This season has so many unexpected things that has happened, so I think this should deserve its own thread
here is my lists so far:

1 Weaver/Poje not making The Grand Prix Final and beaten by Bobrova/Soloviev Twice
2 Machida winning over Daisuke
3 Osmond winning Skate Canada, amid being super inflated scores
4 Voronov medaling at CoC, he medalled before in a GP ? a weak field but still if you are an anonymous or has no records even as a junior winning an event you can still medal as a senior, lol
5 Leonova bombing and No Grand Prix Final
6 Collision with Song and Rippon, and Nan getting hospitalized
7 Joubert pulling out of FS in Cup of China and getting sick

Junior
1 Han Yan not qualifying to the JGP Final

Good summary on Lifeskate of Universal's coverage:
http://www.lifeskate.com/

http://www.isu.org/vsite/vnavsite/pa...v-list,00.html

I'm sorry if there's already a thread for it. I couldn't find one :( Necessary information is being posted on The Edge, but I thought it would be nice to have a thread that generally covers the GP series.

Evan Lysacek out of Skate America, Armin Mahbanoozadeh gets spot

Coachless Ando pulls out of Grand Prix Series
;Miki's spots have been filled with Sophia Biryukova(COC) and Elena Glebova(TEB).

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, but I was thinking it could be a fun game to play where you guess the top 6 finishers in each discipline at each GP event before each of the GP's start. Then you get points depending on how close your top 5 were (the 6th is a substitute).
So here's the scoring system -
Every correct placement you get nets you the same number of points that the skater would get. If you are one place off, you get 3/4 of the points; if you are two places off you get 1/2 of the points, and if you are three places off you get 1/4 of the points that the skater scored. Anything else and you don't get points.
Whoever has the most points at the end wins (and we may continue it through to next year to include Euros, 4cc and worlds if there's good turnout)!

Points Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...1VZMGZhZnBpLWc

You will have until 12 AM local time of the first day of competition to post your picks.
If you missed Skate America, don't be afraid to join! There's still plenty to be won!

there was an overview last season wich head all the starters in all the grand prix and was updated whenever there was something new. it had also possible alternates listet. i found it very interesting and would appreciate it if someone does this again for this season

Since it is summer and skating news are scarce, I thought we could start predictions for the upcoming grand prix season. I am aware that the grand prix assignments are not final yet, but why not start now? Any ideas who will dominate the gp and who will falter?