Make an educated guess.
To us we want to see the best, but would the average Joe who might stumble accross figure skating want to see six skaters from the same country compete at the grand prix final?
Maybe yes, but more often than not-no.
To the average Joe, seeing sthe top six of the same country will send a message that only this country is dominant in skating.- this does not bring much hope
Would NBC or CBC bother roadcasting to North America if this was the status quo- yes for now as they are contractually obliged to broadcast, but when the contract runs out...you never know if they will re-sign another contract for the same or even less than what they are paying now.
We need to acknowledge that there is some sort of issue and something has to change slightly.
I am sticking to my guns and say that at least a minimum of 10 nations need to participate in the JGPF/GPF combined. There were less than 10 nations competing this year.
I know that this post will get slammed and that the GPF/JGPF should not taken into account nationality, but if this trend continues with pool of nations competing becoming smaller, then we should just give up globslising the sport and go home.
Heck, we can replace the name of the GPF with Four Nations *note i am being sarcastic here
Russia, Canada, Japan and the USA
Wit occaisonally a European Country and China chucked into the mix
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