I'm literally speechless mate...
1. "Mao's 3A was quite solid" : how so? it's clearly two foot landed and should've been downgraded.
It appears you are speechless because you are not familiar with how our sport actually works, this isn't swimming. Two foot landing and jump downgrade are two completely different animals. Two footed jump doesn't in anyway suggest a jump needs to be UR, much less downgraded. I don't think you understand the difference between Under-Rotation and Downgrade, maybe you should start by differentiating these different terms to begin with?
2. "audiences reactions....." : -_-
They were the live witnesses and were in a much better position to judge than people who watched it over some scratchy feed with pixel and unstable connections issues. Some people in the crowd are very knowledgeable and experienced based on decades on involvement with the sport, including many former / current skaters, officials (e.g. British Team officials sat behind us during the OD and they were dissecting the level on Virtue/Moir's twizzle) . With a bunch of them together, very few errors in single skating can escape their eyes. In this case, I feel this London crowd really knows their stuff well, those are some pretty hard-core people who are willing to pay thousands of dollars for these tickets + travel and accommodation not just some $12 streaming sites or free internet links.
3. "... felt the jump got enough rotations in" : you FELT. but it didn't. The rotation wasn't finished when she landed.
Interesting, where did you get this
fact from? Because you say so? I provided
my assessment on the jump and sometimes, I don't agree with the Tech Panel as was the case with Kevin Reynolds last night but I don't need anyone else to tell me how to render a call. It doesn't make my opinion a fact and I don't expect everyone to agree. You need to understand Figure Skating is not a sport where decisions are made with the precision of a Rolex timer. It's entirely possible a different panel would have called it differently. Yu Na, had in the past, being on both sides of such call. Sometimes, she got lucky, other times, a case could be made that the call was too strict. That's why there are 3 people on the Technical Panel and the majority wins where a consensus is not possible.
4. "the judges didn't have the opportunity to review the jumps on slow-motion replays like you guys do in front of a screen" : really? how come I could tell Mao's 3A was two footed and should get downgraded straight from the live stream? I didn't have to watch it over and over again. And where was the tech judge? why was he/she so generous on Mao not on some skaters?
FYI, there is no such thing as a "tech judge" in Figure Skating. I appreciate you want to learn more about our sport but clearly, there is still a lot you don't know. There is a technical controller, a technical specialist and an assistant technical specialist. The three of them together formed the "Technical Panel" and these people are never referred as judges, as this term specifically refers to another group of officials who have totally different functions. Whether a jump is fully rotated or not is NEVER determined by a single person. In any event, these people you accused of being lenient on Mao's Triple Axel also happened to UR her Triple Flip in her jump combo. So if there is a pattern of favoritism towards Mao today, I certainly failed to see one. And I am pretty sure in Australia, you guys also require solid evidence before you can reasonably accuse other people of cheating so what evidences do you hold?
5. "I think you can understand why the scoring of this element really isn't controversial at all as many seemed to think" : no I literally do not understand why she got 8.50+0.14 on that 3A.
I am not surprised, I don't think even Yu Na fans here would want to associate themselves with you because you clearly don't have enough knowledge about our sport to be throwing out these serious accusations on the judging.
