Why did people react to this with
?Already planned to skip men's, but now there's even more of a reason.
This happens a lot. I didn't get my torn ACL sorted out for nearly a year ('you just hyper-extended it'). I did physical therapy and stuff, it didn't help whatsoever until I finally got another orthopedist to order an MRI
Yes. Elyce is now at the top of the Alternates list and will get the next two that open up. It's going to be interesting to see what happens with the SkAm host TBD spot and who wins the skate-off at Cranberry Cup. Elyce is next in line for the next two vacancies and there seems every likelihood that Lee & You will be withdrawn from NHK & Finlandia respectively.
Well, we have our answer. Danilova/Tsiba got the NHK spot and since the USA only had two teams assigned to NHK, it would have gone to Efimova/Mitrofanov had her 22-23 score with Blommaert transferred over when she switched feds.
Updating all the Alternates Lists:
The U.S. women are maxed out at NHK so Lin-Gracey won’t replace Lee there.
If they don't have any assignments, yes.
Oh, good catch! That means Mikutina is next in line for that spot and Elyce is next in line for the Finlandia spot that You has currently. I might still take a gamble, if I was the USFS, that Elyce picks up 2 spots elsewhere and give the SkAm host TBD spot to one of the other women competing in the Cranberry Cup skate-off if it's a close competition. No sense in burning a host spot on someone who is next in line for 2 spots.
What is strange about replacing vacated spots by priority of the previous SB Top 75 list rather than splitting it into groups of 10 and letting the host feds pick and choose who they want? That system has resulted in some pretty blatant bypassing of stronger skaters/teams and made for some appreciably weaker fields by the time some of these GPs happen. At least this way earning your place onto the Alternates list by virtue of your SB position from the previous season has some meaning and importance.
No, not at all. I outlined what happened last season with the women, specifically, earlier this week - it was obvious the host feds were skipping over the higher ranked skaters, even ones who didn't have any GPs, in favor of lower-ranked ones. It is less obvious in ice dance because withdrawals rarely happen.
I hear this, but by the logic- why would Skater B get a second assignment before the higher-ranked Skater A got theirs-- one who started off with nothing at all as it is?
Why should it? How do you then circle back around to that higher ranked skater to ensure they get a 2nd spot before someone WAY further down the SB list? How do you avoid a situation like what happened with the men last season where Gorodnitsky, Naumov and Orzel were being passed over in favor of men much further down the SB list?
Again, you're going to make the argument that the SB 25 is less deserving of a 2nd assignment before the SB 45 is deserving of 1 assignment?
Your logic here makes absolutely no sense. Read what you wrote.
And what about skaters 49, 50, 51, and 125 that ended up with two from the start?
