So it's the same what I wrote... A competition that doesn't give you any benefits from RusFed
Strange point of view. For a child, participation in the tournament is benefit in itself. A young athlete must compete as often as the training process and the health allows to him. Yes, trainings is more important than competitions, but ceteris paribus the sportsmen that competes more often will progress faster. Even if the such athlete is less promising. And it does not matter what kind of sport it is - it can be boxing, soccer, athletics, figure skating, or even chess.
Take for example Alina Zagitova. In the summer of 2015 а 13-year-old girl moved to Tutberidze with personal best of 139,25. For the season, which included a broken arm, a broken leg, the exile from the Tutberidze band and a return back, she participated in 9 competitions. That's only what we know from the press - I am sure that competitions, as well as injuries and other incidents was more. And at the last, 9th tournament, competing among seniors, Alina got sum of 191.00. And "benefits from RusFed" began after the chiefs saw how Zagitova skated (
FS video). It is about "how skated" - and not about "how many points scored".
Let's take Alena Kostornaya. Sum of 184,04 from Moscow Open 2017 - not so decent as for Russia, as for world. But Fed was so impressed that immediately added Alena to a JGP list, although she did not participate in closed skating of Junior team, and even not qualified for it. Bosses, again, was impressed not by the sum of points, but by the performance.
Here is a simple logic - do you remember a famous saying from Medvedeva? "How someone trainings, so someone performances".
And the young athlete needs to compete (and show his performance) as often as possible.
And "benefits from RusFed" can be triggered by performance in almost any tournament - the main thing is so that the performance deserved it.