9.25? Wow! How come PE, CH, and IN are so much higher than SS and TR, too? Mirai's TR can't be 5.0, either.
I have had an impression that the judges in this comp were a bit extreme in the score gaps both in SP and LP. This kind of trend is observed in relatively a smaller comp like Regionals and Nationals where there are actually wide gaps in skills among skaters and the # of skaters is large. So the top skaters receive inflated scores. But it was a senior GP event and we only had a bit more than ten skaters.
Honestly, all this talk about the who are now the front-runners for the U.S. Olympic team ... I think the truth is we are right back to where we started at the beginning of the season with a completely unpredictable competition.
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This particular comment sounds to me like Caroline is sniping more at herself and her failed strategy than at the judges. No?:think:
Laura is landing far too close to the barriers at times.
I deleted my entry as I wasn't sure if it was by the same judge...
Yes. Judge number eight is always judge number eight.
actually i checked the protocol again, but didn't seem to see any 9.0.
LOL! In a British accent, no doubt.When the judge #8 watched joannie's performance
he/she must have thought like this ;
" Oh~ Mind-boggling. I ve' never seen a single skater skate to the music
as well as that. Her jumps are so difficult, almost impossible, brilliant,
elegant the step sequence, she hit every beat of the music.
Brilliant program, superb choreography! What a feel she has. just amazing."
I love doing that. I've once seen the opposite of what you pointed out here--a judge who scored fairly evenly with the other judges for almost all the skaters, but then the scores took a nosedive when it came to a particular skater.I deleted my entry as I wasn't sure if it was by the same judge. In other words, can we at least tell from the protocols what one judge has given to different skaters or is it 'concealed' too?
Either way, those scores do stand out in a bad bad way.
For instance, why did Judge #8 give Joannie 9.25 for Choreography, when two other judges gave her 7.25? That's a 2.0 point variance. And then this same judge marks Alissa, giving her some of the lowest PCS scores. Very suspicious, indeed.
Disclaimer: I am not knocking Canada or Joannie at all. I'm just saying that that should not happen.
The whole purpose of CoP is that that kind of variance of "taste" scores should not happen to a large extent; it is supposed to be a little more objective. Judges shouldn't be "looking for different things"; they should be open-minded as far as styles go but looking for the same indicators of quality.But why not? Isn't that a reason why we have a few judges, not just one?
PCS and even GOE is very subjective and we want to know the opinions of as many judges as possible and take the average of them into the final score.
I'm always worried when PCS is too similar across the board. Especially when I don't see how it reflect what happens on the ice. In that case I got an impressions that judges do reputation judging.
But when the score differ significantly I always think that this means that we have judges with many different tastes and who are looking for different things in the skating and that is a good thing.
I can easily imagine a judge giving Joannie let's say 6.0 for choreography and another one thinking that it deserves 9.25. Thay are all numbers after all and do not carry any definite value when it comes to figure skating.
The whole purpose of CoP is that that kind of variance of "taste" scores should not happen to a large extent; it is supposed to be a little more objective. Judges shouldn't be "looking for different things"; they should be open-minded as far as styles go but looking for the same indicators of quality.
I would find it a huge problem if a score like 6.0 was given for a PC and then another judge gave 9.25. One of these judges is extremely incompetent...or worse.