Skate Picks 2024-25 Japanese Nationals

[4everchan]

Three silvers as I have been having crystal ball issues with singles all year. Thanks Japanese Nationals! Thanks to the scorers and organizers and congrats to the other winners, especially my silver friend @Arriba627 : nice to share this silver with you

 

[16Olympics]

A bronze in Women to keep my streak alive. Thanks to the hosts, scorers & congratulations to all the medalists and overall medalists.

 

[sworddance21]

OMG!!! WHAT? Gold overall, Gold Women, and Silver Men! Am I reading that correctly!!! I don't think I've EVER done better than a bronze in anything (maybe 1 silver?). That's a fun surprise!

 

[jorge2912]

Bronze medal in. It's great .. a true surprise.i thought my crystal ball was forever broken, I mistaken, just was in vacations, lol

 

[Arriba627]

So much better than my usual prize for Worst Picks Ever! And I had Rio Nakata for the bronze but changed bronze to Kao right at the last minute. Thanks to the organizers and scorers!

 

[Debrah]

Darn, I had Oda on my original prediction list, but I changed it at the last minute. I should have trusted myself more and remembered that usual top men were under so much pressure to secure World and 4CC spots, or to fight to become the 2024 champion, that some top guys would likely combust, many did, while Oda was there for himself, simply to do his best and to perform for the love of his sport and his many fans and he killed it. He made me so very happy to see him do so well, I don't care that he messed up the status quo. I love that mature skaters like Oda, are still competitive. Kudos to any skater over 30, who is still showing the teens, how it's done, once a winner still a winner, LOL!

 

[gsk8]

Congrats medalists!!
Kudos to @sworddance21 who just leveled up to the Intermediate level! Great job on a perfect score in the Women!

And a big Welcome to @Arriba627 and @Royston who just entered the Hall of Fame!

After two National events, here are the current standings.

The season is flying by fast, but we have seven contests left:

Europeans
Canadian Nationals
US Nationals
Four Continents
Junior Worlds
Worlds
World Team Trophy

 

[formersk8ter]

A silver in men... I'll take it, yay!

 

[lileychristie]

So it actually happened, no medal at all for me in Japanese Nats despite following Japanese skaters closely On the other hand, 2 medals for Russian nationals which I have zero knowledge of

Congrats to everyone who medaled, it wasn't an easy prediction

 

[Karoltyna]

Silver in men, yay

 

[Royston]

Wow, a bronze for me. I'll take that Merry Christmas everyone

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

I won a Bronze Medal with a score of 25.

Yep, that says everything about Men's skating.

So glad that for once going with my heart paid off. I was one of only 4 players to include Nobunari Oda in their Top 5:

@jorge2912 put him in 2nd
@Royston put him in 4th
@triplelutzzzzz put him in 5th
And I also put him in 5th

Oda was where most of my points came from!

Even though it would have meant me getting no points from him, I would have loved if Oda had actually finished where @jorge2912 put him. But, congratulations to @Royston for getting his position correct!

Disappointed with joint 6th in the Ladies. But, congratulations to @sworddance21 for achieving that elusive perfect score.

Thank you to the organiser and the scorers.

Hope you all have enjoyable festive season, and I look forward to us all reconvening in the New Year for Europeans. (Yipes, I forgot that it had been brought forward! )

CaroLiza_fan

 

[labgoat]

Nothing for me. Maybe all this list keeping is just muddling the skaters in my head. I barely only saw parts of the event.
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to the contest runners.