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- Aug 8, 2013
sport is entertainment too, people just watch sports for entertainment and fun.
That's true. It definitely competes with other entertainment for attention.
I think it's true that many people don't consider FS as a serious sport, thinking it's too feminine. If they can't change that and can't depend on ever-presence of a big star, how about trying with modifying the scoring system so that it encourages skaters to take a different, individualized direction for their programs? I think popularity of FS is hurt partly because it produces too many cookie-cutter programs to familiar music/themes (i.e. BORING).
Skaters are already tied up with the business of meeting all those level requirements, which are impossible to decipher and all look similar for the casual viewers. And the current COP doesn't reward enough for creativity, individuality or fresh interpretation. For a change, they don't need to depart from the COP, they could just modify and re-calibrate the scoring criteria. It's a pity that figure skating, with its speedy, agile gliding and fluidity of movements, has many strengths as a unique vehicle for performance and presentation of a theme, but its scoring system doesn't work toward encouraging the skaters to fully exploit that and promoting enough their expression and interpretation.