Satoko Miyahara and Alysa Liu have both retired so Kseniina Sinitsyna and Sofia Samodelkina move up.Season's Best List - final list of the season
1. Kamila Valieva - Rus - 272.71 GP Rostelecom Cup (new World record!!)
2. Anna Shcherbakova - Rus - 255.95 Olympic Games
3. Alexandra Trusova - Rus - 251.73 Olympic Games
4. Kaori Sakamoto - Jpn - 236.09 World Championchips
5. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva - Rus - 233.30 CS Finlandia Trophy
6. Sofia Akateva (J) - Rus - 233.08 JGP Krasnoyarsk (Junior World record)
7. Maiia Khromykh - Rus - 226.35 GP Gran Premio d'Italia
8. Alëna Kostornaia - Rus - 221.85 GP Internationaux de France
9. Alysa Liu - USA - 219.24 CS Lombardia Trophy
10. Loena Hendrickx - Bel - 219.05 GP Gran Premio d'Italia
11. Mai Mihara - Jpn - 218.03 Four Continents Championships
12. Daria Usacheva - Rus - 217.31 GP Skate America
13. Young You - Kor - 216.97 GP Skate America
14. Veronika Zhilina (J) - Rus - 216.92 JGP Kosice
15. Wakaba Higuchi - Jpn - 214.44 Olympic Games
16. Haein Lee - Kor - 213.52 Four Continents Championships
17. Sofia Muravieva - Rus - 211.81 JGP Linz
18. Adelia Petrosian - Rus - 210.57 JGP Ljubljana
19. Mariah Bell - USA - 210.35 GP Rostelecom Cup
20. Yelim Kim - Kor - 209.91 Four Continents Championships
21. Satoko Miyahara - Jpn - 209.57 GP Gran Premio d'Italia
22. Isabeau Levito - USA - 208.31 JGP Linz
23. Anastasia Zinina - Rus - 206.20 JGP Krasnoyarsk
24. Jia Shin (J) - Kor - 206.01 Junior World Championchips
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25. Kseniia Sinitsyna - Rus - 205.76 GP Skate America
26. Sofia Samodelkina - Rus - 205.67 JGP Ljubljana
36. Elizaveta Kulikova (J) - Rus - 196.83 JGP Krasnoyarsk
38. Elizaveta Berestovskaya (J) - Rus - 196.07 JGP Krasnoyarsk
43. Maria Zakharova (J) - Rus - 190.33 JGP Kosice
55. Sofia Samodurova - Rus - 180.59 GP Gran Premio d'Italia
Top 24 are guaranteed a spot at next year's senior GPs, except for (J).
So it looks like Valieva, Shcherbakova, Trusova, Tuktamysheva, Khromykh, Kostornaia, Usacheva, Muravieva, Petrosian will grab all the GP spots next season. Zinina will probably be snubbed although she is guaranteed one spot. And because of Higuchi at Olympics and Shin at Junior Worlds, Sinitsyna and Samodelkina falls outside the top 24.
But who knows what will happen next season. There might be some retirements among the nine qualifiers, then Zinina is up. Personally I would give Samodelkina a GP spot over Zinina but that's just me.
And also, there is bound to be some rule changes. The senior age thing might be one of them. From the rumours I've seen, it looks like Muravieva/Petrosian/Samodelkina will be safe to go into seniors next year, and Akateva/Zhilina will be held back in juniors for 2 more years. But we don't know for certain and anything can happen.
And with all that is going on, who knows if there is any Russian women in the GPs at all next season.