hanca
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Unfortunately there are pairs who won their Russian cup events and would deserve to get their spot. We can hope that the federation opens 16 spots instead of 12, but it has been 12 for quite a few years.So the 12 pairs for Nationals would be T/M, Z/E, B/K, P/K, M/G, E/K and Stolbova/Novoselov from GP and P/Rylov, A/Nazarychev, A/Kolesov, M/Mironov, and P/Pleshkov from JGP? And the rest of these pairs are competing for alternate spots in case Z/E doesn't recover or M/Mironov doesn't skate senior, etc....well OK. Just had to type that out to make sense of it in my head.
it is sad that some of those who qualified to senior nationals through getting into JGPF may be actually weaker than those who would qualify through Russian cups, e.g. Pepeleva/Pleshkov is definitely weaker than Balabanova/Sviatchenko. But because there is so few spots, some of the deserving pairs won’t get in.
