linda vanwormer said:1. Irina Slutskyaya 394.18 #l either way
2. Mao Asada 359.02 #2 either way
3. Shizuka Arakawa 346.90 #8 using placements
4. Alissa Czisny 327,62 #3 using placements
5. Miki Ando 326,64 #6 using placements
6. Joannie Rochette 325.52 #7 using placements
While I would also like to see those ladies get to compete in the final, if we only look at CoP, what's the point holding 6 different competitions?CDMM1991 said:Well that settles it for me. those are the ladies that should be in the Grand Prix Final, so it looks like that's the way they should be counting it.
MM - How does the tie breaker work? There were 4 Ladies with 14 points:Mathman said:I agree with Ptichka's observation. In every sport a team can make the playoffs by winning a weak division. That's life.
I do feel sorry for Joannie, though. She tied with Miki on the first tie-breaker and lost by only 1 point on the second.
MM
rain said:it could play out to the benefit of those not going, as they'll have more time to buckle down and prepare for the Olympics
Ptichka said:While I would also like to see those ladies get to compete in the final, if we only look at CoP, what's the point holding 6 different competitions?
tripleflutz said:...We need to get rid of the inaccurate placings system, a hjoldover from 6.0, and use the COP total points to decide these things.
... Any system that puts Sokolova and Nakano on top of Shizuka and Joannie is just plain stupid.
...Hasn't figure skating had enough stupidity. Will we ever have someone besides $peedy and his group of brain dead followers to decide these things.
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...If COP points were used, it wouldn't matter where or against who a skater competed and all the events would be equally attractive from the competitive point of view.
...And just having the gold medalists in the final is just as silly, because that would still have Sokolova and Nakano in there.
...If they keep it the way it is now, then no matter how hard they try to spread the talent, there will always be injuries and dropouts and some skaters will have it easy while others have it tough, but if they use the points then it will always be fair to everyone.
rain said:See, the problem with just using point totals is that point totals trend upwards as the season goes on, in other words, those who skate at later competitions tend to have higher point totals. This gives a clear and unfair advantage to those who happen to draw GP assignments later in the year...