High 80's?! With PCS of 45 points? Aaron's speed is much superior to Pitkeev, and Pitkeev still has many juniorish qualities about him. I think he's a more elegant skater than Aaron, but Aaron very clearly outskated Adian.
PCS of 45, wut? No. 40 PCS could have put him there with his tech.
I don't see Aaron's speed as superior to Pitkeev's. Maybe at the very start of the program because he is doing nothing but crossovers going into his opening combo. If you look at how they actually build speed from a stop, Pitkeev wins.
As for your erroneous numbers they mean nothing. We've been through this a 1000 times. It doesn't matter what scores the judges give. It doesn't make it a fact. It doesn't make it correct. Try looking at the skating. Aaron only even outscored Pitkeev on spins here because the tech panel wrongly did not give the latter credit for one of his positions in the combination spin and that automatically knocked off the points. It had to have been the sit position, but Pitkeev did 2 revolutions with the butt down at knee level for the sit. It was barely there but he got it.
Max did a 4-3 to Adian's 3-3. He did a harder quad (salchow).
This means nothing. Adian did the quad. Doing a 4-3 is worthless in this system unless you are doing 2 quads in the SP. Max gets a .2 bonus doing Salchow instead of Toeloop. Pitkeev gets 1.28 point bonus for doing more jumps later in the program. Pitkeev wins on base value by 1.08 points. That's how it goes.
Pitkeev is a young, unestablished skater and this is Skate America. The reason for the result is obvious.
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