2016 Team Challenge Cup


The 2016 KOSÉ Team Challenge Cup was held April 22–24, 2016 at the Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington. Skaters competed as part of Team Asia, Team Europe, or Team North America.
The 2016 competition was the first edition of the event. Spokane was named as the host in September 2015.

Entries

Changes to initial assignments

Results

Head-to-head competition

On Friday, April 22, singles skaters competed in a head-to-head competition. There were six rounds, with one skater from each team competing. Each skater earned points for their team based on placement. The team with the most placement points won the head-to-head competition. Also, the top scoring man and woman earned an additional cash prize. The scores from this event do not contribute to Saturday's team competition.

Overall results

Each skater earned points for their team based on placement in their group: 12 points for first place, 10 points for second place, and 8 points for third place. Shoma Uno and Evgenia Medvedeva had the highest scores of the night, earning them an additional cash prize.
RankTeamTotal
1Asia1212121081064
2North America1010108121262
3Europe8881210854

Match-ups

RankNameTeam
1Denis TenAsia92.63
2Adam RipponNorth America86.05
3Mikhail KolyadaEurope70.60

RankNameTeam
1Shoma UnoAsia105.74
2Nam NguyenNorth America64.91
3Michal BřezinaEurope64.54

RankNameTeam
1Jin BoyangAsia93.18
2Jason BrownNorth America87.72
3Sergei VoronovEurope62.55

RankNameTeam
1Evgenia MedvedevaEurope77.56
2Satoko MiyaharaAsia73.28
3Gracie GoldNorth America71.34

RankNameTeam
1Gabrielle DalemanNorth America68.45
2Roberta RodeghieroEurope61.75
3Rika HongoAsia60.43

RankNameTeam
1Ashley WagnerNorth America74.54
2Elizabet TursynbayevaAsia65.44
3Elena RadionovaEurope61.36

Team Challenge competition

On Saturday, April 23, skaters competed with their free skating/dance programs. The team with the highest aggregate score won this segment of the Team Challenge Cup. Also, the top scoring pairs and dance couple earned an additional cash prize. The scores from Friday's event do not contribute to the event's final results.

Overall results

For each team, the highest dance score, the highest pair score, the two highest ladies scores, and the two highest men scores were combined. Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford and Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje earned an additional cash prize for being the highest scoring pair and dance couple. Team North America was the overall winner of the competition.
RankTeamTotal
1North America147.48111.56181.50166.68143.20142.00892.42
2Europe130.46108.96165.48158.30151.55133.31848.06
3Asia118.7883.18192.92156.71145.02123.61820.22

Discipline results

RankNameTeam
1Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew PojeNorth America111.56x
2Madison Chock / Evan BatesNorth America111.30
3Anna Cappellini / Luca LanotteEurope108.96x
4Penny Coomes / Nicholas BucklandEurope100.90
5Wang Shiyue / Liu XinyuAsia83.18x
6Rebeka Kim / Kirill MinovAsia82.18

RankNameTeam
1Shoma UnoAsia192.92x
2Jason BrownNorth America181.50x
3Adam RipponNorth America166.68x
4Mikhail KolyadaEurope165.48x
5Michal BřezinaEurope158.30x
6Jin BoyangAsia156.71x
7Denis TenAsia147.77
8Sergei VoronovEurope132.79
9Nam NguyenNorth America127.10

RankNameTeam
1Evgenia MedvedevaEurope151.55x
2Satoko MiyaharaAsia145.02x
3Ashley WagnerNorth America143.20x
4Gracie GoldNorth America142.00x
5Elena RadionovaEurope133.31x
6Elizabet TursynbayevaAsia123.61x
7Rika HongoAsia122.15
8Gabrielle DalemanNorth America115.93
9Roberta RodeghieroEurope105.00