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Is anyone gonna get 70+ this season?
Hard to say. By season's end we should see a 70 at Worlds if one of the top skaters goes clean. If Gold/Wagner goes clean with 3-3 she should score above 70 but that's not the most likely to happen.
On the GP last year, only Mao/Lip scored above 70... and Lipnitskaia scored 72 at Rostelecom (although her flutz wasn't called and there was ridiculous pro-Russian PCS at that event). This year with only a 3T+3T, Lip might have a hard time getting above 70 come Worlds. Post-Sochi, the PCS scores have come down to earth, thankfully, which means skaters will actually need to skate well technically to lead instead of just relying on PCS gaps. By Worlds though, it'll probably be spread out again and we'll see more examples of Kostner-Pogorilaya... sigh.
The reality is, 70 is a VERY hard SP score to achieve. Only 11 skaters have ever done that -- and 8 of them are retired/aren't skating this season. Lipnitskaia, Sotnikova and Gold are the only 3 skaters in the current field who have breached 70, and probably the only ones who still can (maybe Anna/Liza can, and Radionova/Miyahara next season can). Lipnitskaia will have a hard time breaching 70 without a 3Z+3T, Sotnikova would need Sochi-style PCS and a flawless SP to get a 70, and Gold would need a perfect skate too. Tuktamysheva might also pull 70 if she has an extremely strong skate at Worlds and continues her momentum, getting even higher PCS at the GPF/Euros. A clean skate from Edmunds also has a chance to clear 70 (although that would probably only happen next season).