i agree totally with this
To kind of add to SkaterBoy's first post, people are always all over the board on this message site. Many never look at the big picture but base their evalutions and predictions on ONE competition, leaving little to faith that the next competition will be better or that the skater maybe just had a bad skate. I don't think you can ever count out elite skaters in the big competitions. If the skater has the goods to begin with....they can always surprise you. I honestly think Worlds is wide open this year - even the men's competition. But I hate to read the gloom and doom posts. It just reminds me of when Dick Button was commentating and a skater would miss something and he wrote them off for the entire competition. I imagine he'd be having a litter of Dalmatians with this new point system.
I'm not Canadian and am partial to US skaters but I think Canada has a strong figure skating system and a great future.