- Joined
- Sep 17, 2011
The life of a judge is hard and stressful. You get only minutes to decide GOE and PCS for things that take even expert viewers quite a bit of discussion. Sometimes when in a hurry, a judge might be forced to completely make things up. It's a similar principle to overworked, stressed-out college students making up data in lab reports or making up inventive reasons for why their experiment went wrong (where you'll fail if you just write "we screwed it all up"). But what if the technical panel did GOE for the jumps? They can view things in slow motion and see all the flaws in detail. And would be less likely to just give out straight +1 for a good skater and straight +3 for a great skater when intoxicated. That also gives the other judges more time to mull over PCS and pay attention to the spins and steps, deciding whether they actually fit the music, had decent transitions, etc.