I actually doubt whatever Mirai did in her presentation would have significantly affected her PCS here. There is nothing she can do about judges liking Euro champ and World Silver medalist.
Wagner always skates beautifully. She has among the best choreos, programs and costumes. She also has the lines, presentation skills, and puts her heart to the programs. But she just simply doesn't get much pcs possibly due to the reputation and jumps. The same goes with Sarah Meyer.
Even though Mirai can be a great performer when she tries, I think it was fine for heri to focus on jumps here.
She just needs to keep landing those jumps and wish for a different set of judges when it really counts. It's not that she can't perform, but she can indeed be a great performer. But the priority now should be jumps. Then judges suddenly start to notice her beautiful qualities in her presentation. But not the other way around.
She was third after the short. If she had given her performance that extra something I don't think the judges could have ignored that. She would have been on the podium. However, you might be right that she needed to concentrate on her jumps. New LP and everything ... maybe it's too much for her to concentrate on everything at the same time. First fix the technical problems ... presentation comes with experience and maturity and just getting comfortable with a program.
I think Mirai sort of proved herself here a little bit. She hardly knocked it out of the park. But it seemed like in the SP she might have been a litte underscored because she was skating so early in the competition .... (even though you're not supposed to "save scores" under COP) ... then it turned out that nobody could outscore her except Alissa and Joannie. Ha! I think she should be satisfied ... I just hope SHE sees it that way.
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