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Here We Go Again! Nationals Inflation!

I agree that the biggest issue is to make sure the tech panel is suitably strict at Nationals. I mean, look at the hole it dug for the USFSA last season, when they appointed a lenient tech panel for the Ladies LP...if the tech panel had called all the URs, everything would have been moot.
 
karne said:
I agree that the biggest issue is to make sure the tech panel is suitably strict at Nationals. I mean, look at the hole it dug for the USFSA last season, when they appointed a lenient tech panel for the Ladies LP...if the tech panel had called all the URs, everything would have been moot.
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Precisely, The judging there created a whole issue around Ashley that hurt both her and the entire federation for no real reason.
 
Russian Men got a Christmas Gift at Nationals....but it seems the Japanese Judges do not believe in Christmas Giving.

Some very reasonable scores from the Judges for the Men's SP in Japan.
 
Newbiespectator said:
Russian Men got a Christmas Gift at Nationals....but it seems the Japanese Judges do not believe in Christmas Giving.

Some very reasonable scores from the Judges for the Men's SP in Japan.
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94 for Hanyu with a 3-2, only one quad and not clean is plenty generous.

But Kovtun's score - and the fact that he won at all - was an utter disgrace, I agree.
 
Voronov won the FS with a tech score more than 9 points higher than Kovtun's, which means Kovtun had to have doubled at least one quad and popped some other jumps. So what did the judges do? They gave Max all 9s in PCS and Sergei all 8s, to ensure Max won. I can't wait to see the protocols.

I don't see the purpose in that, either. Kovtun has a history of rarely skating two clean programs in a competition, and sometimes he can't skate even one clean program in a competition. So why score Kovtun as if he did, and at the same time fail to reward Voronov for actually doing what Kovtun couldn't?

At least Hanyu deserves the high PCS scores. Kovtun gets them just for putting on skates and entering the rink.
 
karne said:
94 for Hanyu with a 3-2, only one quad and not clean is plenty generous.

But Kovtun's score - and the fact that he won at all - was an utter disgrace, I agree.
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Yuzuru would have gotten higher if he had gotten all the levels on his spins and step sequence. Tatsuki too.

I don't even care about Kovtun's SP scores anymore. His PCS for his LP was an utter disgrace. 9's for PCS is like Patrick Chan level and Kovtun is nowhere near Chan's level. Maybe only in the eyes of the Russian judges :rolleye: And I know Voronov should have won but imo Voronov's PCS was too high as well. Both of them should have gotten way lower PCS.
 
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I don't really care what Kovtun scores, give him 10s if you like, but he shouldn't have won over Voronov. That's more annoying to me than any 98s or 94s or 61s.

Newbiespectator said:
Russian Men got a Christmas Gift at Nationals....but it seems the Japanese Judges do not believe in Christmas Giving.

Some very reasonable scores from the Judges for the Men's SP in Japan.
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The Japanese Nationals scores were actually too low, imo. Well, too low in this post-inflation world, compared to their international scores. Especially Machida's.
 
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