Not really so far. It's kind of amazing to find gems among all these cute little ladies.
In researching I pay more attention to nature ability to perform, to natural ability to skating, or to do difficult elements. You see many cute little girls at age of six, but they are all very slow, do bad choreo, jump easy jumps, do easy spins - it's really boring to watch. And suddenly, you see a skater like Polina Borovskih. And you already feel something special. You can not to not see the pure talent.
That's why it's cool and interesting.
Here was said about surviving, that many talents do not live up to expectations. But it doesn't touch scout bureau work at all. The mission - to give statistics (stars), judging by current skaters talents and ability to show it. And yes, Gubanova before this season was five star skater in scouting book. Now, it's a really shame, but I can't give her more than three stars. Her stamina, spins, presentation were damaged. Still, she is able to get five stars again because she is a pure talent.
Alina Zagitova's case is very unique and interesting, and it makes more interesting the whole scouting work. Like, in the last year you didn't pay attention to this skater, only one or two stars for her. And suddenly, she is becoming three/four star skater. You already knew all names of the current stars, and when someone new shows up at this age, that's really cool.
I also think Diana Guseva and Eva Novakhova potentially could have the same level as Zagitova, maybe even better. The one thing I'm not sure is their consistency. But it's really hard to say now, especailly when they both are injured. I mean, if skater is counted that she belongs to this group, and she is not skating at all, there should be only one answer.
At one of those channels, which I mentioned in the second post of the thread, was published
video with one girl. Pretty nice speed and jumps. But lack of presentation, so far. Tried to find her on Russian websites, but there are two Marias Dmitrieva.
2008 year and
2007 year. I'm not sure who she is, but most likely she is from Pisarenko's school.