I said at the beginning of all this masks, cancellation of events, air travel, hotel reservations....and let's not leave out that everything keeps changing in the Covid Rules.
The ranking order of the disciplines will be based on which disciplines have the best
opportunity to medal and/or provide the strongest field in the individual events and
the ranking order of the athletes/teams will be used to determine which athletes will
have priority in competing in the Team Event. The highest-ranked disciplines will
have the first option of substitution in the Team Event if the U.S. qualifies for the free
skate.
That from the communication. Since there is not a computer program that could rank everything, giving adjusted values, etc. What they are saying....is they are going to pick whom they want.
and this:
"comparison of the placement of the athletes/teams from the 2021 and 2022
Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships will be the final tiebreaker for
"athletes/teams with a similar body of work that cannot be separated using
the previous criteria. The placements (as opposed to scores) will be used for
the 2021 and 2022 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Placements at
the 2022 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships will have priority over
placements at the 2021 Toyota U.S. Figure Skating Championships."
I assert they are going to chose the people they like and skaters who individuals on the committee