Out Yourself!!!

[All that Jazz]

Well, this thread is another delicate one, and it will probably starving to death: I wonder if Golden Skate posters actually "dare" to put all skaters they can think of in categories, plain and simple, a "blah"-, "neutral"-, "prefered"- and "extraordinary" section! Courage enough?

[mariana]

Since I only pay real attention to pairs and dance:
Extraordinary: Denkova & Staviski
Prefered: Shen & Zhao, Grushina & Goncharov, Obertas & Slasnov, Gregory & Petukhov, Inoue & Baldwin
Neutral: Petrova & Tikhonov, Zagorsta & Siudek, Pang & Tong
Blah: Totmianina & Marinin, Orscher & Lucash, Navka & Kostomarov :runs to hide:

[Chrystia Mee]

Well, this thread is another delicate one, and it will probably starving to death: I wonder if Golden Skate posters actually "dare" to put all skaters they can think of in categories, plain and simple, a "blah"-, "neutral"-, "prefered"- and "extraordinary" section! Courage enough?

Ok I'll go with this.

Ladies:
extroardinary: Michelle Kwan, Fumie Suguri, Naomi Nari Nam, Lu Chen
prefered: Jenny Kirk, Kimmie Meissner, Shizuka Arakawa, Kristi Yamaguchi, Tara Lipinski, Mao Asada
neutral: Sasha Cohen, Julia Sebestian, Katy Taylor, Irina SLutskaya, Sarah Hughes, AP McDonough, Yukina Ota, Angela Nikodinov
blah: Miki Ando, Carolina Kostner, Yoshie Onda, Amber Corwin,

Men:
extroardinary: Yagudin, Goebel
prefered: Joubert, Weir, Sandhu
neutral: PLushenko, Lambiel, Lindemann
blah: Takeshi Honda for the most part sometimes he does nice stuff, Weiss, Buttle

Pairs:
extroardinary: Shen and Zhao!
prefered: Pang and Tong, Zhang and Zhang,
neutral: Totmianina and Marinin
blah: Petrova and Tikhinov, Zagordska and Siudek

[Germanice]

My "favourites":

Extraordinary:
Alexei Yagudin, Ilia Kulik, Kurt Browning, Lu Chen, Oksana Baiul,
Isabelle & Paul Duchesnay

Prefered:
Brian Boitano, Johnny Weir, Takeshi Honda, Jeffrey Buttle, Brian Joubert,
Evgeny Plushenko (actually I put him in different sections almost every day, LOL),
Viktor Petrenko, Fumie Suguri, Shizuka Arakawa, Miki Ando, Xue Shen & Hongbo Zhao, Elena Berezhnaya & Anton Sikharulidze, Andrei Griazev,
Natalia Mishkutionok/Oksana Kazakova & Arthur Dmitriev,
Susannah Rahkamo & Petri Kokko (sp.?), Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat,
Maya Usova & Alexander Zhulin

Neutral (some with tendencies to go up or down):
Emanuel Sandhu, Kristi Yamaguchi, Midori Ito, Maria Butyrskaya, Tatiana Todmanina & Maxim Marinin, Sasha Cohen (with Tarasova she’d have been one section higher),
Katarina Witt, Jamie Sale & David Pelletier, Alexei Urmanov, Stephane Lambiel, ChenjiangLi, Elena Sokolova, Philippe Candeloro, Frederic Dambier, Alexander Abt,
Irina Slutskaya, Kevin van der Perren, Carolina Kostner, Michael Weiss,
Kyoko Ina & John Zimmerman, Ilia Klimkin, Jane Torvill & Christopher Dean

Blah:
Todd Eldredge, Michelle Kwan, Elvis Stojko, Timothy Goebel, Nancy Kerrigan,
Sarah Hughes, Jennifer Kirk, Angela Nikodinov, Viktoria Volchkova, Surya Bonaly, Petrova/Tikhonov, Paul Wylie, Tara Lipinski, Jenni Meno & Todd Sand

Anke

[KatyaFan]

extraoridinary: gordeeva and grinkov, lucinda ruh, ilia kulik, elena b. and anton s.,
brasseur and eisler, sasha cohen, e. plushenko, daria grinkova, ekaterina gordeeva (as a single), dorothy hamill, rodina and zaitsev, protopovs, mishkutenko and dmitreiv

preferred: oksana baiul, kurt browning, bourne and kraatz, ina and zimmerman, bechke and petrov, torvill and dean, yamaguchi, hough and ladret(sp?), yagudin, kazakova and dmitriev,

neutral: steven cousins, yuka sato, katarina witt, sale and pelltier, roz sumners, jossie chouinard, jennifer robinson, scott hamilton, michelle kwan, johnny weir, joubert, nicole bobek, valova and vasiliev, v.petrenko, fedor andreev, a.fadeev, underhill and martini, klimova and ponomarenko,

blah: paul wylie, todd elderidge, shen and zhao, elvis stoijko, brian orser, brian boitano, roca and sur, tara lapinksi, sarah huges,nancy kerrigan, tonya harding, meno and sand

[floskate]

Extraordinary:
Buttle, Weir, Curry, Cousins, Wylie, Boitano, Mitchell, Barna, Sawyer,
Kwan, Ito, Ota, Mao Asada, Yebin Mok
S/Z, G&G
T&D, Kerrs

Preferred:
Yags, Lambiel, Browning, Kulik
Arakawa, Ando, Watanabe, Sawada, Suguri,
Pang&Tong, Zhangs, O&S, Marcoux/Buntin
errrr..........

Neutral:
Plushy, Lindemann, Sandhu, Honda, Goebel, Janke
Cohen, Taylor, Meissner, Kirk, Slutskaya
T&M, Z&S, L&A
errrrrrrrrrr................

Blah:
Weiss!!!!!Timchenko
Onda, Sebestyen, Sokolova, Volchkova
Petrova&Tikhonov, I&B, O&L
Errrr...... whatever

[icenut84]

Extraordinary:

Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen, Oksana Baiul, Viktoria Pavuk, Fumie Suguri, Midori Ito, Kristi Yamaguchi
Evgeny Plushenko, Stephane Lambiel, Kurt Browning
Torvill & Dean, Kerr & Kerr, Bourne & Kraatz
Shen & Zhao, Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze, Abitbol & Bernadis, Mishkutenok & Dmitriev, Gordeeva & Grinkov

Preferred:

Irina Slutskaya (a couple of years ago, was higher), Elena Sokolova, Julia Sebestyen, Carolina Kostner, Lu Chen
Alexei Yagudin, Johnny Weir, Emanuel Sandhu, Ilia Klimkin, Frederic Dambier, Silvio Smalun, Stanick Jeannette, Brian Joubert
Denkova & Staviyski, Faiella & Scali, Chait & Sakhnovsky, Grushina & Goncharov, Lang & Tchernyshev, Anissina & Peizerat, Rahkamo & Kokko, Drobiazko & Vanagas
Obertas & Slavnov, Sale & Pelletier, Ina & Zimmerman, Brasseur & Eisler, Langlois & Archetto

Neutral:

Miki Ando, Shizuka Arakawa, Viktoria Volchkova, Yoshie Onda, Jennifer Robinson, Tara Lipinski, Jenny Kirk,
Michael Weiss, Ilia Kulik, Scott Hamilton
Belbin & Agosto, Navka & Kostomarov, Fusar-Poli & Margaglio, Lobacheva & Averbukh (sometimes "preferred"), Grishuk & Platov, Usova & Zhulin, Krylova & Ovsyannikov
Totmianina & Marinin, Petrova & Tikhonov, Kazakova & Dmitriev, Shishkova & Naumov, Meno & Sand

Blah:

Tim Goebel, Nancy Kerrigan, Eltsova & Bushkov

[soogar]

Extraordinary:
Plush, Ilia Kulik, Sasha Cohen, Shizuka (2004 version), Tara Lipinski, Usova and Zhulin, Klimova and Ponamarenko, Mishkutonek and Dmitriev, Yagudin, Viktor Petrenko, Oksana Baiul, Midori Ito, Tonya Harding, Robin Cousins, Katarina Witt

Preferred:
Todd Eldredge, Vanessa Gusmeroli (1996-1998), Tot & Marinin, Shen & Zhao, Gordeeva & Grinkov, Ilia Klimkin, Stephane Lambiel, Carolina Koster, Brian Joubert, Timothy Goebel, Johnny Weir, Paul Wylie, Sasha Abt, Wynne & Druar ( I loved Suzie Wynne's energy), Scott Hamilton when he had triple jumps

Neutral:
Michelle Kwan

Bleah:
Nancy Kerrigan, Duschenays, Wilson & McCall

[Eliza]

Men

Extraordinary - Yagudin, Weir, Robin Cousins., Curry

Preferred - Wylie, Joubert, Lambiel, Eldredge, Klimkin, Sandhu

Neutral - Browning, Boitano, Plushenko, Urmanov

Blah - Weiss, Honda, Goebel, Orser, Hamilton, Stojko, Candeloro

Women

Extraordinary - Kwan, J.Lynn, Biellman

Preferred - Slutskaya, Lisa Marie Allen, Cohen, Gordeeva, Kadavy, Yamaguchi

Neutral - Witt, Baiul

Blah - Kerrigan, J. Robinson

Pairs

Extraordinary - Mishketounek & Dmitriev, Shen & Zhao, Underhill & Martini

Preferred - Gordeeva & Grinkov, Meno & Sand (eligible), Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze

Neutral - Meno & Sand (ineligible), Totmianina & Marinin

Blah - Petrova & Tikhonov (sp?)

Dance

Extraordianry - T & D, Duchesnay (sp?)

Preferred - Klimova & Pomanarenko, Anissina & Pezerat

Neutral - Bourne & Kraatz

Blah - Most of them . I don't really like ice dance very much

Eliza

[RealtorGal]

EXTRAORDINARY
Wylie, Baiul, Shen & Zhao, Galindo, Janet Lynn, D. Hamill, Torvill & Dean, Browning, John Curry, Robin Cousins, Ruh

ALMOST (AND POTENTIALLY) EXTRAORDINARY
Sasha Cohen

PREFERRED
Arakawa, Yags, Kwan, Kerrigan, Butyrskaya, Beilmann, Rodnina/Zaitsev, Chait/Sakhnovsky, Weiss, Weir, Eldredge, Witt, Candeloro, Anissina/Peizerat, Bereznaya/Sikhuralidze, Klimkin, Brasseur/Eisler, Usova/Zhulin, Ito, Stojko, Cadavy, Hughes, Joubert, Hamilton, Suguri, Ota

NEUTRAL
Plushy, Totmianina/Marinin, Lipinski, Grishuk/Platov, Yamaguchi, Slutskaya, Sokolova, Liashenko, Sebasteyn, Honda, Goebel

BLAH
Navka/Kostamarov, P&T, Fusar-Poli/Margaglio, Sale/Pelletier, Boitano, Bonaly, Volchkova, Ando, Onda

THE JURY IS STILL OUT BUT I'M WATCHING
Kostner, Pavuk, Lambiel

[Joesitz]

I'm big on beautiful skating and that is Michelle Kwan, win or lose. There are a number of male skater I find to be beaufitul skaters: Klimkin, Lambiel, maybe Johnny.

As far as competitive skating is concerned, i enjoy watching the winner on that night the judges said Him/Her. Unless, of course there was hanky pankey.

Joe

[Jaana]

Extraordinary
Ilia Kulik, John Curry, Robin Cousins, Kurt Browning, Brian Orser, Evgeni Plushenko, Stephane Lambiel, Johnny Weir, Jeffrey Buttle, Viktor Petrenko, Paul Wylie
Shizuku Arakawa, Sasha Cohen, Susanna Poykio, Ekaterina Gordeeva
Shen & Zhao , Gordeeva & Grinkov, Rodnina with both partners, Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze
Torvill & Dean, Denkova & Staviyski, Anissina & Peizerat, Gritschuk & Platov

Prefered
Michael Weiss, Takeshi Honda, Tomas Verner, Karel Zelenka, Emanuel Sandhu, Alexander Abt, Brian Boitano
Kristi Yamaguchi, Fumie Suguri, Dan Fang, Yukina Ota, Annette Dytrt, Viktoria Pavuk, Oksana Baiul
Pang & Tong, Zhang & Zhang
Chait & Sakhnovski, Belbin & Agosto, Faiella & Scali, Hoffmann & Elek, Kerr & Kerr, Krylova & Ovsiannikov

Neutral
Brian Joubert, Kevin Van Der Perren, Frederic Dambier, Sergei Davydov
Michelle Kwan, Miki Ando, Carolina Kostner, Irina Sluskaya, Elena Sokolova
Obertas & Slavnov, Totmianina & Marinin
Navka & Kostomarov

Marjaana

[All that Jazz]

Thank you for attending! Have to add mine:


Extraordinary: Weir, Yags, Sasha A., Baboo, Fumie, Shen/Zhao
Prefered: Kulik, Lambiel, Buttle, Sasha C., Cupcake, Fumie, Arakawa, Pang/Tong, Zhangs
Neutral: Eldredge, Plushy, Irina, B/S and many more,
including almost all ice dancers
Blah: P/T, Savoie sp?, Weiss, Hamilton

[patsue1947]

Extraordinary: Kwan, Boitano, Fleming, Protopopovs, Tai and Randy
Preferred: Yamaguchi, Hamill, Hamilton, Browning, Meno & Sand, Brasseur & Eisler, Shen & Zhao
Neutral: Suguri, Arakawa, Kerrigan, Wylie, Gordeeva & Grinkov, Torvil & Dean, Bourne & Kraatz
Blah, Blah, Blah: Cohen, Slutskaya, McDonogh, Baiul, Witt, Rodnina & whichever partner, Weiss, Weir, Elredge, Candoloro, Ito, Hughes, Lipinski, Bonaly, Lynn, Sale & Pelltier, Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze, Yagudin, Honda, Goebel, Orser, Harding, Roz Sumners.

edited for spelling!