Well a lot of people will disagree with Chan's win but this is what happened. Over the two skates he was the best in points overall based upon the current scoring system. His skating skills, interpretation, choreography, performance et al is at a very high level compared to most of the other men's skater. Despite the errors other skaters missed jumps as well and Parick is strong in footwork, spins so when you add up all the points he does very well. Chan's win is like Carolina - their skating in other areas are so far superior it holds them up especially on a skating night when almost everyone other than Ten who is far behind in skating skills made errors. the judging criteria allowed Chan to win in short despite jumping errors his overall effort or point total was higher than everyone one else.
for the record Carolina did not win nor did she get the highest PCS
unlike Chanflated Fraud
Yes, because he turned a planned 4S into a 3S, so he landed two 4Ts and two 3Ss, then he landed a second 3F and it wasn't considered...And Joubert had a jumping pass not count because of a Zayak penalty, AFAIR?
You can't understand it. Now people will start writing pages after pages "explaining" numbers, GOEs, maths, etc. to you. But in fact it won't give you any answer. Except probably one- GOE is a highly customized tool in achieving whatever target was set.The Plush thread got me to ask. Not just Chan's win, but they all have me confused. I thought Dai deserved much better and Joubert as well. I totally need help understanding the mens placements. Thanks.
Carolina had a fall and still had a highest PCS in SP, so maybe that's what Skater Boy is talking about.
This...So basically the CoP is a mess and instead of making cheating less likely from the judges, it just sort of covers it up. Judges can still play favorites and hide behind this illusion of "quantifying" their assessments when in reality, they're basically just giving a skater deserving of a 5.9 a 5.5 but presenting their judgment as some ridiculous sum total number that appears to be fair but really isnt. So this is why Patrick Chan wins when it's clear to everyone that he didn't deserve to.
I think it was fair that Denis Ten won the FS at least. The problem was that Patrick Chan was allowed to run away with the lead in the SP, and had basically won the title before the LP was even skated. My Mom actually said that to prevent that they should just skate the LP.