- Joined
- Nov 2, 2005
The new judging system does have some peculiarities. I see that Johnny Weir received credit for one of those "phantom sequences." I assume his opening triple Axel was supposed to have been a combo, but he wasn't able to get the second jump off (he got -2 GOE).
Then when he did his solo triple Axel, that was a Zayak violation, so the computer tacked on a "+SEQ" designation to get around it. At least there is a small penalty with the new rule this year. Johnny only got 6.60 points for his second triple Axel instead of 8.25. (7.50 base x 1.10 second half bonus x .8 sequence factor = 6.60.)