Men's Q Start Orders

Sorry About the formatting but here's the info

Group B Skates First

MEN B START
Bradley Santer AUS 3
Andrei Dobrokhodo AZE 21
Kevin van der PerrenBEL 17
Ivan Dinev BUL 7
Ben Ferreira CAN 6
Emanuel Sandhu CAN 12
Chengjiang Li CHN 19
Tomas Verner CZE 2
Frederic Dambier FRA 5
Brian Joubert FRA 15
Neil Wilson GBR 9
Sergei Kotov ISR 14
Yamato Tamura JPN 10
Miguel Angel MoyronMEX 11
Andrei Griazev RUS 13
Juraj Sviatko SVK 1
Yon Garcia ESP 20
Stephane Lambiel SUI 4
Patrick Meier SUI 16
Matthew Savoie USA 18
Johnny Weir USA 8

MEN Q A START
Clemens Jonas AUT 4
Sergei Davydov BLR 12
Pavel Kersha BLR 11
Min Zhang CHN 1
Ari-Pekka NurmenkariFIN 7
Vakhtang MurvanidzeGEO 5
Stefan Lindemann GER 17
Zoltan Toth HUN 18
Daisuke Takahashi JPN 9
Aidas Reklys LTU 6
Dong-Whun Lee KOR 19
Gheorghe Chiper ROM 15
Ilia Klimkin RUS 10
Evgeni Plushenko RUS 13
Trifun Zivanovic SCG 3
Gregor Urbas SLO 8
Gareth Echardt RSA 2
Kristoffer Berntsson SWE 20
Vitali Danilchenko UKR 16
Michael Weiss USA 14

Edited twice, first to separate into 2 groups, then to remove the Q 'B' from the A list . SHould be correct now

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Weiss is in an easier qual group and should place in top three and therefore in final warmup group for SP. Weir and Savoie are going to have a tougher time of it. I'm not sure they have a great chance at final warmup group in SP. I'm really hoping for Weir.

Call me cynical, but it is always a rare event when the qualifying groups have equal distribution! I thought at one time they were using a world ranking system--this could be used to seed the qualifying groups and equalize them...

eliza88

yelyoh said:

Weiss is in an easier qual group and should place in top three and therefore in final warmup group for SP. Weir and Savoie are going to have a tougher time of it. I'm not sure they have a great chance at final warmup group in SP. I'm really hoping for Weir.

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I don't think any group with Plushy and Klimkin, two very likely medalists, can possibly be the easier qualifying group.
:sheesh:

As far as I know they use their placement from last year worlds and well group B end up being sort of a hard group to be

Of course RG that having Plush and Ilia does not make an easy group but it's sort of make obvious that they don't have to face anyone else that are as good as them, so it's almost a sure bet that Plush and Ilia will make the last group at the SP, not that I complain of course since I'm a huge huge fan of both of them.

Group B is going to very hard considering how many good athletes are there that skate sort of equal in terms of difficulty. I guess the computer will play a major role here since the computer is the one picking the marks.