Yes, I think the biggest impact will be on the requests the seeded skaters make, but I think it will also trickle down to all of the host fed skaters - no one is going to want to do back-to-back between any of these events with the intercontinental travel involved. Biggest beneficiary may wind up being CoC.
I'm hoping the CFSA chooses a really interesting city that skaters will be eager to visit. Maybe work with the HKSU and select a city in Guangdong Province or Hong Kong itself.
Do you have a source for this?
Well, that's what they said at Jr Worlds and that may very well still be their plan, but I still believe it to be a mistake for their long-term trajectory. Going back to the JGP in September and actually delivering solid skates can score them in the mid-170s, which puts them firmly in the conversation & gets them to the JGPF, especially if they can back that up some solid Challenger showings in Oct/Nov that at least maintain or improve on mid-170 range scores.
That's a conversation for a different thread.
I agree with you that they would do well to stay in juniors. I'm just trying to think of what motives they could have for moving up, other than "we need a change." If they get that host spot I suppose it would be a vote of confidence from USFS.
Well, on my projected GP Assignments list, I put them in as one of the US host TBD spots, leaving the USA with just 1 host TBD spot. There are just too many teams who are entitled to 1 GP that it makes it pretty much impossible for most of the feds to not need to use 1 of their host spots on one of their own guaranteed skaters.
Right. I'm presuming they get 2. We'll finally know positively what is meant with the Great Missing Piece in the GP Document with both Sui/Li and Fournier-Beaudry/Cizeron publicly announcing their intent to compete on the GP. My expectation is both teams will make their GP debuts at their home GPs & get a 2nd assignment elsewhere.
and was wondering if they would split. They no longer seem well matched to me, and they're not scoring well even when clean(ish).
Well, that's how I've begun to view them over this past season too. Luke isn't tall enough for Liv. He's not as short as Max Fernandez, but he isn't one of the taller pairs men out there & needs a partner on the shorter side. Mind, I don't think Liv is particularly tall, even for a pairs woman, but I do think their triple twist is going to continue to be a sketchy element because there just isn't enough of a height differential between them.TBH, I'm not sure they have any long-term trajectory
The possibility of the Olympics, which is realistic given the citizenship issues of others, might be enough to keep them together for another year. Maybe they'll end up being a modern-day Courtland and Reynolds, then go on to do other things.
There are a handful of new/rising juniors I think we'll see on the GP - Karhunen, Zhuang/Huang, Sanchez, Tali/Lafornara, Grimm/Savitskiy, Jia Shin, but the real influx will come in 2026.
If I were the Finnish Fed, I’d give Karhunen and Ceder the initial host spots, with the final one TBD.
Eh, I think Jyrkinen has probably earned it - she's higher on the SB list than Ceder.
But Ceder was the one chosen for worlds and earned the all important Olympic spot.
I understand this. What I'm saying is I don't see any compelling reason for the Finnish fed to hold one spot as a TBD - Karhunen, Jyrkinen & Ceder are all in the SB Top 75, which cannot be said foe any other Finnish woman.
True enough, but I'm not sure how much of a deep influx we're going to get. It's really only affected the women, IMO. Hagara & Sanchez both are already senior-eligible & most men seemed to wait until they were 17 or 18 to really move up to seniors before the age increase.
Is Mao Shimada still not eligible next season for the GP?
Oh jeez, for some reason I thought it was just for the Olympics.
Yeah Mao can just go through the motions yet again during the JGP season where she isn't being pushed if i was her i'd just say enough of going to Junior Worlds and just sit it out. At this point staying Junior is not doing anything for her career.
