skating in Binghamton
CKilyanek
Do you know anything about this one?
ABC SPORTS GREAT AMERICAN FIGURE SKATING CHALLENGE
Tue 04/10/01 7:30PM
BROOME COUNTY ARENA
BINGHAMTON NY
I found it online at Ticketmaster while looking for something else....Tickets
not on sale yet.....But that's the first I'd heard of another skating event at
Broome County.....You guys are lucky up there!
Carol
CKilyanek
Carol
>>
Actually, to answer my own post, I do see it listed on the USFSA events
page...but no info on what it is or who will be there.....
CKilyanek
in '98, we have had an annual spring "pro-am" competition of some kind;
the past three years it's been USFSA team "USA vs. the World" pro-ams.
The location appears to be convenient for COI tour skaters at that time
of year (when they are touring upstate anyway), and networks seem to
like the relative proximity to New York City. Also, it's pretty easy to
sell a 4,500-seat arena and make it look good on TV.
Actually, I would recommend that anyone living nearby who's tired of
sitting in the nosebleeds at a skating event come to Binghamton. Even
the last row in the Broome County Arena is not that far off the ice. And
if you get first row, you get to sit with your feet at top-of-the-boards
level. (Don't ask me why, it's just how the place is made.) Besides, if
you come, I'll show you where the "secret" concession stand is, with all
the really "good" stuff.
Trudi>>
Yes, Broome County Arena is a great place to see a skating competition. I saw
the Ultimate Four in 1998 and it was wonderful. Every seat in the place
seemed to be a good one and I liked how, if you walked the stairways between
skates, you could see the skaters warming up or stretching or talking or
whatever...not on the stairs, but you could easily see where they were from the
stairs. It was also easy to spot skaters who came out to watch the others
skate. Everything seemed so nice and close.
It's just too bad all of these things are held in the middle of the week!
Makes it a lot harder for me to get up there to see them.
Well, have a great time anyone who gets to go!
Carol
Helen
other skating people -- please post if you get any ticket info. Thanks!
Helen
(formerly of skatefans-l mostly a lurker :) )
Trudi Marrapodi
<hd...@dmcom.net> wrote:
It's right at www.usfsa.com. Hope you can make it. (I know Heather plans
to buy tickets by hook or by crook.)
Oh, BTW, I forgot to mention, 1998, the year all these skating events
started coming to town, is the same year I moved here. Coincindence? I
think not. ;-)
--
Trudi
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BrenLyn01JJ
place is small. Great seats everywhere!! I have to drag my mom with me out
there, I'd get lost driving. Our arena here is about the same size - a little
bit bigger and we never get anything here. Pisses me off!! We got Cooks
Champange On Ice once - but that's about it and the usual SOI & Winter COI.
Trudi Marrapodi
brenl...@aol.com (BrenLyn01JJ) wrote:
Oh, the Blue Cross Arena is way bigger now. When I lived there, it was
about a 7,500 seater. Now it's more like a 10,000 seater. Either way, it's
always been bigger than Broome County Arena. I don't know why Rochester
doesn't get more stuff.
Jocelyn
>doesn't get more stuff.
Probably the same reason Akron doesn't. Akron is a pretty good sized city in
its own right, but pales in comparison to Cleveland. Rochester is 50 min give
or take from Buffalo, the second largest city in the state and a frequent stop
of the tours.
Jocelyn
BrenLyn01JJ
Stojko, Petrenko, Goebel, Nari Nam, the list is to long to remember but I
really want to go!