I'm sorry, I am going to be negative, but half baked gobbledygook from Ari Z. once again.
No list of the nominees except what fans have compiled?
And so how much is fan voted and how much a panel of experts?
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I don't think there is any panel of experts. The nominees seem purely chosen by fans. And the final result will be the result of the fans' voting. It's nothing but a popularity vote.
Honestly, I voted for the fun, but this whole thing holds no worth whatsoever and I fear the ceremony will be embarrassing again.
I'm unsure about the nomination process leading up to the fan vote, but the fan vote is only a component, It then goes to a panel selected by the ISU to pick the winners.
If memory serves me right, the fans vote for the top three, but a panel of experts decide the winner from among the top three.I'm sorry, I am going to be negative, but half baked gobbledygook from Ari Z. once again.
No list of the nominees except what fans have compiled?
And so how much is fan voted and how much a panel of experts?
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If memory serves me right, the fans vote for the top three, but a panel of experts decide the winner from among the top three.
I have no idea how the experts nominate these choices, but I'm still gonna vote anyway to support my favorite skaters and my favorite coach...![]()
I'm pretty sure the lifetime achievement and special achievement awards are at the discretion of the judging panel, there wasn't a public vote for those awards in past years either. I suppose it's similar to lifetime achievement awards in other industries...I could vote but only in 6 categories, there was no category for lifetime achievement or special achievement. Is there a reason for this?
The panel last year was a hot mess almost all of the "panel" was either from North America, British or lived in the US for years.. you guessed it the award winners were almost all Americans or Canadians. So glad the ISU is showing fans that voting blocs still exist.
Well, we can blame (or credit) Ari Zakarian for that as well, can't we?. Of course, the previous "winners" we can blame or credit him for as well.![]()
Well, I couldn't even get in and saw no nominees. My address and password should have been the same as last year....nope. And recovering lead either to 'this address is already used' or "address not known" and not getting a mail. Sigh. Well, as far as I can see, most of you aren't really enjoying it, so I'll pass then.
I agree this is one of the stupidest ideas that I have ever seen.I watched some of this last year and outside of watching Ilia's performance it had no value as far I could see. I want skating to get a higher profile but there are much better ways of doing it. Last year the event dragged Ilia away from his training and stopped him from competing in 4CC's, something in long run he needs far more, to do this event and the associated two weeks of ices shows in Europe in run up fior worlds. This popularity contest is not needed and if Ari feels the need to put the fans though this again could we move all of this to end of the season so the skaters could train for Worlds uninterrupted and better yet stop this nonsense and find something else please.Oh no. Not this again.
I think these awards should be after Worlds. It shouldn't interrupt preparing for Worlds.I agree this is one of the stupidest ideas that I have ever seen.I watched some of this last year and outside of watching Ilia's performance it had no value as far I could see. I want skating to get a higher profile but there are much better ways of doing it. Last year the event dragged Ilia away from his training and stopped him from competing in 4CC's, something in long run he needs far more, to do this event and the associated two weeks of ices shows in Europe in run up fior worlds. This popularity contest is not needed and if Ari feels the need to put the fans though this again could we move all of this to end of the season so the skaters could train for Worlds uninterrupted and better yet stop this nonsense and find something else please.
I get the impression that they never would've dreamed to put it close to Europeans. But Four continents? Totally fine.I think these awards should be after Worlds. It shouldn't interrupt preparing for Worlds.
While I agree with your sentiment, it didn't actually drag ilia away from 4CC- I believe he'd already committed to performing in Art on Ice shows prior to that and was going to miss it anyway. Same was also true of Knierim and Frazier.I agree this is one of the stupidest ideas that I have ever seen.I watched some of this last year and outside of watching Ilia's performance it had no value as far I could see. I want skating to get a higher profile but there are much better ways of doing it. Last year the event dragged Ilia away from his training and stopped him from competing in 4CC's, something in long run he needs far more, to do this event and the associated two weeks of ices shows in Europe in run up fior worlds. This popularity contest is not needed and if Ari feels the need to put the fans though this again could we move all of this to end of the season so the skaters could train for Worlds uninterrupted and better yet stop this nonsense and find something else please.
I get the impression that they never would've dreamed to put it close to Europeans. But Four continents? Totally fine.