It's here, a listing of all the folks entered in each qualifying and non-qualifying event at Syracuse:

http://hometown.aol.com/newskates/SCofCNY13.html

Schedule's up... http://hometown.aol.com/newskates/index.html

Ugh! 8AM for my freestyle!

Hey Den,
Am I seeing things, or did they miss Championship Gold Men on the schedule??


I also noticed that there were quite a few events cancelled.

Ugh, 8 AM again? Sorry. NO MIF events this year, either. Bummer! I was looking forward to doing the wrong Moves again!

I noticed that they forgot to put in Champ Gold Men too.

My event is 10:15 am. On the one hand, I was hoping for a time around noon so I could sleep in more, but on the other hand I'm happy to have my event over with early so I can be done and watch everyone else.

Yeah, manleywoman notified me of the same thing... I emailed the contact on their website about the schedule snafu but haven't gotten a response yet. Maybe they cancelled the event because they decided to just let us all qualify for nationals (15 total)? Nah, don't think so...

I got an e-mail from them today, and Silver Moves are supposed to be on the schedule, but they are still "tweaking" it. No kidding! I guess a revised schedule will be out soon. I'm sure Champ. Gold Men will be on it.

I got a reply regarding Gold Men...it's the last event of the day after Masters Men.

dcden...you're the grand finale!

Oh Jesus! Yeah, I hope my finale is as good as that of Carrie Bradshaw et. al. At least I can sleep in that morning, but also I'll have all day to get frazzled. Ugh... oh well, on to Syracuse!

I have a question - I have a friend competing in Men's Masters intermediate IV. It looks like there are only six Maters Men all together. Assumably they are not all the same level. Does that mean that they still advance to nationals in their own divisions? Obvisouly a Masters Senior I is likely to come out ahead of a Masters Novice IV, etc.

LWalsh,

Not sure I understand your question exactly, but basically if your friend is skating in the Championship Master's Mens event then he is vying for one of the four spots for the same event at Nationals. Because it is a Championship event, we all get grouped together regardless of our individual level...not exactly fair is it? On the other hand, your friend could compete in the Master's Novice event at Nationals without having to qualify from Sectionals. Hope this helps some:]

The only people who advance to Adult Nationals (for masters men) are the top finishers in the Championship Masters Men event. The other Masters Men events, such as Masters Men Intermediate IV, are NOT qualifying events for Adult Nationals; they're just regular old Open events, like Silver I or Bronze II.

Oh ...I see. I thought they had the levels broken out even for qualifying events.

Thanks!

Le Bump... to wish everyone here going to Adult Eastern this weekend good luck and GO KICK SOME ICE BUTTS!!!

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Thanks!! CanAmSk8ter, I sent you a PM.

Yeah, good luck! We want full reports when you get back. Regale us with tales of your victories!

Championship Masters Ladies

Championship Masters Men

Championship Adult Gold Ladies

Championship Adult Gold Men

Championship Dance after the Second Dance (Today's Free Dance competition has already happened, but no results posted...)

Anyone else have results for other events?

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Cheers,
jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

Hey! Got back not too long ago, but I'll give my review:

MASTERS LADIES:

Wow wow wow. Okay, the top three ladies are all 25-27 years old, all had triples in their youth, and all showed up at Adult Sectionals for the first time. I skated towards the end so I can' t recall in detail who did what, but I know the basics. The judges definitely seemed to be counting jumps, because the few of us who really work at the presentation part of the mark didn't seem to gain much by doing so! dcden has the breakdown of who landed what, but basically ...

The winner had 2axle and two double-double combos.

The 2nd placer had huge doubles through 2 lutz, plus at least 2 combos IIRC, and was fast fast fast. Evevn though the judges had her overwhelmingly in 2nd, everyone watching thought she should have won. Hmmmm...I have to wait for my DVD to come.

3rd had through 2lutz, but made a few small mistakes.

4th had through 2flip and some tricky spins, doing a beautiful layback and a camel that switched to an outside edge. She also does her 2loop with her hands over her head, and a nice split falling leaf. (I did watch her skate, since she's a friend of mine). I also thought she won the award for best dress.

5th was last year's winner and she had a tough skate for her, falling out of 2 camel spins, falling on one jump, and a hand down on a 2toe, but she's also got great speed and did land some nice jumps.

6th was me. I had a great skate, though I fell on an easy 2toe (though I'd landed an earlier one) and didn't complete my 2sal-2loop combo (though it was perfect in warmup. Grrrrr). But I felt it was otherwise one of the best skates I've ever had, because I controlled my nerves, had great spins, footwork and edges were solid, and overall had enjoyed myself and skated strong to the end (thanks to my coach for stamina training!). But since my highest jump was a 2loop, there's no way I could break into the top five without a 2flip or 2lutz. So now I know what I need to work on for next year.

7th had a nice program with lots of good flow and ice coverage, but she did 3 axels and 3 2toes. Zayak Rule, anyone? Her two attempts at 2sal didn't happen.

8th I didn't see, but I heard she fell 3 times. Normally she has through 2lutz.

9th is another good friend of mine, and she had a great skate, landing everything through 2loop and a two-footed 2flip, with no other mistakes. She was bummed she was as low as 9th, but she knows she tends to skate slow and wondered if that was what kept her down. She always looks like she's having a blast when she skates (and she is), so I was bummed that the judges didn't reward her for it.

10th...sorry, didn't see her.

11th...didn't see her either, but I know she thought she did okay, landing through 2toe.

12th had heavily cheated jumps through 2flip. But it was her first year back in 19 years and she's had no lessons to prepare herself, so kudos to her for coming back and giving it a shot.

13th...didn't see her,

14th and 15th didn't get much past axel and 2sal, if that. More nicer girls you'll never meet, so I always look forward to seeing them at Sectionals.


GOLD MEN:

A tough one to judge, since nobody stood out with a clean program. Each skater landed a few things and fell on a few things, so the ordinals were wacky at times. The top four landed either an axel, 2sal, or 2toe, sometimes two of the three, but never all. But the 1st and 3rd place guys had lots of style and attitude, which made them stand out. The 2nd place guy had good speed and flow. Our own dcden missed his first axel, but fought back to land the second one in combination, plus had a flying sit-spin, so we were proud of him!

GOLD LADIES:

Another tough one to judge for the same reasons as above, but it was a bit easier to judge than Gold Mens, because some did stand out.

1st place had noticeably the best flow and speed of the bunch, and I think she landed axel and 2sal at least, and had nice singles otherwise.

2nd place had an extremely front-loaded program, landing a nice axel and 2sal, then falling on a 2toe, all in the first 40 or so seconds, and then didn't do much else hte rest of the program. But the jumps she did land were really nice.

3rd place had 2 axels and a 2sal (I think) and nice flow and presentation throughout. I was happy for her because I though she would have qualified last year, but she didn't skate well.

4th got my respect, because she had one of the scariest warm-ups I;ve ever seen, having some frightening take-offs, and equally treacherous landings. But when that music started she went for it all like a bull in a china shop, and landed a scary 2loop, axel, and I think a 2sal. She had good speed and for the most part stayed on her feet, so good for her.

Can't remember much about the rest. Again, all landed something but all fell on something too. Everyone basically tried through 2toe, with varying degrees of success and failure.


MASTERS MEN

This event was as wacky as they get. A usual entry who's done Easterns for years apparently broke his leg and obviously was not there. Another entry withdrew for reasons I don't know. So it was down to 5 men. Now, there were 4 men on this warm-up who all had through 2flip, some with 2lutz, and lots of nice combos, when out on the ice somes the 5th guy, a sweet 50 years old-ish guy who was entering this event for kicks, not realizing it was a qualifying event for Nationals. So out he comes and all he does on the warm-up is stroke, a waltz jump, a salchow, and a camel spin. He was way out of his league, and he knew it and was fine with it. All of a sudden, one of the other four guys practices a nice split 2toe combo, and HIS RIGHT BLADE SNAPS IN HALF! He was first to skate, so the referee and others immediately came over to try to get him a replacement blade, or to borrow a boot from someone else. Well, this guy's got huge feet for a skater, but they manage to find a local skater who lends him his right skate, But he didn't fell comfortable in it, so he withdrew. Down to 4 skaters!

1st had a clean program, lots of 2-2 combos, through 2lutz. Great presentation

2nd had through 2flip, with a nice program. Also great presentation

3rd had also through 2flip with jumps out of nowhere. And also great presentation.

And god love him, out comes the 4th guy, wearing a suit, and he steps through his program, does a waltz jump, a salchow, a toe loop, and camel spins and lunges on both feet and he's done. Cute as can be, so I threw him a beanie baby (which I couldn't get over the $%^*# netting!). He only found out afterwards that he had qualified for Nationals, because again, he didn't really know what he was entering. He felt bad for the kid whos blade broke, but he was pretty psyched for himself, and we were psyched for him. How often does a guy like that get to qualify?

Ahhh...gotta love Adult Skating!

Holy Cow, Batman! What a wacky Masters Men's event!! The guy whose blade snapped in half is a friend of mine. I haven't talked to him yet, but he must feel just awful. Another friend of mine had to withdraw from the Gold Ladies event because she fell (during practice ice, I think) and dislocated her knee.

Sounds like a weird competition.

I wonder what happened in the nonqualifying events.

Oh, my poor maligned Chad! First his costume was lost by the airline and was recovered Saturday afternoon hours before the event, and then the blade problem. He was such a good sport after the incredibly disappointing and surreal events. There was also another skater from North Carolina who dislocated her knee on practice. NC drama squad!

Since manleywoman did a great report of the Championship events, I will try to sum up what I saw. I competed in YA Silver Ladies, and came in third of five. I did lutz-loop, camel-sit-back sit, flip, flying camel, footwork into stag falling leaf-loop (put foot down on landing), left out choreography , spiral into sal-steps-flip (two-footed), layback FALL to end. I was pretty happy with the skate excepting the fluke layback fall - that's usually one of my best spins. The winner landed lutz-loop-loop and other assorted things, most of the group was doing flying camels of varying skill. Everyone was really friendly and nice - I love competing adult!

I also competed in Adult Silver Solo Dance, and won, whee! I wide-stepped a little but overall was pleased with the dance. CanAmSk8ter was my competition and she did a very good dance to steal one first-place ordinal from me!

Stormy did great, with a clean freestyle program to finish second in Adult Silver Ladies I, and first in Silver MIF.

The Ch Masters ladies were incredible. The top ten were all so strong. Ch Gold was a real mixed bag, with lots of good doubles, several falls and some genuinely weird ordinal splits.

I met lots of people from skatingforums, including manleywoman and dcden, and lots of other great adult skaters. I am on a skating high after this weekend and I hope it lasts!!

I'll chime in with my own observations. I saw the adult pairs group and was very impressed with all three. First pair did their solo spins in opposite directions. Very Jill/Peter, eh? Good flow, good style, very pleasant to watch. Second pair had the best lifts of the competition. Third pair had some problems early on, aborting either a lift or a twist lift or a throw jump (couldn't tell what it was going to be), and the man fell on footwork; but they recovered well and finished strongly, with probably the best death spiral of the competition (BO, also done by the 2nd pair; 1st pair did a pivot spiral).

Thanks for the kind words re my performance. I wish I could've done better, though. I think I just need to be more mentally prepared and not get so freaked out. It's... supposed... to... be... fun... Now I guess I'll go watch the video and cringe at the appropriate moments.

It was great meeting new faces and catching up with familiar faces. Now I know who's who online. Vesper, congrats on your win! Mskater, keep us informed as to how it goes with trying to petition to Nationals. You really deserve to be there; how often does someone ever break a blade, let alone in competition? Even Tonya Harding couldn't fake that.

Sorry if I forgot anyone... I'll write more later, but right now I'm pretty tired and sleepy. On to Mids...

yes, vesperholly and stormy it was very fun to meet you!

Congrats to all of you, especially on the great attitudes that you've displayed here, not just about your performances, but about your competitors'.

You're all real winners, professional and classy!

Thanks for the reports, everyone! Was the skater who dislocated her knee in warm-up Lisa Chisholm? How awful for her (or whoever it was). I met her at the New Year's comp - I hope she gets better in time to skate at ANs (I assume she entered Gold).


manleywoman, I think the Zayak rule only applies to jumps with 3 or more revolutions, so axels and doubles are not affected. Congrats on your skate - it sounds like you skated really well!

Good luck to everyone skating at ANs! I look forward to hearing tales of everyone's victories.

Yes, it was Lisa.