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- Mar 6, 2021
No, the skating has nothing to do with the sub-70 Political Connections Score. There is only one reason for the sub-70 Political Connections score and it is what you said in the 2nd paragraph: she's not in the top 3 in Japan. It's very important we keep the proper hierarchy at the palace of the ISU which is why our top PCS on the GP circuit is:Welp, I’m going to be the voice of dissent yet again. I thought Higuchi’s free would be no higher than 145. I said this before, but Higuchi’s always skates right through her music until her step sequence, after all the jumps are done. This is noticeable and it’s partly the reason for the sub-70 PCS. You could make a fair argument that she should have been second in the free skate, but it’s more that Kostornaia’s score was off, not Higuchi’s.
The politics of it: Higuchi is not among the top three Japanese women. Even if you take Kihira out of the picture, the top three are currently Sakamoto, Mihara, and Miyahara. She’s not going to get any freebies. I disagree with the politics of it (maybe I should start using quotation marks when I refer to this “sport”) but she’s going to have to put herself in the top three. One could make all the excuses they want about the judging, but it means jack squat if she leaves the door open.
I was actually happier about the 3Lz+3T+2T than I was about the 3A. That’s the first time she landed the second 3-3 so no pops in the free is a step in the right direction. Now she needs to land it in the SP and bring this free skate to Nationals. If she does, no amount of shenanigans would matter because she would have shut the door.
- Valieva - 74.74 - heir apparent to Queen Tutberidze
- Shcherbakova - 72.79 - current Crown Princess of Tutberidze but don't worry she'll be replaced soon. We can't let them wear the crown for more than two years
- Sakamoto - 71.83 - leader of this far-away tribe of skaters called "Asians" that we tolerate I guess. she said she got this score at her home. yeah right, we know she would never get this score in the real world aka Europe or North America. also her thighs are too thick.
- Tuktamysheva - 71.31 - mother of the queen. her thighs also used to be too thick but due to recent criticism we have to have an adult chaperone in our palace now so she gets to stay.
- Hendrickx - 70.62 - that one commoner we let into the palace so we look like we care about the commoners.
- Kostornaia - 70.06 - like Princess Di. The member of the family that the whole world loves, but she pushed too much against the Queen so we had to knock her down a few ranks. Doesn't work hard enough.
- Usacheva - 69.55 - younger sister of the heir apparent. will NEVER be the Crown Princess although she's just as good. works too hard. her fault. she scrubs the floors of the throne room but hey at least she's not in the cellar.
- You Young - 69.15 - ugh we had to accept this Pirate from the Asian tribe into the palace after she landed 8 triples. gross.
- Trusova - 69.00 - sister of the current Crown Princess. She was supposed to be the most revolutionary Crown Princess of all time and when they were 14 she had the most political connections, but she burned out. we still give her a nice ranking though because we can't let Miyahara think she belongs in the court.
- Miyahara - 68.91 - they say she's an artist where she comes from but we pretend not to have heard and sent her to work. we put her in the cellar to sort wine decanters and cheese.
- Khromykh - 68.54 - another sister of the heir apparent. she's too tall which would normally mean the death penalty but the Queen likes her so we keep her around as a jester.
- Higuchi - 67.71 - thighs too thick once again tsk tsk. I don't like to see young women built like her as an 80 year old judge, it's not right. so we stuck her in the cellar too.
- Mihara - 67.48 - who? we never heard of her
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