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I am not opposed to counting lips/flutzs as lutzs/flips, but in fact, this would make very little difference to the total score of a skater like Mao who can now do all other jumps including 3-axel well. In her case, she would replace the one lutz she does in the long program with a double-axel. Her flutz if she got -2 GOE would be 6.0 (base point) -1.4 which is 4.6. Her double-axel with +2 GOE would be 3.3 + 1.0 which is 4.3. The double-axel would additionally probably go into the second-half which would make it 4.73.
Counting lips/flutzs as flips/lutzs would therefore only affect skaters with a lesser jump repertoire.
Counting lips/flutzs as flips/lutzs would therefore only affect skaters with a lesser jump repertoire.