wickedwitch
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From May:
5 out of 12, assuming Feng/Nyman and Lockley/Prochnow both earn a second spot. Being generous to the USFSA, and assuming that if Hom/Jerosch were available, they'd have two, that makes 7 out of 12 total. For the US's weakest disipline, I can't imagine any way this is a good thing.
Potential causes:
1) not enough age eligible skaters who want to do pairs
2) not enough age eligible teams
3) USFSA's standards are too high
Reason 1 has been discussed a lot, so I won't go into that here. I think the USFSA could do more to encourage age eligible pairs (like envelope funding that's only available to teams who are age eligible), but it's a tricky balance between that and not discouraging pairs period.
3 is an easily solvable issue. Obviously the USFSA could just lower the score needed, and it's very possible they should. But another option could be to set scores separately for the SP and the LP. A team would only have to get one of the scores to get an assignment. (I believe now it's a total score needed, but since the USFSA doesn't publish anything about this I could easily be wrong.) That way new teams that are still gelling might be able to qualify earlier in the season by focusing on one program without really lowering the standard.
5 out of 12, assuming Feng/Nyman and Lockley/Prochnow both earn a second spot. Being generous to the USFSA, and assuming that if Hom/Jerosch were available, they'd have two, that makes 7 out of 12 total. For the US's weakest disipline, I can't imagine any way this is a good thing.
Potential causes:
1) not enough age eligible skaters who want to do pairs
2) not enough age eligible teams
3) USFSA's standards are too high
Reason 1 has been discussed a lot, so I won't go into that here. I think the USFSA could do more to encourage age eligible pairs (like envelope funding that's only available to teams who are age eligible), but it's a tricky balance between that and not discouraging pairs period.
3 is an easily solvable issue. Obviously the USFSA could just lower the score needed, and it's very possible they should. But another option could be to set scores separately for the SP and the LP. A team would only have to get one of the scores to get an assignment. (I believe now it's a total score needed, but since the USFSA doesn't publish anything about this I could easily be wrong.) That way new teams that are still gelling might be able to qualify earlier in the season by focusing on one program without really lowering the standard.
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for USA's Laiken Lockley/Keenan Prochnow, 54.61 in their Junior SP today for 2nd place! (-1 deduction was for a time violation); music is "If I Ain't Got You" by Alicia Keys (choreo. by co-coach Stefania Berton who is with them in Linz) & there's even a confident wink by Laiken at the end! 
) but Tarah & Danny's coaching change was officially announced last week. Link: 
