Areski
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I'm not sure that I agree that Karen's SP at nationals would have had her ranked at close to the very top of any competition. I think that she probably would have gotten unders on both of her combinations in the short and long (my opinion, I know that the Skating Protocol disagreed). Of course, pretty much everyone in the top 6 was not rotating their combos in the sp and just didn't get called for it. But at least some of the others have a track record of rotating it outside nationals, even if only sporadically. Has Karen ever gotten her 3-3 ratified internationally recently (I'm assuming maybe she did in her jr days?)? That said, I would gladly take an under on that combo if she could hit her other jumps like she did at nationals.
I think she legitimately did 3-3 combo in SP without UR at least in SP so that was not just "generous panel" that helped her in that but Karen herself. You can compare it with previous SP outing in one of Karen's GP events to see noticeable, positive difference when she received UR call and that jump looked very questionable even in real time. Either way no matter how positive tech calls are she would have a hard time getting score above 70, but this is domestical inflation.