I think you misunderstood what I wrote: it was just a statement of fact, without any meaning about Japan Nationals specifically, I didn't want to say that scores at Japan Nationals have a higher inflation than other national competitions!

And, if anything, I agree that in Japan there are so many talented skaters so such high scores are "normal": if you watch Miki's 2008 or 2011 Nationals performances (for example), you can really understand that they have been wonderful programs and that they deserved high scores!
Let me say that the sheer purpose of this thread is this: I sometimes do this kind of research (like the one about the 3Lz), and I like to share with you the result and hear what you think about this topic, nothing else!

Another interesting thing to say is this: there is no Russian lady in this top 10 except for Radionova, and that's interesting, considering the level of Russian girls, I expected a lot more scores 130+... The closest to these is actually Sotnikova's 133 at Russian Nationals 2011.
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