Your top 10 skaters/pairs in 2016-17?

[xeyra]

I'm kinda new to the sport and I like different things from different skaters, but I guess I could venture a few favorites of the season so far. I'm omitting Ice Dance because I actually haven't watched enough to form an opinion.

Ladies
Satoko Miyahara (Star Wars music in LP, enough said; plus she's so elegant)
Anna Pogorilaya (everything?)
Ashley Wagner (fierce SP in particular plus loving her fashion choices)
Evgenia Medvedeva (her music choices are lovely and her consistency scary, even if some of her choreo is puzzling)

Men
Yuzuru Hanyu (my aesthetic basically)
Patrick Chan (skating skills to die for and his music choices for both programs are great)
Shoma Uno (fierce smol bean, loco piantao)
Boyang Jin (he shoots webs out of his hands in his SP, come on!)

Pairs
James/Cipres (first Pairs team I absolutely paid attention to and fell in love with at Euros 2017, my favorites)
Sui/Han (saw them for the first time at 4CC, absolutely gorgeous)

Japan - 3
China - 2
Russia - 2
USA - 1
Canada - 1
France - 1

Honorable mentions: Nathan Chen's SP (I can't care much for his FS no matter how epic the music, so I can't place him in the list above), Carolina Kostner (first time I've seen her was Euros and she was great), Deniss Vasiljevs (his spins are absolutely amazing, plus he is cute as a button and always looks so happy to skate), Liubov/Dylan (sorry, I can't type their surnames but they were sure one of the less sleepy pairs at 4CC and I really liked their FS), Peng/Jin (so lovely together), Adam Rippon (I watched his LP from Skate America and it was gorgeous), Karen Chen (her Nationals performances were lovely to watch), Mai Mihara's LP at 4CC and a bunch of others too that are very numerous to list. Even if they're not in my list, it's highly probable I've liked them anyway!

 

[yuna13]

dance:

papadakis/cizeron
gilles/poirier
hubbell/donohue

pairs:
savchenko/massot
sui/han
james/ciprès

men:
yuzuru hanyu
shoma uno
javier fernandez

ladies:
Ashley Wagner

France-2
Japan- 2
Usa -2
german- 1
Canada- 1
spain- 1
china -1

 

[Lambari]

Ice dance

Stepanova/Bukin
Hawayek/Baker
Papadakis/ Cizeron

Pairs

Peng/Jin

Ladies

Satoko Miyahara
Mao Asada
Polina Tsurskaya
Anastasia Gubanova

Men

Yuzuru Hanyu
Patrick Chan

RUS: (3)
JPN: (3)
CAN: (1)
CHN: (1)
USA: (1)
FRA: (1)


Honorable mentions: Kaetlyn Osmond, Boyangman, Sihyeong Lee, Young You, James/Cipres KOR: (2) CAN: (1), CHN: (1), FRA (1)

I can't narrow down lists so I'm shamelessly pretending it doesn't have 15

 

[Li'Kitsu]

This is so difficult - can I do like, 10 per discipline?

Okay, I will try my best and feel bad about some of this later Because I have a bad conscious towards those faves I leave out besides the fact they'll never know and it'd mean nothing, but I'm weird like that

Men:

Yuzuru Hanyu
Boyangman Spiderjin
Moris Kvitelashvili
Mikhail Kolyada
Jason Brown

Ladies:

Wakaba Higuchi
Anna Pogorilaya
Polina Tsurskaya
Kaetlyn Osmond


Pairs:

Sui/Han
Savchenko/Massot
Peng/Jin
James/Cipres


*cough* That might still be too many, but that's life!

Japan: 2
China: 3
Georgia: 1
Russia: 3
USA: 1
Canada: 1
Germany: 1
France: 1

 

[breadstal]

Pairs:
Wenjing Sui/ Cong Han

Ice Dance:
Tessa Virtue/ Scott Moir
ShibSibs

Men: (there's so maaaaany men that I like so it's really hard to choose)
Nathan Chen (for his incredible breakthrough)
Boyang(man) Jin (for his glorious short program)

Ladies:
Mai Mihara
Dabin Choi
Zijun Li
Kaetlyn Osmond
Mirai Nagasu

USA: 3
Japan: 2
China: 2
Canada: 2
Korea: 1

Honorable mentions: Mariah Bell, Satoko Miyahara, Ashley Wagner, Anna Pogorilaya, Mao Asada, Soyoun Park, Carolina Kostner, Yuzuru Hanyu, Shoma Uno, Misha Ge, Patrick Chan, Adam Rippon, Yan Han, Deniss Vasiļjevs, Jason Brown, Yu Xiaoyu/ Zhang Hao. And I only did senior skaters lol

 

[tzazu]

Only 10???? Ok, I'll try it:
Men: Hanyu, Fernandez, Chen
Ladies: Costner
Pairs: Savchenko/Massot, Sui/Han, Tarasova/Morozov
ID: Papadakis/Cizeron, Shibs, Weaver/Poje

Japan: 1
China: 1
USA: 2
Canada:1
France: 1
Germany: 1
Spain:1
Italy:1
Russia:1

Sorry ladies, lately...

 

[ancientpeas]

This is favourites right? Okay (please remember that pairs is my favourite discipline)

Pairs: Sui/Han
I/M
S/B
S/M
Dance:
V/M
G/P


Men
Hanyu
Brown

Women
Osmond
Satoko M.

So that is:
Canada 5
Japan 2
Germany 1
U.S.A 1
China 1

I thought about putting T/M and Evgenia but I really do not enjoy either of their long programs. I also thought about P/C and J/C from France. This was really hard. I could probably give you 10 pairs and 10 dance that are amongst my favourites. Much easier for me with men and ladies.

 

[Florencito]

Julianne Seguin/Charlie Bilodeau
Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres
Wenjing Sui/ Cong Han
Anna Duskova/Martin Bidar

Javier Fernandez
Deniss Vasiljevs
Daniel Samohin
Dmitri Aliev

Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron

Eun-soo Lim

No honorable mentions because it would be quite a long list

Men 4
Paris 4
Ice Dance 1
Ladies 1


France 2
Canada 1
China 1
Czechia 1
Spain 1
Latvia 1
Israel 1
Russia 1
South Korea 1

Europe 7
Asia 2
North America 1

 

[Interspectator]

How interesting. In no particular order:
1.Hanyu
2.Satoko
3.Jason Brown
4.Javi
5.Anna Pogorilaya
6.Boyang Jin
7.Han Yan
8.Joshua Farris
9.Misha Ge
10.Julia Lipnitskaya

Japan 2
USA 2
Russia 2
China 2
Uzbekistan 1
Spain 1
or

Asia 5
Americas 2
Europe 3

 

[nguyhm]

So hard to pick only 10:

Ladies: Mai Mihara, Anna Pogorilaya
Men: Nathan Chen, Sergei Voronov, Shoma Uno
Pairs: Sui/Han, Stolbova/Klimov
Ice Dance: Virtue/Moir, Tobias/Tkachenko, Papadakis/Cizeron

Russia: 3
Japan: 2
USA: 1
China: 1
Canada: 1
Israel: 1
France: 1

Honorable mentions for the ones who will always be special in my heart: Mao Asada, Mirai Nagasu, Julia Lipnitskia, Patrick Chan, Kavaguti/Smirnov, Shibutanis.
My "breakthrough" favorites: Mariah Bell, Pang/Jin, James/Cipres, Cain/Leduc, Denney/Frazier

 

[Crossover]

Pairs;
Sui/Han
Savchenko/Massot

Dance;
Virtue/Moir
Hawayek/Baker

Ladies;
Satoko Miyahara
Anna Pogorilaya

Men;
Nathan Chen
Denis Ten
Patrick Chan
Javier Fernandez


China - 1
Germany - 1
Canada - 2
USA - 2
Japan - 1
Russia - 1
Kazakhstan - 1
Spain - 1

 

[ennta]

Pairs:
Peng/Jin
James/Cipres

Dance:
The Shibs

Men:
Adam Rippon

Ladies:
Elizabet Tursynbaeva
Karen Chen
Mirai Nagasu
Mao Asada
Mae Berniece Meite
Li Zijun

US -- 4
France -- 2
China -- 2
Japan -- 1
Kazakhstan -- 1

Honorable mentions: Chock/Bates, Sui/Han, Da Bin Choi, Satoko Miyahara, Yuzuru Hanyu, Nathan Chen, Evgenia Medvedeva, Ashley Wagner

 

[babyskate]

Ice dance- Shibutani's , Tobias/Tkachenko

Pairs- Savchenko/Massot, Peng/Jin

Mens- Jason Brown, Nathan Chen, Yuzuru Hanyu

Ladies- Evgenia, Mai Mihara, Mirai Nagasu

USA 4
Japan 2
China 1
Germany 1
Russia 1
Israel 1

 

[DiamondDust]

PAIRS >>> Duhammel / Radford
James / Cipress

DANCE >>> Muramoto / Reed
Virtue / Moir

MEN >>> Yuzuru Hanyu
Jason Brown
Misha Ge

LADIES >>> Elizabet Tursynbaeva
Gabrielle Daleman
Anna Pogorilaya

Japan >>> 3
CANADA >>> 2
CHINA >>> 2
USA >>> 2
RUSSIS >>> 1

 

[el henry]

Well, you know it's just going to be one discipline, (and not in order, despite number one)

1. Jason Brown
2. Deniss Vasiljevs
3. Misha Ge
4. Nicolas Nadeau
5. Julian Yee
6. Many and varied American men

USA-2 (we'll count "all others" as a one)
Uzbekistan-1
Malaysia-1
Latvia-1
Canada-1

 

[SnowWhite]

Men
Nicolas Nadeau
Patrick Chan

Ladies
Kaetlyn Osmond
Evgenia Medvedeva
Ashley Wagner

Pairs
Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres

Ice Dance
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier
Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron

Canada- 6
France- 2
Russia- 1
USA- 1

I'm always rooting for Canadian skaters. I didn't want to leave Gabby Daleman off, but I didn't have room. I also really like all of Jason, Max and Adam (I don't dislike Nathan either). I haven't followed juniors super closely this season, so the list might change after I watch junior worlds.

 

[blackey]

Dance
Virtue/Moir
Lajoie/Lagha

ladies
Carolina Kostner
Mai Mihara
Marin Honda
Rika Kihira

Men
Nathan Chen
Nicolas Nadeau

Pairs
Peng/Jin
Sui/Han

JPN:3
CAN:3
CHN:2
USA:1
ITA:1

others can't fit into the list: Hawayek/Baker, Junhwan Cha, Vincent Zhou, Stephen Gogolev, Ilia Skirda, Dmitri Aliev
i might change my mind after the worlds..

 

[yuki]

My list is based on how much I enjoy their programs/skating this season, the order is random.

Pairs
Sui/Han
Savchenko/Massot

Dance
Papadakis/Cizeron
Shibutani/Shibutani

Ladies
Satoko Miyahara
Mao Asada (beautiful programs that we won't get to see at Worlds )
Anna Pogorilaya
Mai Mihara

Men
Yuzuru Hanyu
Shoma Uno

Japan: 5
China: 1
USA: 1
Germany: 1
France: 1
Russia: 1


Honorable mentions: Nathan Chen, Boyang Jin, Zijun Li, Mirai Nagasu, Gabrielle Daleman, James/Cipres, Peng/Jin
Honorable mentions - juniors: Jun-hwan Cha, Eun-soo Lim, Marin Honda, Polina Tsurskaya, Anastasia Gubanova

 

[ragdoll]

Hmmmm.... quite difficult to pick ten favourites.

Men:
Fernandez
Natan Chen
Hanyu
Kolyada

Ladies:

Medvedeva
Pogorilaya

Pairs:
Savchenko/Massot (high above all others)
Sui/Han

Dance:

Virtue/Moir
Papadakis/Ciceron

Russia: 3
Spain: 1
France: 1
Japan: 1
Germany: 1
China: 1
Canada: 1
USA: 1

 

[bobbob]

MEN
Nathan Chen (breakout season)
Yuzuru Hanyu (still the best!)

LADIES
Evgenia Medvedeva (not my favorite, but she gets it done)
Carolina Kostner (great comeback)

PAIRS
Sui/Han (amazing, never stop improving skating)
Savchenko/Massot (choreo/programs very special)
Tarasova/Morosov (breakout season technically)
Yu/Jin (great elements for such a short time together)

DANCE
Virtue/Moir (amazing return, back on top)
Papadakis/Cizeron (still very graceful, beautiful skating)

CHN 2
RUS 2
USA 1
ITA 1
FRA 1
CAN 1
Ger 1
JPN 1