ermm.. .Skate Canada needed to send them to a less competitive field where they would have made a better impression. Doesn't help they were skating first either. I didn't watch the whole event but the tech panel was especially harsh. Was it for everyone? Maybe. I haven't looked.
V/B got a very rough score too and low placement and they are not a new team. Again, I haven't been able to watch as I was falling asleep... maybe they made mistake that were costly enough to place them in 10th place.
In general, I tend to agree that our young teams have a hard time in their second events compared to some teams who keep growing their scores. Of course, there could be mistakes and so on, but Brendan and Chloe skated well yesterday. I felt they were better than in all their other outings so far this year, yet their score wasn't impressive, and their ranking, even less so. So I can understand why
@Sackie would use the term dumped, in the sense that they didn't receive any favours from the TP/ judges and that their score didn't rise.