Tony and Thomas stayed up all night both nights watching the Cup of China the second Grand Prix event of the season. For an underwhelming competition, we still managed over 2 hours of insights and opinions! Included are all four disciplines, the questionable call that kept Sui & Han on the podium in the pairs event, the technical panels and judges in the singles' events being in a different reality, Chock & Bates season debut, and plenty of other program details and protocol analysis.

Includes Chock & Bates, Zingas & Kolesnik, Lopareva & Brissaud, Smart & Dieck, Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu, Rinka Watanabe, Anastasiia Gubanova, Jia Shin, Rino Matsuike, Shun Sato, Daniel Grassl, Mikhail Shaidorov, Tomoki Hiwatashi, Boyang Jin, Jacob Sanchez, Junhwan Cha, Metelkina & Berulava, Conti & Macii, Sui & Han, Zhang & Huang, and more!

Tony and Thomas are fresh off watching all of the first Grand Prix of the season in France. Fresh faces, judging controversies, and new programs are all here and it must mean skating season is in full-force! We dive into ice dance first, highlighting Fournier-Beaudry & Cizeron's win and the decline of Guignard & Fabbri with our own views and thoughts moving forward in the Olympic season. We also go over the womens, pairs, and mens competitions discussing the top skaters and some of our favorite moments.

Includes Fournier-Beaudry & Cizeron, Fear & Gibson, Reed & Ambrulevicius, Guignard & Fabbri, Davis & Smolkin, Ami Nakai, Kaori Sakamoto, Rion Sumiyoshi, Isabeau Levito, Miura & Kihara, Stellato-Dudek & Deschamps, Pavlova & Sviatchenko, Ilia Malinin, Adam Siao Him Fa, Nika Egadze, Lukas Britschgi, Francois Pitot, Andrew Torgashev, and more.

Tony and Thomas close out Skate to Milano with a full men’s free skate breakdown and an event‑wide wrap up. It is a rollercoaster of clean skates, near misses, and razor‑thin margins, all in a field so deep that great performances still fell short of Olympic tickets.

Zooming out, Tony and Thomas sketch the early Olympic medal picture for the men, what this qualifier signals about PCS trends, and how quotas, citizenship clocks, and the placement of the team event could reshape the final lineup. There are throwbacks to 90s and 2000s coverage, notes on how the ISU has modernized the show, and a quick Grand Prix look‑ahead.

Expect rulebook nerdery, clear scoring walk‑throughs, and warm, honest commentary with a little nostalgia.