If I try to summarize, expectations are:

A) Topalov – Kamsky
B) Kramnik – Radjabov
C) Aronian – Grischuk
D) Gelfand – Mamedyarov

Then
Topalov-Gelfand
Kramnik-Aronian

And finally
Topalov-K/A

The real suspense seems to be about the Kramnik-Aronian match, the two favorites to win the tournament.

I would like to nuance a bit.
Radjabov has not played since a long time. We absolutely do not know how strong he is and how he will perform. His last matches in Grand Slam was mediocre, but he will surely be very well prepared, and he always performed well in the challenger role (Kasparov remember!). Kramnik must be very cautious.

Grischuk as well as Mamedyarov are very inpredictable players and very strong one. They both performed very well in their last tournaments, they improve regularly, and they know their opponent very well. If they remain focused, they can beat anybody.

Kamsky was not that far from Topalov in their duel. Topalov did not crush him, but rather Kamsky self-destructed himself. He does not play a lot so it will be hard for Topalov to prepare againt him (Topa's strongest point). And Kamsky is a really tough guy with a lot of experience (comparable to Kramnik and Anand)

Of course. Actually, Kramnik has said many times that this the only thing that motivates him to play chess now, a chance to play for the World Championship while he is still competitive against the very best players. In contrast, for example, to being No 1 in the rating list, which he considers less important.

So he will be very motivated, but so will all the others, and this will hopefully be a very interesting event.

Yeah, amazing 7th in Tal, if Carlsen ever had a result like that people would be less nice :)

"3rd out of 4 is roughly comparable to 7th out of 10"

If you think being third behind Kramnik and Anand is the same thing as being 7th behind weaker players.

"Your selective presentation"

He won five of his six latest and finished third in the sixth, selective presentation or not.

"“Carlsen’s worst tournament result in several years” – people (at least Carlsen fanboys) tend to forget that his current status holds for, by now, a bit more than a year [since Nanjing 2009], not several years. What’s a bad result? At Corus 2009 he was shared 5th, just +1 in a relatively weak field."

Since 2007 the worst Elo performance in a tournament by Carlsen is Bilbao 2010, with 2719. Considering that you state that Carlsen's being third behind Kramnik and Anand in Bilbao is the same thing as being 7th of 10 it should be the same thing as being 10th of the 14 players in Corus, so 5th in Corus (he's never finished as low as that since 2007) should be much better than Bilbao.

"I have nothing against Carlsen, but something against Carlsen fanboys distorting facts"

It is also a question of what you see as "distorted facts" and "fanboys".

it was just superb to watch Kramnik pay these last months. Pretty sure he wouldnt refuse another title...