Predictions

[MooMooCow]

I know it's a bit early, but I'm going to start predicting:

MEN
1. Brian Joubert
2. Jeremy Abbott
3. Sergei Voronov

WOMEN
1. Carolina Kostner (fingers crossed!!)
2. Rachael Flatt
3. Fumie Suguri

PAIRS
1. Zhang Dan / Zhang Hao
2. Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov
3. Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov

DANCE
1. Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin
2. Meryl Davis / Charlie White
3. Jana Khoklova / Sergei Novitski

 

[Bennett]

Men
1. Tomas (If he lands two 3As, maximizes his combo opportunities, and does not make any mistakes on the other jumps in LP)
2./3. Joubert/Jeremy

Ladies
1. Caro (If she does her best, she should be so dominant here)
2. Flatt (If she does not UR; Even though she flutzes, she still seems better than the others overall)
3./4./5. Fumie (I feel that she may get edge calls on her lutzs at this time. She also seems a bit weak at her steps, spins, spirals, and overall speed, especially at her spins)
/Sarah (If she lands all of her jumps, she would be brilliant)
/Kimmie (Hope she does not UR or fall)

 

[lmarie086]

It's a bit early but I'll give it a try...

Ice Dance
Gold: DomShabs: They are usually glorious in the CD, they may not have my favorite OD but it works quite well for them (I still think it's a bit unbelievable they went for a waltz...), and well, if they are more comfortable with the FD (it has potential) I can easily see them getting the gold.
Silver/Bronze: this is the interesting part of the competition. Davis/White vs Khokhlova/Novitski. It's fairly obvious that I prefer D/W anytime (although I don't dislike K/N), and I'm really hoping that they can qualify for the GPF. Their OD is one of the best, IMO, that we've seen from the top teams, and I definitely like it better than DomShabs and K/N (with their horrendous costumes I could barely concentrate on how much I wasn't really impressed with the actual program). And again, I think D/W's FD does wonders for them and really shows how they've improved while I like bits and pieces of K/N's FD, but it doesn't all feel cohesive to me.
So I guess I want:

Gold: DomShabs
Silver: Davis/White (if they won I'd think figure skating had entered an alternate universe)
Bronze: Khokhlova/Novitski

Men
Gold: Jeremy Abbott (I so want him to qualify for GPF; it would be great for him to overcome the nerves once again!)
Silver: Brian Joubert (he's got the quad and a lot of determination, but his programs this year make me a bit)
Bronze: Tomas (Because I simply don't know what to make of him right now. When he's on he's a contender but that doesn't appear to happen very often = [)

 

[flying camel]

Ladies:
1. Flatt
2. Kimmie
3. Kostner

 

[shopgirl543]

Ladies:

1. Carolina Kostner
2. Sarah Meier
3. Fumie Suguri
4. Rachael Flatt

Men:

1. Brian Joubert
2. Tomas Verner
3. Sergei Voronov
4. Jeremy Abbott

Pairs:

1. Kawaguchi/Smirnov
2. Zhang/Zhang
3. Volosozhar/Morozov
4. Iliushechkina/Maisuradze

Dance:

1. Domnina/Shabalin
2. Davis/White
3. Khokhlova/Novitski
4. Cappellini/Lanotte

 

[alclswhrqkfl]

Ladies:

1. Rachael
2. Fumie Suguri
------------------------GPF!! ---------------------------------
3. Carolina Kostner


Men:

1. Brian Joubert
2. Sergei Voronov
3. Tomas Verner

 

[~tapdancer]

The podium I'd like to see...
Ice Dance
Gold - D/W
Silver - D/S
Bronze - C/L

It's Cup of Russia...so more likely
Gold - D/S
Silver - D/W
Bronze - K/N

And Kawaguchi/Smirnov will get the gold in pairs.

Don't know about men and ladies.

 

[chocola]

Ladies

1. Kostner
2. Flatt
3. Suguri or Meier

Men

1. Joubert
2. Verner
3. Abbott

Pairs

1. Zhang & Zhang
2. Volosozhar & Morozov
3. Kawaguchi & Smirnov

Dance

1. Domnina & Shabalin
2. Davis & White
3. Khokhlova & Novitski

 

[museksk8r]

Ladies
1. Rachael Flatt
2. Carolina Kostner
3. Fumie Suguri

Men
1. Jeremy Abbott
2. Alban Preaubert
3. Brian Joubert

Pairs
1. Zhang/Zhang
2. Kawaguchi/Smirnov
3. Volosozhar/Morozov

Ice Dance
1. Domnina/Shabalin
2. Khokhlova/Novitski
3. Davis/White (I would love for them to win gold though!)

 

[HCOSurfer]

Men
1. Abbott (If he's clean)
2. Joubert
3. Verner
4. Voronov

Ladies
1. Flatt
2. Suguri
3. Kostner
4. Meissner

Pairs
1. Zhang/Zhang
2. Volosozhar/Morosov
3. Kawaguchi/Smirnov
4. ???

Dance
1. Domnina/Shabalin
2. Davis/White
3. Khokhlova/Novitski
4. Cappellini/Lanotte

 

[Pikachuusb]

Ladies:

1) Carolina Kostner
2) Rachel Flatt
3) Fumie Suguri

Men:

1) Brian Joubert
2) Tomas Verner
3) Alban Preaubert

Pairs:

1) Zhang & Zhang
2) Kawaguchi & Smirnov
3) Volosozhar & Morozov

Ice Dance:

1) Domnina & Shabalin
2) Khokhlova & Novitski
3) Davis & White

 

[Wrlmy]

Ladies:
I won't predict Carolina K's placement because she can place anywhere she wants.

1 Rachael Flatt
2 Fumie Suguri
3 Sarah Meier
4 Kimmie Meissner

Men:

1 Jeremy Abbott
2 Brian Joubert
3 Tomas Verner
4 Sergei Voronov
5 Alban Preaubert

Pairs:

1 K/S
2 Z/Z
3 V/M

Ice Dance:

1 D/S
2 D/W
3 K/N

 

[propronia]

Men
1 Verner
2 Joubert
3 Voronov

Ladies
1 Kostner
2 Flatt
3 Meier

Pairs
1 K/S
2 Z/Z
3 V/M

Dance
1 D/S
2 K/N
3 D/W

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

I'll come back to this later. Much depends on the outcome of TEB especially for Joubert and Preaubert.

 

[HCOSurfer]

Ladies
1. Flatt
2. Suguri
3. Kostner
4. Meissner

Now that Czisny's in the mix (which I'm so happy about), I need to change my predictions.

Ladies
1. Flatt
2. Czisny
3. Suguri
4. Kostner

 

[GiuliaPlum]

If Alissa takes a bronze once again, will she go to the Final?

 

[lmarie086]

If Alissa takes a bronze once again, will she go to the Final?

As much as I would love for her to, another bronze wouldn't qualify her. Of course I don't know much about this stuff, but 2 bronzes (both worth 11 points) gets you 22 points total, which is below what appears to be the cutoff, 26. I think they also take the total scores from the competition into account as well, but I'm not sure.

I do hope she does well though! It was wonderful to see her smiling on the podium at SC.

And now I'm predicting her to finish anywhere from 2-5.

 

[dutchherder]

Ladies

1. Kostner
2. Suguri
3. Flatt or Czisny

Men

1. Joubert
2. Abbott
3. Verner

Pairs

1. Zhang and Zhang
2. Kawaguchi/Smirnov
3. Volosozhar/Morozov

Dance
1. Domnina/Shabalin
2. Davis/White
3. Khokhlova/Novitski
(Although I think Davis and White will probably outskate Domnina and Shabalin, I don't think they'll win in Russia)

 

[Joesitz (RIP)]

If Alissa takes a bronze once again, will she go to the Final?

It's possible, go the thread on Alissa, I've worked out the possibilities of all the skaters. She is in the mix.

 

[Hiara80]

if Caro will win ( i hope she won't do a disaster like in Canada) do you think she can get the final?