EYOF: Predictions Game Round 1

[CaroLiza_fan]

Here is the thread where you can make your predictions for the European Youth Olympic Festival.

Entries/Results Page:
http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1617/eyof2017/

The competitions start on 13[SUP]th[/SUP] February 2017 at 10:00 TRT (09:00 CET / 08:00 GMT) with the Ladies Short.

So, the target time to get your predictions in is 1 hour before that, i.e. 09:00 TRT (09:00 CET / 07:00 GMT)

If you need any help working out what time this is where you are, here is the Time Converter that Mrs. P has been very kindly directing us to the past few years.

Please remember to read the rules for the Predictions Game:

http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?62811​

Entries

Ladies:

StN.	Name	Nation
	Warm-Up Group 1
1	GOZHVA Anastasiia	UKR
2	SKULETA-GROMOVA Kristina	EST
3	STAN Amanda Winona	ROU
4	HJALTALIN Herdis Birna	ISL
5	CROZET Alizee	FRA
	Warm-Up Group 2
6	ZAGITOVA Alina	RUS
7	SAYGI Ekin	TUR
8	KARHUNEN Laura	FIN
9	KEDA Valerija	LTU
10	KITAROVIC Katarina	CRO
	Warm-Up Group 3
11	HUGEC Silvia	SVK
12	PAROSHYNA Hanna	BLR
13	VOULGARI Elisavet	GRE
14	DIMITROVA Presiyana	BUL
15	LUCREZIA Gennaro	ITA
	Warm-Up Group 4
16	IVANCENCO Anna	MDA
17	LITVINENKO Anna	GBR
18	JANSEN Sam	NED
19	KAERSGAARD Josephine	DEN
20	GUCEK Lara	SLO
21	IPSARIDOU Ntaniella Vanessa	CYP

Men:

StN.	Name	Nation
	Warm-Up Group 1
1	MAJOROV Nikolaj	SWE
2	WITKOWSKI Kornel	POL
3	DANIEL Grassl	ITA
4	GUMENNIK Petr	RUS
	Warm-Up Group 2
5	TANASE Andrei	ROU
6	ZENKO Yakau	BLR
7	OKTAR Basar	TUR
8	FUKAS Simon	SVK
9	DIGBY Luke	GBR
	Warm-Up Group 3
10	EGADZE Nika	GEO
11	SELEVKO Aleksandr	EST
12	TKALYCH Yan	UKR
13	SIAO HIM FA Adam	FRA
14	ZLATKOV Aleksandar	BUL

EDIT (13[SUP]th[/SUP] Febraury 2017): Added in the link for the Entries / Results Page, as well as the SP Start Order tables.​

Let the fun begin!!!

CaroLiza_fan

 

[Nathan13]

LADIES
1. Alina Zagitova
2. Anastasiia Gozhva
3. Kristina Skuleta-Gromova
4. Lucrezia Gennaro
5. Alizee Crozet
6. Anna Litvinenko

MEN
1. Petr Gumennik
2. Nikolaj Majorov
3. Aleksandr Selevko
4. Daniel Grassl
5. Adam Siao Him Fa
6. Basar Oktar
7. Nika Egadze

 

[Weathergal]

Ladies
1 Alina ZAGITOVA
2 Lucrezia GENNARO (entry list has Gennaro LUCREZIA, but I think it has her name in wrong order)
3 Alizee CROZET
4 Anastasiia GOZHVA
5 Amanda Winona STAN
---
6 Kristina SKULETA-GROMOVA

Men
1 Petr GUMENNIK
2 Yakau ZENKO
3 Daniel GRASSL (entry list has Grassl DANIEL, but I think it has his name in wrong order)
4 Aleksandr SELEVKO
5 Nikolaj MAJOROV
---
6 Adam SIAO HIM FA

 

[Hannah555]

Ladies:
1. Alina Zagitova
2. LITVINENKO Anna
3. CROZET Alizee
4. KITAROVIC Katarina
5. GOZHVA Anastasiia
6. GUCEK Lara


Men:
1. GUMENNIK Petr
2. SELEVKO Aleksandr
3. DANIEL Grassl
4. SIAO HIM FA Adam
5. ZENKO Yakau
6. MAJOROV Nikolaj

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

2 Lucrezia GENNARO (entry list has LUCREZIA Gennaro, but I think it has her name in wrong order)

Tell me about it! They have really mangled some of the names. Like, look what they did to my daughter Daniella's name!

But, don't worry. There won't be many players for the EYOF, so I'm sure the scorers won't be as strict for this event as they normally are. As long as it is obvious who you meant, you should be OK.

By the way, the Opening Ceremony is being shown on the Olympic Channel this afternoon. More information is in the Event Thread.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[Weathergal]

Tell me about it! They have really mangled some of the names. Like, look what they did to my daughter Daniella's name!

But, don't worry. There won't be many players for the EYOF, so I'm sure the scorers won't be as strict for this event as they normally are. As long as it is obvious who you meant, you should be OK.

By the way, the Opening Ceremony is being shown on the Olympic Channel this afternoon. More information is in the Event Thread.

CaroLiza_fan

Thank you so much CaroLiza_fan! My goodness you're quick--I just finished my predictions!

I figured that I would probably be OK either way but just wanted to be sure, especially I have since the two Italian skaters that I believe have their names reversed fairly high in my predictions.

Thanks for all the info. I'll have to see I can catch some of it.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Thank you so much CaroLiza_fan! My goodness you're quick--I just finished my predictions!

Nah, just good timing. I had only just signed in and was going straight to the event thread to click through to the Olympic Channel. Because I'm not sure whether the Opening Ceremony starts in 10 minutes from now, or an hour and 10 minutes from now.

On my way past, I spotted that there were some more replies in here. And I was curious to see who people were choosing. Because, apart from Zagitova, I've no idea who to put where in my scoring positions!

CaroLiza_fan

 

[waterfall braid]

Ladies
1 ZAGITOVA Alina
2 LUCREZIA Gennaro
3 LITVINENKO Anna
4 SKULETA-GROMOVA Kristina
5 CROZET Alizee
6 STAN Amanda Winona

Men
1 GUMENNIK Petr
2 SELEVKO Aleksandr
3 DANIEL Grassl
4 ZENKO Yakau
5 MAJOROV Nikolaj
6 SIAO HIM FA Adam

 

[matmuh]

Men;
1. GUMENNIK Petr
2. DANIEL Grassl
3. SELEVKO Aleksandr
4. MAJOROV Nikolaj
5. EGADZE Nika
6. OKTAR Basar
7. ZENKO Yakau

Ladies;
1. ZAGITOVA Alina
2. LUCREZIA Gennaro
3. GOZHVA Anastasiia
4. LITVINENKO Anna
5. SKULETA-GROMOVA Kristina
6. PAROSHYNA Hanna
7. KEDA Valerija

 

[invisiblespiral]

Men:

1. Gumenik
2. Selevko
3. Grassl
4. Zenko
5. Majorov
6. Fa

Ladies:

1. Zagitova
2. Gozhva
3. Gennaro
4. Shkuleta-Gromova
5. Crozet
6. Litvinenko

 

[guelly]

men 1 grassl
2 gummenik
3 oktar
ladies 1 zagitova
2crozet
3 shkuleta gromova

 

[apgold]

Ladies

1 Alina ZAGITOVA
2 Lucrezia GENNARO
3 Alizee CROZET
4 Anastasiia GOZHVA
5 Amanda STAN
---
6 Kristina SKULETA-GROMOVA

Men

1 Petr GUMENNIK
2 Daniel GRASSL
3 Yakau ZENKO
4 Aleksandr SELEVKO
5 Nikolaj MAJOROV

 

[StitchMonkey]

LADIES

1. Alina ZAGITOVA
2. Anastasia GOZHVA
3. Lucrezia GENNARO
4. Kristina SHKULETA-GROMOVA
5. Alizee CROZET
6. Anna LITVINENKO

MEN

1. Petr GUMENNIK
2. Daniel GRASSL
3. Aleksandr SELEVKO
4. Yakau ZENKO
5. Nikolaj MAJOROV
6. Adam SIAO HIM FA

 

[silverfoxes]

Ladies:

1. Alina Zagitova
2. Alizee Crozet
3. Anna Litvinenko
4. Amanda Stan
5. Anastasia Gozhva
6. Laura Karhunen

Men:

1. Daniel Grassl
2. Petr Gumennik
3. Aleksandr Selevko
4. Yakau Zenko
5. Nika Egadze
6. Nikolaj Majorov

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Of course, there was only ever going to be one person that I was putting at the top of the Ladies predictions.

The remaining podium positions, though, was a tough decision. Because I had 3 girls that I was dithering between. Gennaro, Crozet and Gozhva. I was thinking about putting them in that particular order, but when I looked at the absolute PB’s, Gennaro and Gozhva were practically identical, while Crozet was 15 points lower. So, the French girl ended up off the podium.

For the other two, I went with Gennaro, for the simple reason that I am more familiar with her than I am with Gozhva.

For the rest of the field, there were only 6 names that were familiar to me. Four of them occupied the next 4 positions in the absolute PB list.

When you looked at their absolute PB’s, these four were actually in pairs. And of each pair, the one with the higher score was the one I was most familiar with. (In fact, in the case of Skuleta-Gromova, I had never seen her before. Because she has never done any Junior GP’s. I had just heard her name).

With the remaining two positions in my Top 10, I was tempted to put the other 2 girls that I was familiar with (Ipsarides and Voulgari). But when you see Karhonen’s absolute PB from October’s Tirnavia Trophy, and how far it is ahead of the rest of the girls, it would be crazy to leave her out. So, I kept her in 9th.

And as for the girl in 10th, I have never seen her before. BUT, she is coached by Jenna and Kevin. So, I couldn’t possibly leave her out!

With the Men, I actually got through my predictions quicker than I expected. Because, all the guys that I was familiar with occupied 7 of the Top 8 positions in the absolute PB list! The only infiltrator (Egadze) was in 6th position. But, the guy that I wanted to be in my Top 6 that wasn’t already (Majorov) was only half a point behind him. So, I had no guilt about moving Egadge down a spot to 7th.

Before I even did any research, I already knew that I was putting Gummenik top and Grassl into 2nd. And I knew that I was having Oktar and Majorov somewhere in my Top 6, and in that order. What I couldn’t decide was where to put Selevko and Zenko.

When you look at the positions they have finished in at Junior World’s and Junior GP’s, there is not a lot to separate them. The thing that does strike you, though, is that although he is younger, Selevko has done a LOT more competitions than Zenko.

But, when I then looked at the absolute PB’s, it turned out pretty straightforward. There were big gaps separating the absolute PB’s of Grassl, Selevko, Zenko and Oktar. So, that settled it pretty easily.

I kept the remaining guy I was familiar with in 8th. And as for the rest, I just kept them in absolute PB order. Their scores are that far below Siao Him Fa’s that they are not going to be troubling him.

Caroliza_fan


EUROPEAN YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVAL

Ladies

1. ZAGITOVA Alina, RUS
2. GENNARO Lucrezia, ITA
3. GOZHVA Anastasiia, UKR
4. CROZET Alizee, FRA
5. STAN Amanda Winona, ROU

Just for fun
6. SKULETA-GROMOVA Kristina, EST
7. SAYGI Ekin, TUR
8. LITVINENKO Anna, GBR
9. KARHUNEN Laura, FIN
10. KITAROVIC Katarina, CRO


Men

1. GUMENNIK Petr, RUS
2. GRASSL Daniel, ITA
3. SELEVKO Aleksandr, EST
4. ZENKO Yakau, BLR
5. OKTAR Basar, TUR

Just for fun
6. MAJOROV Nikolaj, SWE
7. EGADZE Nika, GEO
8. SIAO HIM FA Adam, FRA

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Gaaah!!!!

I just realised that I mixed up Sila Saygi and Ekin Saygi!!!

Mind you, I should have twigged that I had the wrong girl, because I remember commenting during Europeans that Sila was older than I thought.

It says on Sila's ISU Bio that her 2 younger sisters are figure skaters. So, would I be right in thinking that Ekin is one of those sisters?

If she is, it would make me feel better that I at least got the right family! :agree:

CaroLiza_fan

 

[rosacotton]

Men Results
GOLD: CaroLiza_fan with 50 points
SILVER: apgold, Hannah555, StichMonkey with 40 points
BRONZE: invisiblespiral, matmuh, silverfoxes, waterfall braid with 35 points

Congratulations to all!!

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Apologies that this is being posted nearly 4 months after the competition. There were some delays, but that has now been sorted by scoring the EYOF Ladies myself.

Here are the Ladies results.

Everybody without fail correctly predicted that Alina Zagitova would win.

Special mention goes out to invisiblespiral, Nathan13, and StitchMonkey, who all correctly predicted who would be in the top 5, but just got the order slightly out.

For the rest of us, Anna Litvenenko finishing in 7[SUP]th[/SUP] and Amanda Stan finishing in 9[SUP]th[/SUP] were the main spanners in the works.

Here are the podium positions:

GOLD with 65 points: invisiblespiral, StitchMonkey.

SILVER with 55 points: Nathan13.

BRONZE with 50 points: CaroLiza_fan, matmuh.

Congratulations!!!

To find out more, please see the spreadsheet.

CaroLiza_fan