There are a couple of pluses from this competition. Mirai received full credit for her 3Lutz. No edge call, no UR. She also received full credit for her 3-3. Her tech score was better than Elena Radionova. In fact, the scores from 4th to 7th were pretty bunched. A few more points here and there could have changed the results significantly. That said, I again think Mirai is consistently under-scored on PCS. I think she should have averaged at least 8, giving her a 64 in the long and bumping her up to 5th (in the long). There was also a hater-judge on this panel (#9) who gave her 6's in PCS and -3 GOE on her 3A. On the latter, come on! She had great height and landed it well except for the UR, for which she was penalized on the base value. What reason would there be to give her a -3 GOE? It's like a triple penalty. After her SP disaster, she wasn't going to win a medal at this event. It's best to just take what she can from it and move on to the next.
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