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Withdrawals, Replacements, and Alternates

GF2445

Record Breaker
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Feb 7, 2012
This is the page to post Grand Prix Series Withdrawals and Replacements.
You can also put down your alternates list and predict who will gain the remaining TBD. spots.
 

SnowWhite

Record Breaker
Joined
Nov 30, 2016
Country
Canada
TBD men's spot in Canada should be between Nam Nguyen, Nicolas Nadeau and Kevin Reynolds. I'd guess probably one of the first two, but I don't know for sure. Last year, Nadeau got it with the highest summer comp score. Nguyen and Nadeau are both at Minto Summer Skater at the end of July.

TBD US men's I'd guess would go to Timothy Dolensky, or maybe a 2nd spot for Alex Johnson. There are other possibilities, but those two seem most likely.
TBD US ladies will depend on summer results. Amber Glenn is a possibility, or a 2nd spot for Angela Wang. They could also give it to Gracie, if she wants it.
TBD US dance spot should be either Aldridge/Eaton or Manta/Johnson. They'll look at summer results from Lake Placid probably.
TBD US pairs spot has several possibilities: Stellato/Bartholomay (would be a 2nd spot for them), Lu/Mitrofanov (new senior team), Pfund/Santillan, Calalang/Johnson (new team), Serafini/Tran (not sure if this team is official yet). Not sure what they'll do, although I could see it being Stellato/Bartholomay most likely.

Don't really know the Finnish scene, other than that the 1 ladies spot will likely be between Viveca Lindfors and Emmi Peltonen. Valtter Virtanen for the men's spot I guess?

TBD NHK ladies spot I think will go to Rika Kihira. Not sure about the men's spot.

TBD ladies spot in Russia I'd guess is between Sofia Samodurova, Anastasia Gubanova and Anna Pogorilaya, though they could go a bit off the board too. Gubanova has the more politically powerful coach.
TBD dance spot at CoR, I think either Shpilevaya/Smirnov (I hope) or maybe a new team (if Drozd has a new partner or something).

Not sure who France is likely to go with for the ladies spot. As for the men, the obvious choice is Kevin Aymoz, but I'm not sure why they didn't just name him outright. So who knows what Didier will do.
TBD IdF dance spot should be one of the new teams (unless Lagouge/Rahier move up, they could be considered too). That world by Wagret/Souquet or Galayavieva/Thauron.
 
Joined
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Russia
GP Entries, Ladies

5 of TBD spots are free, only Canada filled all three spots.
Japan and Russia filled all their possible spots, 3 entries at any Event except home, 2 entries and TBD at home Events.
Finland filled 2 entries by foreign skaters, third TBD.

Entries of GP Events, in order of Season Best.
Legend:
Place in SB List, SB, Name, Nation, (W,S) means (W top12 at Worlds, S top24 at World Standing), 1 to 6 - events, 1 USA, 2 CAN, 3 FIN, 4 JPN, 5 RUS, 6 FRA.
1 239.57 Alina ZAGITOVA RUS (W,S) 3 5
2 238.26 Evgenia MEDVEDEVA (S) RUS 2 6
(3 Osmond does not pretend, 4 Trusova not age eligible)
5 222.38 Satoko MIYAHARA JPN (W,S) 1 4
6 217.63 Wakaba HIGUCHI JPN (W,S) 2 5
7 216.28 Maria SOTSKOVA RUS (W,S) 4 6
8 215.98 Carolina KOSTNER (W,S) ITA 3 6
9 214.21 Kaori SAKAMOTO JPN (S) 1 3
10 210.57 Mai MIHARA JPN (S) 4 6
11 210.19 Polina TSURSKAYA RUS 1 5
(12 Kostornaia not age eligible)
13 206.82 Elena RADIONOVA RUS 1 4
14 204.10 Bradie TENNELL USA (W,S) 1 6
15 200.98 Elizabet TURSYNBAEVA (W,S) KAZ 2 5
16 199.68 Stanislava KONSTANTINOVA (S) RUS 3 6
(17 Tarakanova not age eligible)
18 199.26 Dabin CHOI KOR (S) 2 4
19 198.42 Marin HONDA JPN (S) 1 6
20 196.83 Gabrielle DALEMAN CAN (W,S) 2 4
21 196.68 Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA RUS (S) 2 4
22 196.55 Daria PANENKOVA RUS 2 3
23 195.56 Yura MATSUDA JPN 2 5
24 195.17 Mako YAMASHITA JPN 2 5
(25 Nagasu does not pretend)
26 193.18 Yuna SHIRAIWA JPN 3
27 192.45 Rika KIHIRA JPN 6
28 192.31 Loena HENDRICKX BEL (W,S) 1 3
29 192.19 Sofia SAMODUROVA RUS 1
(30 Leonova - all possible spots for Russian Ladies are distributed yet)
31 189.98 Rika HONGO JPN (S) 3 (only one Event because all possible spots for Japanese Ladies are distributed yet)
(32 Sakhanovich - all possible spots for Russian Ladies are distributed yet)
33 188.56 Mariah BELL USA (W,S) 2 4
34 186.34 Eunsoo LIM KOR 5
35 185.65 Karen CHEN USA (S) 3 5
(36 Mikhailova 37 Yokoi - all possible spots for Russian and Japanese Ladies are distributed yet, 38 Wagner does not pretend)
39 183.85 Angela WANG USA 4
(40 Nana Araki - all possible spots for Japanese Ladies are distributed yet)
41 182.57 Courtney HICKS USA 4
47 175.19 Nicole RAJICOVA SVK (S) 1 3
48 174.82 Xiangning LI CHN 4
50 174.13 Nicole SCHOTT GER (W,S) 3 5
51 173.23 Laurine LECAVELIER FRA (W,S) 1 6
52 172.65 Starr ANDREWS USA 1
54 172.41 Alaine CHARTRAND CAN 2
55 171.40 Mae Berenice MEITE FRA 6
62 167.01 Matilda ALGOTSSON SWE 6
66 161.62 Alexia PAGANINI SUI 5
125 136.82 Larkyn AUSTMAN CAN 2
- Gracie GOLD USA 5

We see - all Top 24 of Season Best and/or World Standing have two Events (except Rika Hongo, lack of spots).
All who are not at Top24 of Season Best and/or World Standing - one Event. They are substitutes and pretenders to TBD home spot.

Xiangning LI CHN will be at 1st USA Event as pair skater, 4th JPN Event as single skater.
 
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Russia
GP Entries, Men

5 of TBD spots are free, only Russia filled all three spots.
No domination of any nation as Japan and Russia in Ladies.
Finland filled 2 entries by foreign skaters, third TBD.

Entries of GP Events, in order of Season Best.
Legend:
Place in SB List, SB, Name, Nation, (W,S) means (W top12 at Worlds, S top24 at World Standing), 1 to 6 - events, 1 USA, 2 CAN, 3 FIN, 4 JPN, 5 RUS, 6 FRA.
1 321.40 Nathan CHEN USA (W,S) 1 6
2 319.84 Shoma UNO JPN (W,S) 2 4
3 317.85 Yuzuru HANYU JPN (S) 3 5
5 300.95 Boyang JIN CHN (S) 3 6
6 282.00 Mikhail KOLYADA RUS (W,S) 3 5
7 276.69 Vincent ZHOU USA (W,S) 1 4
8 274.06 Dmitri ALIEV RUS (W,S) 4 6
9 271.12 Sergei VORONOV RUS (S) 1 4
10 269.22 Jason BROWN USA (S) 2 6
14 260.31 Keiji TANAKA JPN (W,S) 3 6
16 258.28 Alexei BYCHENKO ISR (W,S) 1 3
17 256.11 Kazuki TOMONO JPN (W,S) 2 5
18 255.43 Keegan MESSING CAN (W,S) 2 5
19 254.86 Deniss VASILJEVS LAT (W,S) 4 6
21 253.13 Alexander SAMARIN RUS (S) 2 6
22 253.06 Jorik HENDRICKX BEL (S) 1 3
23 251.44 Daniel SAMOHIN ISR 2 6
24 250.26 Morisi KVITELASHVILI GEO (S) 1 5
25 248.59 Junhwan CHA KOR 2
27 246.07 Michal BREZINA CZE (W) 1 3
28 245.21 Nam NGUYEN CAN 1
29 241.50 Kevin REYNOLDS CAN 4
31 237.79 Alexander MAJOROV SWE (W,S) 2 5
32 236.35 Alexei KRASNOZHON USA (S) 3 5
33 233.81 Brendan KERRY AUS 2
35 233.16 Yaroslav PANIOT UKR 4
36 232.98 Matteo RIZZO ITA (S) 1 4
37 232.79 Alexey EROKHOV RUS (1st at JrWorlds) 3 5
38 230.92 Paul FENTZ GER 5
39 229.74 Artur DMITRIEV RUS 5 (home spot)
40 229.43 Nicolas NADEAU CAN 6
41 229.20 Romain PONSART FRA 1 6
42 228.81 Denis TEN KAZ 5
44 226.04 Alexander JOHNSON USA 4
47 224.75 Andrei LAZUKIN RUS 3
48 222.89 June Hyoung LEE KOR 4
50 220.67 Julian Zhi Jie YEE MAS 1
52 220.43 Kevin AYMOZ FRA 2
60 211.17 Chafik BESSEGHIER FRA 6 (home spot)
63 208.22 Phillip HARRIS GBR 3
67 205.03 Maurizio ZANDRON ITA 5
73 200.10 Roman SADOVSKY CAN 2 (home spot)
75 199.20 Hiroaki SATO JPN 4 (home spot)

We see - all Top 24 of Season Best and/or World Standing have two Events, and Top 12 of Worlds too.
All who are not at Top24 of Season Best and/or World Standing - one Event (except EROKHOV, PONSART and Julian Zhi Jie YEE - two Events). They are substitutes and pretenders to TBD home spot.
 
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Russia
GP Entries, Pairs

Only 2 of TBD are free, USA and Finland.

Entries of GP Events, in order of Season Best.
Legend:
Place in SB List, SB, Name, Nation, (W,S) means (W top10 at Worlds, S top24 at World Standing), 1 to 6 - events, 1 USA, 2 CAN, 3 FIN, 4 JPN, 5 RUS, 6 FRA.
(don't pretend - means retired or skip GP this season, WD - withdrawn)
(1 Savchenko / Massot - don't pretend)
(2 235.47 Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN CHN (S) 3 4) WD
(3 Duhamel /Radford - don't pretend)
4 225.53 Evgenia TARASOVA / Vladimir MOROZOV RUS (W,S) 1 5
(5 Stolbova /Klimov - don't pretend)
(6 219.20 Xiaoyu YU / Hao ZHANG CHN (W,S) 1 6) WD
7 218.53 Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES FRA (W,S) 2 6
(8 Marchei / Hotarek - don't pretend)
9 212.88 Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT RUS (W,S) 3 4
10 206.06 Nicole DELLA MONICA / Matteo GUARISE ITA (W,S) 3 5
11 204.33 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Michael MARINARO CAN (W,S) 2 4
(12 204.02 Julianne SEGUIN / Charlie BILODEAU CAN (S) 3 6) WD split
(13 Astakhova / Rogonov - don't pretend)
14 202.07 Cheng PENG / Yang JIN CHN (W,S) 2 4
15 194.42 Tarah KAYNE / Danny O'SHEA USA (S) 4 6
16 193.63 Tae Ok RYOM / Ju Sik KIM (W) PRK 3 6
(17 Ilyushechkna / Moskovich - don't pretend)
18 192.51 Alexa SCIMECA KNIERIM / Chris KNIERIM USA (S) 1 4
19 191.58 Aleksandra BOIKOVA / Dmitrii KOZLOVSKII RUS (S) 2 6
20 190.61 Ashley CAIN / Timothy LEDUC USA (S) 1 5
21 190.31 Ekaterina ALEXANDROVSKAYA / Harley WINDSOR AUS (S) 2 5
(22 Duskova / Bidar - split)
23 184.83 Annika HOCKE / Ruben BLOMMAERT GER (W) 1 4
24 184.30 Miriam ZIEGLER / Severin KIEFER AUT (W,S) 3 5
(25 Liu /Johnson ?)
26 180.53 Daria PAVLIUCHENKO / Denis KHODYKIN RUS (1st at JrWorlds) 3 5
27 178.38 Deanna STELLATO / Nathan BARTHOLOMAY USA 5
(28 Castelli / Tran - split)
(29 Panfilova / Rylov - probably JGP)
30 172.95 Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER USA (S) 2 6
(31 Conners / Krasnopolski - split)
32 171.22 Alisa EFIMOVA / Alexander KOROVIN RUS 1 5
33 169.11 Camille RUEST / Andrew WOLFE CAN 2
35 167.72 Minerva Fabienne HASE / Nolan SEEGERT GER 1
40 160.47 Lola ESBRAT / Andrei NOVOSELOV FRA (S) 6 (home spot) split?
42 158.96 Evelyn WALSH / Trennt MICHAUD CAN 2 (home spot)
44 157.27 Miu SUZAKI / Ryuichi KIHARA JPN 4 (home spot)
- Xiangning LI / Zhong XIE CHN (S) 1 - remark split pair, Zhong XIE with other partner was at Top24 of World Standing.
 
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Andrea82

Medalist
Joined
Feb 16, 2014
Don't really know the Finnish scene, other than that the 1 ladies spot will likely be between Viveca Lindfors and Emmi Peltonen. Valtter Virtanen for the men's spot I guess?

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I guess Ice Dance is Juulia TURKKILA / Matthias VERSLUIS or Monica LINDFORS / Juho PIRINEN.
T/V scored better last season. They recently met face to face at Bavarian Open 2018 and T/V scored 139 points to 129 for L/P
 

haribobo

On the Ice
Joined
Jan 22, 2004
Looking at those with one or no assignments for the alternate list

LADIES

The only top 50 SB ladies not from RUS or JPN (who both maxed out their spots) and probably not doing JGP are-

1. Eunsoo Lim - 34
2. Angela Wang- 39
3. Courtney Hicks- 41
4. Hanul Kim- 46
5. X. Li- 48
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continuing down the list past top 50-
6. Starr Andrews - 52
7. Emmy Ma- 53
8. Alaine Chartrand- 54
9. Mae Berenice Meite - 55
10. R Kasakake/C Zhang/S H An/Craine- 56-59
(not sure which of #10 are still competing)

Russians who can fill in for other Russians-
29 - Samodurova
30- Leonova
32- Sakhanovich
36- Mikhailova

Japanese who can fill in for other Japanese-
26- Shiraiwa
27- Kihira
31- Hongo
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MEN
1. Jun-Hwan Cha- 25
2. Nam Nguyen- 28
3. Kevin Reynolds- 29
4. Brendan Kerry- 33
5. Yaroslav Paniot- 35
6. Paul Fentz- 38
7. Artur Dmitriev- 39
8. Nic Nadeau- 40
9. Denis Ten- 42
10. Alex Johnson- 44

PAIRS
1. Stellato/Bartholomay- 27
2. Ruest/Wolfe- 33
3. Hase/Seegert- 35
4. Esbrat/Novoselov- 40
5. Lu/Mitrofanov- 41
6. Walsh/Michaud- 42
7. Pfund/Santillan- 43
8. Suzaki/Kihara- 44
 
Joined
Jul 30, 2012
Country
Russia
GP Entries, Dance

4 TBD spots, all except Canada and Japan.

Entries of GP Events, in order of Season Best.
Legend:
Place in SB List, SB, Name, Nation, (W,S) means (W top10 at Worlds, S top24 at World Standing), 1 to 6 - events, 1 USA, 2 CAN, 3 FIN, 4 JPN, 5 RUS, 6 FRA.
1 207.20 Gabriella PAPADAKIS / Guillaume CIZERON FRA (W,S) 4 6
3 196.64 Madison HUBBELL / Zachary DONOHUE USA (W,S) 1 2
7 187.28 Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES USA (W,S) 3 5
9 186.10 Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER CAN (W,S) 2 6
10 184.86 Alexandra STEPANOVA / Ivan BUKIN RUS (W,S) 3 5
11 180.42 Tiffani ZAGORSKI / Jonathan GUERREIRO RUS (W,S) 1 4
12 178.44 Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI ITA (W,S) 1 3
13 177.15 Victoria SINITSINA / Nikita KATSALAPOV RUS 2 6
15 174.29 Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER USA (W,S) 4 6
16 168.58 Natalia KALISZEK / Maksym SPODYRIEV POL (S) 1 5
17 168.33 Sara HURTADO / Kirill KHALIAVIN ESP 3 5
18 164.96 Carolane SOUCISSE / Shane FIRUS CAN 2 4
20 164.38 Kana MURAMOTO / Chris REED JPN (W,S) 4 5
21 164.07 Betina POPOVA / Sergey MOZGOV RUS 3 6
22 163.14 Rachel PARSONS / Michael PARSONS USA (S) 4 6
24 162.05 Olivia SMART / Adrian DIAZ ESP (W,S) 2 6
25 160.88 Alexandra NAZAROVA / Maxim NIKITIN UKR (S) 1 4
26 160.51 Lorraine MCNAMARA / Quinn CARPENTER USA (S) 1 3
27 159.64 Marie-Jade LAURIAULT / Romain LE GAC FRA (S) 2 6
28 158.21 Shiyue WANG / Xinyu LIU CHN (S) 2 4
32 155.15 Anastasia SKOPTCOVA / Kirill ALESHIN RUS (S,1st at JrWorlds) 2 4
34 152.00 Yura MIN / Alexander GAMELIN KOR 1
35 151.76 Christina CARREIRA / Anthony PONOMARENKO USA (S) 3 5
36 150.46 Lilah FEAR / Lewis GIBSON GBR 1
38 150.28 Sofia EVDOKIMOVA / Egor BAZIN RUS 5
39 150.14 Katharina MÜLLER / Tim DIECK GER 1
42 148.69 Anna YANOVSKAYA / Adam LUKACS HUN 5
43 148.30 Allison REED / Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS LTU 6
45 145.60 Cecilia TÖRN / Jussiville PARTANEN FIN 3 (home spot)
46 143.82 Robynne TWEEDALE / Joseph BUCKLAND GBR 2
48 143.44 Cortney MANSOUROVA / Michal CESKA CZE 3
52 140.98 Tina GARABEDIAN / Simon PROULX SENECAL ARM 5
55 139.48 Haley SALES / Nikolas WAMSTEEKER CAN 2 (home spot)
58 138.18 Misato KOMATSUBARA / Tim KOLETO JPN 4 (home spot)

We see - all Top24 of World Standing and Season Best got two spots, others one.
 
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surimi

Congrats to Sota, #10 in World Standings!
Record Breaker
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Nov 12, 2013
GP Entries, Pairs

Only 2 of TBD are free, USA and Finland.

Entries of GP Events, in order of Season Best.
Legend:
Place in SB List, SB, Name, Nation, (W,S) means (W top10 at Worlds, S top24 at World Standing), 1 to 6 - events, 1 USA, 2 CAN, 3 FIN, 4 JPN, 5 RUS, 6 FRA.
(don't pretend - means retired or skip GP this season)
(1 Savchenko / Massot - don't pretend)
2 235.47 Wenjing SUI / Cong HAN CHN (S) 3 4
(3 Duhamel /Radford - don't pretend)
4 225.53 Evgenia TARASOVA / Vladimir MOROZOV RUS (W,S) 1 5
(5 Stolbova /Klimov - don't pretend)
6 219.20 Xiaoyu YU / Hao ZHANG CHN (W,S) 1 6
7 218.53 Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES FRA (W,S) 2 6
(8 Marchei / Hotarek - don't pretend)
9 212.88 Natalia ZABIIAKO / Alexander ENBERT RUS (W,S) 3 4
10 206.06 Nicole DELLA MONICA / Matteo GUARISE ITA (W,S) 3 5
11 204.33 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Michael MARINARO CAN (W,S) 2 4
12 204.02 Julianne SEGUIN / Charlie BILODEAU CAN (S) 3 6
(13 Astakhova / Rogonov - don't pretend)
14 202.07 Cheng PENG / Yang JIN CHN (W,S) 2 4
15 194.42 Tarah KAYNE / Danny O'SHEA USA (S) 4 6
16 193.63 Tae Ok RYOM / Ju Sik KIM (W) PRK 3 6
(17 Ilyushechkna / Moskovich - don't pretend)
18 192.51 Alexa SCIMECA KNIERIM / Chris KNIERIM USA (S) 1 4
19 191.58 Aleksandra BOIKOVA / Dmitrii KOZLOVSKII RUS (S) 2 6
20 190.61 Ashley CAIN / Timothy LEDUC USA (S) 1 5
21 190.31 Ekaterina ALEXANDROVSKAYA / Harley WINDSOR (S) 2 5
(22 Duskova / Bidar - prefer JGP?)
23 184.83 Annika HOCKE / Ruben BLOMMAERT GER (W) 1 4
24 184.30 Miriam ZIEGLER / Severin KIEFER AUT (W,S) 3 5
(25 Liu /Johnson ?)
26 180.53 Daria PAVLIUCHENKO / Denis KHODYKIN RUS (1st at JrWorlds) 3 5
27 178.38 Deanna STELLATO / Nathan BARTHOLOMAY USA 5
(28 Castelli / Tran - ?)
(29 Panfilova / Rylov - probably JGP)
30 172.95 Haven DENNEY / Brandon FRAZIER USA (S) 2 6
(31 Conners / Krasnopolski - ?)
32 171.22 Alisa EFIMOVA / Alexander KOROVIN RUS 1 5
33 169.11 Camille RUEST / Andrew WOLFE CAN 2
40 160.47 Lola ESBRAT / Andrei NOVOSELOV FRA (S) 6 (home spot)
42 158.96 Evelyn WALSH / Trennt MICHAUD CAN 2 (home spot)
44 157.27 Miu SUZAKI / Ryuichi KIHARA JPN 4 (home spot)
- Xiangning LI / Zhong XIE CHN (S) 1 - remark split pair, Zhong XIE with other partner was at Top24 of World Standing.

Thanks for the list! Re. your notes, Castelli/Tran split, as did Duskova/Bidar; they won't be on the GP circuit for sure. Any info on who the next in line are, now that Yu/Zhang are skipping GPs due to injury? I'm hopeless at these calculations.
 

Andrea82

Medalist
Joined
Feb 16, 2014
Thanks for the list! Re. your notes, Castelli/Tran split, as did Duskova/Bidar; they won't be on the GP circuit for sure.

Liu/Johnson also split and he skates with Jessica Calalang now
Krasnopolski is on Ice Partner Search. I guess that explains Conners/Krasnopolski's absence.
 

Ice Dance

Record Breaker
Joined
Jan 26, 2014
It's plausible that there will be an open dance spot both in Finland and at Rostelecom. (Mansourova & Ceska are rumored to have split, and Garabedian is on Ice Partner Search). If I were Russia & Finland, I would just swap and invite one another's teams. (Torn & Partanen to Russia and either Evdokimova & Bazin or Shpilevaya & Smirnov to Finland). But we'll see. It would be nice for Min & Gamelin to be the ones invited as they are at the top of the Replacement List & have already been skipped over for Carreira & Ponomarenko. Or for it to go to Koch & Nuchtern who are the only team on the replacement list that did not get a single invite and were skipped over for Garabedian & Proulx-Senecal.
 

haribobo

On the Ice
Joined
Jan 22, 2004
Any info on who the next in line are, now that Yu/Zhang are skipping GPs due to injury? I'm hopeless at these calculations.

PAIRS
1. Stellato/Bartholomay- 27
2. Ruest/Wolfe- 33
3. Hase/Seegert- 35
4. Esbrat/Novoselov- 40 (split?)
5. Lu/Mitrofanov- 41
6. Walsh/Michaud- 42
7. Pfund/Santillan- 43
8. Suzaki/Kihara- 44
 

SnowWhite

Record Breaker
Joined
Nov 30, 2016
Country
Canada
If Y/Z are skipping the GP, that means an open spot at SA an IdF.

They normally have the first ten in line as the replacement list, IIRC. So:

1. Stellato/Bartholomay- 27
2. Ruest/Wolfe- 33
3. Hase/Seegert- 35
4. Esbrat/Novoselov- 40
5. Lu/Mitrofanov- 41
6. Walsh/Michaud- 42
7. Pfund/Santillan- 43
8. Suzaki/Kihara- 44
9. Barquero/Maestu - 47
10. Zhang/Song - 50

I don't have Li/Xie on the list since they're new, but they could be on here somewhere since they have SA.

For SA, Stellato/Bartholomay aren't an option because they'd either get the remaining host spot instead or someone else would and there would already be 3 US teams. That also applies to Pfund/Santillan and Lu/Mitrofanov. So any of the others could be options, but they might prefer a team based in NA. That would be Ruest/Wolfe, Walsh/Michaud or Suzaki/Kihara.

For IdF, Esbrat/Novoselov are of course not an option. Other than that, they often go for teams training in Europe, so Hase/Seegert (Berlin) or Barquero/Maestu (Bergamo) might be most likely.
 

Colonel Green

Record Breaker
Joined
Mar 3, 2018
Country
Canada
For SA, Stellato/Bartholomay aren't an option because they'd either get the remaining host spot instead or someone else would and there would already be 3 US teams. That also applies to Pfund/Santillan and Lu/Mitrofanov. So any of the others could be options, but they might prefer a team based in NA. That would be Ruest/Wolfe, Walsh/Michaud or Suzaki/Kihara.
For either of the Canadian teams that would mean back-to-back events, though since neither is a serious candidate to win a medal I'm sure they wouldn't care as opposed to the prospect of a second event.
 

Andrea82

Medalist
Joined
Feb 16, 2014
Zandron will withdraw from Rostelecom. He has switched to Austria and therefore he should sit out until February 2019.
 

SamuraiKike

Medalist
Joined
Jan 26, 2008
Yu/Zhang's withdrawal from their both events is official:

https://isu.org/docman-documents-li.../17410-pair-skating-2018-19-all-6-events/file

The next 10 pairs in line:
- Stellato & Bartholomay USA
- Ruest & Wolfe CAN
- Hase & Seegert GER
- Poluianova & Sopot RUS (moving up??)
- Esbrat & Novoselov FRA
- Lu & Mitrofanov USA
- Walsch & Michaud CAN
- Pfund & Santillan USA
- Suzaki & Kihara JPN
- Barquero & Maestru ESP

SA and IDF become available: The two canadian teams have big chances to get the SA spot and French fed tends to invite obscure european skaters so Hase & Seegert or the spanish team more likely.


As for Maurizio's Zandron withdrawal, the next 10 men in SB are:

1. Jun-Hwan Cha KOR
2. Nam Nguyen CAN
3. Kevin Reynolds CAN
4. Brendan Kerry AUS
5. Yaroslav Paniot UKR
6. Paul Fentz GER
7. Artur Dmitriev RUS
8. Nic Nadeau CAN
9. Denis Ten KAZ
10. Alex Johnson USA

RUS fed also likes to substitute with skaters based on Europe so Fentz is the most obvious choice.
 
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