ISU World Team Trophy (WTT) - April 17-20, 2025 - Tokyo, JPN

[Elizabeth]

Although Fred plans to put this board into inactive status within a few days, I thought I would just add a post about the last event of this season.



The top 6 countries in World Standings, following Worlds 2025, have qualified to compete:

• USA
• Japan
• Italy
• France
• Canada
• Georgia

In the coming days/weeks the entries, by discipline, should appear here along with the link to the schedule and the Start Orders/Results: https://results.isu.org/events/fsevent00120673.htm

The preliminary schedule information from the announcement document:
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
All day Arrival of Teams

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
10:00 Technical Panel Meeting ICE DANCE
11:00 Official Practice
11:00 Team Leaders Meeting
11:00 Technical Panel Meeting MEN and WOMEN
12:15 Team Medical Meeting
14:00 Technical Panel Meeting PAIR SKATING
16:30 Referees and Technical Controllers Meeting
17:30 Initial Judges Meeting

Thursday, April 17, 2025
09:00 Official Practice
14:55 Opening Ceremony on Ice
15:50 ICE DANCE – Rhythm Dance
17:15 MEN – Short Program
19:25 WOMEN – Short Program

Friday, April 18, 2025
10:30 Official Practice
17:00 PAIR SKATING – Short Program
18:25 ICE DANCE – Free Dance
19:55 MEN – Free Skating
20:00 Technical Panel Review Meeting ICE DANCE
22:00 Technical Panel Review Meeting MEN

Saturday, April 19, 2025
09:00 Round Table Discussion MEN9
10:15 Round Table Discussion ICE DANCE
12:30 Exhibition Practice and Official Practice
18:30 PAIR SKATING – Free Skating
20:00 WOMEN – Free Skating
20:00 Technical Panel Review Meeting PAIR SKATING
22:00 Victory Ceremony
22:00 Technical Panel Review Meeting WOMEN

Sunday, April 20, 2025
08:30 Exhibition Practice
09:00 Round Table Discussion PAIR SKATING
10:15 Round Table Discussion WOMEN
14:00 GALA EXHIBITION

[Elizabeth]

The ISU has confirmed the countries to participate:
USA
Japan
Italy
France
Canada
Georgia

This is the ISU press release about the event: https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/ ... -in-tokyo/

Top Figure Skating Teams Set to Compete at ISU World Team Trophy 2025 in Tokyo
30 Mar 2025

For the world’s top six figure skating teams, the season is not over yet. The spotlight now shifts to Tokyo, Japan, where they will compete in the ISU World Team Trophy 2025 from April 17 to 20.

Team USA leads the standings heading into the event, having accumulated 9,331 points, ahead of Japan (8,939 points) and Italy (6,195 points). France (5,207 points) ranks fourth, followed by Canada (4,992 points). Making history, Georgia has qualified for the first time with 4,495 points.

Each team will feature:

Two Women’s singles skaters
Two Men’s singles skaters
One Pair Skating team
One Ice Dance couple

The participating skaters will be announced at a later date.

How Teams Qualified

Teams earned their spots based on a point-scoring system using ISU World Standing points accumulated by their top two Women’s and Men’s singles skaters, top Pair team, and top Ice Dance couple. The primary events considered include:

ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating events & Final (2024/25 season)
ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2025
ISU European Figure Skating Championships / ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2025
ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2025
ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating (2024/25 season)

With world-class athletes set to compete, the ISU World Team Trophy 2025 promises to be an exciting finale to the figure skating season.

[Elizabeth]

The Japanese team has been announced:
Men - Yuma Kagiyama, Shun Sato
Women - Kaori Sakamoto, Mone Chiba
Pairs - Miura/Kihara
Ice Dance - Yoshida/Morita

[fred]

Thank-you Elizabeth, for everything! I said today I'd be archiving the Board around noon, and it's just 12:13 PM now. So I'm going to make a start at it. I believe I can disable it & leave the messages up here for people to read. Maybe I'll not be able to, and it will be here for a little longer, but I think it shouldn't be difficult.

If I get deluged with emails asking me to start it up again, I might consider it. But as it stands I think a simple passing of the Board in dignity, with the texts remaining as a monument it suitable. It's the end of an era for me, but there are many fond memories with you all. My email address is the same and it's at the top of the page in the blue banner. I'd love to hear from you all from time to time.

Fred