I haven't seen it, but from your comment I'm getting an impression...so, Chan ends SC with a
score higher than Takhashi at Nagoya...:disapp: ...no comment...
You don't "need" to, the bullets are only guidelines, but yes judges tend to take it literally in most cases. it's RIDICULOUS that there is only one GOE bullet for both the height and distance of a jump when those are the most important qualities of a jump.
Wow. I read all the comments here before watching the event on PVR. I was expecting to see a disaster of a skate from Chan, and stellar skating from everyone else based on the comments ripping Chan to shreds. Then I watched the PVR and this is how I saw the skating:
In THIS competition, there were only 2 skaters that skated with their music:
Your joking right. Actually while Chan has amazing skating skills, a lot of times his movements have nothing to do with the music and everything to do with fitting some transition in there. And if what you say is correct once again Adam skates with the music and manages not to fall 3 times in his short program in comparision to Chan and only gets 3 points more. Yep 3 points more. Sorry if the rest of us think that its more than a little unfair.
If I recall correctly, the new updates to the rules means that there is LESS penalty for wonky jumps. I think that had something to do with some Olympic proportion sour grapes from the other side of the world?
The point is in THIS competition the scores were consistently applied. Again, in an international panel of judges, when all judges come up with basically the same scores, it's pretty hard to say that the scores are "cooked". I'd buy the argument if the judging was all over the map, but it wasn't
Lots of fans and powerful members of the ISU don't want the quad to disappear as it was in danger of after the results of 2008, 2009 worlds and 2010 Olympics. If a technical progression becomes so risky (and the quad with mistakes was going down to zero points) that skaters don't do it to many that is technical regression. When the three Japanese skaters at NHK all did quads the president of the Japanese federation was thrilled.
LMAO. You don't "need" to, the bullets are only guidelines, but yes judges tend to take it literally in most cases. For Patrick's Quad he certainly did NOT have #1, he didn't have #2, he didn't have #3, #4 is NO (/questionable) and it's RIDICULOUS that there is only one GOE bullet for both the height and distance of a jump when those are the most important qualities of a jump, #5 is questionanble, #6 is a YES, #7 is a YES, #8 is a NO.
He deserved +1 or maybe +1.5 if the GOE grades were allowed to be input like that (they should be).