ICE CHAMPIONSHIPS
SCOOT & THE ISU'S NEW PRO-AM CHAMPIONSHIP THING HAS A WEBSITE!
http://icechampionships.com/
THERE ARE A FEW MORE DETAILS ABOUT WHAT WE CAN EXPECT
"The International Cup of Skating Excellence (ICE) is a new figure skating competition positioned to deliver a global series of events that will ignite broader interest in the sport of figure skating. A select group of the world’s greatest skating stars, distinguished by having won Olympic and/or World Championship medals, will be invited to compete in a series of one-night events over three consecutive weeks. This “ISU Open International Competition Series” will provide the world’s outstanding skaters, both current eligible and former champions, an opportunity to perform on the same ice. ICE is collaborating with the International Skating Union (ISU) to create an event that will allow for the greatest technical, artistic and emotional excitement that only the world’s best skaters can bring to a worldwide audience.
Olympic and World Champion, popular television commentator, author and entertainer Scott Hamilton along with three-time Emmy Award-winning figure skating television producer and director Rob Dustin, and respected sports, entertainment and venue executive Bobby Goldwater offer a new sports/entertainment property. ICE, in arenas live and on television globally, is a celebration of figure skating by the greatest athletes of the sport."
BASICALLY THEY'RE INVITING A SELECT GROUP OF FAMOUS SKATERS AND THEY WANT TO GET IT ON TV ALL OVER THE WOOOOORLD.
IT WILL BE SCORED USING "a modified ISU scoring and judging system."
ORGANISATIONAL STUFF
-Select group of skaters invited from all four disciplines: Ladies, Men’s Pairs and Ice Dance. leaving in their lack of comma fail, because it amuses me to think that a Scoot-sanctioned competition would allow same sex pairs trolololo
-Three-week competition: Two rounds on consecutive weeks, then the finals.
-International series: A different country hosting each week of competition - one in the US, one in Asia, one in Europe
-Nine hours of compelling TV programming: Three, three-hour programming blocks.
-Fresh and unpredictable: Skaters perform new routines in first two rounds.
-Head-to-head finals: The top two in each discipline qualify for their championship.
-Exciting, fan-friendly performances featuring contemporary music.
-Innovative and interactive presentation of elements and scores for television and live audience.
-Cash bonuses for landing technically difficult jumps.
ICE WILL LAUNCH ITS FIRST SEASON IN 2012.
THIS IS THE LIST OF SKATERS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE, ALTHOUGH IF THEY ARE STICKING TO THE LAST DECADE THING THE 2002 MEDALISTS MIGHT DROP OUT BY THE TIME IT ACTUALLY GETS OFF THE GROUND, IDK. THE RULE IS YOU HAVE TO HAVE A WORLD OR OLYMPIC MEDAL FROM THE LAST DECADE TO BE ELIGIBLE
Men
Evgeni Plushenko
Alexei Yagudin
Tim Goebel
Takeshi Honda
Brian Joubert
Stefan Lindemann
Jeffrey Buttle
Evan Lysacek
Stéphane Lambiel
Daisuke Takahashi
Johnny Weir
Patrick Chan
Takahiko Kozuka
Artur Gachinski
Ladies
Sarah Hughes
Irina Slutskaya
Michelle Kwan
Fumie Suguri
Elena Sokolova
Sasha Cohen
Shizuka Arakawa
Carolina Kostner
Kimmie Meissner
Mao Asada
Yu-Na Kim
Joannie Rochette
Miki Ando
Laura Lepisto
Pairs
Sale/Pelletier
Shen/Zhao
Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze
Totmianina/Marinin
Ina/Zimmerman
Petrova/Tikhonov
Pang/Tong
Zhang/Zhang
Savchenko/Szolkowy
Dubé/Davison (now split, she has a new partner)
Kavaguti/Smirnov
Voloszohar/Trankov
Ice dance
Anissina/Peizerat
Lobacheva/Averbukh
Fusar-Poli/Margaglio
Bourne/Kraatz
Chait/Sakhnovski
Denkova/Staviski
Navka/Kostamarov
Winkler/Lohse
Belbin/Agosto
Grushina/Goncharov
Dubreuil/Lauzon
Virtue/Moir
Delobel/Schoenfelder
Khokhlova/Novitski (but she's skating with Fedor now and he isn't allow to skate at all because of his head injury)
Faiella/Scali
Davis/White
Shibutanis
THERE IS ALSO A BLOG WHICH THEY PROMISE WILL BE UPDATED WITH SCOOT'S THOUGHTS http://icechampionships.blogspot.com/ I AM EXCITE !!