2018-19 Grand Prix Final Predictions

[TripleAxelQueens3]

Now that the GP assignments are out, I thought it would be interesting to try to predict who would make the final, especially considering the new rules put into place. Here are my predictions:

- Evgenia Medvedeva
- Alina Zagitova
- Wakaba Higuchi
- Maria Sotskova/Mai Mihara (one or the other)
- Carolina Kostner
- Kaori Sakamoto/Satoko Miyahara (system is not so kind to Miyahara)

- Shoma Uno
- Nathan Chen
- Yuzuru Hanyu
- Boyang Jin
- Mikhail Kolyada
- Dmitri Aliev/Vincent Zhou

 

[Spirals for Miles]

Medvedeva
Zagitova
Panenkova
Miyahara
Higuchi / Sakamoto
Tsurskaya / Sotskova

 

[Ulrica]

Ladies

Zagitova
Medvedeva
Kostner
Miyahara
Higuchi/Mihara
Sakamoto

Men

Hanyu
Uno
Chen
Jin
Kolyada
Brown/Aliev/Tomono

 

[Colonel Green]

Men
1. Hanyu
2. Uno
3. Chen
4. Jin
5. Kolyada
6. Zhou (the men’s field at Skate America is sufficiently weak that he can bank the silver there relatively easy, which in turn means that at NHK he really just needs to be third behind Uno and Aliev, and if he really brings the quads he can beat Aliev)

Ladies
1. Medvedeva
2. Zagitova
3. Miyahara
4. Higuchi
5. Kostner (TES comes and goes, PCS is eternal)
6. Sakamoto

Pairs
1. Sui & Han
2. Tarasova & Morozov
3. James & Cipres
4. Yu & Zhang
5. Zabiyako & Enbert
6. Moore-Towers & Marinaro

Ice Dance
1. Papadakis & Cizeron
2. Hubbell & Donohue
3. Chock & Bates
4. Gilles & Poirier
5. Stepanova & Bukin
6. Hawayek & Baker

 

[Mdk0144]

Pairs
Sui&Han
Tarasova&Morozov
Yu/Zhang
Zabiiako&Enbert
James/Cipres
Peng/Jin or Moore-Towers&Marinaro or Seguin&Bilodeau

 

[Shayuki]

Evgenia Medvedeva
Alina Zagitova
Carolina Kostner
Elizabet Tursynbaeva
Satoko Miyahara
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva

 

[vesperalvioletta]

Evgenia Medvedeva
Alina Zagitova
Carolina Kostner
Wakaba Higuchi
Polina Tsurskaya
Kaori Sakamoto / Mai Mihara

 

[yoloaxel]

Men
1. Yuzuru
2. Nathan
3. Shoma
4. Boyang
5. Mikhayl
6. Aliev\Zhou

Ladies
1. Evgenia Medvedeva
2. Alina Zagitova
3. Wakaba Higuchi
4. Satoko Miyahara
5. Carolina Kostner
6. Sotskova\Tsurskaya\Sakamoto\Daleman\Mihara

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Elizabet Tursynbaeva
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva

It would be so interesting if both Lizas made it!

 

[xeyra]

It's not a prediction if you cop out on the last member by giving many options!

 

[chopinskate]

Men
1. Hanyu
2. Uno
3. Chen
4. Jin
5. Kolyada
6. Zhou (the men’s field at Skate America is sufficiently weak that he can bank the silver there relatively easy, which in turn means that at NHK he really just needs to be third behind Uno and Aliev, and if he really brings the quads he can beat Aliev)

+1

 

[sakurano]

it is a little early for the prediction but it fun because most of the time they are wrong


For ladies:
1 Evgenia Medvedeva
2 Alina Zagitova
3 Daria Panenkova
4 Maria Sotskova
5 Carolina Kotsner
6 Satoko / Mai / Marin / Wakaba / Kaori / Rika or Gabrielle Daleman


for men

1 Yuzuru Hanyu
2 Shoma Uno
3 Nathan Chen
4 Boyang Jin
5 Jason Brown
6 Koldaya / Vincent Zhou

 

[yoloaxel]

It's not a prediction of you cop out on the last member by giving many options!

LOL you're right but there's too many good ones! I'll make better serious predictions for the single events ahahah

 

[chopinskate]

Ladies:
1. Med
2. Zag
3. Hig
4. Miya
5. Kost
6. Tukt

Pairs: Winners: S/H

Dance: Winners: P/C

ETA: Men:

1. Hanyu
2. Uno
3. Chen
4. Jin
5. Kolyada
6. Zhou

 

[zounger]

Ladies:

1. Medvedeva
2. Higuchi
3. Sotskova
4. Miyahara
5. Tuktamysheva
6. Delman


Men:

Hanyu
Chen
Uno
Jin
Kolyada
Zhou

 

[yume]

I will wait challengers.

 

[cohen-esque]

Well, I’ll wait to see some skaters in early comps before I make real predictions. But since I have tickets what I WANT to see happen is:
1. Wakaba
2. Tuktamysheva
3. Miyahara
4. Medvedeva
5. Sakamoto
6. Honda

1. Boyang
2. Shoma
3. Vincent or Nathan
4. Matteo Rizzo
5. Brendan Kerry (imagine the chaos, for him to make it with his one spot)
6. Keegan or Jorik

Not necessarily in that order or finish; just the orders they came to mind.

 

[Sam-Skwantch]

I’m diggin on the Lil’Bet predictions :hap93:

 

[FSLover17]

Ladies:
Alina Zagitova (shoo-in)
Evgenia Medvedeva (shoo-in)
Satoko Miyahara (should win at least one of her GPs)
Wakaba Higuchi (has difficult GPs but I can see her with 2 silvers)
Carolina Kostner (new judging system and PCS will pull her through)
Maria Sotskova (usually consistent at this point in the season)

 

[Spirals for Miles]

If Carolina is propped into another GPF with disastrous FS's and sky-high PCS over others, I'm going to be seriously upset
Same goes for home-cooking skaters that are only in because of that...

 

[Sam-Skwantch]

If Carolina is propped into another GPF with disastrous FS's and sky-high PCS over others, I'm going to be seriously upset
Same goes for home-cooking skaters that are only in because of that...

My only thread prediction will be that you’re going to be seriously upset