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As for the rest, I prefer Mirai to Ashley, but Mirai's performance deserved those scores. It's annoying to read people say "Skater X fell once and came 99743th whereas Skater Y fell three times and won." It doesn't work like that. Perhaps it's time for a skating version of the tennis "Hawkeye", so audiences can be shown underrotations. Or better commentators pointing them out.
For many competitions this would be a good point. But not for this one. Gracie Gold had no URs. Courtney Hicks had no URs. Christina Gao had no URs. Yasmin Siraj had no URs. Caroline Zhang had no URs. None of these skaters fell, either.
I don't think anyone is saying Mirai should have been ahead of Ashley.
By the way, on the men's coverage just now, Tracy Wilson did do a little segment on why it is better (points-wise) to fall on a quad toe than to get a get it downgraded to a triple. (Not sure if the audience was paying attention, but anyway... )