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Red Dog said:Somehow I feel this new scoring system was rushed into place without enough testing or tweaking. IMO one GP season isn't enough. If they thought that this would improve the credibility of the judging, they've got another think coming. This new system will be exposed to the world at the Olympics next year and it's barely one season old. Still very confusing and a lot of mistakes have happened.
I completely understand your points, and think they are valid. But the alternative seems to be a longer "test" period where both COP and 6.0 would be used throughout competitive seasons. The criteria are different, and I tend to think that the skaters have a clearer path to the podium by adopting the new system after two seasons of combined (COP and 6.0) scored events rather than prolonging use of two different judging systems. I don't know for sure, since I'm not a skater. But I respect your opinion on these matters, and am interested to know how you view the pros/cons of more quickly implementing a new system v. testing the new system for a longer period, which seems to imply that skaters would have to compete under two different systems for a longer period.
DG