Ava Marie Ziegler was placed on the substitute list because she won a CHALLENGE event. That's the only way she would have been GP eligible.It is just hard to accept the fact that there are 3 USA ladies skating at Skate Canada and only 2 CAN ladies at a home event. And for some of us with long memories it is hard to also accept that Ava Marie got picked simply because she won a B event. Yet the year Osmond won Skate Canada she was never given a 2nd GP even though there were some openings.
As I recall it, Kaetlyn won Skate Canada 2012 fresh off her 10th place finish at 2012 JW. She had placed second in the SP and lost the FS to Akiko Suzuki by nearly 5 points, but edged Suzuki by 1.09 points overall. At the time, there was grumbling about "home cooking". There was a vacancy at NHK, but it went to Mirai Nagasu.