Daniel Brykalov is listed to compete with Ekaterina Kuznetsova for Azerbaijan at the Croatia JGP.
My point all along is not about sr ice dance.
Your quote that I responded to was about senior teams not being able to get onto the Challenger Series because the supposed bar was too high for any team to receive a CS unless they were on the GP. This is false, and I responded because such a statement could discourage teams that are absolutely capable of earning a CS from making the leap to seniors or sticking it out long enough to develop as a new team in order to reach the real bar. They
can make the CS Series. And from there work their way toward the GP.
As far as the juniors are concerned, USFS or rather the placement committee (I forget their official title) had and still has no clear evidence of how most of these teams will score on the JGP. I am opposed to shutting doors before you have the evidence. Ling & Wein met the bar they were asked to meet as far as being listed on the ISP. If they had not met it, then fine. Take the year & work. But they met it. It's entirely possible they may even get an event--that Ales & Tsarik or the Browns or anyone else may not meet whatever bar has been set for earning a second event. (Apparently the USFSA Assignment list is no longer being used to confirm everyone's second assignments). It is also possible that another spot could go unused after teams skate because not enough teams earn whatever score is needed at their first event. And there has never been any requirement that all ISP athletes receive JGP invites. It is quite common for athletes not to receive one when the field is deep. The far-sighted plan, however, would have been to fill all the early berths and wait until the end of the JGP before dropping a spot. As we can see because it now seems quite plausible that L&W won't get a berth. Despite swapping results with at least one team that earned one and splitting dances with another.
It's just thinking long term. Sending the message that
if you do the work and
if you meet the bar and
if there is room, then you can earn the opportunity to compete. It's not USFSA's fault that all these teams decided to play musical chairs this season. No one could read a crystal ball & tell how many of the new teams would earn a place on the ISP, and no one can read one now and tell how many will meet whatever the bar is for a second JGP. It is even quite possible that if all the teams who were on the ISP at the start of the summer were asked where they wanted to go, then Latvia wound up being the spot that someone didn't. But for the good of the junior dance program
as a whole, it would have been wise to keep the door open for those teams that did meet the bar until the end of the JGP.
But it is done now. I am, in fact, moving forward, which all great dance teams do when they hit a bump in the road. They use it as motivation to become stronger and they plow forward full steam ahead.
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Since Meryl is a lot older, her voice is less childlike probably than it used to be.
