBERFORCE / Mozes Jozsef BEREI HUN 127.02*
19 Laura HECKOVA / Alex VALKY SVK 118.44
20 Zarah WOOD / Alex LAPSKY GBR 103.61
WD Katalin Janne SALATZKI / Lukas ROESELER GER 116.07

Junior Ice Dance
No. Name Nation Score
1 Noemi Maria TALI / Noah LAFORNARA ITA 169.98
2 Iryna PIDGAINA / Artem KOVAL UKR 168.30
3 Katarina WOLFKOSTIN / Dimitry TSAREVSKI USA 166.88
4 Celina FRADJI / Jean-Hans FOURNEAUX FRA 162.86
5 Darya GRIMM / Michail SAVITSKIY GER 162.49
6 Caroline MULLEN / Brendan MULLEN USA 161.16
7 Sandrine GAUTHIER / Quentin THIEREN CAN 160.75
8 Hana Maria ABOIAN / Daniil VESELUKHIN USA 160.12
9 Ambre PERRIER GIANESINI / Samuel BLANC KLAPERMAN FRA 154.87
10 Gina ZEHNDER / Beda Leon SIEBER SUI 153.29
11 Laura FINELLI / Massimiliano BUCCIARELLI ITA 152.52
12 Chloe NGUYEN / Brendan GIANG CAN 150.97
13 Sara KISHIMOTO / Atsuhiko TAMURA JPN 139.97
14 Lilia SCHUBERT / Nikita REMESHEVSKIY GER 136.50
15 Aneta VACLAVIKOVA / Ivan MOROZOV SVK 133.16
16 Anita STRAUB / Andreas STRAUB AUT 132.60
17 Sofiia BEZNOSIKOVA / Max LELEU BEL 129.20
18 Irmak YUCEL / Danil PAK TUR 128.06
19 Charlotte CHUNG / Axel MACKENZIE SWE 124.92*
20 Shanjie YIN / Shirui YANG CHN 123.61
21 Zofia GRZEGORZEWSKA / Oleg MURATOV POL 120.17
22 Eliska ZAKOVA / Filip MENCL CZE 119.96
23 Ksenia SIPUNOVA / Miron KORJAGIN EST 114.69
24 Mimi MARLER DAVIES / Joseph BLACK GBR 109.55
25 Sarah MARCILLY VAZQUEZ / Jolan ENGEL ESP 98.24
Love these lists from AlexRus. I can print the list and then highlight the must see skaters and then do the same on the start orders lists. Then go back if there is time.
 
Yesterday Peacock had tiles up for Jr. Worlds. I was surprised by this since I don't think Peacock has ever shown Jr. Worlds. Just checked on the tiles now and they have all been removed!

Guess I will be watching on the ISU stream.
 
Also : I find it quite unfair that Junior worlds is always so close to 4CC while skaters from Euros can actually double down...
I think it's because of the later timing of Canadian and US nationals (US in particular). The time slot used for Euros would be too early because it is too close to Canadian and US nationals. Most European countries hold theirs before Christmas. There was a big fuss the year 4CC was earlier, because people said it was unfair to have it so soon after nationals.
 
Why are the Georgians competing here? It’s just so icky to me. It would be one thing if they desperately needed the funding but they don’t.
Because they are age eligible and the rules allow them to compete. 🤷‍♂️ The same as Holichenko/Darenskyi in pairs, Wolfkostin/Tsarevski in ice dance and Adam Hagara, Arlet Levandi and Elyce-Lin Gracey in singles, who are all established seniors now (although they did at least compete on the JGP this season, and not the senior GP like Metelkina/Berulava did). Their coach wants as many medals as possible and would, I think, like the celebrity status of having coached a team who took both world titles in the same year. There seems to be no consideration for their longer term well being - it's all about short-term success. Metelkina has been struggling with injury and I am concerned that she is going to end up going the same way as Karina Safina did. The way Safina was treated was very poor and both girls deserved/deserve better.

Whether we agree with it or not is irrelevant - there is no rule barring established senior skaters from returning to juniors if they are age eligible. If they wanted to do so, Isabeau Levito and Ilia Malinin could have done a junior competition last season or this season to get the tech mins (which the Georgians have from last year) and then competed at Junior Worlds this year.
 
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