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We look back at Skate Canada, a messy second installment of the Grand Prix series that still saw a few spectacular performances. Gilles and Poirier shined, Rino Matsuike surprised, and 3 world champions held their podium placements.   Week 2 of the 2024 Grand Prix is complete, and while there were some extraordinary performances there was also a lot of messy. That said, Skate Canada did provide us...

We look back at our in-person experience at the Skate American 2024 competition in Allen, Texas, including an extraordinary Men's competition, and surprising results in Womens and Ice Dance.   The Grand Prix began in Allen, Texas with Skate America, and we were fortunate enough to see be in the audience for what was a stunning, surprising, and fun competition. While in this episode you'll hear tha...

As the 2024 Grand Prix of Figure Skating begins, we take a look ahead at the Skate America event, give our hopes and predictions, and share our excitement to see the event in person.   The 2024-2025 Figure Skating Grand Prix is finally upon us as Skate America kicks it off in Allen, Texas! While we've already seen quite a lot of the new programs from competitors in early season competition, this i...

We recap the 2024 Shanghai Trophy and Denis Ten Memorial Cup competitions, including standout performances from Chaeyeon Kim, Taschlerova and Taschler, and Juhnwan Cha, plus a very messy pairs comp.   This week, we're talking about more of the early competitions of the 2024-2025 season, including the Shanghai Trophy and the Denis Ten Memorial Cup . From a season's best for any woman so far this se...

After an unplanned summer break, Scoreography returns to cover the 2024-2025 season, starting with the Challenger Series. We take a look at all the major competitors we've seen so far, specifically from the Nebelhorn and Lombardia Trophy competitions, as well as Cranberry Cup and other small events. Welcome back, Scoreogra-fans! ( too much? ) It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new SEASON of f...

Shoma Uno , two-time world champion and decorated Olympic mens skater, has officially announced his retirement. We share our feelings about his career and exit from competition, talk about other recent retirements, and explore the new Rhythm Dance themes and proposed ISU rule changes.   The inevitable has finally happened: Japan's legendary short king,  Shoma Uno , has announced his retirement. As...

Now that the thrill ride of the competitive '23-'24 season is finished, we've officially entered the Show Skate season. We talk about the Stars on Ice tour in Japan, the French National Team tour, and Gold on Ice in Virginia. Plus we explore why the US lacks a SOI tour this year, and the reason these events are so important.   With the 2023-2024 competition season now complete, figure skaters have...

We look back at our highlights from the '23-'24 figure skating season, talk about the World's exhibition gala, conjecture on possible retirements and team changes, examine the state of figure skating and FS fandom, and hand out our season-end Gold in Our Hearts awards.   The 2023-2024 figure skating season is over —  now what?!  Before we settle into the off-season, let's recap some of the best mo...

We recap the earth shattering action from World Figure Skating Championships 2024 in Montreal, including Ilia Malinin's historic 6-Quad winning free skate, the 3-peat gold for Kaori Sakamoto, and Canada's own Stellato-Dudek & Deschamps finally ascending to the Pairs throne.   The 2024 World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal gave us several moments we expected, others we wished for, and whol...

In part two of our 2024 Worlds preview, we dig into the absolutely stacked Men's competition, including the "Thrivalry" between Shoma Uno, Ilia Malinin, and Yuma Kagiyama. Then we go deep into the Ice Dance lineup, which promises to be a close showdown between 3-4 top teams.   In this week's episode, we're shooting our final shot at predictions for the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships — thi...

Part One of our World Figure Skating Championships 2024 preview focuses on the deep field of the Women's event, and the volatile and unpredictable Pairs competition. We also discuss the controversial Ice Dance Rhythm Dance themes for the next two seasons, Audrey Shin's move to Pairs, and Ilia Malinin's practice 4T+4A sequence.   The 2024 World Figure Skating Championships are so close we can smell...

We look back at the extremely impressive Junior Worlds 2024 championships, including the showdown between Mao Shimada and Jia Shin in the Women's event, an expected win from dance team Neset & Markelo, shaky success for pairs team Metelkinda & Berulava, and star making performances from Rena Uezono and Anthony Paradis.   This week, we're recapping the 2024 World Junior Figure Skating Championships...

We take a look at the Challenge Cup 2024 competition in Tilburg, Netherlands, including two remarkable skates from Japan's Yuna Aoki, an expected win from Kaori Sakamoto, and somewhat surprising golds for Italy's Conti & Macii and Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov. We also touch on Tallink Hotels Cup in Estonia, Korea's Winter Sports Festival, and the announcement of Canada's Worlds team.   In this w...

As we get ready for the final competitions of the '23-'24 season, we answer listener questions about all things figure skating — predictions, favorite skaters and FS moments, and what 20 programs we'd save in our end-of-the-world bunker.   Welcome to our first Scoreography Q&A Episode! We asked listeners to let us know what in figure skating they wanted us to talk about. And we received a far more...

We breakdown the 2024 ISU Awards and their accompanying live concert event, Art on Ice. We also take a look at the ongoing 2022 Olympic Team Medal fiasco, and talk about Gracie Gold's new memoir, Outofshapeworthlessloser .   The ISU Awards were handed out for the fourth time on Sunday, February 11th during one of the first Art on Ice performances of 2024 — and the show was certainly a spectacle. C...

We examine all the competition at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships 2024 in Shanghai, China. We discuss the dominant, definitive gold medal wins, dozens of highly memorable performances, and a couple frustrating judge calls.   In the last major international skating competition before the 2024 World Championships, we saw some iconic performances — from many who may be destined for W...

We recap the exciting US Nationals 2024 competition from Columbus, OH, featuring a dramatic upset in the women's event, a stellar fight for the podium in Ice Dance, promising performances from the Men, and an underwhelming Pairs event.   The 2024 US National Championships gave us a little bit of everything. We saw a quad axel and second nationals win from a slightly messier than usual Ilia Malinin...

We preview the upcoming United States Nationals 2024 competition, including expected wins from Ilia Malinin and Chock & Bates, the likely podium but potential surprises in the women's division, and the total crapshoot of the Pairs competition.   The 2024 US National Championships are upon us, and there is a lot to be excited about in Columbus, Ohio this week! From a wide open Men's field behind th...

We look at the somewhat underwhelming Canadian Nationals 2024 event, with surprise wins from Wesley Chiu and Kaiya Ruiter ( except we predicted that one! ), and flawed performances from gold-winning favorites Stellato-Dudek & Deschamps and Gilles & Poirier.   Canadian Nationals 2024 Commentary and Analysis The 2024 Canadian National Championships in Calgary saw some great performances, but unfortu...

We look back on an extraordinary European Championships event, held in Kaunas, Lithuania. Along with expected gold medal wins from Adam Siao Him Fa and Leona Hendrickx came an unforgettable bronze medal performance from hometown ice dance team Allison Reed and Saulius Ambrulevicius on par with any Olympic moment we've ever seen.   The 2024 European Championships showed that figure skating can stil...

We look ahead to the 2024 European Championships and Canadian Nationals competitions, with our thoughts on the skaters' seasons so far and how they'd do at these events. We also weigh in on the allegations around Canadian ice dancer Nikolaj Sorensen. In all disciplines at the European Championships, the competition is stacked with talent. From current "IT"-guy in skating,  Adam Siao Him Fa , seeki...

The 2024 South Korean National Figure Skating Championships saw a return-to form from World silver medalist, Jun-hwan Cha, the continued rise of Jia Shin, and performances from Hai-in Lee, Chae-yeon Kim, and Young You that appear to have earned them spots on the 2024 World Championship team for South Korea. Men's Competition Following a rough first half of the season for him, now eight time South...

We take a look at the All-Japan Championships 2023 competition, including hotly contested podiums in the Mens and Womens divisions. We also discuss news from the Italian and Spanish Nationals events, and quickly look back at the 2023 year in figure skating.   We're back and talking about the All-Japan Championships 2023, where some of the best figure skating of the season-to-date took place. With...

We catch-up on all the mid-season news and competition, including French, British, German, Swiss, and Spanish Nationals, the Four Nationals multi-country competition, the South Korean ranking event, and the Grand Prix Final's Juniors and Gala events. We also talk about injury news, the ISU Award nominations, and more. Following the 2023 Grand Prix Final last week in Beijing, China, there was littl...

The Grand Prix Final 2023 is now complete, and we knew it would be a wild one — we just didn't know HOW wild! From historic jumps to messy twizzles, the competitors in Beijing, China, kept us guessing until the very end, and we love them for it. Men's Competition One of the most stacked men's final's in recent memory! While Ilia Malinin  had been focused on progressing his composition scores earli...