For some reason I understood your comment to be about Fradji/Forneaux, but now I understand that it most likely was about Nguyen/Giang. What I wrote applies also to them, except they would have little chance of winning over Pedersen/Chen in Budapest and could come third or even lower in Armenia (after Tkachenko/Kiliakov and the Peels over whom they won in Linz).But even without T/K, one of the previous silver medalists would have had to settle for a bronze at best anyway, and while it's definitely a possibility that this season there will be teams with silver+bronze in the final because of the very uneven depth of fields across the JGPs, that's more often than not not the case in Ice Dance in particular (last season was the first time since 2015/16 that it actually happened).