User blog comment:Epic~00/Epic Analyzes: The Alternate RR Finales/@comment-24152851-20170112214136

Sister and Best Friends would be a really underwhelming finale. They're friends with each other, so they would lack the competitive drive that the Ice Dancers and Cadets had. Granted the Sisters hated the Ice Dancers too, but they're conflict came in much later. Friendship finales don't have a good track record and often end up being boring, aside from maybe TDI which was alright.

Surfers may have been a really poor choice of finalist, but the episode itself was okay. A huge step up from TDAS and TDPI at any rate.