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- Aug 18, 2010
Kozuka looks strong and ready. This is not Brezina's year.
Interesting Protocol. I was looking for how many points for each skater was earned by partial credit. Kozuka still would have been the best of the lot if he had left out the Quad.
Partial credit is given for not showing complete technical ability. Some skaters can not do the element but they get credit for trying. it will never make sense to me.Kozu and Liebers!
I love the rest of the of Q, Misha Ge and Hendrickx, yey!!!!!!
What is this partial credit thing? New trend here, like artistry and all round skater?
How right you are SkateFiguring. I hope MM continues to report on partial credit. Can you imagine saying someone won the championship by attempting it? Maybe the prettiest could win.Mathman, the effect of no partial credit will be completely different in the real competition, unlike with this mish mash group of QR skaters.
I wish I could take the credit for "my system", but these were considered errors in the not so old, 6.0 system.Seniorita, the NPC is the new scoring system developed by Joesitz - 0 points for a fall or a wrong edge. Deduction penalty stays. Now a fall = -1 no matter what jump it is.
A Wrong Edge Takeoff has several errors, the least of which shows that the attempted jump has no name since all the jumps are named by their takeoffs. other problems with the WET, there is no Counter Rotation because the skater is in Flip mode and he lands the jump in Flip mode. Conclusion: There was no Lutz to judge. 0 is the only possible score.
A FALL has also a number of questionable parts to it, the most of which is that it disrupts the entire flow of the skater's program, and begs the question: what is the Senior Division all about? There is also the possibility that the competitor could never do a particular element so he Falls expecting partial credit. It has happened! it can also hide an UR because the skater can not actually do the compete rotations. The GoE is an automatic -1 deduction for disrupting the program. That is presumed to take care of the incomplete elements and the effect it has on the flow of the program. 0 should be the score of the element and a failing grade in the PCs.
^^^At the greatest pageant, Miss Universe or World or whatever, there is one entry per nation. It doesn't matters if your country produces the most beauties in the world/universe and they could have easily won the runners up as well.
That may be true but pageants typically have one from as many countries that they can get to be an association member.
That's what makes it a pageant and not a sport. Some of these skaters in the Men's and Ladies preliminaries are so far below a few top skaters sitting home that it feels strange. Or non-sporting.
I think the qualifying procedures are badly outdated. Look to more successful sports like tennis and golf. They don't leave out top ten players so they can have "b" players taking part.
Where would Yuna Kim be if she wasn't given the first chance to compete internationally based on her national federation membership? Where would the sport of skating be in Korea, which is now one of the favorite places for skaters to perform?
The total number of skaters at real competitions, at least by LP, will have been filtered and reduced. More screening and filtering methods may be introduced and tweaked, but a representative per member federation should stay a right. Every one should have the right to be a wild card.
Nobody is made to watch all the rounds of the whole competition.