Karne, I realize it's July but, it's not a "normal" July. It's the July going into the Olympics and I think it matters how these skaters look every time they go out. As a former Judge, I know that judges look at scores and results from event to event and sometimes they will contact each other and discuss what they've seen. It doesn't "really" matter at this early point in the season but, if he had landed even 1 quad, he would have put every US Man on notice that he was a serious threat.
Sure, but not at Milwaukee Open. It's a low-key summer competition.
At Glacier Falls (two weeks from now), there will be way more official eyeballs watching. Per this
document, there will be a monitoring camp for ISP athletes on July 30. Even if Jason doesn't do the session, that still means there will be USFS judges/officials/etc. who will be there.
As for giving the other U.S. men notice -- does it matter really? Jason had relatively little momentum leading up to the 2013-2014 season. He didn't do any of the Olympic media shoots and USFS had even asked his team whether Jason would stay junior internationally one more year. He still made the Olympic team because he did what he needed to do at the competitions that matter - GPs, Senior B's and Nationals. And he did the same thing at Broadmoor Open in 2013 -- a watered down, marked version of Riverdance -- I think he actually skipped a whole jumping pass IIRC.
Speaking of summer comps, we're in for an interesting two weeks!
(Last year's Nationals competitors in bold with ranking)
This coming weekend (July 18-22) is Skate Detroit:
SENIOR MEN
Short Program – Friday, July 21 2:00 PM
Free Skate – Saturday, July 22 2:55 PM
Grant Hochstein, SC of New York (S4)
Keegan Messing, Sherwood Park FSC (Canada)
Alexander Newman, Detroit SC
Keiichiro Sasahara, Japan (23rd at JPN Nationals)
Kevin Shum, SC of Boston (S12)
Luke West, Broadmoor SC
Vincent Zhou, SC of San Francisco (S2)
Then as mentioned, Glacier Falls (July 27-30) is the following weekend.
SENIOR MEN
Short Program – Fri, Jul 28, 2017 5:46-6:59 PM
Free Skate – Sat, Jul 29, 2017 5:11-6:40 PM
Jason Brown (S3)
Grant Hochstein (S4)
Benjamin Jalovick ,
Brendan Kerry (AUS),
Jimmy Ma (S20)
Ross Miner (S5)
Michael Christian Martinez (PHI),
Yaroslav Paniot (UKR),
Sebastien Payannet (S21),
Romain Ponsart (FRA),
Sean Rabbitt (S8)
Crazy back-to-back schedule for Grant, but Glacier Falls is in his neighborhood (relatively speaking), so it's not too bad.
Thanks to Sylvia always for the info:
https://unseenskaters.wordpress.com/
: obviously I should just stick to posting in the Fan Fest, 
Grant :agree
