Grand Prix Early Predictions Game

[sky_fly20]

Cup of China

Men

1 Takahashi
2 Joubert
3 Machida
4 Rippon
5 Song
alt: Voronov

Ladies
1 Julia
2 Mao
3 Mirai
4 Zijun
5 Kiira
alt: Helgesson

Pairs:
1 Pang/Tong
2 Kavaguti/Smirnov
3 Moore-Towers/Moskovitch
4 Stolbova/Klimov
5 Peng/Zhang
alt: Wang/Zhang

Dance
1 Weaver/Poje
2 Bobrova/Soloviev
3 Pechalat/Bourzat
4 Sinitsina/Zhiganshin
5 Chock/Bates
alt: Huang/Zheng

[jChamp]

I already finished the ladies SC points for a good laugh. It's probably not a surprise, but everybody bombed except for a handful of us!

[jChamp]

CoC:

MEN
1. Takahashi
2. Joubert
3. Song
4. Machida
5. Rippon
6. Voronov

LADIES
1. Asada
2. Lipnitskaya
3. Nagasu
4. Li
5. Korpii
6. Biryukova

(LET'S GO MIRAI!)

PAIRS
1. Pang/Tong
2. Kavaguti/Smirnov
3. Moore-Towers/Moscovitch
4. Stolbova/Klimov
5. Peng/Zhang
6. Wang/Zhang

DANCE
1. Pechalat/Bourzat
2. Bobrova/Soloviev
3. Weaver/Poje
4. Sinistina/Zhiganshin
5. Chock/Bates
6. Huang/Zheng

[Macassar88]

It's weird, but I have this odd feeling that Bobrova and Soloviev will either finish first or third, but not second. I can't completely explain it, but I feel like CoC is where they get their best scores, and if the judges are willing to reward them, PB and WP are close enough that BS could leapfrog the both of them, but if the judges don't find them to beat one, they won't beat the other.

[Li'Kitsu]

The positive thing is, it can't get any worse than SC!

Cup of China

Men:
1. Takahashi
2. Machida
3. Joubert
4. Nan Song
5. Kevin Reynolds
6. Adam Rippon

Ladies:
1. Mao Asada
2. Julia Lipnitskaya
3. Li Zijun
4. Mirai Nagasu
5. Kiira Korpi
6. Sofia Biryukova

Pairs:
1. Pang/Tong
2. Kavaguti/Smirnov
3. Stolbova/Klimov
4. Moore-Towers/Moscovitch
5. Peng/Zhang
6. Wang/Zhang

Dance:
1. Péchalat/Bourzat
2. Weaver/Poje
3. Bobrova/Soloviev
4. Sinitsina/Zhiganshin
5. Huan/Zhang
6. Chock/Bates

[icellist]

Cup of China

Men:
1. Daisuke Takahashi
2. Tatsuki Machida
3. Brian Joubert
4. Nan Song
5. Adam Rippon
6. Kevin Reynolds

Ladies:
1. Mao Asada
2. Mirai Nagasu
3. Julia Lipnitskaya
4. Kiira Korpi
5. Zijun Li
6. Sofia Biryukova

Pairs:
1. Kavaguti/Smirnov
2. Moore-Towers/Moscovitch
3. Pang/Tong
4. Stolbova/Klimov
5. Peng/Zhang
6. Wang/Zhang

Ice Dance:
1. Péchalat/Bourzat
2. Bobrova/Soloviev
3. Weaver/Poje
4. Chock/Bates
5. Sinitsina/Zhiganshin
6. Huang/Zhang

Other than dance, my predictions are pretty daring.

[Irishflip]

I've posted the men's points. ImaginaryPogue somehow managed to pull of a perfect score despite the really unpredictable results

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...hZnBpLWc#gid=0

So the top ten in the mens section is:
1. Imaginary Pogue(1,168)
2. Mrs. P(1,043.7)
3. SubRosa(986.7)
4. mystichaze(935.6)
5. Totentanz(922.6)
6. Butterscotch17(920.6)
7. sequinsgalore + IrishFlip(830)
8. jChamp + Tulosai(812.5)
9. burntBREAD(775.4)
10. Sky_fly20(750.4)

[Mrs. P]

I've posted the men's points. ImaginaryPogue somehow managed to pull of a perfect score despite the really unpredictable results

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...hZnBpLWc#gid=0

So the top ten in the mens section is:
1. Imaginary Pogue(1,168)
2. Mrs. P(1,043.7)
3. SubRosa(986.7)
4. mystichaze(935.6)
5. Totentanz(922.6)
6. Butterscotch17(920.6)
7. sequinsgalore + IrishFlip(830)
8. jChamp + Tulosai(812.5)
9. burntBREAD(775.4)
10. Sky_fly20(750.4)

LOL, Imaginary Pogue was on to something, picking Fernandez! So happy I'm second in men's because quite frankly I tanked in Ladies!

[Mrs. P]

Cup of China picks. This could go a lot of ways....

MEN (being risky here, but Machida's really impressed me this year!)
1.) Daisuke Takahashi
2.) Tatsuki Machida
3.) Nan Song
4.) Brian Joubert
5.) Adam Rippon
6.) Kevin Reynolds

LADIES (expecting some surprises here...)
1.) Mao Asada
2.) Julia Lipnitskaia
3.) Zijun Li
4.) Mirai Nagasu
5.) Kiira Korpi
6.) Sofia Biryukova

PAIRS (there's only six pairs here?!)
1.) Moore-Towers/Moscovitch (this team looks VERY good this year...)
2.) Pang/Tong
3.) Kavaguti/Smirnov
4.) Stolbova/Klimoc
5.) Peng/Zhang
6.) Wang/Zhang

DANCE
1.) Pechalat/Bourzat
2.) Bobrova/Soloviev
3.) Weaver/Poje
4.) Chock/Bates
5.) Sinitsina/Zhiganshin
6.) Huang/Zheng

[ImaginaryPogue]

Cup of China

Men
1. Brian Joubert
2. Daisuke Takahashi
3. Nan Song
4. Tatsuki Machida
5. Adam Rippon
6. Sergei Voronov

(Told you I was being stupid)

Ladies
1. Mao Asada
2. Julia Lipnitskaia
3. Kiira Korpi
4. Zijun Li
5. Mirai Nagasu
6. Sofia Biryukova

Pairs
1. Kavaguti/Smirnov
2. Moore-Towers/Moscovitch
3. Stolbova/Klimov
4. Pang/Tong
5. Peng/Zhang
6. Wang/Zhang

(Told you I was being stupid - but this is the fun part)

Dance
1. Weaver/Poje
2. Bobrova/Soloviev
3. Pechelat/Bourzat
4. Chock/Bates
5. Sinitsina/Zhiganshin
6. Guignard/Fabri

[Irishflip]

Cup of China

I have a feeling looking at my mens predictions that I'll be handing myself a terrible score, maybe I should bribe myself

Men

1. Daisuke Takahashi
2. Song Nan
3. Tatsuki Machida
4. Brian Joubert
5. Adam Rippon
6. Kevin Reynolds

Ladies

1. Julia Lipnitskaia
2. Mao Asada
3. Mirai Nagasu
4. Li Zijun
5. Kiira Korpi
6. Sofia Biryukova

Pairs

1. Pang/Tong
2. Kavaguti/Smirnov
3. Moore-Towers/Moscovitch
4. Stolbova/Klimov
5. Peng/Zhang
6. Wang/Zhang

Dance

1. Péchalat/Bourzat
2. Weaver/Poje
3. Bobrova/Soloviev
4. Chock/Bates
5. Sinitsina/Zhiganshin
6. Huang/Zheng

[Butterscotch17]

Here goes nothing...

Cup of China

Men:
1. Daisuke Takahashi
2. Brian Joubert (his inconsistence as of late worries me, but I love Brian so I'm picking him for second anyway )
3. Nan Song
4. Tatsuki Machida (This may be a bad decision after seeing him do so well at SA)
5. Adam Rippon
6. Jinlin Guan

Ladies:
1. Mao Asada
2. Julia Lipnitskaia
3. Mirai Nagasu (would love for her to do better than this)
4. Kiira Korpi
5. Sofia Biryukova
6. Zijun Li

Pairs:
1. Pang/Tong
2. Kavaguti/Smirov
3. Moore-Towers/Moscovitch
4. Peng/Zhang
5. Stolbova/Klimova
6. Wang/Zhang

Dance:
1. Bobrova/Soloviev (I'm afraid this may be completely wrong)
2. Pechalat/Bourzat
3. Weaver/Poje
4. Sinitsina/Zhiganshin
5. Chock/Bates
6. Huang/Zheng

Cool game, by the way! Now I don't know whether to cheer for who I like or for who I picked to win!

[ImaginaryPogue]

Cool game, by the way! Now I don't know whether to cheer for who I like or for who I picked to win!

Compromise. Predict those you're rooting against. If you're right, you're happy. If you're wrong, you're happy.

Don't do it always, of course! I'm totally breaking my own rule, so.......

[pitterpatter]

Missed the first two rounds, but better late than never!

Cup of China

Men:
1. Daisuke Takahashi
2. Nan Song
3. Brian Joubert
4. Tatsuki Machida
5. Adam Rippon
6. Jinlin Guan

Ladies:
1. Mao Asada
2. Mirai Nagasu
3. Julia Lipnitskaia
4. Kiira Korpi
5. Sofia Biryukova
6. Zijun Li

Pairs:
1. Pang/Tong
2. Moore-Towers/Moscovitch
3. Kavaguti/Smirnov
4. Peng/Zhang
5. Stolbova/Klimova
6. Wang/Zhang

Dance:
1. Weaver/Poje
2. Pechalat/Bourzat
3. Bobrova/Soloviev
4. Sinitsina/Zhiganshin
5. Chock/Bates
6. Huang/Zheng

[Totentanz]

I was so bad in Skate America predictions, better in Skate Canada, now I want to be perfect this time

CUP OF CHINA

MEN
1. Daisuke Takahashi
2. Brian Joubert
3. Tatsuki Machida
4. Nan Song
5. Adam Rippon
6. Sergei Voronov

LADIES - this field is weaker than SA and SC
1. Julia Lipnitskaya
2. Mao Asada
3. Mirai Nagasu
4. Zijun Li
5. Kiira Korpi
6. Sofia Biryukova

PAIRS - oops there are only 6 pairs to compete
1. Kavaguti/Smirnov
2. Pang/Tong
3. Moore-Towers/Moscovitch
4. Stolbova/Klimov
5. Peng/Zhang
6. Wang/Zhang

ICE DANCE
1. Pechalat/Bourzat
2. Bobrova/Soloviev
3. Weaver/Poje
4. Sinitsina/Zhiganshin
5. Chock/Bates
6. Guignard/Fabbri