You all have been asked multiple times to knock it off with the conspiracy posts.
Even if you hadn't please note: It is boring to the vast majority of users here.
Also it clogs up this very busy thread.
Inconsistencies in edge and UR calls happen to all skaters. We have had threads about it (many of them). One could use the search feature and find one of them and add to that thread rather than pontificate in this one.
Maybe they happen, but I doubt it was in such amount ever two weeks continuosly and in the middle of the season.
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I don't think that it is a conspiracy theory just to wonder about such sudden change, also I don't think that calling about conspiracy theories whenever somebody disagrees with the calls is not the best (group) reaction how to deal with the opposite opinion. Esp. when there is paralell thread full of claims about Alina Zagitova's PCS score "so high only because she is OGM". If I had to choose, than I would call conspiracy theory rather this. We can discuss about edges, exchange videos and gifs, there is something to discuss. About PCS there is nothing like "here is my argument for this claim", it's just the claim. Anybody can say it if he thinks so, but the reactions to those different claims are completely different. Also, when tech panel does according to the opinion of the those who see flat edges behind every straw, it is "composed of the professionals". While weren't the tech panels who were allegedly overlooking bad edges in the past composed of professionals as well? Either they were wrong previously or now.
Whe people claim "but Satoko got numerous UR calls, so no bias", I say it's wrong comparison. Satoko's UR calls didn't come out of the blue in CoC, she's received them throughout her whole career. And her jumps are objectively very small though she is rotating fast so often she rotates properly (just over the 3/4 border). But not the same twist as 5 lutzes clean once and 5 lutzes "!" three weeks later. Again, the argument is "but you can't compare two different competitions" (while still comparing someone's SB with the other from different event
). But if calls shgould serve as a note to skater what should be done better, on what he/she should work, that giving two completely opposite signals is not good not just for the skater but for figure skating as a sport. There is a rule that when one judge gives too different goe to an element from the others, he has to explain this. I think similar rule should be applied to when some tech panel/panel of the judges differs so much from the others in such short time.
As for my opinion on Anna's FS in CoC, I am willing to mark her first 4Lz as !, while when landed, the blade crossed 3/4 border of the last turn to me. So this shouldn't be called as UR IMO. Second quad, well, if Satoko's Lz is "very slightly outside"
, than this one is slightly outside (note: slightly outside is more than very slightly outside
). The rest, combo 3Lz can't be seen properly to me from any angle, the last one to me is "slightly outside as well.
You think the judge made a bad call, and maybe they did. See point A: "wuzzrobbing".
