Who are your Top 10 skaters competing this year?

[Isabel_O'Reilly]

1) Yulia
2) Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje
3) Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford
4) Serafima Sakhanovich
5) Evegenia Medvedeva
6) Yuzuru Hanyu
7) Javier Fernandez
8) Polina Edmunds

Edit: Reading other people's lists, I realized I forgot a few.

9) Elena Ilinykh
10) Jason Brown

I'm only really invested in the top 3 so far, but considering I didn't even know Evgenia or Serafima other than from last year's JR Worlds until the JGP just started my list might grow a bit.

 

[desertskates]

1. Julia Lipnitskaia
2. Polina Edmunds
3. Ashley Wagner
4. Anna Pogorilaya
5. SoYoun Park
6. Yuzuru Hanyu
7. Denis Ten
8. Florent Amodio
9. Castelli/Tran
10. Ilinykh/Zhiganshin

 

[tulosai]

It's very difficult to compare skaters from different categories.

THIS.

In no real order

1. Yulia Lipnitskaia
2. Mirai Nagasu
3. Chock/Bates
4. Jason Brown
5. Ilinykh/Zhiganshin
6. Bazarova/Deputat
7. Hurtado/Diaz
8. Cappellini/Lanotte
9. Joshua Farris
10. Gilles/Porier

I could very easily go on...

 

[Sandpiper]

In no particular order:

1) Yuzuru Hanyu
2) Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
3) Artur Gachinski
4) Ashley Wagner
5) Yulia Lipnitskaya
6) Jason Brown
7) Max Aaron
8) Volosozhar/Trankov
9) Javier Fernandez
10) Peng/Zhang

Honourable mentions: Ilinykh/Zhiganshin (rooting for them, but we'll have to see how they do) and Adian Pitkeev (curious about how he handles seniors)

 

[merrywidow]

Not in any order:
Max Aaron
Gracie Gold
Dennis Ten
Chock/Bates
Ross Miner
Jason Brown
Julia Lipnitskaia
Han Yan
Cappelini/Lanotte
Leng/Shnapir

 

[buton]

1. Yulia Lipnitskaya
2. Bazarova/Deputat
3. Volosozhar/Trankov
4. Davankova/Enbert
5. Ilinykh/Zhiganshin
6. Javier Fernandez
7. Evgenia Medvedeva
8. Denis Ten
9. Cappelini/Lanotte
10. Maxim Kovtun

 

[AnnaTheMusician]

1. Kiira Korpi
2. Elena Radionova
3. Ashley Wagner
4. Evgenia Medvedeva
5. Javier Fernandez
6. Adelina Sotnikova
7. Viktoria Helgesson
8. Polina Edmunds
9. Jason Brown
10. New Finnish senior skaters Jenni Saarinen and Liubov Efimenko

 

[OS]

(Just because I like underdogs, but the list might as well be upside down and I'd be perfectly fine with it)

1. Mirai Nagasu
2. Karen Chen
3. Park So Youn
4. Li ZiJun
5. Anna Pogorilaya
5.5 Elena Radionova (Okay I totally cheated, but they are Russian... so it doesn't matter anyway!)
5.5.5 Liza Tuk, she looks to be much better shape this year (bar injury).
6. Yulia Lipnitskaya
7. Han Yan
8. Jeremy Abbott
9. Denis Ten
10. Hanyu Yuzuru

Gracie Gold should be featured up there some where, but I couldn't figure out exactly where, since I fully expect her programs to be another Frank "I miss Michelle Kwan greatest of all time... fails to recreate magic" package snooze.


Skaters I will miss the most:

1. Yuna Kim
2. Yuna Kim
3. Yuna Kim


4. Daisuke Takahashi
5. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir
6. Mao Asada
7. Carolina Kostner
8. Patrick Chan
9. Plushy
10. Nathalie Pechlat and Favian Bourzat (Wish they get to show us more of that special French Joie de vivre, I really like them last year)

 

[SkateSkates]

Lipnitskaia
Hawayek/Baker
Hanyu
Proklova
Edmunds
Weaver/Poje
Elena, Nikita, and Vera Bazarova with their new partners
Joshua Farris

 

[kwanatic]

Let's see...in no particular order (other than country and alphabetically by first name )

My favorite Americans
1. Ashley Wagner
2. Mirai Nagasu
3. Polina Edmunds
4. Samantha Cesario

My favorite Russians
5. Adelina Sotnikova
6. Elena Radionova
7. Julia Lipnitskaya

My favorite Korean
8. So Youn Park

My favorite Japanese
9. Kanako Murakami
10. Satoko Miyahara


I'm also cheering for Zijun Li, Kaetlyn Osmond, Gracie Gold, Anna Pogorilaya, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Hae Jin Kim and Gabrielle Daleman. Essentially, there isn't anyone I'm cheering against. It's just the ones in my top 10 are the ones I'm cheering the hardest for.

 

[starlight97]

This season is going to be so weird/different without Yuna, Mao and Carolina...
I know that nothing can last forever, but I think they represented sth, I'm not sure how to describe it, that is missing in the new generation...

But anyway,
If we talk about juniors as well:
SERAFIMA SAKHANOVICH has to be the name

 

[Hanmgse]

Let's see:
Hanyu
Yulia
Radionova
Fernandez
Kovtun
Murakami
Hurtado/Diaz
Machida
Edmunds
Ten

 

[Alba]

1. Yuzuru Hanyu
2. Javier Fernandez
3. Yan Han
4. Denis Ten
5. SoYoun Park
6. Zijun Li
7. Kanako Murakami
8. Elena Radionova
9. Julia Lipnitskaia
10. Alex Shibutani/Maia Shibutani

(And people call me unpatriotic...)

1.Hanuyu
2.Yulia
3.Radionova
4.Gold
5.Ruslena
6.Osmond
7.Stolbova&Klimov
8.Gachinsky
9.Shibs
10.Hurtado&Diaz
11.Hubbell&Donohue

The are the skaters I can't really wait to see their programs and compete.

I left out two of my fav. ladies, Anna P.& Edmunds because I really do not like the choice of the music for their programs.
I've seen very little though and it's too early. So I'm kind of in the waiting, for the moment.

 

[Skater Boy]

My top ten

1. Yulia Lipnskaya - I have my doubts about her though because of puberty
2. Kavaguti and Smirnov - I really feel for them and would like to see them win a medal or better a world title
3. Weaver and Poje - robbed last year
4. Shibs - kind of feel sorry for how Zueva treats them like the unwanted children
5. Osmond - why not - I thought she had some promise then injury
6. Sotnikova - I want to see her skate freely and show the world she can skate with the best
7. V and T - love their skating
8. Duhamel and Radford - would love for them to show their stuff with clean skates
9. Elena I and Ruslan - after all she has gone through after being dumped
10. Gracie Gold - I think she is the golden girl

 

[karne]

In no particular order (because it would kill me to rank in order and I don't think I could do it)

- Artur Gachinski
- Jason Brown
- Joshua Farris
- Max Aaron
- Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
- Brendan Kerry
- Brooklee Han
- Lukas Kaugars
- All the Australian skaters

 

[AprilS]

Hanyu

Fernandez
Lipnitskaya
Murakami

Edmunds
Machida
Miyahara
Wagner
Liebers
Osmond

 

[skateluvr]

North Americans take up 10.

Gracie
Ashley
Polina
Samantha
Mirai
Jason
Max
Joshua
Osmunda
The Shib
And more. We have great ladies and dancers and beside Hanyu the best male all around skater in Jason. Rooting for us in the new quad. Despite the fab Russians and Asians.

 

[cheerknithanson]

1. Kevin Reynolds, Jason Brown, Yuzuru Hanyu (They're all my #1 favorite)
2. Maia and Alex Shibutani
3. Nam Nguyen
4. Polina Edmunds
5. Gracie Gold
6. Ashley Wagner
7. Maxim Kovtun
8. Paul Poirier and Piper Gilles
9. Gabrielle Daleman
10. Alaine Chartrand

 

[noskates]

1. Jason Brown
2. Gracie Gold
3. Shibutanis
4. Fernandez
5. Weaver and Poje
6. Haven Denney and her partner (his name escapes me at the moment)
7. Polina Edmunds
8. Josh Farris
9. Yulia L (mostly to see if last year was an exception)
10. Ashley Wagner (to see if she learned anything last year)

 

[stryke]

#1 Yulia L (She gets better every season. Nothing she has done was an exception.)
#2 Elena R (The only one I'm scared of beating Yulia)
#3 Polina E
#4 Hanyu
#5 Fernandez
#6 Gold
#7 Pogo
#8 Sakhanovich
#9 Medvedeva
#10 Chen