It deserves it's own thread.

It was posted here: http://www.skatingforums.com/showpos...6&postcount=10

I hope the referee hears complaints about the championship gold and masters novice/intermediate schedule. I've made mine. To put a championship event at 8:20 in the morning is awful - who is going to come to watch them? Isn't that part of the fun of a sectionals? I know it is for me - I love an event that ends with the awesome masters skaters (although I do realize that the championship pairs do put a wrench in the schedule because of people doing both championship pairs and singles.) Personally, I wouldn't mind at all skating my solo dance at that time of the morning - but not the championship event.

Add to it the fact that we're paying twice as much as the other skaters to skate on mini-mite ice (sorry, hockey reference) is worse. What about the skaters flying in from the west? They're skating even earlier, according to their body clocks.

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I wanted to get Champ. Gold Ladies overwith on Saturday, then go out and party!

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2009 Adult Midwestern Sectional Championships
Deborah Burgoyne North American Invitational
Saturday, Februrary 21st and Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

8:00 a.m. Event 1 - Pre Bronze Ladies Young Adult/II
8:00 a.m. Event 2 - Pre Bronze Ladies III/IV
8:21 a.m. Event 3 - Bronze Men III/IV/V
8:36 a.m. Event 4 - Bronze Ladies I
8:36 a.m. Event 5 - Bronze Ladies II
8:36 a.m. Event 6 – Bronze Ladies III
8:57 a.m. Event 7 – Bronze Ladies IV
8:57 a.m. Event 8 – Bronze Ladies V
9:18 a.m. Event 9 – Silver Men III
9:18 a.m. Event 10 – Silver Men IV/V
9:57 a.m. Event 101 – Championship Gold Men
10:12 am. Event 102 – Championship Masters Intermediate – Novice Men
10:30 a.m. Event 103 - Championship Masters Junior – Senior Men
11;06 a.m. Event 11 – Young Adult/Adult Ladies Ladies Interpretive I
11:24 a.m. Event 12 – Adult Ladies Interpretive II
11:42 a.m. Event 13 – Adult Ladies Interpretive III
12:00 p.m. Event 14 – Adult Ladies Interpretive IV
12:24 p.m. Event 15 – Adult Ladies Interpretive V
12:42 p.m. Event 16 – Young Adult Masters/Masters Ladies Interpretive I
1:00 p.m. Event 17 – Masters Ladies/Mens Interpretive II/III
1:24 p.m. Event 18 – Masters Ladies/Men Interpretive IV
1:54 p.m. Event 104 – Championship Dance
2:21 p.m. Event 19 – Gold Solo Dance
2:33 p.m. Event 20 – Pre-Gold Solo Dance
2:45 p.m. Event 21 – Silver Solo Dance
3:00 p.m. Event 22 – Pre-Silver Solo Dance
3:18 p.m. Event 23 – Bronze Solo Dance
3:30 p.m. Event 24 – Pre Bronze Solo Dance
3:48 p.m. Event 25 – Preliminary Solo Dance
3:57 p.m. Event 26 – Pre-Bronze Dance Initial Round
4:15 p.m. Event 27 – Gold Dance Critique
4:45 p.m. Event 105 – Championship Pairs
5:03 p.m. Event 28 – Gold Pairs
5:27 p.m. Event 29 – Bronze Pairs Exhibition
5:27 p.m. Event 30 – Masters Pairs Exhibition
5:45 p.m. Event 31 – Pre-Bronze Dance Final Round
6:03 p.m. Event 32 – Centennial Dance Critique

Competitor’s Party – Wyandotte Boat Club

8:20 a.m. Event 106 – Championship Gold Ladies
9:23 a.m. Event 107 – Championship Masters Intermediate – Novice Ladies
9:56 a.m. Event 33 – Gold Ladies II/IV
10:17 a.m. Event 34 – Gold Men III/IV
10:32 a.m. Event 36 – Silver Ladies I
10:53 a.m. Event 37 – Silver Ladies II
11:14 a.m. Event 38 – Silver Ladies III
11:38 a.m. Event 39 – Silver Ladies IV
12:17 p.m. Event 108 – Championship Masters Junior – Senior Ladies
1:20 p.m. Event 109 - Championship Dance
1:41 p.m. Event 40 - Gold Dance

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If I was competing, I'd be at 10:30 on Sunday. Hmmm, no thanks!

I'll be there to cheer everyone on (even at 8:30 on Sunday morning, if they keep champ Gold at that time)!

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Actually this works out perfectly for me, since I couldn't come in until Saturday! I'm doing Champ Int/Nov.

I couldnt' get in until Saturday, so this works out great for me. It's a bit early, but better than leaving at 4:00 am with a 5 month old baby on Saturday to do a Saturday afternoon event.

I understand some are unhappy, but personally I couldn't be more relieved.

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I don't mind champ gold/champ intermediate novice being on Sunday at all. Just that it should be after the Silver ladies, not before it. Right before the other championship events.

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Ideally, yes. I wasn't remarking so much about the time. I'm more just happy it;s Sunday.

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Ordinarily, I'd be delighted with this schedule as all my events would be over by noon on Saturday.

Crap, I'm guessing I wasn't on the list to judge this event.

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Champagne in 2005, 2008, 2009 - who's next out of the pre-bronze club...?

Wang chung!

my mom is doing adult nationals gold non-qualifying. She is 44 and I think she has a strong chance at winning!

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3) Pass Novice Free at the end of January
4) Pass Senior moves by september
5) Consistant double flips and double lutzs
6) Learn a new cool spin!

I wouldn't want to judge camp gold because there are too many good skaters competing.

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Wang chung!

Is there a list of entries somewhere?

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I'm not sure. I watched adult nationals from last year and I was really surprised at how good some of the adult skaters really were. And I'm not talking age 21 I'm talking like age 35 and up.

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1) Land Double Axel
2) Pass Junior Moves at the end of January
3) Pass Novice Free at the end of January
4) Pass Senior moves by september
5) Consistant double flips and double lutzs
6) Learn a new cool spin!

OK, but I'm going to try to give her a challenge, LOL!

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

I'm just glad all 5 of my events are not on the same day!

I've got the 4 events that don't stress me out or require much thinking on Saturday (interp and 3 solo dances one after the other, hopefully I will have time in the skating order to change), and with the highest level dance first so I won't kill myself on the 14 step and be tired for the tango and blues.

Then I can do my dreaded freestyle Sunday and can just focus on that.

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Me, techskater, skater1964....and the rest!

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There are probably 7 more and I could name them, but won't for privacy's sake.

LOL I think its great that there are adult skaters that actually can do something. At my rink there are three adult skaters my mom and two other beginer skaters.

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1) Land Double Axel
2) Pass Junior Moves at the end of January
3) Pass Novice Free at the end of January
4) Pass Senior moves by september
5) Consistant double flips and double lutzs
6) Learn a new cool spin!

Yeah, we 44-year olds rock!

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I would agree with that even though I am 44 1/2.

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There are 2 new Gold ladies from Grand Rapids who are skating champ at Mids!

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I've got mad salchow disease!

Old fogie! I'm 44 and 2 1/2 months!

The champ gold ladies is an hour and 3 minutes long. I'm guessing 2 five minute warm ups, 4:00 per skater......12-13 skaters? How many can you have in a warm up?

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I calculate 14 skaters, plus/minus one skater, depending on how tight a ship the referee intends to run.

There can be a max of six in a warmup for a qualifying event, and the warmup is six minutes long. Each skater's program is a max of 2:40, plus add 30 seconds per skater for the time it takes to get on and off the ice. Given that, it's 3:10 per skater.

Subtract 18 minutes (three six-minute warmups) from the 63-minute length of the event, and that leaves 45 minutes. Fourteen skaters at 3:10 apiece equals 44 minutes/20 seconds -- in other words, 45 minutes!

But I always sucked at math, so don't blame me if you get there and there's, like, 18 people in your group.

I caculated 12 people in the group based on the amount of time given for PCAS (85 minutes) for 16 skaters (4.4 minutes/skater)

Never mind, I was rambling as usual....

Even the beginner adult skater can actually "do something." For every adult skater who can barely manage a tiny waltz jump or forward crossovers, there are hundreds of people who wish they could even do that (or wish that they had the guts to even try a sport that is stereotyped for tiny little girls when they are adults).

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