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Another question I've been wondering about is if we should just award a certain score bonus for the last two groups? Something like a 3pt bonus reflected on the final score for making the final group and 1.5 for the second group (FS ONLY). We know it already happens in every event. Why not just get it out there and identify it and why it is happening? I recognize there is added hype and pressure being head to head with the best in the competition and as such I don't even know if I'd have a problem with this. It's all these little unspoken rules and ways that the numbers are derived that make the score a for me. Lets just identify the elephant in the room already and then let the Math take over from there.
This might just be a judging tendency that originated under 6.0, in which judges had to leave room in the marks for later skaters. I'd guess the vast majority, if not all, Olympic judges also judged under 6.0 so this just be a mindset that is hard for them to shake. It does lead to some baffling scores though, such as when Gracie, Julia and Mao are all scored within two points of each other in PCS in the Sochi LP. With IJS it seems less excusable because the scoring tries to appear more scientific, when it really isn't.