Pick your ideal GP field

[Layback11]

If you could choose all the skaters that would make up the field at one 2016-17 GP event, who would you pick?

As a guideline, I would say to stick with currently-competing skaters in all disciplines, following the seed rules (no multiple world medalists at your one event ), but it isn't the end of the world if you decide someone is going to come out of retirement for your event or you have two 4-6 seeds or something.

This should be very interesting, methinks.

 

[invisiblespiral]

Hmm...

Men:

Hanyu, Chan, Uno, Hochstein, Vasiljevs, Farris, Brown, Ge, Menshov, Yamamoto, Nadeau, Aliev....

Ladies:

Wagner, Miyahara, Asada, Tursynbaeva, Kuchvalska, Sakhanovich, Sotskova, Bell, Chen, Higuchi, Choi...

Pairs:

Sui/Han, Iliushechkina/Moscovich, Seguin/Bilodeau, Yu/Jin, Kavaguti/Smirnov... and no idea. :scratch:

Dance:

Shibutani/Shibutani, Weaver/Poje, Coomes/Buckland, Stepanova/Bukin, Fournier-Beaudry/Sorensen, McNanamara/Carpenter, Virtue/Moir, Ilinykh/Zhiganshin...

:scratch:

 

[MGstyle]

Men: Misha Ge, Jason Brown, Deniss Vasiljevs, Shoma Uno, Javier Fernandez, Kevin Reynolds, Ivan Righini
Ladies: Medvedeva, Pogorilaya, Lipnitskaya, Kuchvalska, Edmunds
Pairs: Tarasova/Morozov, Astakhova/Rogonov, Savchenko/Massot, Volosozhar/Trankov, Kawaguchi/Smirnov, Ilyushechkina/Moscovich
Dance: Weaver/Poje, Papadakis/Cizeron, Cappelini/LaNotte, Sinitsina/Katsalapov, Testa/Csolley, Agafonova/Ucar, Nazarova/Nikitin

I am already drooling at this line up!!! problem is I would want everyone on the podium!!!!

 

[Layback11]

Well, I definitely know who I would want in ladies. Following the seed rules, I picked a medalist, a 4-6 (I wanted two, but whatever ) and the rest are just people I like.

Medvedeva, Gold, Lipnitskaya, Hongo, Asada, Li, Sotnikova, Chen, Park, Chartrand, Kuchvalska, hmm...okay, I'm going to cheat here and throw in Radionova even though I was trying to follow the seed rules because I cannot think of anyone else


Dance:

Shibs, Cappellini/Lanotte, Hawayek/Baker, Weaver/Poje, stealing Invisiblespiral's idea of McNamara/Carpenter if they move up, Sinitsina/Katsalopov and Ilinykh/Zhiganshin for drama , not sure-how about Virtue/Moir just for suspense factor?

Pairs:

Sui/Han, Seguin/Bilodeau, Kayne/O'Shea, Aaron/Settlage, Volosozhar/Trankov, Asthakova/Rogonov, Tarasova/Morozov, IDK so I guess Yu/Jin?

Men: oh gosh I'm gonna suck at this

Hanyu, IDK so Mikhail Kolyada for my 4-6 seed, Uno, Ten, Pitkeev, Samohin, Aaron, Hochstein, Chen, Farris (I know it's not allowed but I'm putting four Americans in it: p), Jorik Hendrickx for crazy factor and program LOLs , running out of ideas so I'm going to cheat and put in Boyang Jin even though it violates the seed rules

 

[Blades of Passion]

MEN: Javier Fernandez, Patrick Chan, Shoma Uno, Adian Pitkeev, Dennis Ten, Han Yan, Daniel Samohin, Oleksii Bychenko, Jason Brown, Josh Farris, Elladj Balde, Tim Gerber

WOMEN: Ashley Wagner, Satako Miyahara, Mao Asada, Rika Hongo, Mirai Nagasu, Polina Edmunds, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Adelina Sotnikova, Julia Lipnitskaya, Elizabet Tursynbaeva, Alaine Chartrand, Kaetlyn Osmond

PAIRS: Duhamel/Radford, Stolbova/Klimov, Kavaguti/Smirnov, Yu/Jin, Wang/Wang, Astakhova/Rogonov, Seguin/Bilodeau, Scimeca/Knierim

DANCE: Virtue/Moir, Papadakis/Cizeron, Weaver/Poje, Bobrova/Soloviev, Gilles/Poirier, Sinitsina/Katsalapov, Coomes/Buckland, Ilinykh/Zhiganshin, Guignard/Fabbri, Parsons/Parsons

 

[4everchan]

MEN: Javier Fernandez, Patrick Chan, Shoma Uno, Dennis Ten, Han Yan, Max Aaron ,Daisuke Murakami, Josh Farris, Kevin Reynolds, Nam Nguyen, Deniss Vasiljevs, Misha Ge,

WOMEN: Anna Pogorilaya, Satako Miyahara, Mao Asada, Rika Hongo, Gabby Daleman, Mirai Nagasu, Adelina Sotnikova, Julia Lipnitskaya, Elizabet Tursynbaeva, Alaine Chartrand, Kaetlyn Osmond, Karolina Kostner

PAIRS: Duhamel/Radford, Stolbova/Klimov, Kavaguti/Smirnov, Iliushechkina/Moskovitch, Peng/Zhang, Castelli/Tran, Seguin/Bilodeau, Marchei/Hotarek

DANCE: Virtue/Moir, Shibsibs, Weaver/Poje, , Gilles/Poirier, Sinitsina/Katsalapov, Coomes/Buckland,, Fournier-Beaudry/Sorensen, Guignard/Fabri, Ilinykh/Zhiganshin,

 

[BravesSkateFan]

`LADIES: Wagner, Miyahara, Nagasu, Park, Li, Rajicova, Osmond, LaFuente, Hongo, Sotnikova, Meitie, Hicks

MEN: Fernandez, Rippon, Yan, Murakami, Ge, Bychenko, Brown, Aaron, Mura, Righini, Menshov, Nguyen

PAIRS: Sui/Han, Stolbova/Klimov, Scimeca/Knierim, Moore-Towers/Marinario, James/Ciipres, Marchei/Hotarek, Denny/Frazier, Kavaguti/Smirnov

DANCE: Shibs, Hubbell/Donohue, Coomes/Buckland, Gilles/Poirier, Fournier Beaudry/Sorensen, Bobrova/Soloviev, Muramoto/Reed, Davis/White (they haven't officially retired yet!)

 

[temadd]

Ladies

Wagner, Tyler Pierce, Zijun Li, Rika Hongo, Radionova, Pogorilaya, Chartrand, Sotnikova

Men

Chan, Hanyu, Fernandez, Rippon, Brown, Jin

 

[4everchan]

your men selection is most likely happening at WC you have 5 seeded guys in there

Ladies

Wagner, Tyler Pierce, Zijun Li, Rika Hongo, Radionova, Pogorilaya, Chartrand, Sotnikova

Men

Chan, Hanyu, Fernandez, Rippon, Brown, Jin

 

[tulosai]

It's too hard....