Saturday, May 5, 2012

Potential Grand Prix Dance

There are 30 teams on this list, including one that has split and several teams that competed junior this season. 


There are 48 Grand Prix slots (including host picks) with 42 of the 48 slots filled from this list.  Some of these teams may elect to remain junior and once the split teams are removed, there will be more opportunities for second assignments. 

Note that this season the top 6 finishers at Worlds will not be able to compete at three events.   

The assignments will be released on May 21st.  


Top 12 finishers at Worlds (guaranteed 2 GP spots, top 6 are seeded and may do 3 events)
1 Virtue/Moir
2 Davis/White
3 Pechalat/Bourzat
4 Weaver/Poje
5 Ilinykh/Katsalapov
6 Cappellini/Lanotte
7 Bobrova/Soloviev
8 Shibutani/Shibutani
9 Riazanova/Tkachenko
10 Hubbell/Donohue
11 Zhiganshina/Gazsi
12 Huang/Zheng

Top 24 Seasons Best (guaranteed 1 spot)
9 Sinitsina/Zhiganshin (Junior)
11 Stepanova/Bukin (Junior)
12 Yanovskaya/Mozgov (Junior)
13 Coomes/Buckland
15 Carron/Jones
17 Aldridge/Eaton (Junior)
18 Tobias/Stagniunas
19 Papadakis/Cizeron (Junior)
20 Chock/Bates
21 Orford/Williams (Junior)
22 Alessandrini/Vaturi
23 Zlobina/Sitnikov
24 Nazarova/Nikitin (Junior)

Top 24 World Standings (guaranteed 1 assignment)
17 Pushkash/Guerriero
18 Guignard/Fabbri
20 Yu/Wang
21 Ralph/Hill
24 Bonacorsi/Mager (split)

Top 3 at Junior Grand Prix Final and Jr. Worlds (considered for 1 spot)
All meet one of the criteria above.


Number of skaters eligible by country (not including host picks):
Russia: 7
USA: 6 (one split)

Canada: 4
France: 3
Italy: 3
China: 2
Azerbaijan: 1
Germany: 1
Great Britain: 1
Lithuania: 1
Ukraine: 1

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