2015 Four Continents Championships: Predictions Game Round 3

Men:

1. Denis Ten
2. Nam Nguyen
3. Shoma Uno
4. Takahito Mura
5. Misha Ge
6. Han Yan
7. MCM

Pairs

1. Duhamel/Raford
2. Pang/Tong
3. Sui/Han
4. Peng/Zhang
5. Scimeca/Knierim
6. Iliuschechkina/Moscovitch

Ice Dance

1. Weaver/Poje
2. Chock/Bates
3. Shibutanis
4. Gilles/Poirier
5. Hawayek/Baker
6. Paul/Islam

Ladies

1. Gracie Gold
2. Satoko Miyahara
3. Rika Hongo
4. Alaine Chartrand
5. Polina Edmunds
6. Yuka Nagai

Men

1. Takahito Mura
2. Denis Ten
3. Shoma Uno
4. Jason Brown
5. Nam Nguyen
6. Daisuke Murakami

Probably gonna edit the men's category, who knows with that one.

Men:
1. Mura
2. Nam
3. Dennis Ten
4. Shoma
5. Jason

Ladies:
1. Gold
2. Satoko
3. Yuka

Pairs:
1. P/T
2. D/R
3. S/H

Ladies
1. Gold
2. Miyahara
3. Hongo
4. Edmunds
5. Daleman
6. Chartrand

Men (really impossible to decide)
1. D. Ten
2. Uno
3. Mura
4. Nguyen
5. Adam
6. Murakami

Pairs
1. Duhamel/Raford
2. Sui/Han
3. Peng/Zhang
4. Scimeca/Knierim
5. Pang/Tong
6. Denny/Frazier

Ice Dance
1. Weaver/Poje
2. Chock/Bates
3. Shibutanis
4. Gilles/Poirier
5. Hawayek/Baker
6. Paul/Islam

invisiblespiral said:

Um....
Men:
3. Ten

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Pika-Alva said:

Hi, getting finally addicted to this game..
Men
1 Ten

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Sandpiper said:

Men: (Oh my... )
3. Ten

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s_parks said:

Oh, no, too many headcases in men's.
men's
Ten (hoping for clean skates while putting him as 1st at the risk of jinxing him)

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Just a reminder: Jeremy Ten (CAN) and Denis Ten (KAZ) are both going to be competing at 4CC, so be sure to specify which skater you all have in your predictions. It will make things a lot easier for the scorers! :yes:

men here are sooooo hard to pick right

Men

1. Mura
2. Shoma
3. Nam
4. Denis
5. Adam
6. Jason

Ladies:
1. Satoko Miyahara
2. Gracie Gold
3. Rika Hongo
4. Polina Edmunds
5. Gabrielle Daleman
6. So Youn Park

Pairs
1. Duhamel/Raford
2. Sui/Han
3. Pang/Tong
4. Peng/Zhang
5. Iliuschechkina/Moscovitch
6. Scimeca/Knierim

Dance:
1. Weaver/Poje
2. Chock/Bates
3. Shibutanis
4. Gilles/Poirier
5. Hawayek/Baker
6. Paul/Islam

Kinda surprised so many people are picking Jason but not Josh or Adam to medal, given how many thought they should have beaten Jason at Nats.

papagena said:

Kinda surprised so many people are picking Jason but not Josh or Adam to medal, given how many thought they should have beaten Jason at Nats.

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I think Jason has a better chance of being consistent than the other two, but I hope Adam proves me wrong. I try to vote with my head and not my heart.

papagena said:

Kinda surprised so many people are picking Jason but not Josh or Adam to medal, given how many thought they should have beaten Jason at Nats.

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He's still going to be at fault for the oh so high possibility of the US men losing 3 spots at worlds...
(Probably though a lot of people who posted so far were not the ones to really complain after US nats )

Men:
1) Mura
2) D. Ten
3) Shoma
4) Adam (!!!)
5) Murakami
6) Jason
7) Joshua

Ladies
1) Gold
2) Miyahara
3) Hongo
4) Park (I just hope she gets a clean sp and lp since its in her country)
5) Edmunds
6) Cesario

Pairs
1) Duhamel/ Radford
2) Sui/Han
3) Either Peng/Zhang or Pang/Tong
4) One of the above
5) Lubov/Dylan
6) MTM2 or Scimeca/Knierim

Ice Dance
1) Weaver/Poje
2) Chock/Bates
3) Shibutani (even though I want them to be second :confused2
4) Hawayek/Baker
5) Piper/Gilles (just don't like their FD)
6) Paul/Islam

I'm starting to think that what happened at Rostelecom Cup could happen here too. Everyone's predictions were wrong since Anna bombed and got the silver while So Youn was off the podium. Anna was the top skater in that field. So since Gracie is the top skater in this field what if she messes up and Satoko gets the gold?

Men Predictions:
1. Denis Ten
2. Nam Nguyen
3. Jason?

This is so hard to call other than Duhamel/Radford and Weaver/Poje

Ladies

1. Gracie GOLD
2. Satoko MIYAHARA
3. Rika HONGO
4. Polina EDMUNDS
5. Samantha CESARIO
6. So Youn PARK
7. Alaine CHARTRAND

Men I am so confused Be back for more editing after practice report!

1. Denis TEN
2. Takahito MURA
3. Jason BROWN
4. Nam NGUYEN
5. Shoma UNO
6. Han Yan
7. Daisuke MURAKAMI
8. Adam RIPPON
9. Joshua FARRIS
10. Misha GE

Pairs

1. Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD
2. Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN
3. Cheng PENG / Hao ZHANG
4. Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Dylan MOSCOVITCH love: would put them 2nd if not for the game)
5. Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER
6. Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM
7. Qing PANG / Jian TONG

Ice Dance

1. Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE
2. Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES
3. Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI
4. Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER
5. Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER
6. Alexandra PAUL / Mitchell ISLAM

Ladies
1. Gracie Gold
2. Satoko Miyahara
3. Rika Hongo
4. So Youn Park
5. Polina Edmunds
6. Yuka Nagai

Men
1. Denis Ten
2. Jason Brown
3. Shoma Uno
4. Takahito Mura
5. Nam Nguyen
6. Adam Rippon

Oh dear, I'm already at the very thought of trying to predict the men...

4CC

MEN:

1. Uno
2. Ten
3. Brown
4. Mura
5. Rippon
6. Nguyen


LADIES:

1. Miyahara
2. Gold
3. Park
4. Hongo
5. Cesario
6. Edmunds


PAIRS:

1. Duhamel/Radford
2. Pang/Tong
3. Sui/Han
4. Denney/Frazier
5. Peng/Zhang
6. Scimeca/Knierim


ICE DANCE:

1. Weaver/Poje
2. Chock/Bates
3. Shibutani/Shibutani
4. Hawayek/Baker
5. Gilles/Poirier
6. Paul/Islam

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Oh dear, I'm already at the very thought of trying to predict the men...

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It's quite an entry list, isn't it? The men's event could either be amazing or a disaster.

TMC said:

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Oh dear, I'm already at the very thought of trying to predict the men...

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Wait till you do the shuffling and reshuffling and shuffling...(you get it)! So confusing for me, I'll be grateful if I amass 40 points on this one.

I'm gonna follow my gut feeling and add the rest later or revise the predictions.
The men's event will be very exciting because anybody in the top 9 can be the champion!

I reshuffle the placement after seeing practice videos.

Men: I confess I've shuffled this one several times.

1. Denis TEN (2014 OBM, big-moment guy)
2. Takahito MURA (reining 4CC champ + 2014 Skate Canada winner+ his relatively reliable consistency on quads)
3. Han YAN (2013 4CC bronze medalist + time to rebound - maybe wishful)
4. Shoma UNO (2014-15 JGPF champion but first senior international debut)
5. Daisuke MURAKAMI (2014 NHK trophy winner over Hanyu)
6. Adam RIPPON (big 4lutz + 2010 4CC champ)
7. Jason BROWN :think:
8. Joshua FARRIS (if he hits his quads with no stupid zayaking)
9. Nam NGUYEN
10. Misha GE

Ladies: I feel like the gold and silver are locked while the bronze contest will be crazy.

1. Gracie GOLD USA
2. Satoko MIYAHARA JPN
3. Rika HONGO JPN
4. So Youn PARK KOR
5. Zijun LI CHN
6. Polina EDMUNDS USA
7. Samantha CESARIO USA
8. Yuka NAGAI JPN
9. Gabrielle DALEMAN CAN
10. Alaine CHARTRAND CAN

Pairs:

Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN
Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD CAN
Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN CHN
Cheng PENG / Hao ZHANG CHN
Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM USA
Lubov ILIUSHECHKINA / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN

Ice Dance:

Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES USA
Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN
Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI USA
Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER CAN
Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER USA
Alexandra PAUL / Mitchell ISLAM CAN

I've always watched you guys predicting and finally got some courage to have fun with you also To be honest I don't know if I'll be able to watch any segment (probably I'll be at work...), but it will be such a fun to check my prediction with the results (and yours also!).

At glance, more "predictable" segments seem to be pairs an ice dance, singles will be probably the death of me in this game...

PAIRS:

1. Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford
2. Quin Pang/Jian Tong - this is a realy gutsy one...Hope they'll bring x factor again
3. Wenjing Sui/Cong Han - hope for 2 good, strong programs for them and no probs with stamina
4. Chen Peng/Hao Zhang
5. Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER
6. Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM

ICE DANCE:

1. Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE
2. Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES
3. Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI - to be honest I wish them to beat Madison and Evan, but I think not with this crappy-sappy FD...(after SD they'll be probably on 2nd place)
4. Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER - not a an of their this season's dances,but still better than unpolished Alexandra and Paul...
5. Alexandra PAUL / Mitchell ISLAM- wish them better,but tbh they'll have to fight for this 5th place with Hawayek/Baker I think...
6. Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER

And the real trouble begins...

LADIES:

1. Satoko MIYAHARA - totally gutsy one again, but I'm mesmerized (still!) by her FS at Nationals - she's a fighter with so much passion and I can only admire
2. Gracie GOLD
3. Zijun LI
4. Rika HONGO
5. Polina EDMUNDS
6. Yuka NAGAI

To be honest - any of these 6 girls could win this or the final 6 could be completely reversed. I wouldn't be surprised, really

MEN:

probably the hardest one - quite a deep field, too many dark horses, too many "nerves-eat-me-alive" ones. Too many scenarios possible <God help me>

1. Shoma UNO - I know I'm crazy, but he's a new Takahashi for me (my forever idol along with Jeff Buttle,Stephane Lambiel and Brian Joubert) and he's capable imo of some BANG there (as for win this I mean)
2. Denis TEN
3. Jason BROWN
4. Takahito MURA
5. Han YAN
6. Nam NGUYEN

total gamble there...other Chinese men could mix, Farris, Murakami...

NoNameFace said:

I've always watched you guys predicting and finally got some courage to have fun with you also To be honest I don't know if I'll be able to watch any segment (probably I'll be at work...), but it will be such a fun to check my prediction with the results (and yours also!)...

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It is addicting Oh the joy you'd feel when you medal! Felt like I actually won something concrete when I first medalled!

SashaJuliaSpins said:

It is addicting Oh the joy you'd feel when you medal! Felt like I actually won something concrete when I first medalled!

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that won't be a case for me (to medal) but regardless - this is sooo exciting