So what does team selection affect then? Funding?! If so, that actually seems worse to me. I don't personally have a huge problem with Sasha staying junior (as I've stated before, Sasha can win JGPs/JGPF, which could be seen as valuable for the Russian Fed; they couldn't care less what Lazukin and Kurbanov do). However, if Lazukin and Kurbanov receive more funding, that just seems like total BS.A couple posters on the other forum have said that you don't necessarily have to be named on the senior national team to be assigned GPs. So we shall what happens I guess...