With all the falls and stumbles, Machida's TES dropped from Skate America 50 and 44.5 at Rostelecom to 26.5 at GPF, yet his PCS remained the same at 40+ for both, and similar to his 41+ at Skate America where he won Gold, even though he skated without falls at both SA & Rostelecom.
There's definitely unrealistic PCS here.
Did you read my post? Machida did not have "falls and stumbles" in the SP. He had one fall and that's it and there is no rule which states that your PCS have to drop when you have a fall at the beginning of the program and the judges think that is not distracting from the overall program. And you cannot compare PCS from different competitions like you are doing anyway.
Otoh, YH's LP PCS went from 76+ at SC, 81+ at TEB to 92+ GPF within a few weeks...
I like Machida and YH and I have no problems with them receiving home advantage. It is however double standards to create an uproar about Canada but state with absolute certainty that Japan doesn't do it, when it is quite blatant that almost all the Feds do.
I DO have a problem with skaters getting home advantage, but maybe the judges thought that Hanyu skated better at the GPF than at previous competitions. Aren't the judges supposed to mark what actually happens on the ice?