GP Predictions Game Year 2 :)

[fairly4]

Cup of China

1) carolina kosnter
adelina sotnikova
3) zijun li
kanako murakami
5) agnes zawadzki
6) anna pogorilaya
kexin zhang

Men

1) denis ten
2) kevin reynolds
3) takahito kozuka
maxim kovtum
han yan
richard dornbush
nan song

Pairs

1) Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY
2) qing pang/jian tong
3) cheng pang/hao zhang
4) alexia scimeca/chris knierim
5)anastasia martiusheva/alexie rogonov
6)popova/massot
7) zhang/bartholomay
8)wang/wang


dance


1) Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV
2)Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT
3)Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES
4)Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON
5)Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES
6)Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG

 

[FSGMT]

So, here I go...
MEN (this is becoming more and more difficult each time, especially because we don't know Ten's conditions... I think that I'll change this at least 5 times! )
1) Takahiko Kozuka
2) Han Yan
3) Florent Amodio
4) Maxim Kovtun
5) Richard Dornbush
alt. Denis Ten

LADIES
1) Carolina Kostner
2) Adelina Sotnikova
3) Kanako Murakami
4) Anna Pogorilaya
5) Agnes Zawadzki
alt. Zijun Li

PAIRS
1) Savchenko/Szolkowy
2) Pang-Tong
3) Peng/Zhang
4) Zhang/Bartolomay
5) Martiusheva/Rogonov
alt. Scimeca/Knierim

ICE DANCE
1) Pechalat/Bourzat
2) Bobrova/Soloviev
3) Chock/Bates
4) Aldridge/Eaton
5) Huang/Zheng
alt. Yu/Wang

I have a feeling that these predictions will be a complete disaster

 

[sky_fly20]

Cup of China

Men

1 Takahiko Kozuka
2 Maksim Kovtun
3 Han Yan

4 Florent Amodio
5 Kevin Reynolds
6 Nan Song

Ladies

1 Carolina Kostner
2 Adelina Sotnikova
3 Kanako Murakami

4 Zijun Li
5 Anna Pogorilaya
6 Agnes Zawadzki

Ice Dance

1 Pechalat/Bourzat
2 Bobrova/Soloviev
3 Chock/Bates

4 Aldrige/Eaton
5 Xintong / Xun
6 Carron/Jones

Pairs

1 Savchenko/Szolkowy
2 Pang/Tong
3 Peng/Zhang

4 Scimeca/Knierm
5 Martiuheva/Rogonov
6 Zhang/Bartholomay

 

[Becki]

Redemption time for me! (and some skaters)

Dance

1 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA
2 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS
3 Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES USA
4 Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON
5 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG CHN
6 Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES FRA


Pairs
1 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER
2 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN
3 Cheng PENG / Hao ZHANG CHN
3 Xuehan WANG / Lei WANG CHN
4 Anastasia MARTIUSHEVA / Alexei ROGONOV RUS
5 Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM USA


Men

1 Takahiko KOZUKA JPN
2 Han YAN CHN
3 Florent AMODIO FRA
4 Denis Ten KAZ
5 Maxim Kovtun RUS
6 Nan Song CHN


Ladies

1 Carolina KOSTNER ITA
2 Kanako MURAKAMI JPN
3 Adelina SOTNIKOVA RUS
4 Zijun LI CHN
5 Agnes ZAWADZKI USA
6 Haruka IMAI JPN

 

[Blades of Passion]

I'm getting a headache trying to predict this event.

 

[museksk8r]

Cup of China

Men (as always, this is a total crapshoot!)
1. Takahiko Kozuka
2. Florent Amodio
3. Han Yan
4. Denis Ten
5. Nan Song
6. Maxim Kovtun

Ladies
1. Carolina Kostner
2. Zijun Li
3. Kanako Murakami
4. Adelina Sotnikova
5. Agnes Zawadzki
6. Anna Pogorilaya

Pairs
1. Savchenko/Szolkowy
2. Pang/Tong
3. Peng/Zhang
4. Scimeca/Knierim
5. Zhang/Bartholomay
6. Martiusheva/Rogonov

Dance
1. Pechalat/Bourzat
2. Bobrova/Soloviev
3. Chock/Bates
4. Carron/Jones
5. Aldridge/Eaton
6. Huang/Zheng

 

[Candy clouds]

How do I check what placement I got??

 

[HR4]

Men
1 Kevin REYNOLDS
2 Takahiko KOZUKA
3 Denis TEN
4 Maxim KOVTUN
5 Richard DORNBUSH
6 Han YAN
7 Florent AMODIO
8 Nan SONG


Ladies
1 Carolina KOSTNER
2 Kanako MURAKAMI
3 Adelina SOTNIKOVA
4 Zijun LI
5 Anna POGORILAYA
6 Agnes ZAWADZKI




Pairs
1 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY
2 Qing PANG / Jian TONG
3 Cheng PENG / Hao ZHANG
4 Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM
5 Anastasia MARTIUSHEVA / Alexei ROGONOV
6 Felicia ZHANG / Nathan BARTHOLOMAY

Dance
1 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV
2 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT
3 Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES
4 Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES
5 Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON
6 Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG

 

[koatcue]

How do I check what placement I got??

go to the 1st page of this thread at the top you'll see a file to download

 

[FlattFan]

Argh, we shouldn't publish the result so early. If anything, I can just go and copy the prediction of some of the high scorers and get high score myself.

Should just wait until the end of the run, and publish the results?

 

[Mrs. P]

Argh, we shouldn't publish the result so early. If anything, I can just go and copy the prediction of some of the high scorers and get high score myself.

Should just wait until the end of the run, and publish the results?

If you have the time to do that, great. But what's the fun in that?

I think people enjoy knowing how they do as the game goes on and I think it's important to recognize smaller milestones/achievements along the way.

For example, we had completely different winners for the men at Skate America (Blades of Passion) and Skate Canada (waxel). Both should be recognized for their achievement.

 

[tulosai]

Argh, we shouldn't publish the result so early. If anything, I can just go and copy the prediction of some of the high scorers and get high score myself.

Should just wait until the end of the run, and publish the results?

I agree with Mrs. P's comments, but I'll also say that, while it might be tempting I guess for someone to copy a high scorer's results, someone scoring high at 1 or even 2 competitions is no guarantee their guesses will continue to be right. In fact, someone with no knowledge of men might have done better at the first competition than any of us. Someone silly enough to think D/R would place lower than 1st at the last competition would have been right. And often things are a tossup and ice is slippery.

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

Now, this was a hard one to make guesses for …in all categories!

In both the Ladies and the Men’s competitions, there were too many of my favourite skaters competing, and it made it hard to choose an order! I found it heartbreaking putting some of them further down my lists than I would have liked!

In the Pairs, it was not too hard to pick the top 2, and the bottom 2. But as for the ones in the middle, it was hard to choose an order, as I think

a. Popova/Massot and Peng/Zhang will be well matched
b. Martiusheva/Rogonov and Zhang/Bartholomay will be well matched

And as for the Dance, the problem was which order to put the Chinese couples in, as Huang/Zheng are the only ones I am familiar with. I have no idea how the other 2 couples compare to them. So, fingers crossed I've not picked the wrong Chinese couple to put in my top 6!

CaroLiza_fan


CUP OF CHINA

Ladies

1. Carolina KOSTNER, ITA
2. Adelina SOTNIKOVA, RUS
3. Zijun LI, CHN
4. Kanako MURAKAMI, JPN
5. Haruka IMAI, JPN
6. Agnes ZAWADZKI, USA

Just for fun
7. Nikol GOSVIANI, RUS
8. Anna POGORILAYA, RUS
9. Kexin ZHANG, CHN
10. Xiaowen GUO, CHN


Men

1. Kevin REYNOLDS, CAN
2. Takahiko KOZUKA, JPN
3. Han YAN, CHN
4. Florent AMODIO, FRA
5. Denis TEN, KAZ
6. Maxim KOVTUN, RUS

Just for fun
7. Nan SONG, CHN
8. Yi WANG, CHN
9. Peter LIEBERS, GER
10. Richard DORNBUSH, USA


Pairs

1. Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY, GER
2. Qing PANG / Jian TONG, CHN
3. Daria POPOVA / Bruno MASSOT, FRA
4. Cheng PENG / Hao ZHANG, CHN
5. Anastasia MARTIUSHEVA / Alexei ROGONOV, RUS
6. Felicia ZHANG / Nathan BARTHOLOMAY, USA

Just for fun
7. Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM, USA
8. Xuehan WANG / Lei WANG, CHN


Ice Dance

1. Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV, RUS
2. Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT, FRA
3. Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES, USA
4. Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES, FRA
5. Xintong HUANG / Xun ZHENG, CHN
6. Alexandra ALDRIDGE / Daniel EATON, USA

Just for fun
7. Xiaoyang YU / Chen WANG, CHN
8. Yiyi ZHANG / Nan WU, CHN

 

[LRK]

Sigh.... Oh, dear.... Well....

Cup of China

Men:

1. Kevin Reynolds
2. Denis Ten
3. Nan Song
4. Takahito Kozuka
5. Florent Amodio
6. Han Yan
7. Maxim Kovtun

(I added one extra alt, just in case Denis Ten doesn't show. Does anyone have any info on his injury? Otherwise... no idea with these men, really. I'd normally have some of these higher, and others lower, but... Who knows how any of them is going to skate, really? Men is by far my most favourite discipline, and also the one that gives me the most aggravation.)

Ladies:

1. Carolina Kostner
2. Kanako Murakami
3. Adelina Sotnikova
4. Zijun Li
5. Agnes Zawadski
6. Anna Pogorilaya

Pairs:

1. Savchenko/Szolkowy
2. Pang/Tong
3. Peng/Zhang
4. Scimeca/Knierim
5. Martiusheva/Rogonov
6. Zhang/Bortholomay

Ice Dance:

1. Pechalat/Bourzat
2. Bobrova/Soloviev
3. Chock/Bates
4. Carron/Jones
5. Aldridge/Eaton
6. Huang/Zheng

Note: About copying others... Well, I for one try to avoid looking at anyone else's guesses until I've done mine. As for how that's working out for me? Well, let's just say that I am sure no one is even remotely tempted to copy mine....

Also, I think it's fun to see the results as the competition goes along, and I think the winners, and high-achievers in the different sections should be acknowledged. And, again, this is perfectly disinterested on my part, as things are going for me.

 

[guenever]

Putting Kozuka first was disastrous for me a couple weeks ago but he's still one of my absolute favourites so I'll give him another chance...

Men:

1. Kozuka
2. Amodio
3. Ten
4. Yan
5. Song
6. Kovtun

Ladies:

1. Kostner
2. Murakami
3. Li
4. Sotnikova
5. Zawadzki
6. Pogorilaya

Pairs:

1. Savchenko/Szolkowy
2. Pang/Tong
3. Peng/Zhang
4. Scimeca/Knierim
5. Zhang/Bartholomay
6. Martiuseva/Rogonov

Dance:

1. Pechelat/Bourzat
2. Bobrova/Soloviev
3. Chock/Bates
4. Carron/Jones
5. Aldridge/Eaton
6. Huang/Zheng

 

[Candy clouds]

CUP OF CHINA...and here we go!

DANCE
1. Bobrova/ Soloviev
2. Pechalat/ Bourzat
3. Chock/ Bates
4. Carron/ Jones
5. Huang/ Zheng
6. Aldridge/ Eaton

MEN
1. Amodio
2. Song
3. Kozuka
4. Ten
5. Yan
6. Dornbush

LADIES
1. Kostner
2. Li
3. Sotnikova
4. Murakami
5. Zawadzki
6. Pogorilaya

PAIRS
1. Savchenko/ Szolkowy
2. Pang/ Tong
3. Peng/ Zhang
4. Scimeca/ Knierim
5. Zhang/ Bartholomay
6. Wang/ Wang

 

[FlattFan]

If you have the time to do that, great. But what's the fun in that?

I was tempted after SA.
My prediction has about 70% wish and 30% of prediction.

Feeling like I'm at the track, waving a wad of cashes, betting on horses like the rent is due tomorrow or something.

 

[tulosai]

I was tempted after SA.
My prediction has about 70% wish and 30% of prediction.

Feeling like I'm at the track, waving a wad of cashes, betting on horses like the rent is due tomorrow or something.

yeah I often kind of am wishing too in my predictions, though I think mostly unconsciously.

 

[waxel]

So for the record as your men's scorekeeper:

Waxel won the men's category at Skate Canada with a very nice score of 70 points, having predicted 4 out of 5 placements right and only having Jeremy Abbott off by one places.

Rounding out the top placements
1.) Waxel 70
2.) Aero 65 (also 4 out of 5 placements correct, but was off on Jeremy's placement by two places)
3.) pitterpatter, sky_fly20,GF2445,fairly4 and Blades of Passion 60 (tied)

Average score was 46.5 and the median score was 45, so the winners in this discipline were truly extraordinary, but most everyone did better this week.

Wow! I won Men's! Now on to Cup of China!!

 

[Mentalopes]

Cup of China

Men:
1. Kozuka
2. Yan
3. Ten
4. Kovtun
5. Song
6. Dornbush

Ladies
1.Kostner
2. Murakami
3. Pogorilaya
4. Sotnikova
5. Li
6. Imai

Pairs
1.Savchenko/Szolkowy
2. Pang/Tong
3. Scimeca/Knierim
4. Peng/Zhang
5. Zhang/Bartolomay
6. Martiusheva/Rogonov

Ice Dance
1. Brobova/Soloviev
2. Pechalat/Bourzat
3. Chock/Bates
4. Aldrige/Eaton
5. Carron/Jones
6. Huang/Zheng