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- Jan 17, 2014
In fact, statistically the five components can be reduced to just one. Just copy the SS score 4 times and for TR, put down .5 less.
I always guessed that the reason is that judges feel more confident in counting the transitions and saying to themselves, "Hey, that program didn't have any transitions at all, to speak of."
Whereas they are less secure in saying, "That program didn't interpret the music worth a darn!"
But that doesn’t explain why Eteri skaters do not get higher TR than SS. They are extreme cases, Med, Zagi. But it is pretty obvious they have a ton of TR quantitatively but the basic SS are really just average. Surely the judges can deem fit to score 9 in TR and 7 in SS. It’s strange that we rarely have a spread in the components when the differences can be stark. SS in particular is something that even the top skaters do not excel. CaroK and Mao harked back to the remnants of the last 6.0 era while someone like PChan, Marin Honda and Alyona K are exceptions and credit must go to their talent (Honda) and the formative training from their early coaches - Coach Colson for PChan and Ice Dancer Elena Zhgun for Alyona.