We wrap up Four Continents with the men's event which saw a number of strong skates. We discus the risk/reward of repeating programs, some skaters who had a great competition that we won't see at Worlds who wrapped up their season in a strong way, and our continued wait for the official Canadian World's assignments to be released.

The pairs field was small again this year at Four Continents, but there was a lot of excitement. We discuss the late withdrawals, a surprising number of unintentional double throws, the constant flux of the US pairs field, and go off on a tangent about whether base values should be modified to encourage skaters to try quad throws again.

Dance standings continued to be a bit unpredictable at Four Continents, and we discuss the continued importance of base value at the top and our excitement for the development of dance in the three continents outside of North America, plus some tangents on the importance of an arena that has had proper audio outfitting for figure skating and whether the base and GOE values for choreographic elements should be changed.

The top women brought out the big tricks at Four Continents, and we discuss the excitement of a warmup filled with triple Axel and quad attempts, how this competition seems to be one where skaters will try out new things feeling they have nothing to lose in doing so, and the continuing question of who'll get the two Canadian women's spots at Worlds.

We wrap up our Europeans recaps with the pairs, in which we discuss our frustration with Tarasova and Morozov's continuing struggles, whether Boikova and Kozlovskii can take the gold at Worlds, how exciting it is to see a team skate well in their home country, and our always increasing admiration for Zoe Jones.

The ladies event at Europeans saw great comeback skates and some mistakes from the top three, and we discuss the many skaters coming here straight from the Youth Olympics, how hard it is to keep switching between Junior and Senior programs, and why switching layouts and tech content is rarely successful for most skaters and should probably be avoided.

The men continue to be inconsistent at Europeans, and we discuss more boot problems, the race between the top two Italian skaters here, why throwing in lots of quads (especially at the last minute) is often a big mistake, and why Kevin Aymoz might have cracked under the pressure to fail to qualify for the free skate.

The dance event at Europeans was a wild one, and we try to explain for all those who have been asking just what happened during Papadakis and Cizeron's skate and why they wound up coming second to Sinitsina and Katsalapov. Plus we discuss the rest of the field including some exciting up-and-coming junior teams and the very close results of the Spanish dance battle.

We wrap up our US Nationals recaps with the pairs, where we saw a lot of strong skates. We discuss the difficult decision of who to send to Worlds, why unexpectedly winning as a fairly new team might not be the best thing for you, and why intentional pops can be a good strategy if your side-by-side jumps are too inconsistent.

The ladies at US Nationals had almost as strong an event as the men did, and we discuss why your favourite skate of the night doesn't need to be the winning one, the interesting choice still to be made about which skaters will get Junior Worlds spots, and the many skaters who made us get emotional with their skates here.