This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what's happening in sports by subscribing here. The biggest annual event in figure skating is the world championships.
The second-biggest is the Grand Prix Final. It starts tomorrow in Beijing. Here's what to know: It's quite exclusive. The Grand Prix of Figure Skating's regular season consists of six events held all over the world in October and November.
Skaters are allowed to compete at up to two of those stops. They earn points based on where they finish, and those points decide who gets to compete in the Final.
Only the top six in each discipline — men's, women's, pairs and ice dance — are invited. The only other time we'll see this many of the world's best figure skaters gathered in one place this season is at the world championships in March in Montreal.