Skate-Nation

Artistic & Board Awards from the function

The final day of the championships was the time to shine for a lot of the teams and the senior freeskaters.

Sarah-Jane Johnson showed her dominance again in the senior ladies. Second place went to Sophie Hock, who will be one to watch in the future.

The men's event was extremely close, with Ben Shirley winning the long programme and finishing with a total of 85.28. But a strong short programme from Liam Fraser kept him in front to take the title, with a total score of 86.77.

As of now, all competition images have been uploaded. Our final coverage will be from the awards at the Closing Social tonight and a final video that will be up shortly.
Safe travels home to everyone & we look forward to seeing you again.

Today's event was the last full day. Being mainly dance, and culminating with the juniors & seniors solo dance tonight. If you weren't there, you missed out on some amazing performances.

Hannah Lines took out the Junior grade, showing superior speed & power in her tango themed freedance.

Unsurprisingly, Mercedes topped the seniors with a score of 121.50. We don't know how that compares to her personal best, but we do know the Australian Senior champion scored 112.13 this week. Phoenix had an emotional finish to her freedance, tipping over the magic 100, and Emma McLaren just about did it too, with 99.45.
Ben's programme would have had him in second, just, if he was in with the ladies.
We feel for the skaters who finished 4th, 5th & 6th in the Senior Ladies Solo Dance. In many previous years, their performances would have taken podium spots, but with the standard of the top skaters this year, it just made that impossible.

Tomorrow is the final day, so remember to put in your Oscar nominations (signed by a team manager or Official) before the end of the last event.