Please tell that to the people selling me the tickets...
Determine the placements in advance?? The only thing ordinals determines is which 3 have equal footing for gold.
You seem to be looking only at cases where more than 3 people are close in points. I agree that ordinals CAN be seen as unfair in some of those situations. But I already explained how under CoP, pre-determined placements are usually MORE common, if skaters are separated by too many points. This happens very often. Even at its worst, the only thing that is "determined" by SP ordinals is what 3 competitors have a realistic chance at gold. The final PLACEMENTS in the FS are more often determined in the SP under CoP.
You want to ignore all the benefits of ordinals, and you support CoP letting the SP suck the excitement out of many FS's "when it is deserved." Fine, that's your opinion. But saying SP ordinals "determine the placements" and CoP SP scores don't is more or less the OPPOSITE of reality. That's my point here...
First of all huge leads from the short program dont' happen that often. I think they have happened twice this season (and thats with 15 short programs) What mostly happens is maybe a small lead. And people go from 5 to first all the time in this system, so the long program is even more important now than it was under 6.0
The current system gives more people a chance to win if they skate well and that's why I'm for it.