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I don’t think Malinin would beat Kagiyama but maybe Mark.
You seem to not take into account that junior skaters PCs go up when they go Senior and get into major events.
Vincent’s Olympic score four years ago a case in point.
No reason if Ilia landed a 5 quad skate he might not get at least 80
Oh yeah Malinin could beat Mark with his Nationals FS, especially if Mark had been properly scored on GOE for some of his sketchier landings, and better scored on PCS. But we will never know that for this competition at least.
Vincent’s Olympics score was different because he had an actual Grand Prix season. Other than a CS Ilia doesn’t have much clout. And it’s not like he’s a Junior WC or something, he would literally be coming up out of nowhere as the US #3 at that.
Malinin was 16th at the 2020 WJC and 5th at Skate America. He hasn’t scored above 134 in a FS. There is waaaayyy too much credence given to one Nationals for him. Let’s see if lightning can strike twice for him before people can crow “we told you he would score well”.