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Thank you to Kazuki for increasing Japan's JGP spots for next season.
I was asking because the World Rankings/Season Rankings seem to have been updated with the JWC results already and Jun Hwan Cha isn't anywhere near 24 (he's 55 in World Ranking and 27 in Season's Ranking) and the juniors won't have any more chances to increase their points, I don't think.
World Rankings
Season Rankings
Ms Sharkina, the Russian judge was quite strict with everyone...especially with Samarin. But she gave relatively good scores for Cha.
Interesting.
No no. World standings and season best is a different thing. This is season's best
He is 23rd, which is sliiiightly almost off, but he is guaranteed one at the very least.
The SB list will update again after Worlds, so we'll have to wait and see where Cha winds up then.
No no. World standings and season best is a different thing. This is season's best
He is 23rd, which is sliiiightly almost off, but he is guaranteed one at the very least.
ETA : He can still improve his season's ranking too btw. By enrolling in senior competition before this season ends. There are still some like triglav trophy etc. Though I don't know how much he will get point-wise and if it is counted.
Ah, it's Season's Best! Okay, now it makes sense. That's why I was asking about the total score earlier but got confused when you mentioned World Standings too. So Season's ranking isn't used to determine GP spots, then?
Where is Yamamoto Sota when Japan needs him so much? Has he been battling injuries or something?
Updated this in the 2018 Spots thread, but posting here for convenience too
2018 World Junior Championships: Men
2017 Men's results: http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1617/wjc2017/CAT001RS.HTM
3 Spots
USA (1 + 8 = 9)
Russia (2 + 3 = 5)
2 Spots
South Korea (5 + 16 = 21)
Israel (6 + 16 = 22)
France (7 + 18 = 25)
Japan (9 + 14 = 23)
Ukraine (10, only skater) - up from 1 skater
Canada (12 + 13 = 25) - down from 3 skaters
2017-2018 Junior Grand Prix: Men
A: 2 Entries in 7 Events - Top 3 highest placing countries
(1) USA
(2) Russia
(3) South Korea
B: 1 Entry in 7 Events - Countries 4th-6th, eligible for any unused spots from A, B, or C to add a second skater to an event
(4) Israel
(5) France
(6) Japan
C: 1 Entry in 6 Events - Countries 7th - 10th
(7) Ukraine
(8) Italy
(9) Canada
(10) Great Britain
1 Entry in 5 Events - Countries qualifying for FS, 11th and lower
Taipei, Norway, Estonia, China, Czech Republic, Germany
1 Entry in 4 Events - Countries with skaters placing 25th-30th in the SP
Turkey, Mexico, Australia
1 Entry in 3 Events - Countries with skaters placing 31st or lower in the SP
Sweden, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Switzerland, Georgia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Spain, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Malaysia, Monaco, Finland, South Africa
All other countries wishing to send Men's skaters to the JGP can send 1 entry to each of 2 events.
Interesting. I'm pretty positive that Korea doesn't have 7 junior men to send, then those unused spots go to Israel? Does Israel have that many junior skaters?
Sharkina wasn't on the FS panel.
FS judges:
1 Masako KUBOTA JPN
2 Albert ZAYDMAN ISR
3 Ekaterina SEROVA BLR
4 Ursula STAHL AUT
5 Agita ABELE LAT
6 Yuri GUSKOV KAZ
7 Sung-Hee KOH KOR
8 Salome CHIGOGIDZE GEO
9 Pirjo ELO FIN
Sharkina was #4 on the SP panel. Stahl is #4 on the FS panel.
You never know. JGP doesn't have a score minimum so if Korea wants to send a bunch of newbie age-eligibles skater to get experience, they could. Kazakhstan did that this season with their Ladies' spots that Tursynbaeva earned them, where USA would have been the first beneficiary of any unused spots.
But yes, Israel would have first claim on any unused spots. They don't have a lot of skaters, period, so it's highly likely that more spots would get passed to France and/or Japan.
I think we can say that a new era in US Men's skating is taking place right in front of our eyes. For years the US Men have been behind the rest of the world when it came to quads but the younger guys saw in the last few years that wasn't going to cut it anymore and now we are seeing them push themselves at a younger age to learn to do quads and it's paying off bigtime.