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- Mar 21, 2004
Would you care to explain what you mean by "that freeskate"? You can't get your point across if don't back up your argument with evidence in a logical and meaning way.:think:
You may be right if messing up one or two elements should be detrimental to PCS. Contrary to what some of posters here believe, however, PCS scores are affected in relatively small scale by failed elements and IMO it should be that way. Stakers are already being penalized heavily on their TES for their mistakes. If you think that a skater should be also penalized on their PCS for their mistakes as much as on their TES, we might as well ditch music and PCS and just keep TES only, IMO.
To illustrate how PCS works, Mao, with two mistakes in LP, got 71.76 at the Olympics while Mirai, with clean LP, got 60.56. According to your logic, Mao should have gotten much less PCS score than 60.56, which means Mao shouldn't have won the Silver, or maybe out of the podium depending on how detrimental the two mistakes should be to PCS. This may sound absurd to most of posters here, but that is what some posters are suggesting. Can I go even as low as saying PCS scores are given to Mao because of her reputation and what she did in past competitions (please understand that this is not what I really think about Mao's performance at the Olympics. I think Mao got what she deserved)?
I often find many people jump to a conclusion that a skater with a mistake should get less PCS than someone else with a clean skate. However, the current judging system doesn't work that way. Otherwise, a skater with a clean skate will win over all other skaters with a mistake or two but with higher quality. At that point, there is no point in having music and PCS in figure skating, IMHO.
For those who complain about PCS without any logical foundation, please think about this: would you rather have FS with less-than-perfect PCS or FS with perfect TES but without music and PCS?
Please don't get me worng. I don't have any problem with people who do constructive criticism against the current judging system because I understand that it is not perfect and still in the making. I am only against those who just use the not-so-perfect judging system as a way to bash a certain skater.
PS. All the scores above are PCS scores.
in short, yuna skated from heart at the oly and i enjoyed her LP (freeskate) even though i never liked her program this season. This might be due to the fact that I love her LP last season so much that I'm expecting alot from her. On the other hand, I felt mao's LP was better performed (better performed here does not refer to not falling), even though I don't like this music for her.
the PCS given out at the oly were ridiculous and I don't understand it either. It seems like it's given out based on how much a skater has achieved in their PAST competitions (this seems to be reflected in the PCS given to yuna and mao at worlds LP)
This is totally my opinion, you don't have to believe in whatever I say