MESS shortlists are still open, go for it!
I'm going to injure myself so severely that in the end my fall will be ineligible for MESS
I think podium is not totally outta reach for Samarin when he nails shit; international judges seem to ignore his skils (not as much as russian judges though

) and give him high scores, so if he nails it, boy is in.
I agree, he has the tricks. Did he land a quad flip on IG just one of these days? If he stands up, I think it might be enough, even if
@rfisher 's boytoy gets ++ for his guitar solo choreo seq
Top5 should be Javi, Kolyada, Kovtun, Samarin and
@rfisher 's toyboy.
Sounds likely, but three out of these have trainwreck rep galore

There's always an upset. (look back to worlds last year..Boyang, Vincent finishing looooooow) Who's the dark horse here?
For me it's Aymoz, but I'm not sure if I dare to say it out loud...
While I think Kovtun might have the hardest tricks and seems right solid, not sure what judges will do with PCS here. I think we have a ESP, CZE, RUS podium, likely in that order.
Judges always gave Kovtun crazy PCS with the most crappy programs and posture, so if they don't go with him now that he has improved, judges are even weirder than I thought
Speaking of national chances ?? (as I know
@rfisher longs for that 2nd spot for Dimitrescu): with ITAx2, Aymoz, Moris and Posterboy, Top 10 might be outta reach. Same for telenovela-boy.
GO FENTZ!!! Grassl has the tricks but is a hot mess, Posterboy could finish 34th for all we know, as he's still going on about #blackwolfwhitewolf on his IG, despite what he promised #ttw at Nebelhorn and Rizzo's FS is zzzzzzzzz, with quad mostly MIA. (Ok, Fentz' quad is MIA too). Moris could slay, I'll cheer so hard for him, he has beaten all the Russians before and could do it again! I agree about Yuri!!!on ice - Swiss edition, he is regressing, he should just do pairs with Lambiel, it's not like the level is that sky high at the moment. Swiss pair split anyway,so....
My national corner....Comfy Ball's main goal is to get the FS worlds minimum. His SP is going well this season, so if he could get himself into a relatively good postition before the free, it could be doable. #judgesbias