Your posts are always good for a huge laugh. I honestly dont think you are crazy so I will just presume you are purposely going out of your way to be comical. Just like your posts before this season proclaiming the Shibutanis were a lock to medal at every Worlds until 2018, and a lock to medal at the 2014 Olympics, medal at the 2012 Worlds, win the 2018 Olympics, possibly winning both the 2014 and 2018 Olympics. I should have known then you were a bot looking to just make people laugh.
Evan won the 2009 Worlds and 2010 Olympics since the level of skating was so low. He won without a quad since there wasnt anyone who both had a quad and wasnt falling or stumbling all over the ice, or whose overall skating wasnt total rubbage (Van Der Perren, even Vancouver version of Plushenko). Evan at his best was scoring over 160 points. Chan at his best scores over 200 points, and with major falls and errors scores over 180. Even with a quad Evan couldnt come close to Chan unless Chan skates half the program on his rear, and I am no Chan fan. Chan does everything better than Evan now, even if he werent doing quads, so how can Evan compete with him. Takahashi skating his best would easily beat Evan even with quads too, never mind without, and Hanyu is pulling in huge TES from the judges and inflated PCS. Evans Vancouver LP, in a competition that clearly had inflated scoring as Yu Nas scores and the mens short program scores reflects, were much lower than 3 men from Worlds last year. The field isnt going to start getting weaker. A skater who struggles with both quads and triple axels and waves his arm like a windmall isnt going to win titles just by virtue of not falling anymore. Unless he shows up with things he never had before, not just quads, he wont even be a contender, and will be fighting just to get out of a weak U.S mens field.
I did not think the Shibutani's would forget how to twizzle! LOL. Their performance at 2012 worlds was bizarre because it was such an extreme technical failure. But even being an extreme technical failure that did not include a twizzle in a FS they still did not collapse in the standings. They made it to the GPF and things were basically going well until worlds where they forgot how to twizzle.
People believed quads would be important to win in Vancouver. They were not. They were irrelevent to winning the Olympics. Totally meaningless and Lysacek won. I would not underestimate Lysacek and the ways COP can be worked for his advantage that maybe other people don't see. Maybe if you structure a program a certain way quads might be irrelevent to skating again. Lots of things are worth more in skating now. Step sequences. 3A is worth some more points. PCS is rising almost to max levels and Lysacek was good at getting high PCS and with the PCS inflation of recent years maybe his scores will rise with the PCS and 3A and other things.