At the moment Diana Davis & Gleb Smolkin is the other assigned team but I doubt they will be able to keep that spot.
Why do you think that?
Thank you for your answer!Well, there are couple of things. First of all this team would be the 9th team to get their 1st JGP event and if at least six out of the eight teams who will skate before them will medal then there should be little chance that they can keep that spot. And honestly there might be more than six medaling teams out of those eight teams because there are four medaling teams already and four teams yet to skate. Previously in ice dancing bronze has been enough for the 2nd JGP event.
Secondly, I am not convinced that D/S would even be the 9th team to get their 1st event even if other teams would fail and Fed would want to give 9th team their 1st JGP event. If that would happen then I think Tyutyunina / Shustitskiy would likely replace them because they were assigned to JGP Canada but then they were replaced by Ivanenko/Karpov because Ivanenko/Karpov lost their original assignment (JGP Slovakia) to Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov. So, I think that based on test skate event T/S are placed above D/S on the Fed's list. However, both teams will skate at the Open Championships of Moscow tomorrow and it might very well be that who ever does better there will get to keep that spot, at least for now.
Secondly, I am not convinced that D/S would even be the 9th team to get their 1st event even if other teams would fail and Fed would want to give 9th team their 1st JGP event. If that would happen then I think Tyutyunina / Shustitskiy would likely replace them because they were assigned to JGP Canada but then they were replaced by Ivanenko/Karpov because Ivanenko/Karpov lost their original assignment (JGP Slovakia) to Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov. So, I think that based on test skate event T/S are placed above D/S on the Fed's list. However, both teams will skate at the Open Championships of Moscow tomorrow and it might very well be that who ever does better there will get to keep that spot, at least for now.
I wish Russia would have spot(s) to give Tyutyunina / Shustitskiy JGP event(s) already this season because they are really good but sadly they will most likely have to wait one more season.
I don't see any costume failure
Does this mean that they've also qualified to senior Russian nationals, or is that only for singles?
Does this mean that they've also qualified to senior Russian nationals, or is that only for singles?