GP Predictions Game Year 2 :)

[FlattFan]

Men
1. Patrick Chan CAN
2. Tatsuki Machida JPN
3. Nobunari Oda JPN
4. Yuzuru Hanyu JPN JPN
5. Han Yan CHN
6. Maxim Kovtun RUS

Ladies
1. Mao Asada JPN
2. Julia Lipnitskaia RUS
3. Elena Radionova RUS
4. Ashley Wagner USA
5. Anna Pogorilaya RUS
6. Adelina Sotnikova RUS

Pairs
1. Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov RUS
2. Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy GER
3. Qing Pang / Jian Tong CHN
4. Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch CAN
5. Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford CAN
6. Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang CHN

Ice Dance
1. Meryl Davis / Charlie White USA
2. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir CAN
3. Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje CAN
4. Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte ITA
5. Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat FRA
6. Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev RUS

 

[nipman]

GPF:
Men
1. Patrick Chan CAN
2. Tatsuki Machida JPN
3. Yuzuru Hanyu JPN JPN
4. Maxim Kovtun RUS
5. Han Yan CHN
6. Nobunari Oda JPN

Ladies
1. Mao Asada JPN
2. Julia Lipnitskaia RUS
3. Elena Radionova RUS
4. Ashley Wagner USA
5. Adelina Sotnikova RUS
6. Anna Pogorilaya RUS

Pairs
1. Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov RUS
2. Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy GER
3. Qing Pang / Jian Tong CHN
4. Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch CAN
5. Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford CAN
6. Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang CHN

Ice Dance
1. Meryl Davis / Charlie White USA
2. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir CAN
3. Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev RUS
4. Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte ITA
5. Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat FRA
6. Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje CAN

 

[Blades of Passion]

GPF:

Men
1. Patrick Chan CAN
2. Yuzuru Hanyu JPN
3. Tatsuki Machida JPN
4. Nobunari Oda JPN
5. Maxim Kovtun RUS
6. Han Yan CHN

Ladies
1. Mao Asada JPN
2. Julia Lipnitskaia RUS
3. Ashley Wagner USA
4. Elena Radionova RUS
5. Adelina Sotnikova RUS
6. Anna Pogorilaya RUS

Pairs
1. Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov RUS
2. Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy GER
3. Qing Pang / Jian Tong CHN
4. Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch CAN
5. Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford CAN
6. Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang CHN

Ice Dance
1. Meryl Davis / Charlie White USA
2. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir CAN
3. Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat FRA
4. Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje CAN
5. Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev RUS
6. Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte ITA

 

[aero]

Grand Prix Final:

EDIT: I had not realized that the GPF had already started, I was so used to the competitions beginning before Friday my time...

Men:
1. Patrick Chan
2. Yuzuru Hanyu
3. Tatsuki Machida
4. Nobunari Oda
5. Maxim Kovtun
6. Han Yan

Ladies:
1. Mao Asada
2. Julia Lipnitskaia
3. Ashley Wagner
4. Elena Radionova
5. Adelina Sotnikova
6. Anna Pogorilaya

Pairs:
1. Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov
2. Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy
3. Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch
4. Qing Pang/ Jian Tong
5. Meagan Duhamel/ Eric Radford
6. Cheng Peng/Hao Zhang

Dance:
1. Meryl Davis/Charlie White
2. Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir
3. Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje
4. Nathalie Pechelat/Fabian Bourzat
5. Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitri Sololiev
6. Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte

 

[sequinsgalore]

Mens is over. I only guessed Kovtun and Han's placement correct, but since 6th doesn't count, I only net 30 points...

 

[tulosai]

Mens is over. I only guessed Kovtun and Han's placement correct, but since 6th doesn't count, I only net 30 points...

Miraculously I have 3-6 correct. If only I'd switched Hanyu and Chan... but 90 points isn't bad I suppose... for men

 

[Mrs. P]

I'll score the rest later, but a quick scan shows that Becki has the highest score at 120. She got the top 4 but switched Han and Kovtun's placements. i will say there are a few members of the zero club this time around.

 

[tulosai]

I'll score the rest later, but a quick scan shows that Becki has the highest score at 120. She got the top 4 but switched Han and Kovtun's placements. i will say there are a few members of the zero club this time around.

It's all Chan's fault!

I have to say I haven't updated the spreadsheet and probably can't until Sunday. So for scorers, if you score before then, either feel free to update the spreadsheet yourself or, else keep track of the scores somewhere else for now. Sorry to have dropped the ball on this- real life is such a pain

 

[LRK]

I'll score the rest later, but a quick scan shows that Becki has the highest score at 120. She got the top 4 but switched Han and Kovtun's placements. i will say there are a few members of the zero club this time around.

Oddly enough - and thanks to Nobu - not me. It's especially funny as I put him up there... because I wanted him to do well. I mean, I thought he could - but primarily I had him 3rd because I like him, and wanted him to skate up to his potential. Well, who says favouritism is always bad? Meanwhile, the rest of my men's predictions is an utter and unmitigated mess - but then, I knew that!

 

[Becki]

I'll score the rest later, but a quick scan shows that Becki has the highest score at 120. She got the top 4 but switched Han and Kovtun's placements. i will say there are a few members of the zero club this time around.

Yes, my "persistence" in placing Yuzuru first against all odds paid off!

 

[Gia_Sesshoumaru]

I'm a member of the 0 club for the men. I may get one or two in the others, but I pretty much sucked all the way around. (Did anyone predict that Savchenko/Szolkowvy would beat Volosozhar/Trankov?)

 

[Macassar88]

Wow a 30 was a good score for the men

 

[tulosai]

Dance is up. rosacotton got a perfect score. 3 people are in the zero club. Most people got either 60 or 90 points. No one but rosacotton got higher than 90.

Mean of 67.5

 

[rosacotton]

Dance is up. rosacotton got a perfect score. 3 people are in the zero club. Most people got either 60 or 90 points. No one but rosacotton got higher than 90.

Mean of 67.5

WHAT!?! A perfect score... Well, this helps me feel not as bad about totally bombing the pairs and getting a 30 in the mens.

And many thanks to tulosai and company for running the prediction game!! I had a blast.

 

[Mrs. P]

Okay, it's been a long Grand Prix series...especially if you were trying to predict the men! But alas, the judging is done and all the scores are in!

The Grand Prix final proved to be a game changer in the men. The winner, as noted earlier, is Becki, who correctly predicted four out of five placements. Several others got 90 including waxel, tulosai, candy clouds , colleen o'neil and sky_fly20.

The mean score was 53.4.

And now here are our men's division top scorers. Congrats! arty:

GOLD: waxel, 360 points
SILVER: Becki, 340 points (She came from behind like her favorite skater (Yuzuru) and got on the medal stand with a whopping 22-placement jump!)
BRONZE: tulosai, 335 points (Another come from behind, 10 spots!)
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4th: Blades of Passion, 325
5th: colleen o'neil, 320
6th: koatcue, 305
7th: sequinsgalore, 300
8th: rosacotton, 295
9th: Wilhelmina, 290
10th (tie!): Candy clouds, Macassar88 and Mrs. P (that's me!) 285

It's been fun, everyone!

 

[Macassar88]

Thanks to everyone who scored! I did it last year when I was running everything, and it was a pain to do.

Are we going to do Euros and 4CC and Olympics and Worlds?

 

[HR4]

Could anyone explain me why do I have 0 for men in GPF?
It might not decide anything anymore, but kind of pity to see

 

[LRK]

Okay, it's been a long Grand Prix series...especially if you were trying to predict the men! But alas, the judging is done and all the scores are in!

Indeed, Mrs P! The Impossible Quest remained Impossible, I believe - no one got 5/5... ever, did they? So a big to those who did 4/5! And to the top scorers overall, of course! Well, I hope we will do this again next year, and then, I think, I'll try to remember to remind everyone to always "believe six impossible things before breakfast" as training for pinning down those pesky men's predictions - and, if it doesn't help, it can never be wrong!

Meanwhile, thanks to all the scorers for wonderful work done! This has been really fun, and I do really hope we'll all get together next year for another prediction game!

 

[Li'Kitsu]

And the ladies coem next!

We had quite a few posters who had the top5 correct: aero, Blades of Passion, burntBREAD, Candy Clouds, FSGMT, guenever, LRK, zamboni step and 96skiluvr! Congrats to all of you

So here all the overall standings for the Ladies event:

1.) Blades of Passion - 480
2.) zamboni step - 475
3.) aero - 465
4.) LRK - 455
5.) FSGMT & guenever - 450
7.) Li'Kitsu - 405
8.) Bea - 395
9.) Candy Clouds - 390
10.) Becki, burntBREAD, elif & rosacotton - 380
14.) Macassar88, sky_fly20, Tulosai & Wilhelmina - 375
18.) CaroLiza_Fan & Poice - 370
20.) Coriana - 365
21.) nipman - 360
22.) koatcue & sequinsgalore - 355
24.) HR4 - 340
25.) Gia_Sesshoumaru - 335
26.) jChamp - 330
27.) Mrs.P - 325
28.) FlattFan - 320
29.) colleen o'neil - 305
30.) waxel & Ilek - 300
32.) Mentalopes - 295
33.) merrywidow & museksk8r - 290
35.) snowflake - 285
36.) coolboogie22 - 225

The list includes everyone who continued until CoR (at least I hope it does!). Hope you all had fun

 

[LRK]

Aaaaaaaagh! 4th?! Really! Good heavens above... (faints - picks up self from floor) Good grief! I'm flabbergasted... It must have been the GPF that did it, then... Goodness gracious... I just recently checked my predictions against the ladies' results - I haven't watched the ladies yet, so was avoiding the results, but curiosity got the better of me... My first and only 5/5, I think... That was stunning enough, but... wow! (stunned & silenced with shock)