ISU

There are 8 Award categories for Skaters, Coaches and Choreographers

1. Most Valuable Skater: Honors the Single Skater or Pair or Ice Dance Couple who promoted Figure Skating – due to a successful competition season, creating (social) media attention and engagement in 2022 (GP 2021 accepted).
2. Best Costume: Honors the Single Skater or Pair or Ice Dance Couple presenting a costume for the first time in 2022 (GP 2021 accepted) reflecting creativity, fashion, style and originality.
3. Most Entertaining Program: Honors the Single Skater or Pair or Ice Dance Couple for the music selection, expression, creativity, contemporary implementation, originality and overall performance presented for the first time in 2022 (GP 2021 accepted)
4. Best Newcomer: Honors a young talented Single Skater or Pair or Ice Dance Couple competing very successfully for the first time in ISU Events on the Senior level in 2022 (GP 2021 accepted)
5. Best Choreographer: Honors the choreographic work of a Choreographer who successfully inspired one or several Single Skaters and/or Pairs and/or ice Dance Couples. Program must have been performed for the first time in 2022 (GP 2021 accepted)
6. Best Coach: Honors a Coach who delivered professional and efficient work and achieved outstanding results in 2022 (GP 2021 accepted) with one or several Single Skaters and/or Pairs and/or ice Dance Couples
7. Lifetime Achievement Award: Honors a Figure Skating legend having achieved great success and popularity and is considered as a role model for the Figure Skating World.
8. Special Achievement Award: Honors a Single Skater or Pair or Ice Dance Couple who makes history by successfully performing a new / special / unique element or move or achieves something extraordinary at an ISU Event in 2022 (GP 2021 accepted) and pushes the boundaries of the sport.

A long list of Candidates, selected by an ISU Skating Awards Selection Commission, will be subject to public and media online voting.

Once the online voting is closed, the results will be taken into account and the ISU Skating Awards Selection Commission will draw up a list of 3 Nominees per category which will be subject for the final vote by a Jury.

The ISU Skating Awards Selection Commission is composed of:

• Benoit Lavoie, ISU Vice President Figure Skating
• Gyorgy Elek, ISU Figure Skating Council member, who subsequently will also act as Jury President (see para 3.C) below) for the final voting stage
• Oliver Hoener (ISU Skating Awards Producer & Art on Ice CEO)
• Ari Zakarian (ISU Skating Award Show initiator)
• Fredi Schmid (ISU Director General) who subsequently will also act as Jury Administrator.

The ISU Skating Awards Selection Commission will select Candidates subject to online voting.

At the conclusion of the last event in 2022 (ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, December 11, 2022) the ISU Skating Awards Selection Commission, will select the Skaters subject to public and media online voting based on the results, performances and feedback from across the year 2022. The number of Candidates per category are the following:

1. Most Valuable Skater: maximum 8 and ideally 2 Men – 2 Women – 2 Pairs – 2 Ice Dance Couples
2. Best Costume: maximum 20 and ideally 5 Men – 5 Women – 5 Pairs – 5 Ice Dance Couples
3. Most Entertaining Program: maximum 20 and ideally 5 Men – 5 Women – 5 Pairs – 5 Ice Dance Couples
4. Best Newcomer: maximum 8 and ideally 2 Men – 2 Women – 2 Pairs – 2 Ice Dance Couples
5. Best Choreographer: maximum 8 Choreographers among all 4 disciplines Single Skating Women, Single Skating Men, Pair Skating, Ice Dance.
6. Best Coach: maximum 8 Coaches among all 4 disciplines Single Skating Women, Single Skating Men, Pair Skating, Ice Dance.
7. Lifetime Achievement Award: 1 Candidate.
8. Special Achievement Award: depending on the special achievements accomplished.

At the end of the online voting period, the ISU Skating Awards Selection Commission, will evaluate the results and will announce the three Nominees for each category, except the Lifetime Achievement Award and Special Achievement Award which are not subject to the public and media vote and the recipients of the awards will be announced live on February 5, 2023.

There will be three (3) final Nominees per award category, except for the Lifetime Achievement Awards and the Special Achievement Award for which there will be only one (1) Nominee (or more depending on the on historical moments that could take place during the year 2022).

Online voting for the public, and media will open on December 15, 2022 and will close on December 31, 2022.

1. Most Valuable Skater
2. Best Costume
3. Most Entertaining Program
4. Best Newcomer
5. Best Choreographer
6. Best Coach

1. Most Valuable Skater
2. Best Costume
3. Most Entertaining Program
4. Best Newcomer
5. Best Choreographer
6. Best Coach

Public voters will need to register on the online voting platform and will only be able to cast one vote per user and category.

Media will have their separate registration procedure and page. All registration requests will be vetted by the ISU Media Team which can take up to 36 hours and once approved the media will have the possibility to vote.

The experts composing the ISU Skating Awards Selection Commission will evaluate potential candidates who meet the criteria as mentioned above.

The ISU Skating Awards Selection Commission will take into account the on-line voting results of each of the 2 voting groups with the following weight, i.e. Public 2/3 and Media 1/3 .

For the determination of the result of the Public vote and Media vote, the ISU Skating Award Selection Commission will take into account for each Award category:

1. a) the absolute number of votes per candidate including votes from all countries
2. b) the absolute number of votes per candidate including votes from all countries but not including the votes from the Candidates country of origin.
3. c) the number of votes per candidate broken down by votes from each country
4. d) the ISU Skating Award Selection Commission will weigh the above-mentioned on-line results details. The objective is to determine the final Nominees reflecting a balanced world-wide opinion.

On January 19, 2023 all Nominees will be publicly announced.

The Jury is composed of 6 former Figure Skating Champions from six different nations namely, Canada, Finland, France, Great Britain, Japan and USA who were also organizers of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series 2022.

Mr. Gyorgy Elek is appointed as the Jury President as his nationality is not among the above-mentioned countries.

ISU Director General Fredi Schmid is appointed as Administrator to assist the Jury President to follow and comply with the applicable procedures and time-lines and to record and communicate the Jury decisions. The Administrator does not have a vote.

The full list of Juries will be announced in due course.

The Jury members are selected by the ISU Skating Awards Selection Commission.

The Jury, will take the final decision for the Award Winners among the Nominees.

A Jury meeting will be held for final decision of the Award Winners with the following voting rules:

1. The Jury President votes only in case of need for a tie-breaking vote
2. Jury members cannot vote for a Nominee of their nationality. This provision does not apply for the Jury President in case of need for a tie breaking vote
3. The vote within the Jury is open (not secret) but Jury members are bound by strict confidentiality on the entire voting process
4. The Nominee with the highest number of votes is the Award Winner of the respective category
5. In case of a tie, the Nominee with the lowest number of votes received shall be eliminated and the vote shall be repeated
6. In case of a tie between the two last remaining Nominees, the Jury President shall cast the tie breaking vote.
7. The list with the Award winners will remain secret until the respective announcement during the ISU Skating Awards Show on Sunday, February 5, 2023. The Jury Administrator will prepare the envelopes containing the decision for each Award which will be submitted to the chosen Presenter(s) of the 8 Awards.