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Red Dog said:Yes, but by doing that you also sort of defeat the purpose of having the final in the first place. Why not just scrap the entire GP while they're at it?
Because that would be stupid?!
The GP is fine - competitions during which skaters can get prize money, competition experience, get their programs out earlier in the season to warm them up. Then there's Europeans/4CC as "championships" that aren't worth as much as Worlds but more than GP (though admittedly the ISU need to do some work on the 4CC). The GPF sits on its own as a competition that is not as important as Worlds or Europeans (notice i have purposefully left 4CC behind at this point ). So what does it show? IF the ISU are still trying to plug the fact that CoP scores can be compared from competition to competition (which given they still have this "personal best" crap coming up all over the place they obviously still do) then why not delcare the people with the highest cummulative marks over their two point scoring competions the winner? Its all as meaningless as having the GPF anyway?
Ant