Grand Prix Early Predictions Game

[jChamp]

I didn't think it was possible, but the COR Ladies' scores were almost as bad as SC

The average was around 344 (last week's average was 650).

 

[jChamp]

TEB

MEN
1. Abbott
2. Amodio
3. Joubert
4. Song
5. Verner
6. Mura
7. Weir
8. Besseghier
9. Hendrickx
10. Guan

LADIES
1. Wagner
2. Lipnitskaya
3. Tuktamysheva
4. Gao
5. Korobeynikova
6. Meite

PAIRS
1. Kavaguti/Smirnov
2. Duhamel/Radford
3. Stolbova/Klimov
4. Berton/Hotarek
5. James/Cipres
6. Peng/Zhang

DANCE
1. Pechalat/Bourzat
2. Cappellini/Lanotte
3. Riazanova/Tkachenko
4. Hubbell/Donohue
5. Gilles/Poirier
6. Zlobina/Sitnikov

 

[Mrs. P]

I didn't think it was possible, but the COR Ladies' scores were almost as bad as SC

The average was around 344 (last week's average was 650).

And my score was below average. only 1 for 3 on the podium. Oh Adelina.....you must've felt too much pressure from all of us having you win in our predictions.

 

[FSGMT]

My TEB predictions (my CoR ones have been a disaster! ), so I try to think about something unpredictable here :
MEN (this is pretty unpredictable, since we don't even know who's going to compete!):
1) Amodio
2) Abbott
3) Verner
4) Weir
5) Song
6) Mura
7) Joubert
8) Besseghier
9) Hendrixcs
10) Guan

LADIES
1) Wagner
2) Lipnitskaya
3) Tuktamysheva
4) Gao
5) Korobeneykova
6) Meite

PAIRS
1) Savchenko-Szolkowy
2) Duhamel-Radford
3) Kavaguti-Smirnov
4) Berton-Hotarek
5) Stolbova-Klimov
6) Peng-Zhang

ICE DANCE
1) Pechalat-Bourzat
2) Cappellini-Lanotte
3) Riazanova-Tkachenko
4) Gilles-Poirier
5) Hubbel-Donohue
6) Zlobina-Sitnikov

 

[FSGMT]

And, it looks like I'm winning the overall score! :yay: This is the current "podium":
1) FSGMT (!!!)
2) ImaginaryPogue
3) SubRosa

 

[Totentanz]

And, it looks like I'm winning the overall score! :yay: This is the current "podium":
1) FSGMT (!!!)
2) ImaginaryPogue
3) SubRosa

Congratulations you did very well so far, as the others in the current podium also did!! I'm surprised to see that I'm in the fifth place going into last two GP events. Although it looks impossible for me to jump onto podium, I'm also happy with this result so far!

 

[Totentanz]

Here is my TEB prediction.

MEN
1. Amodio
2. Abbott
3. Song
4. Joubert
5. Verner
6. Mura
7. Hendrickx
8. Besseghier
9. Guan

LADIES I want both Lip and Tuk to qualify for the GPF here, but probably that will be difficult for Liza.
1. Lipnitskaia
2. Wagner
3. Tuktamysheva
4. Gao
5. Korobeynikova
6. Meite

PAIRS
1. Kavaguti/Smirnov
2. Duhamel/Radford
3. Stolbova/Klimov
4. Berton/Hotarek
5. James/Cipres
6. Peng/Zhang

DANCE I'm not interested in Ice Dance but the best score I collected from this, interestingly.
1. Pechalat/Bourzat
2. Cappellini/Lanotte
3. Riazanova/Tkachenko
4. Gilles/Poirier
5. Hubbel/Donohue
6. Zlobina/Sitnikov

 

[pitterpatter]

Figures the discipline I know the least about (Pairs) is the one I did the best in ;p

TEB

MEN
(smh if Amodio gets into the GPF over Takahashi or Hanyu b/c of this field)
1. Abbott
2. Amodio
3. Mura
4. Song
5. Joubert
6. Guan
7. Weir
8. Verner
9. Besseghier
10. Hendrickx

LADIES
1. Lipnitskaya
2. Wagner
3. Gao
4. Tuktamysheva
5. Meite
6. Korobeynikova

PAIRS
1. Savchenko/Szolkowy
2. Kavaguti/Smirnov
3. Duhamel/Radford
4. Stolbova/Klimov
5. James/Cipres
6. Berton/Hotarek

DANCE
1. Pechalat/Bourzat
2. Cappellini/Lanotte
3. Riazanova/Tkachenko
4. Gilles/Poirier
5. Hubbell/Donohue
6. Zlobina/Sitnikov

 

[Butterscotch17]

MEN (This field is weak..nobody here can make the GPF, and everyone can drop out)
1. Amodio
2. Abbott
3. Song
4. Joubert
5. Mura
6. Verner

Amodio can make the Final if he wins, we can't count him out.

I've always liked Amodio for some reason, but I would not think it was right if Amodio makes the Final just because he won this event, where he does not have very stiff competition, over Daisuke or Yuzuru who may finish second or third in a much deeper field.

 

[sky_fly20]

Amodio can make the Final if he wins, we can't count him out.

I've always liked Amodio for some reason, but I would not think it was right if Amodio makes the Final just because he won this event, where he does not have very stiff competition, over Daisuke or Yuzuru who may finish second or third in a much deeper field.

this is what bothers me of the grand prix assignments, there should be a rule on equal distribution of top skaters and not all of them be pitted with each other at the same events, some get lucky with a weak filed like the men's TEB

 

[ImaginaryPogue]

Okay, why not.

Men
1. Florent Amodio
2. Jeremy Abbott
3. Brian Joubert
4. Nan Song
5. Tomas Verner
6. Takahito Mura
7. Chaffik Bessegheir
8. Jorick Hendricx
9. Jinlin Guan

Ladies
1. Ashley Wagner
2. Elizaveta Tuktamisheva
3. Julia Lipnitskaia
4. Mae Berenice Meite
5. Christina Gao
6. Joshi Helgesson

Pairs
1. Savchenko/Szolkowy
2. Duhamel/Radford
3. Kavaguti/Smirnov
4. Stolbova/Klimov
5. Berton/Hotarek
6. James/Cipre

The pairs event is gonna be sick.

Dance
1. Pechelat/Bourzat
2. Cappellini/Lannotte
3. Riazanova/Tkachenko
4. Hubbell/Donohue
5. Gilles/Poirier
6. Zlobina/Sitnikov

 

[Buttercup]

Amodio can make the Final if he wins, we can't count him out.

I've always liked Amodio for some reason, but I would not think it was right if Amodio makes the Final just because he won this event, where he does not have very stiff competition, over Daisuke or Yuzuru who may finish second or third in a much deeper field.

this is what bothers me of the grand prix assignments, there should be a rule on equal distribution of top skaters and not all of them be pitted with each other at the same events, some get lucky with a weak filed like the men's TEB

With all the WDs and new skaters getting assignments between the time of the announcement and the actual GPs, it is difficult to ensure that the events will be equally difficult; the one thing the ISU does do is stipulate a certain number of seeded skater per event. But still, a strong field is no guarantee of a strong event. In theory that should be one medalist from Worlds and one 4-6 finisher, though this year, NHK took the two Japanese medalists and TEB the two French 4-6 skaters. But that's not really different from SA, where you had the bronze medalist and the 6th-place skater as the seeded entries. The thing with the TEB field is that it's full of inconsistent skaters, not bad ones. Bottom line, if Florent wins this weekend, good for him and I see no reason to cheapen the achievement. It's not like CoC and even CoR were that well-skated (leaving aside Chan in Russia, and even he didn't have an amazing event).

Considering Song suffered a concussion recently, I would be hesitant to forecast a strong performance from him. I just hope he'll be okay. Brian Joubert also missed a fair bit of training time because he was ill.

 

[Macassar88]

I'll try to get the dance points from CoR done today. Sorry for the delay!

 

[HR4]

predictions for TEB
Men:

1 Florent AMODIO
2 Jeremy ABBOTT
3 Brian JOUBERT
4 Nan SONG
5 Takahito MURA
6 Tomas VERNER
7 Jorik HENDRICKX

Ladies

1 Ashley WAGNER
2 Julia LIPNITSKAIA
3 Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA
4 Christina GAO
5 Mae Berenice MEITE
6 Polina KOROBEYNIKOVA

Pairs
1 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY - out now. So:
1 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV
2 Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD
3 Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV
4 Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK
5 Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES
6 Cheng PENG / Hao ZHANG

Dance
1 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT
2 Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE
3 Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO
4 Madison HUBBELL / Zachary DONOHUE
5 Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER
6 Julia ZLOBINA / Alexei SITNIKOV

 

[HR4]

Hmm it seems like Tuktamysheva is not optimistic about her chances of getting to Gran Prix Final. She is in the list of participants of NRW Trophy in Dortmund. Probably she is right!

 

[mystichaze]

MEN:

1. Mura
2. Amodio
3. Joubert
4. Abbott
5. Song

PAIRS:

1. Kavaguti-Smirnov
2. Duhamel-Radford
3. Stolbova-Klimov
4. Berton-Hotarek
5. James-Cipres

LADIES:

1. Lipnitskaia
2. Wagner
3. Gao
4. Tuktamesheva
5. Korobeynikova

ICE DANCE:

1. Pechalat-Bourzat
2. Cappellini-Lanotte
3. Riazanova-Tkachenko
4. Hubbell-Donahue
5. Pushkash-Gurriero

 

[Violet Bliss]

MEN

1. Abbott
2. Amodio
3. Vener
4. Joubert
5. Song


LADIES

1. Wagner
2. Lipnitskaia
3. Gao
4. Tuktamysheva
5. Korobeynikova

PAIRS

1. Kavaguti/Smirnov
2. Duhamel/Radford
3. Peng/Zhang
4. Stolbovs/Kilmov
5. Berton/Hotarek

DANCE

1. Pechalat/Bouzat
2. Cappellini/Lanotte
3. Gilles/Poirier
4. Pushkash/Guerreiro
5. Hubbel/Donohue

 

[Cherryy]

Ladies
1. Wagner
2. Lipnitskaya
3. Tuktamysheva
4. Gao
5. Meite
6. Korobeynikova
7. Helgesson

Men
1. Amodio
2. Song Nan
3. Abbott
4. Joubert
5. Verner
6. Mura
7. Hendrickx (simply because he's skating to Bruch )

Pairs
1. Kavaguti / Smirnov
2. Duhamel / Radford
3. Stolbova / Klimov
4. Peng Cheng / Zhang Hao
5. Berton / Hotarek
6. James / Cipres
7. Popova / Massot

Ice Dance
1. Pechalat / Bourzat
2. Cappellini / Lanotte
3. Riazanova / Tkachenko
4. Gilles / Poirier
5. Hubbell / Donohue
6. Zlobina / Sitnikov

 

[Jennifer]

Trophee Eric Bompard

Pairs

1. Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD (CAN)
2. Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV (RUS)
3. Ksenia STOLBOVA / Fedor KLIMOV (RUS)
4. Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK (ITA)
5. Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES (FRA)
6. Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT (FRA)

Men

1. Jeremy ABBOTT (USA)
2. Florent AMODIO (FRA)
3. Brian JOUBERT (FRA)
4. Tomas VERNER (CZE)
5. Nan SONG (CHN)
6. Takahito MURA (JPN)

Ladies

1. Ashley WAGNER (USA)
2. Julia LIPNITSKAYA (RUS)
3. Christina GAO (USA)
4. Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA (RUS)
5. Polina KOROBEYNIKOVA (RUS)
6. Mae Berenice MEITE (FRA)

Ice dancing

1. Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT (FRA)
2. Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE (ITA)
3. Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Illia TKACHENKO (RUS)
4. Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES (FRA)
5. Madison HUBBELL / Zachary DONOHUE (USA)
6. Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER (CAN)

 

[Macassar88]

Tee hee I'm ahead of Imaginary Pogue! (I have factored in my dance points but haven't gotten to his/hers yet )