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- Jan 25, 2013
No different, IMO, than some skaters being "barred" from competing at Worlds every year. Depending on how many spots their countries have earned for each discipline, plenty of skaters get left out.
That's a bit different if skaters qualify based on their merit in a field of 28. Participation in WTT is dependent not on your individual performance but being from a well-rounded nation. Only representatives from USA, China, Japan, Canada, Russia, France and Italy have ever skated at the WTT. Skaters like Yu Na Kim, Javier Fernandez, and Denis Ten would not be able to compete in this (not ever, likely), so it makes no sense to treat it like the other ISU championships. Kim can still compete at 4CC and Fernandez can compete at Euros in spite of there not being any prominent Korean ice dance team or prominent Spanish pairs team.