Oh you mean overall spots. Okay, I get it now. I was talking about what TontoK was pushing -- that USFS gives up a host spot it would give to a US man (each host country can give 3 spots to their own) to another country.
That's far different than opting not to refill a spot after someone WDs (which was the scenario it K. Osmond was in a few years back. I don't know of any situation where a country, in the initial selection process, to not fill of their 12 entries.
To keep it on topic, Liam Firus isn't too far down the SB list. He still has a shot at getting one if someone WDs...
hehe which now we have gone full circle as I am pretty sure nobody will give a spot to Liam as
1) they will fill it with a host nation skater
or
2) they will simply not fill the spot
but yeah.. i think that was just a mishap in our convo i went ahead and backwards at the same time
and you are correct : for Japan it was Kaetlyn who never got an invite despite a skater having WD long enough before... she was too much of a thread to get to GPF after having (won??? ) done well at SCI.... and last year, Kevin was in a similar situation and didn't get a spot either.