2008 top three favorites each group

[littlekateskate]

Soooo.... Who are your top 3 favorites this year for each of the groups???

Senior Ladies
Emily Hughes
Kimmie Meissner
Ashley Wagner

Senior Men
Johnny Weir
Jeremy Abbott
Eliot Halverson

Senior Pairs
Castile/Okolski
Evora/Ladwig
McLaughlin/Brubaker

Senior Dance
Wester/Barantsev
Belbin/Agosto
Davis/white

Junior Pairs
Best/Young
Tanovich/Chau
Paetsch/nuss

Sorry, i dont know or follow the ladies/mens junior single skates.. So please throw in your input!! I am curious as to whome everyones favorites are this year :)

[Skittl1321]

I only follow senior ladies.

My favorites are
Alissa Czisny
Bebe Liang
and I'm excited to see Caroline Zhang now that she has moved up.

[icedancer2]

Gosh I hadn't really thought about it yet. I kind of want to wait until we're more deeply into the Grand Prix -

I still want to love Johnny. Still want to dislike Evan. Can't wait to see the up-and-comers - Carriere is nice.

Emily is my fave of the ladies but I also like Alyssa.

Tanith and Ben of course but Davis and White also are interesting.

Pairs is almost never interesting...

We shall see.

[doubletoe]

This is a fun topic, so you'll probably get a lot of responses if you put it in the "General Skating Chat" section. :)

[littlekateskate]

i have no idea how to move the topic! but i will not be offended if someone does!! Go for it...

[Isk8NYC]

I'm not sure who is/isn't competing this year, so I'm at a disadvantage (I'm sure a terrible fan. :oops: )

How about one for each category? I'll edit to add more later.
Senior Ladies
Kimmie Meissner

Senior Men
Eliot Halverson

Senior Pairs
McLaughlin/Brubaker

Senior Dance
Belbin/Agosto

Junior Pairs
Best/Young


ETA: Thread moved, per request.

[skatergal]

Seinor Ladies
Kimmie Meissner
Ashley Wagner
Caroline Zhang

Senior Men
Evan Lysacek
I don't really like any other senior men skater

Senior Pairs
MLaughlin/Brubaker
Castile/Okolski
Inoue/Baldwin

Senior Dance
Belbin/Agusto
Davis/White
Gregory/Petukof

Junior Ladies
Mirai Nagasu
Kristine Musademba

Junior Men
Scott Dyer
Armin Mahbanoozeda

Novice Ladies
Courtney Bibbs
Cristalyn Trimalove
Mariah Braxton

Novice Dance
Ely/Mager

[Oracle]

My favorite discipline is Mens so that is all I'll do for now.
Srs:
1-Johnny Weir
2-Ryan Bradley
3-Evan Lysacek

Jrs:
1-Brandon Mroz
2-Adam Rippon
3-Austin Kanallakan

[Morgail]

This is all for Seniors:

Ladies:
-Emily Hughes
-Alissa Czisny
-Rachael Flatt or Julianna Cannarozzo (can't decide!)

Men:
-Evan Lysacek
-Ryan Bradley
-Scott Smith
(and I love Alban Preaubert from France!)

Dance:
-Belbin/Agosto
-Gregory/Petukov
-Davis/White

I don't really have any opinions on Pairs...

I'm also interested in seeing how Christina Gao (Novice) does after seeing her skate at EGLs.

I like Angela Maxwell a lot too - I think she's Junior this year?

[WeirFan06]

Like Isk8NYC, I also am not up to date on who's still competing... but I'll give it a shot anyway...

Ladies
1. Czisny
2. Meissner
3. Hughes (may have been higher but the perkiness all the time can get on my nerves a little)


Men
1. Weir
2. Rohene Ward (beautiful to watch eventhough he tends to choke)
3. Ryan Bradley


Pairs
1. Nam/Leftheris
2. Castile/Okolski


Dance
1. Navarro/Bommentre
2. Dubreuil/Lauzon (not sure if they're competing this season...)
3. Virtue/Moir
(4. Mallory/??? I hope she finds someone to skate with... she's a beautiful skater!)

[Muskoka Skater]

Dubreuil/Lauzon are not competiting this season.

Senior Ladies

1.Joannie Rochette (CAN)
2.Mao Asada (JAP)
3.Yu-na Kim (KOR)

Senior Men

1.Jeffrey Buttle (CAN)
2.Patrick Chan (CAN)
3.Christopher Mabee (CAN)

Senior Pairs

1.Dubé/Davison (CAN)
2.Moskivitches (CAN)
3.Zhang/Zhang (CHN)

Senior Dance

1.Virtue/Moir (CAN)
2.Weaves/Pojé (CAN)
3.Belbin/Agosto (USA)

Junior Dance

1.Lenko/Islam (CAN)

Novice Ladies

1.Katherine Malcolm (CAN)

Pre.Novie Ladies

1.Me, hopefully soon!! (CAN)
2.Amanda Ball (CAN)
3.Nikki White (CAN)

Sr.Bronze Ladies

1.Me (CAN)

[Helen88]

Seinor Ladies
Kimmie Meissner
Emily Hughes
Yu Na Kim (that was her name right...?)

And I can never remember all those Japanese names...

Senior Men
Brian Joubert <3 :halo:
Erm...Tomas Verner I seem to remember was a star in the making...

Senior Pairs
Savchenko/Szolkovy
Inoue/Baldwin
And the Chinese/Japanese ones...SO bad with long names LOL.

Senior Dance
Belbin/Agusto
And Dubreuil/Lauzon - EDIT: just noticed they're not competing this season. Oops...
They're the only ones I can remember to be honest. Some of the younger ones impressed me last year but I don't know their names...

And we don't get any Junior coverage here :x

[babyrabbit]

Senior Ladies...

Emily Hughes
Kimmie

Pairs
Ladwig/Evora
Trent/Vise
Castile/Okolski

Men
Wier, lysacek, abbott

Junior

Pairs
Chau Tanovich
best/young