The 2012 Hilton HHonors Skate America competition begins this Friday in Seattle/Kent, Washington. There are six international figure skating competitions between October and November(called the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series) and Skate America is first up. You can watch all the action live and on demand by paying $40 for a subscription to icenetwork. NBC/Universal Sports usually shows a portion of Skate America on television. I will update when I find out the times. [UPDATE: According to icenetwork, NBC will air part of the ladies free skate on Sunday, October 21. Check the TV Guide for times.]
The event schedule is as follows.
Friday, October 19
Pairs short, Men’s short – 7:00 pm PST (10 pm EST)
Saturday, October 20
Ladies short, Short dance – 12:30 pm PST (3:30 pm EST)
Men’s free, Pairs free – 7:00 pm PST (10 pm EST)
Sunday, October 21
Free dance, Ladies free – 11:45 am PST (2:45 pm EST)
Skating Spectacular – 6:00 pm PST (9 pm EST)
Competitors at Skate America are:
LADIES
1. Mae Berenice Meite, FRA2. Sarah Hecken, GER
3. Valentina Marchei, ITA
4. Haruka Imai, JPN
5. Alena Leonova, RUS
6. Adelina Sotnikova, RUS
7. Viktoria Helgesson, SWE
8. Rachael Flatt, USA
9. Christina Gao, USA
10. Ashley Wagner, USA
MEN
1. Michal Brezina, CZE2. Tomas Verner, CZE
3. Yuzuru Hanyu, JPN
4. Takahiko Kozuka, JPN
5. Tatsuki Machida, JPN
6. Konstantin Menshov, RUS
7. Alexander Majorov, SWE
8. Jeremy Abbott, USA
9. Evan Lysacek, USA [Armin Mahbanoozadeh (USA) substituted for Lysacek who withdrew on 10/10/12 due to injury]
10. Douglas Razzano, USA
PAIRS
1. Jessica Dube & Sebastien Wolfe, CAN2. Qing Pang & Jian Tong, CHN
3. Vanessa James & Morgan Cipres, FRA
4. Stacy Kemp & David King, GBR
5. Tatiana Volosozhar & Maxim Trankov, RUS
6. Marissa Castelli & Simon Shnapir, USA
7. Caydee Denney & John Coughlin, USA
8. Gretchen Donlan & Andrew Speroff, USA
ICE DANCE
1. Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje, CAN2. Nelli Zhiganshina & Alexandra Gazsi, GER
3. Lorenza Alessandrini & Simone Vaturi, ITA
4. Isabella Tobias & Delvidas Stagniuas, LTU
5. Ekaterina Bobrova & Dmitri Soloviev, RUS
6. Anastasia Cannuscio & Colin McManus USA
7. Meryl Davis & Charlie White, USA
8. Lynn Kriengkrairut & Logan Giulietti-Schmitt, USA


