2010 ISU Grand Prix Final Predictions

With the 2010-2011 Figure Skating season underway, my friend Skategate (@arlewis1) and I can hardly contain our excitement, so we've decided to make totally uninformed predictions as to who will make the Grand Prix final. If you aren't familiar with the Grand Prix series, each skater is assigned two events and the six skaters or teams in each discipline with the top combined total scores from their events make it to the Grand  Prix Final. With only one Grand Prix event completed, the NHK trophy, we really have no business guessing which skaters/teams will make the final, but here we go anyway!! Our picks are largely the same, but since Skategate did hers first and I saw them before I made mine, I had to differ on a few to mix it up a bit. Hers definitely make more sense and some of mine are a bit off the wall, but in figure skating, you never know who will crash and burn and who will rise to the top.

Skategate                            BackStage Barbie

Men:

Daisuke Takahashi                                       Daisuke Takahashi

Jeremy Abbott                                             Jeremy Abbott

Adam Rippon                                              Adam Rippon

Brian Joubert                                               Brian Joubert

Patrick Chan                                                Nobunari Oda

Tokahiko Kozuka                                        Florent Amodio

Ladies:

Carolina Kostner                                         Carolina Kostner

Rachel Flatt                                                 Rachel Flatt

Mirau Nagasu                                              Mirai Nagasu

Agnes Zawadzki                                          Agnes Zawadzki 

Miki Ando                                                   Miki Ando

Fumie Suguri                                                Mao Asada

Pairs:

Pang/Tong                                                   Pang/Tong

Bazarova/Larionov                                      Bazarova/Larionov

Takahashi/Tran                                           Takahashi/Tran

Iliushechkina/Maisuradze                             Iliushechkina/Maisuradze

Savchnko/Szolkowy                                    Savchenko/Szolkowy

Sui/Han                                                       Evora/Ladwig

Ice Dance:

Davis/White                                                  Davis/White                          

Weaver/Poje                                                Weaver/Poje

Faiella/Scali                                                  Faiella/Scali

Kerr/Kerr                                                     Kerr/Kerr

Pechalat/Bourzat                                           Shibutani/Shibutani

Crone/Poirier                                                Chock/Zuerlein