Johnny Weir said:“They try to make it as complicated as possible so you can’t see what goes on behind closed doors,” Weir said. “The system is just smoke and mirrors.”
In order to have his words taken more seriously by the media, and in order to be in somewhat closer to the center of the figure skating stage, Johnny Weir announced his return.
I never know why the word "complex" is applied to Code of Points. There are only 3 operators, addition, multiplication, and subtraction: x number of points for this, multiply by 1.y, subtract 1.0 for falls, etc. And it's not like it's difficult math either, like Laplace transforms or non-trivial integration.
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But I just thought of an idea. You can treat CoP as the same black box as 6.0 was. Solely look at the results and never look at the protocols. And if you disagree with results, you can say, hey, why did Skater A score less than Skater B? uhhhh ... judges trading votes?
The above is not necessarily a bad thing. That's what I do with gymnastics CoP. For me, their new system is just like the 10.0 system. I have no idea what's going on with either one, only the scales are different.
louisa05 said:Do you have any idea how difficult that is for some of us? It is downright unappealing to try to quantify all of that for ourselves.
Feeling as he does about the judging system, one has to wonder why Weir wants to return to this business of "smoke and Mirrors."
Feeling as he does about the judging system, one has to wonder why Weir wants to return to this business of "smoke and Mirrors."
^ Oh, come on. Just because Johnny married a man doesn't mean he wants to burn all the brides.
Why number 6?