As for junior worlds, the team is just perfect. The only thing that surprised me was the decision to send the novice pairs champs and not the 2nd or 3rd place junior teams. It will be interesting to see how Bell/Sylvester fare when their first junior competition ever will be junior worlds.
Not surprised given the scores at nationals. Bell/Sylvester do have the throw triple loop ( they did it in FS ) which they could not do in the novice short program ( but can do in the junior short program ). The other factor is that the multipliers at novice are lower than the junior ones. So their real junior scores would be much higher ( even with the novice bonuses taken out and the falls deductions added in.
Here is my attempt to juniorize Bell/Sylvester's score at nationals. I used all the raw scores on the detailed protocols to come up with my numbers. Grant you this is not an exact science but it is always fun to crunch the numbers. In the novice protocols , I assume a fall when I see a mainly -3 GOE on an element. Since I did not see that level of GOE anywhere , I am assuming no falls in B/S's 2 performances.
Short program
TES 24.45 ( novice ) - would be the same in junior with the same content . Keep in mind they would likely add more points to the score if they did a throw triple loop that they are capable of doing. If I replaced their score in the long program for the triple loop throw for the original double loop throw they would score 5.12 points instead of 3.63 points. So they would gain about 1.5 points in TES in the short.
The adjusted junior PCS would be different however since the novice multipliers are lower than the junior ones.
PCS in novice is 15.31. Adjusted with junior multipliers the PCS is 17.47.
Long program
TES is 43.75 I will take away the bonus point for the throw triple loop to get 42.75 for an adjusted junior score.
PCS in novice is 33.71. Adjusted with junior multipliers that score becomes 38.48.
Total score
Bell/Sylvester's novice total score is 118.22. I have a junior adjusted score of 124.64.
The junior silver medalists, Krystel Desjardins / Charlie Bilodeau, scored 40.10 in the short and 82.37 in the long for a total of 122.47.