"on" competitions at Senior level: 2017 + 2018 US Nationals (if you can call three URs and a << in the FS "on"), 2017 Finlandia, 2018 Olympics.
"off" competitions: CoC and IdF 2017, 2018 Worlds, 2018 US Classic.
That's a straight 4-4 split of good/bad, and that's including at least one event in the "good" category that a lot of people would consider a "bad" skate (becomes good on the basis of final finishing position).
Even with the 4-4 split, that sounds WAY better than what your post initially sounded like. You make it sound like Vincent was just some random the USFS picked up off of the street and decided to play favorites with him. You act like he has NO resume whatsoever. You act like he has NO scoring potential when he's on. You act like he had like 3-4 senior seasons prior to this one (his second full senior international season) to show he can never reach that potential.
Even on bad skates, Vincent has shown that he's a better skater than you're describing in his first senior international season at the age of 16. He was second in the LP at 2017 Cup of China. 2017 IDF was bad, but he wasn't that far from Max Aaron in the LP. 2018 Worlds, he was third in the SP and could have won a medal if he replicated his skates at Nationals (I guarantee the calling would have been more generous for landed quads from Vincent at Worlds than they were at Nationals) and the Olympics. He also was having serious back injury before Worlds and is still suffering from them and lost major training time in the off-season right before U.S. Classic, something you refuse to acknowledge when you're dismissing his whole career.
U.S. Classic was bad all-around, but Vincent somehow still won the LP. It's not about him throwing away opportunities he could have grabbed. Instead, you are presenting an issue about the USFS and choosing Vincent. Therefore it's not so much why the USFS is giving him any opportunities so much as which U.S. man has skated much better than him internationally outside of Chen in the past few seasons. What opportunities are they giving him that is unfair compared to the currently competing U.S. skaters? A slot at U.S. Classic? I'm really confused about your post there.
He is in his second year as an international senior and many of those men would kill to have his record. Some men who have been skating for ten senior seasons haven't shown his scoring potential. They killed off his TES advantage somewhat with taking away a jumping pass and passing a rule that one cannot repeat more than one quad in the LP, so if Vincent is still showing more scoring potential in the LP than other U.S. men this season and the next and so on, then that's on the other men.
. That was Vincent's PCS at 2018 Nationals in the FS. Eighty-fricking-nine. Don't tell me they're not pushing, because that was worse than Chen being given ninety-one for his empty FS the year before.
Everyone gets a boost, and it's not as if the judges were unanimous with giving him high scores. If were to decrease Vincent's PCS, then we'd have to decrease the nationals inflation in GOE, PCS, and calls for all the other men too. The rankings may have still been the same or different. Judges at nationals do selectively give much higher PCS to some skaters than others, but the calling is also inconsistent and some favored skaters get the benefit-of-the-doubt with calls while others don't. At 2018 Nationals, I'd be hard pressed to say Vincent wasn't being called under a microscope and I remember talk about inconsistent calling during the PBP with other men there. Vincent later on showed he could get most of his quads called rotated at the Olympics.
Well, I don't want another year of people complaining that selections like Jason and Max will cost the US three spots and picking Vincent is the only way to get three spots when history showed us the reverse was actually true.
You know nobody is going to be complaining about Max for the next few years. He has moved on. Let's hope some people will have too. I also don't remember anybody saying Jason will cost the U.S. three spots after what he was able to do at 2017 Worlds unless they were saying his big injury that he suffered last season which made him skate in a way that he was NOT capable of skating will hinder the chances. In that case, it was not irrational. Vincent scoring high in the LP at the Olympics made him a safe bet, something you refuse to acknowledge as you want to paint Vincent in the worst way possible. He was third after the SP so it's not like people were just pulling that idea out of their asses. You know that Vincent's bad Worlds LP showing will prevent anybody from saying that again, even if he somehow skates super well this season and scores high before Worlds. Everyone will remember Worlds last year and doubt he can skate well. You know how fans are.
Anyway, you know how Olympic years are. People get hyped about the new shiny thing and it'll happen in 2022. It's a new Olympic cycle, and Vincent will suffer the fate of other veteran men if he fails to deliver by 2022. If he fails to take advantage of opportunities and continually will have a chronic UR problems to the point where other younger and more promising U.S. men look attractive, you can bet your butt Vincent will be thrown away like yesterday's garbage in favor of shiny new men. It's just the way it works. If I were you, I'd just bide my time and pick a younger U.S. man to root for and you can join the chorus on how Vincent should not be put on the team as he has proven he can't be counted on.
Nathan just 
#spur"
That's friggin' wrong, wrong, wrong! Andrei Lazukin was way overscored on PCS! Lazukin is a nice skater and he skated cleanly in the sp, but the PCS were too high out the wazoo for Lazukn who is not musical, not creative nor artistic, and definitely not as good a skater interpretively as Dmitri Aliev or Tim Dolensky!!!
