...and in the midst of this discussion Rika's PCS just plummeted as low as 64.48 at the Challenge Cup even with a clean skate with one 3A. Judges are weird creatures.
Actually she didn't have a clean skate: she went for the 2a, ok, she had un underrotated tripleT in the combo, but above all she made a big mistake on the second spin. So the PCS, which were however the highets, were more or less fair (well, not those by the American judge).