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Soooo happy we get to see Gracie! And Finland getting a spot is a refreshing change.
2018-2019 GP Assignments
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MEN
USA:
Two Spots:
- Nathan Chen
- Vincent Zhou
- Jason Brown
- Alexei Krasnozhon
One Spot:
- Alexander Johnson
Japan:
Two Spots:
- Shoma Uno
- Yuzuru Hanyu
- Kazuki Tomono
- Keiji Tanaka
One Spot:
- Hiroki Sato
Canada:
Two Spots:
- Keagan Messing
One Spot:
- Nam Nguyen
- Roman Sadovsky
- Kevin Reynolds
- Nicholas Nadeau
Russia:
Two Spots:
- Sergei Voronov
- Alexander Samarin
- Alexei Erokhov
- Mikhail Kolyada
- Dmitri Aliev
One Spot:
- Andrei Lazukin
- Artur Dmitriev
Other Countries:
Two Spots:
- Jorik Hendrickx
- Michal Brezina
- Romain Ponsart
- Alexei Bychenko
- Morisi Kvitelashivi
- Matteo Rizzo
- Alexander Majorov
- Boyang Jin
- Deniss Vasiljevs
One Spot:
- Julian Zhi Jie Yee
- Brendan Kerry
- Kevin Aymoz
- Daniel Samohin
- Juhnwan Cha
- Philip Harris
- June Hyoung Lee
- Yaroslov Paniot
- Paul Fentz
- Maurizio Zandron
- Denis Ten
- Chafik Besseghier
USA:
Two Spots:
- Nathan Chen
- Vincent Zhou
- Jason Brown
- Alexei Krasnozhon
One Spot:
- Alexander Johnson
Japan:
Two Spots:
- Shoma Uno
- Yuzuru Hanyu
- Kazuki Tomono
- Keiji Tanaka
One Spot:
- Hiroki Sato
Canada:
Two Spots:
- Keagan Messing
One Spot:
- Nam Nguyen
- Roman Sadovsky
- Kevin Reynolds
- Nicholas Nadeau
Russia:
Two Spots:
- Sergei Voronov
- Alexander Samarin
- Alexei Erokhov
- Mikhail Kolyada
- Dmitri Aliev
One Spot:
- Andrei Lazukin
- Artur Dmitriev
Other Countries:
Two Spots:
- Jorik Hendrickx
- Michal Brezina
- Romain Ponsart
- Alexei Bychenko
- Morisi Kvitelashivi
- Matteo Rizzo
- Alexander Majorov
- Boyang Jin
- Deniss Vasiljevs
One Spot:
- Julian Zhi Jie Yee
- Brendan Kerry
- Kevin Aymoz
- Daniel Samohin
- Juhnwan Cha
- Philip Harris
- June Hyoung Lee
- Yaroslov Paniot
- Paul Fentz
- Maurizio Zandron
- Denis Ten
- Chafik Besseghier
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Skate Canada International handicapping:
Men: This is even more favourable to Shoma than SA is for Nathan. The real action is for second place (Keegan, Kazuki and Jason would all seem to be strong candidates).
Ladies: Battle royale! Evgenia should win this, assuming she's healthy, but the podium as a whole has innumerable possible configurations based on the attendees.
Pairs: I guess James and Cipres are the de facto frontrunners, though their competition record is not so formidable as to rule out a few others winning.
Dance: Hubbell and Donohue would go in as the favourites, Gilles and Poirier should be good for second place as long as they don't mess up. Fingers crossed for Soucisse and Firus to have a good showing.
Men: This is even more favourable to Shoma than SA is for Nathan. The real action is for second place (Keegan, Kazuki and Jason would all seem to be strong candidates).
Ladies: Battle royale! Evgenia should win this, assuming she's healthy, but the podium as a whole has innumerable possible configurations based on the attendees.
Pairs: I guess James and Cipres are the de facto frontrunners, though their competition record is not so formidable as to rule out a few others winning.
Dance: Hubbell and Donohue would go in as the favourites, Gilles and Poirier should be good for second place as long as they don't mess up. Fingers crossed for Soucisse and Firus to have a good showing.
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So many random assignemnts but all exciting!! Quick random thoughts:
Men:
*Yee, Lee, Aymoz, Reynolds, Zandron , Paniot, Fentz, Harris , Erokhov and Lazukin beneffited from the post olympic retirements.
*Denis Ten still competing! only 1 event though
*Nothing outraging here but I wish Kerry had 2 events and Carrillo and Hayrapetyan were invited. I think every skater that made the LP at Worlds should get 1 event at the least.
Ladies:
*Full rosters for RUS and JPN !!!
* Rika Hongo is the only single skater from the Top SB/WS lists to only get 1 event
*Samodurova debuting right away
* NO more Perkova
*Shiraiwa sneaking in!
*FIN only using 1 spot!!:wall: This is their best discipline and a huge opportunity wasted.
*Hicks and Wang getting reaaally lucky
*Happy for Gracie making a comeback.
*Lots of OES skaters missing but that's a consequence of the JPN/RUS dominance.
Pairs:
*No more Marchei/Hotarek
*Where the hell are Stolbova and Klimov !
*US Pairs benefitting big time from all the retirements.
*TBD FIN pairs spot?? For who???
*Esbrat/Novoselov only team on the SB/WS lists only getting 1 event.
Dance:
*No more Cappellini/Lanotte and Coomes/Buckland . They will be missed.
*RUS inviting the armenian team not checking first they have already split!
*Lots of lesser ranked teams making their debuts: Muller/Dieck, both young GB teams, Yanovskaya/Lukacs, Reed/Ambrulevicius.
*Carreira/Ponomarenko making their senior jump already. Ambitious.
Men:
*Yee, Lee, Aymoz, Reynolds, Zandron , Paniot, Fentz, Harris , Erokhov and Lazukin beneffited from the post olympic retirements.
*Denis Ten still competing! only 1 event though
*Nothing outraging here but I wish Kerry had 2 events and Carrillo and Hayrapetyan were invited. I think every skater that made the LP at Worlds should get 1 event at the least.
Ladies:
*Full rosters for RUS and JPN !!!
* Rika Hongo is the only single skater from the Top SB/WS lists to only get 1 event
*Samodurova debuting right away
* NO more Perkova
*Shiraiwa sneaking in!
*FIN only using 1 spot!!:wall: This is their best discipline and a huge opportunity wasted.
*Hicks and Wang getting reaaally lucky
*Happy for Gracie making a comeback.
*Lots of OES skaters missing but that's a consequence of the JPN/RUS dominance.
Pairs:
*No more Marchei/Hotarek
*Where the hell are Stolbova and Klimov !
*US Pairs benefitting big time from all the retirements.
*TBD FIN pairs spot?? For who???
*Esbrat/Novoselov only team on the SB/WS lists only getting 1 event.
Dance:
*No more Cappellini/Lanotte and Coomes/Buckland . They will be missed.
*RUS inviting the armenian team not checking first they have already split!
*Lots of lesser ranked teams making their debuts: Muller/Dieck, both young GB teams, Yanovskaya/Lukacs, Reed/Ambrulevicius.
*Carreira/Ponomarenko making their senior jump already. Ambitious.
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All I want is for the hyper-inflation to stop...
The scores tend to deflate at the start of an Olympic cycle. Plus the new scoring changes will probably result in lower scores.
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My reaction to the men's assignments:
SA: Good for Nathan. With two strong programs Vincent could be dangerous, but if Nathan doesn't mess up entirely, he should win here.
SC: Shoma Vs. Jason. I'm looking forward to this duel. It's been the same last year, no?
Finland: Yuzu, Boyang, Kolyada. That makes me sentimental: Yuzus first competition under Brian Orser was in Finland, too, with Javi as his older buddy. Now it's Boyang's term as a TCC newbie with Yuzu in the 'mentor'-role
NHK: Shoma, Vincent, Aliev. Shouldn't be a Problem for Shoma, but that silver streak...
COR: Yuzu, Messing, Dmitriev. 4A festival? Plus Kolyada. He might be the lucky winner of that debut race
IDF: Freaky line-up :shocked: Nathan, Boyang, Jason, Aliev. Good luck everyone.
SA: Good for Nathan. With two strong programs Vincent could be dangerous, but if Nathan doesn't mess up entirely, he should win here.
SC: Shoma Vs. Jason. I'm looking forward to this duel. It's been the same last year, no?
Finland: Yuzu, Boyang, Kolyada. That makes me sentimental: Yuzus first competition under Brian Orser was in Finland, too, with Javi as his older buddy. Now it's Boyang's term as a TCC newbie with Yuzu in the 'mentor'-role
NHK: Shoma, Vincent, Aliev. Shouldn't be a Problem for Shoma, but that silver streak...
COR: Yuzu, Messing, Dmitriev. 4A festival? Plus Kolyada. He might be the lucky winner of that debut race
IDF: Freaky line-up :shocked: Nathan, Boyang, Jason, Aliev. Good luck everyone.
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Even if Jason can start getting a quad over the summer, I can't imagine he'd be in a shape to beat Shoma by SCI.SC: Shoma Vs. Jason. I'm looking forward to this duel. It's been the same last year, no?
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The only Finnish pair that might even exist is Efimenko / Penasse, I don't think there are any other possibilities...? Finland skipped the Finnish championship pair event for 2018 because there were 0 pairs participating.
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Grand Prix Finland handicapping:
Men: We'll see if Hanyu can finally break the streak. If he can't, I'd favour Jin over Kolyada, but either is a realistic possibility.
Ladies: Alina, barring something weird. We'll see if any of the other ladies can overcome Carolina's huge PCS to take second place.
Pairs: Sui/Han in a walk, assuming Wenjing's in good health.
Dance: We'll see if Stepanova and Bukin can generate some momentum to overtake Chock and Bates, the default favourites.
Men: We'll see if Hanyu can finally break the streak. If he can't, I'd favour Jin over Kolyada, but either is a realistic possibility.
Ladies: Alina, barring something weird. We'll see if any of the other ladies can overcome Carolina's huge PCS to take second place.
Pairs: Sui/Han in a walk, assuming Wenjing's in good health.
Dance: We'll see if Stepanova and Bukin can generate some momentum to overtake Chock and Bates, the default favourites.
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OMG!
YES
(I thought it should be Korea, but if they don't want it, I am happy to have it near me in a country that loves the sport)
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Is it just me, or does Keegan have quite a good shot at medaling, and maybe even a fair chance of the final? Maybe those 4A videos yesterday just got me overhyped, but I could easily see him in silver behind Shoma and Yuzuru at his events. Considering the uphill fight that Gabby has at hers, dare I start pinning my Team Canada hopes on Keegan for the home turf GPF?
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Kolyada should easily take on Keegan in Russia unless he completely blacks out again
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Any bets who will get the invite to Skate Canada... the one that get´s better result in senior B?
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