2020 World Junior Figure Skating Championships - 2-8 March - Tallinn, EST

[Elizabeth]

Official website: https://jwskate2020.eu/

Entries & alternates by discipline: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111967.htm

Event schedule: https://jwskate2020.eu/news/event-sched ... -available

USA announcement of selections after nationals & "junior camp": https://t.co/xNJ1mhpMT5?amp=1

The Canadian selections will be finalized after the Bavarian Cup.

[Elizabeth]

After the Russian Junior Nationals over the weekend, their team for Junior Worlds has been announced:

• Ladies: Kamila Valieva; Daria Usacheva; Maiia Khromykh
• Men: Daniil Samsonov; Petr Gumennik; Andrei Mozalev
• Pairs: Panfilova/Rylov, Akhantieva/Kolesov, Artemieva/Nazarychev
• Ice Dance: Shanaeva/Narizhnyi, Ushakova/Nekrasov, Davis/Smolkin

[Elizabeth]

The official entries and alternates (S) have now been posted, by discipline, by the ISU: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111967.htm

Canadian entries -
Ladies:

• Emily BAUSBACK CAN 7
• Kaiya RUITER CAN 7
• Madeline SCHIZAS CAN 7 S
• Alison SCHUMACHER CAN 7 S

Men:

• Stephen GOGOLEV CAN 6
• Joseph PHAN CAN 6
• Corey CIRCELLI CAN 6 S
• Aleksa RAKIC CAN 6 S

Pairs:

• Patricia ANDREW / Zachary DALEMAN CAN 1
• Kelly Ann LAURIN / Loucas ETHIER CAN 1
• Gabrielle LEVESQUE / Pier-Alexandre HUDON CAN 1 S

Ice Dance:

• Emmy BRONSARD / Aissa BOUARAGUIA CAN 3
• Natalie D'ALESSANDRO / Bruce WADDELL CAN 3
• Miku MAKITA / Tyler GUNARA CAN 3
  Nadiia BASHYNSKA / Peter BEAUMONT CAN 3 S
  Sophia KAGOLOVSKAYA / Kieran MACDONALD CAN 3 S

[Elizabeth]

As posted elsewhere, given the results at senior Nationals and at 4CCs, Skate Canada has yet to confirm the two ladies entries for either Worlds or Junior Worlds. Emily Bausback & Madeline Schizas have been entered in the senior discipline at the Challenge Cup which finishes on February 23rd and on that date Skate Canada will announce the final selections.

[Elizabeth]

As of February 12:

• Junior men entries & alternates: http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat03109437.htm
• Junior ladies entries & alternates: [url]hhttp://www.isuresults.com/events/cat03109438.htm[/url]
• Junior pairs entries & alternates: http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat03109439.htm
• Junior ice dance entries & alternates: http://www.isuresults.com/events/cat03109440.htm

The live stream will be available here: https://www.youtube.com/user/SkatingISU

[Elizabeth]

It appears that the ISU will be streaming Junior Worlds with commentary by Ted Barton

[Elizabeth]

The Canadian entries in Junior Ladies have been updated today with the two team members and two substitutes/alternates:

• Kaiya RUITER CAN
• Alison SCHUMACHER CAN
• Emily BAUSBACK CAN S
• Madeline SCHIZAS CAN S

[Elizabeth]

According to a Russian article, in light of the Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, the ISU will be screening participants in the World Juniors on arrival/at accreditation as they did at 4CCs.

[Elizabeth]

The full time and practice schedule: http://www.isuresults.com/schedules/WJC ... hedule.pdf

The link for the Schedule/Entries/Results should appear here in due course: http://www.isuresults.com/events/fsevent03111967.htm

The event will be live streamed by the ISU with Ted Barton commentary: https://www.youtube.com/user/SkatingISU

An overview from the ISU: https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/news ... teParam=15


NOTE: Tallinn is 7 hours ahead of EST. We move to Daylight Saving Time at 2 a.m. March 8th but Tallinn does not, making them only 6 hours ahead.

[Elizabeth]

The Schedule/Entries/Results page: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1920/wjc2020/

Skate Canada news release on the CDN team: https://skatecanada.ca/2020/03/canadian ... pionships/

Danielle Earl's time conversion:

[Elizabeth]

An extensive preview: https://anythinggoe.com/junior-world-ch ... 0-preview/

Links for the ISU live streams:

• Men SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt7_FFBGysE
  - detailed time schedule (local time): http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... hTimes.pdf
• Pairs SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvwD5teYur0
  - detailed time schedule (local time): http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... hTimes.pdf
• Rhythm Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfoi0jylvwA
  - detailed time schedule (local time): http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... hTimes.pdf
• Pairs FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUl12o4Sbc4
  - detailed time schedule (local time): http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... hTimes.pdf
• Ladies SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTYXElypyK0
  - detailed time schedule (local time): http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... hTimes.pdf
• Men FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYXH3eeBZtE
  - detailed time schedule (local time): http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... hTimes.pdf
• Free Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fat5rJq8Zxg
  - detailed time schedule (local time): http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... hTimes.pdf
• Ladies FS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-WXBjV62Ak
  detailed time schedule (local time): http://www.isuresults.com/results/seaso ... hTimes.pdf
• Exhibition Gala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JRoCAaetnE

[Elizabeth]

Skate Canada press release after Day 1: https://skatecanada.ca/2020/03/canadas- ... d-juniors/

Skate Canada press release after Day 2: https://skatecanada.ca/2020/03/canadian ... d-juniors/

[Elizabeth]

If you are watching the live stream from junior worlds, you are hearing commentary by Ted Barton of the BC Section of Skate Canada. In response to viewer questions submitted via Twitter/e-mail, Ted has revealed a few things about his personal history, for example:

• he was born in New Zealand and moved to Canada at a young age;
• he moved to figure skating after first trying hockey;
• he was a competitive figure skater at the national and international level;
• he competed in the 1976 World Championships in Sweden (placing 16th) - that was Toller Cranston's final Worlds;
• he coached figure skating;
• he was involved in the development of the current international judging system;
• he was involved, on the production end, of the first efforts of the ISU to provide video streams and got into commentary "out of necessity"; he said he was horrible in his first efforts;
• he promoted the idea, to the ISU, of the broadcasting of the junior level skating internationally in order to increase interest in and knowledge of skating around the world

[happyheini]

Quite an experienced and accomplished man, and still involved in furthering the sport. Kudos.

[Elizabeth]

Reminder - Schedule/Entries/Results are here: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1920/wjc2020/

Entries for next year are based on the number of skaters from a country participating and their results/placement points:

• 1 skater - placement in the top 2 = 3 spots for next year
• 1 skater - placement in the top 10 = 2 spots for next year
• 2 skaters - 13 placement points or less = 2 spots for next year
• 2 skaters - 28 placement points or less = 3 spots for next year

Points are equal to the placement for places 1 through 16; places 17 through 24 = 16 points; places 25 & lower = 18 points.

If a country has a third skater/couple participating, only the results of the top two are given placement points.

In theory, each member federation is entitled to 1 entry per discipline but they must meet the required TES minimums in both SP and FS to qualify to participate in ISU championship events.

[Elizabeth]

Skate Canada's brief report on Day 3: https://skatecanada.ca/2020/03/joseph-p ... d-juniors/

And the report on Day 4: https://skatecanada.ca/2020/03/alison-s ... d-juniors/

[Elizabeth]

Competition is now complete in Tallinn and it's time to look ahead to next year

Spots at 2021 #WorldJFigure qualified at 2020 Junior Worlds (per Jackie Wong on Twitter):

• Ladies
  3: RUS, USA, KOR
  2: POL, CAN, AZE, JPN
• Men
  3: RUS, JPN, USA
  2: ITA, FRA, EST, CAN
• Pairs
  3: RUS
  2: GER, FRA, USA, GEO, CHN, CAN
• Dance
  3: USA, GEO, RUS
  2: FRA, CAN

[Elizabeth]

The program for the Exhibition Gala is below - there is only one CDN entry and, if you haven't checked the results, there are SPOILERS

ISU YouTube link: https://t.co/54gjDODqDf?amp=1