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Before Farris can be crowned the American Figure Skating Prince, he will have to finish higher than 16th at US Nationals...something he has yet to accomplish. With regard to Farris being ready to meet his peers, Farris' sore of 218 at the recent JGP event, is well off of the 251 that Hanyu scored at the WC last year.
That being said, Farris has shown a lot of improvement and, if he stays healthy, will be one of the top skaters in the USA in the future.
I think that posters claims were meant to be taken with a grain of salt . As for Farris and the scores, IF he does become the next American prince, it will be in the future, because Evan the current American prince is back for the meantime as is diva Johnny Weir. They will likely suck the air out of the arena up through Sochi and maybe then we will see what happens, giving Brown and Farris and whoever else is in consideration ample time to up their technical content and scoring potential. Plus once a skater gains recognition and puts out some consistently good performances internationally, his scores, particularly the PCS scores, seem to increase drastically, at least that is the general trend. Fernandez, Brezina, Kozuka, and Amodio are examples of this, and if you can do the big jumps this shift just happens faster. Also, Hanyu's score at the WCs was a huge improvement over his GP scores, his score at the final was pretty high, but in his 2 individual events, the numbers were more comparable with Farris' number from Lake Placid.