Predictions?

[MissIzzy]

But still V/M are ahead of K/N???

By very little. COP is genuinely harder to rig in terms of sheer calculation, and they might have calculated it wrong.
Or possibly there was luck in which scores were thrown out. Or the Georgian judge is actually Georgian and decided not to cooperate, because Georgia isn't on very good terms with Russia right now. So even if the Ukrainian judge is Russian, that would still be only two votes, and this competition's going to be more or less okay.

 

[flying camel]

Ladies

1.Ando
2.Czisny ( I can dream)
3.Kostner

 

[RDiva]

By very little. COP is genuinely harder to rig in terms of sheer calculation, and they might have calculated it wrong.
Or possibly there was luck in which scores were thrown out. Or the Georgian judge is actually Georgian and decided not to cooperate, because Georgia isn't on very good terms with Russia right now. So even if the Ukrainian judge is Russian, that would still be only two votes, and this competition's going to be more or less okay.

I still believe K/N will stay third....although, if we have to be fair, their FD is quite good, with or without russian judges..

 

[chuckm]

Georgia being on not-so-good political terms with Russia has very little to do with ice dance judging. From my observations with these same individuals in the JGP, both Georgian and Ukrainian judges support Russian and to some extent, other SSR teams.

These judges will keep the AZE team in the top half and Z/S (the other Russian team) and B/Z (Ukrainian team) out of the anchor spot.

 

[all that]

While I love both teams, I hope for D/S to win, simply because I find their free dance to be more beautiful than V/M. I like V/M's free dance, but I find their music (I've never been a fan of Umbrellas of Cherbourg) to be kinda whiney and just outright depressing. Catherine Deneuve's singing scream of, "Je t'aaaaaaaaaime!" in the middle of their dance doesn't help it for me.

That music makes me want to cut my ears off.

 

[Medusa]

Men
1. Andrei GRIAZEV
2. Sergei DOBRIN
3. Daisuke TAKAHASHI

Women
1. Elene GEDEVANISHVILI
2. Miki ANDO
3. Mai ASADA

Pairs
1. Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY
2. Anabelle LANGLOIS / Cody HAY
3. Jiaqi LI / Jiankun XU