https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaYEpRStaRW/

Freshly posted on B E N O I T's insta. I don't mind it, I'm into the idea of Isabeau having fun.

I'm not a fan of the ISU website's current design, I find it somewhat unintuitive and difficult to navigate when it comes to finding specific information. There so many parts of it that are easier to reach by googling than by going to the site. This new site has been out long enough that I've mostly figured it out, but there's a lot of new fans after the Olympics, so I decided to put together this post of links to specific useful pages.

Competitions (schedules, entries, results, etc.)

Events Calendar

https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/events/?type=All+ISU+Events&month=All

For each event, clicking "Discover More" will bring you to the event's own page, which will contain the General Announcement (pretty much all info you may want about it), as well as Entries and Results, as they become available.

Junior Grand Prix Series

https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/events/isu-junior-grand-prix/

This contains the General Announcement, links to the individual event pages, and Standings, which track where skaters are with respect to Final qualification.

Challenger Series

https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/events/isu-challenger-series/

This contains the General Announcement and links to the individual event pages. It has Standings as well, but those aren't relevant like they are for the GP Series.

Grand Prix Series

https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/events/isu-grand-prix/

This contains the General Announcement, links to the individual event pages, Alternates List, and Standings, which track where skaters are with respect to Final qualification.

Standings & Score statistics

ISU World Standings

Officially here: https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/world-standings/

Unofficially, save your sanity and use these:

Men https://results.isu.org/ws/ws/wsmen.htm

Women https://results.isu.org/ws/ws/wswomen.htm

Pairs https://results.isu.org/ws/ws/wspairs.htm

Ice Dance https://results.isu.org/ws/ws/wsdance.htm

Season's and Personal Best Scores

https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/statistics/

ISU Bios

Officially here https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/skaters/

Unofficially, google "site:isuresults.com isu bio [skater name]" (without the quotation marks) to get to the old-style results page that look like this https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00109544.htm . You can also get there by clicking the names on the old-style World Standings pages I linked above.

Rules, regulations, communications, etc.

Sports Rules

https://www.isu.org/figure-skating-rules/?tab=ISU%20Judging%20System

This is for people who love to read rules documents. You have to have patience for that and also a knack for ISU wording so you know what to search a hundred-page document for.

Program Components Chart is under "Handbooks Singles & Pairs skating".

ISU Communications

https://www.isu.org/isu-communications/?tab=ISU%20Communications

There is no rhyme or reason for how they title these, sometimes they spell out "Ice Dance" and sometimes it's "ID". Good luck finding anything.

Regulations

https://www.isu.org/isu-regulations/

A completely separate page from Sports Rules, not even in the same section. There was one specific point of procedure I was looking for once and drove myself mad until I somehow found it here.

The main GP assignments thread is getting pretty big, so I thought I'd spin this bit of fluff off to its own discussion.

I already have tickets to Skate Canada International and even though I won't get to see all of my personal favourites, I will get to see several of the most anticipated senior debuts. So between Rio, Mao, Yujae and my favourite ice dance team of Lopareva/Brissaud, I feel like it was worth it. Plus, there's a good chance that Lajoie/Baker will get added to the line-up.

How about everyone else? And if you were waiting for the assignments to get tickets, how did that pan out?

She's in B E N O I T's latest photo dump on Instagram, with Nika, Emilea and Vadym, Adam, and Gogolev.

Are we ready for more Isabeau and Gogo dating rumours?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZahVzNjYra/

https://preview.redd.it/yi7lqex6sg6h1.png?width=2268&format=png&auto=webp&s=d2b1541a2ee00c0212048a525e1df492f9729253

https://live.rockerskating.com/blog/isu-congress-2026-live-updates (Jackie's live summary of the presentation, also available on his Twitter)

This is the bit that I'm stuck on from Jackie's summary of the presentation: "The tool evaluates judging on two main criteria: Accuracy and fairness; the main source of unfairness in figure skating is same-nation judging"

I don't know if "same-nation bias" is actually the main source of unfairness in figure skating. I feel like that's thinking stuck in 2002, at the point of scandal. I think in contemporary figure skating, the unfairness is about the big-fed-small-fed dichotomy. It worries me that the ISU may not acknowledge that.

Another interesting tidbit: "The tool has analyzed 84 competitions over the last 4 seasons. Judges tend to agree more when the program is nearer to perfection. It's much harder for judges to judge accurately mediocre performances"

It's not one of the major team-ups we're waiting for, but I still thought I'd throw together a post for it.

Kaydee Kallay and Etienne Lacasse are announced as a new Pairs team. I'm assuming Junior based on the fact that they are age-eligible to be and I'm not actually sure if Kaydee is old enough for Seniors yet (I couldn't find her date of birth, but she was 16 at 2026 Canadian Nationals, which means she's either Sr. eligible in 26/27 or in 27/28).

Etienne Lacasse had earlier split from Julia Quattrocchi, which whom he was Canadian Jr. Pairs champion and JGP Final competitor. Kaydee Kallay had previous competed in Junior singles, domestically only.

This team-up is significant for Canadian skating because the two top Canadian Jr. pairs (who were Gold and Silver at the recent Jr. Worlds) are both entering the grey zone of being both Sr. and Jr. eligible and it seems likely both teams are choosing to go senior. I'm expecting one or both of them to get sent to Jr. Worlds for the sake of quota spots (and I'm sure potential prize money won't go amiss), but after next season, both teams age out fully.

It was posted a couple of weeks ago, but I just got around to listening to it today. One thing that struck me is Trennt's good memory for dates, he seemed to easily recall the years when certain events he was talking about happened (e.g., "Stephen [Gogolev] and I were at X Junior Worlds together"), how many Olympics Paul Poirier has been to, that kind of thing.

There's also some interesting info about his coaches' approach to training pairs, he said he and Lia are encouraged to keep practising singles skills even now and he was encouraged to keep competing singles as a Junior even after knowing that Pairs would be his competitive focus just to keep up those skills until it was really time to concentrate only on Pairs.

And of course more of an insight into Trennt himself.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTgCgoRzA3sIFFQPlJxW1M-PJ-8NBR95Sk4rmiT9nKHp5uMLMTm8LucBrqjP56Z77DQMfKoDkYZ-0nC/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

I took the current top 40 Pairs teams in World Standings and went through to mark them as either continuing, retired/split, or unknown. I'm not keeping track since there are plenty of resources that are already doing that, I just wanted to make a visual guide for myself.

It's looking kind of dire, especially since a good chunk of the ones who are continuing in this list are Juniors.

I originally had Deanna/Max and Ellie/Danny in a separate category of "unknown, probably splitting", but I decided that was too much assumption on my part, so just one "unknown" category for everyone, regardless of rumours.

For teams that I wasn't sure about, I checked instagrams for recent (past couple of weeks) training videos.

I think I have everyone's Junior/Senior eligibility status correct, I double-checked the required birth dates for next season.

To mitigate the paircopalypse, we have two confirmed new team-ups, indicated on my sheet with "has a new partner" in the status.

The ISU has posted a brand new rules document that collects all the new rules coming into force on June 12, 2026. It can be seen on their Sports Rules page here https://www.isu.org/figure-skating-rules/?tab=ISU%20Judging%20System

The direct link to the pdf document is https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.azurefd.net/isudamcontainer/CMS/Corporate-Site/Governance/Isu-Regulations/2026-FS---Pair-Sports-Rules-FINAL-20260513-1778685370-9916.pdf

I haven't looked at it yet, but I assume none of it is new, it's just all the changes we already knew were coming, just conveniently collected in one document.

He posted a teaser on his instagram, featuring a cameo from Wakaba's dog Sherry

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYPZaHJR9vr/

No drama, just a lovely message to Marjorie.

A couple of excerpts:

>They are very, very different. Sometimes that's a good thing, but at some point you need to find yourself as a team, especially when you become mature. We as coaches and choreographers can do a lot, but at some point you need to connect. You need to have a direction, especially an artistic vision. And that connection was sometimes a challenge between the two of them. Even though there was zero problem between them personally, it was sometimes tricky.

>It's a bit sad, because of course it's 15 years of partnership. They could have kept going, especially after this cycle — there are a lot of teams in front of them that are retiring. At the end, I personally did not necessarily agree with the split, but I agree with the realization that something was not going well in the dynamic to improve. It was nothing about behavior - they were always respectful. I think they really love each other. Work ethic was good, nothing with discipline — we don't tolerate anything less. It's just the vision of the team, what they want to express, the connection, the maturity. They are becoming mature, but they were never able to showcase that on the ice. We couldn't find the solution.

This is some real back-of-the-napkin stuff, I'm warning you all.

I took Jason Brown's 2023 Worlds free skate (no-quads program) and Misha Shaidorov's 2026 Olympics free skate (not just quads, but a +quad combo, which I think will be more prevalent under the new system) and looked to see what the new scale of values plus new jump layout rules did to the base values of these programs.

Jumps: I adjusted the jump layouts to adhere to new rules, but they're probably not what these skaters would jump optimally. I think what I did is good enough for this exercise. I left the jumps more or less in the same order they were in the original layout.

Non-jumps: I swapped each skater's lowest BV spin for the new choreo spin. Both had a StSq 3, Jason had all level 4s otherwise and Misha had one level 3 spin (this is the one that I replaced with the choreo).

Edit: If you saw this post appear earlier and disappear, no you didn't (yes, you did, I hate reddit table formatting so much)

Jason Brown - 2023 Worlds Free skate
Base Value Total	71.37	Percentage of BV
Jumps BV	54.87	77%
Non-jumps BV	16.5	23%
New System
Base Value Total	67.72	Percentage of BV
Jumps: 3A+3T , 3A , 3Lo , 3Lz , 3F+Eu+3S+2T , 3F
Jumps BV	48.82	72%
Non-jumps BV	18.9	28%
Misha Shaidorov - 2026 Olympics Free skate
Base Value Total	99.79	Percentage of BV
Jumps BV	84.19	84%
Non-jumps BV	15.6	16%
New System
Base Value Total	91.87	Percentage of BV
Jumps: 3A+Eu+4S , 4Lz , 4F , 4T , 4T+3T , 3A
Jumps BV	73.57	80%
Non-jumps BV	18.3	20%

https://isu-d8g8b4b7ece7aphs.a03.azurefd.net/isudamcontainer/CMS/Corporate-Site/Governance/Transparency/ISU-Communications/2788-SP-Levels-and-GOE-2026-April-23-FINAL-1777993961-0366.pdf

All ISU commucations can be found here: https://www.isu.org/isu-communications/?tab=ISU%20Communications