How exactly? She had a fall in the FS just like Anna but her BV was about 5 points lower (and 20 points lower than Trusova, btw). You could argue that Anna was overscored on some of her jumps and spins and I’d agree with you (the last FCSp2 as well as the solo 3Lz should probably have gotten negative GOE) but again - you‘d have to lower her GOE by about 10 points for Liza to beat her. And I don‘t see why she should have beaten Anna in PCS either. She doesn‘t have better skating skills, loses quite a bit on transitions and I don‘t think her performance or interpretation were better than Anna‘s either, though that‘s certainly more of a subjective matter.
Now, Sasha is another story when it comes to PCS and I probably would have given her 61 instead of the 66 she received. But other than that, she wins on BV, like she tends to do. And Liza didn‘t show anything extraordinarily difficult to beat that.
So, yeah, even if you leave Liza‘s score exactly the same and subtract about 7-8 points from Sasha and Anna‘s in areas they were overscored, it doesn‘t change a thing. They beat Liza by more than 10 points and frankly, if you lower their scores by that much, hers needs to be lowered as well since it’s not like she wasn‘t overscored herself. And for the record, I‘m neither a particularly Sasha nor Anna fan (like I am of Aliona, which makes me prone to being biased), though I admit to preferring both of them over her.
Personally, I think it‘s silly to deny the judging favors Liza is receiving right now. Yes, she is significantly older than the other competitors and deserving of a lot of respect for staying around but being older shouldn‘t be reflected in PCS. I have nothing against her beating Aliona here as she was better. It‘s the difference I heavily disagree with because it just doesn‘t reflect what was shown on the ice. And by the way, I defended Liza when she was severely underscored in the earlier Russian competitions last year. But I‘ll also say something now that the opposite is happening.
It was a mistake on my part. Should have said the SP. I went back and corrected it. Anna deserved her gold medal and i applauded her then and now for that.
But if Liza doesn’t get a call, I won’t cry over that either. I don’t complain about any scores. I accept them wholeheartedly.
I’m seeing a pattern where if someone doesn’t agree with tne judges, the judges are corrupt, incompetent, giving out favors, blind, bribed, a combination of the above or all of the above.
You know what I don‘t see? The person criticizing the judges admitting that the judges know more than them and they are the ones that got the scoring wrong and not the judges. If fans knew more than the judges, then they would be asked to judge.
But it’s easier to castigate the judge rather than seeing the deficiencies of the skaters that lead them to them getting a worse score than someone else.
PCS, and words like artistry are all opinion. And I’ll value the officials opinions way more than people whose favorites might have been overrated by them and whose favorites just flat out aren’t as good as they think.
Happens in sports all the time when a team finishes 20 points behind the champions but that team was still “better.”
In skating, someone gets blown out but they are somehow still better because they lost in a “jumping contest.” I can go on and on.
When Liza is inevitably on the other side of the fence where she doesn’t get the judgement call, I’ll accept the decision too. A world top 5 skater is being scored like a top 5 skater. It’s hardly a scandal.
People just need to start taking defeat with grace. Liza could bomb tonight or be overtaken by a better skate. And I’ll be here to congratulate anyone that does.
