That you'd suggest Sawyer should have come 2nd over Chan after that disastrous SP
Chan's LP was disastrous. The LP counts for more than the SP.
and that you'd suggest Takahashi's 2012 SP was as technically flawed when he downgraded a jump, is enough to tell me that you just have it out for Chan.
You lose 2.8 points for downgrading a Triple Toe to a Double (and that jump should NOT have been called as << for Takhashi to begin with, it only merited a single underrotation call). Chan lost 2.7 points by messing up his footwork sequence and he also stepped out of his Quad, which deserved just about the same -GOE on it as Takahashi did for his clean Quad + messy Triple Toe combination.
Hanyu wasn't held down at the GPF 2011 because of reputation judging. It's because he was an unrefined skater coming out of the junior ranks, while others had been on the senior scene longer.
LMAO!!! WHAT YOU JUST SAID IS EXACTLY WHAT DEFINES REPUTATION JUDGING.
Others had been on the scene longer and hence Hanyu was vastly underscored because the judges didn't "know" him. What do you not understand? His skating was not unrefined either, it was inspired. He was stunning.
suggesting he should have won overall, especially given his SP error and 3S error in the FS, is something I totally disagree with.
Chan made two errors in the SP and three errors in the LP. He didn't deserve to have much of a cushion over Hanyu to begin with. Hanyu's performance, choreography, and interpretation were all better than Chan's and he was already doing very difficult 3Axel entrances. With an additional mistake as compared to Hanyu in the SP and two additional mistakes as compared to Hanyu in the LP, the latter should have won. If they had both skated exactly like that THIS season, Hanyu would have won.