Well, USFSA just got me deleted from youtube, along with my account and all of my own videos just because I uploaded the Skate America vids from the *Russian* broadcast, so there you go, I have zero tolerance regarding this matter.

USFSA can believe that I wish with all my heart to be able to fly to ALL of these competitions, pay for ALL the networks that broadcast figure skating if I WAS ABLE TO. But I'm not. (both financially, and technically) I subscribed at least to Ice Network and it turned out I won't be able enjoy the vids live, due to a blackout, wich is by itself already outragous. But I though I could at least watch them later (on-demand). To this day, I'm still not able to do so. Why? I always get an error message, saying "we couldn't validate your account". Worte them about it. They replied shortly that I should call them. There is no serious way I'd call them FROM HUNGARY, to pay all the high costs for an overseas call, to adjust to THEIR timezones and stay up for midnights. If there is no way to solve this via e-mail, I don't care about it anymore.

I've spent 30 dollars to worse things too, it's not what bugs me. It's the treatment: how they treat they spectators, they paying costumers. And they seriously wonder about why the interest vanishes and why people stop watching figure skating? No wonder there that the sport is dying in the US.

If there wasn't Johnny to look forward from any possible channel source, I wouldn't put much effort to watch American figure skating due to all this.
~Brigi


"Keeper of Johnny's Mickey Mouse shirt & his way of caressing the ice"