Carolina's tech marks are pretty accurate, I think.
The odd thing is the PCS marks, and as others have said, the problem is not limited to Carolina.
It seems to me that so often the judges are awarding the PCS marks in a peculiar way, and it is a way that is well illustrated by Carolina's marks.
Carolina is an amazingly fast skater. And she has deep edges. This would logically lead to a high skating skills value, as defined by the rules.
The PCS marks, as awarded by judges, seem to index off the Skating Skills component. That is, they only vary 0.25 to 0.50 from it. So if a skater is getting 8.0 in skating skils, for example, they will get no lower than 7.5 for transitions or choreography, despite the presence or absence of transitions and choreography in the program. The best example of this is Plushenko's Olympic program which had relatively few transitions.
Because Carolina, like Plushenko, has good skating skills, she ends up with high PCS marks across the board.
What needs fixing is how Transitions, Performance, Choreography and Execution are graded. If they are going to only index off skating skills, there's no point keeping track of 4 other marks.
The odd thing is the PCS marks, and as others have said, the problem is not limited to Carolina.
It seems to me that so often the judges are awarding the PCS marks in a peculiar way, and it is a way that is well illustrated by Carolina's marks.
Carolina is an amazingly fast skater. And she has deep edges. This would logically lead to a high skating skills value, as defined by the rules.
The PCS marks, as awarded by judges, seem to index off the Skating Skills component. That is, they only vary 0.25 to 0.50 from it. So if a skater is getting 8.0 in skating skils, for example, they will get no lower than 7.5 for transitions or choreography, despite the presence or absence of transitions and choreography in the program. The best example of this is Plushenko's Olympic program which had relatively few transitions.
Because Carolina, like Plushenko, has good skating skills, she ends up with high PCS marks across the board.
What needs fixing is how Transitions, Performance, Choreography and Execution are graded. If they are going to only index off skating skills, there's no point keeping track of 4 other marks.