ISU Challenger Series

Yeah.

I think because there's so many, like, newer teams, and there's a lot going on, and they did not compete, uh, in the Challenger Series, that it's-

Yeah

...

Yeah

... "I've never seen her before and she does a triple axel." Like, it's...

I don't take Challenger Series events all that seriously, but it will, like, perk my ears up a little bit.

Yeah.

All right.

Budapest trophy was, as I said, and as we talked about in the previous show, a huge, huge field, especially for a challenger series event, 28 men, 37 women, 22 ice dance teams.

And it was a long, long weekend of skating and, And let's start with, well, it was a long, long weekend of skating.

And there was also a good bit of menning across the board.

But anyway, Spartik had a three-point lead over the Toshlers.

And the Toshlers, you know, traditionally, what happens with the Toshlers is their scores tend to go all over the place, depending on the competition.

And they tend to score highest during the Challenger Series.

And, you know, you wonder if how they have been, how they and their programs have been received.

Yeah, let's go.

And another Challenger Series event, and this one is large.

And it's also a weird set of, um, schedules compared to-

Yeah

It does, it does help, though, that if they were to win this event, which they have-

Mm-hmm

... a very good chance of winning this event, that they go into the Grand Prix as two-time Challenger Series winners, right?

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and I'm talking about Denis Ten Memorial, which was, I don't know, number 15 in the Challenger Series.

[laughs]

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

We've been doing a lot of Challenger Series events.

But it also means we have one more week to go until the Grand Prix starts.

Oh.

Um, okay.

Well, we have another Challenger Series event this week.

Mm-hmm.

It's the Denis Ten Memorial.

Uh, w- th- this is what? One, one, two, three, four, five.

This is number six in the Challenger Series.

My gosh, we've had a lot of competitions already.

And even though we've had a lot of competitions, we still had a lot of debuts this week, and a lot of debuts from-

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, and look, we, we know, [laughs] there's always at least one Challenger Series event that does something like this, and usually-

I mean, last year in Kazakhstan-