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I'm glad to see there were some criteria to meet. Shershak and Agafonova didn't get their ChSq ratified, ergo 0pts for it. And several of them got GOE of 0, which given national championship inflation, is pretty much a "boo!" by the judges!- General observation: especially in the first group (13 to 18 after SP), I was disappointed by many of the Choreo Sequences: Many were short, with crossovers in between, and just simple. I know there are no levels awarded to them, but aren't there some requirements they have to meet? Like go from one side to the other? Some really treated the ChSeq as a throw away element. :disapp:
Not a single edge call for Lipnitskaia or Sotnikova (not saying the necessarily should have got some but you see some for Radionova and skaters ranked lower).
Not just his PCS but also +1s and +2s (and some +3s) GOE for slow spins and steps in the SP (he was a little better in the FS in that regard IIRC).
Ilynikh/Katsalapov got negative GOE from only one judge for their twizzles and the other mistakes/poor execution on some of their elements didn't get penalised either (the same judge gave them 0 GOE for the diagonal step sequence). I wonder whether it was judges failing to see things or whether there was strong pressure to have them place high no matter what (or both ).
Not a single edge call for Lipnitskaia or Sotnikova (not saying the necessarily should have got some but you see some for Radionova and skaters ranked lower).
As for the choreo sequences, as long as judges don't care and don't give negative GOE for poorly performed, 'couldn't-care-less' choreo sequences, the skaters will keep executing that this way.