)It was not the first time Carolina been gifted, although I do agree with you somewhat (when the same thing did not happen for Yuna/Mao/Miki or anyone else) but still pretty outrageous scoring. What do you think of Sotskova's almost 65 then? Her PCS was 5th highest overall, TES 11th.
(Sorry gone totally OT hmm... my great weakness
Thank you so much for the hardwork. It is good to look over the rule changes history in greater detail. The 'rule change' just to show how powerful the technical committee can be to 'gear shifting' the points rewarding system on a whim. If ISU want to push for certain outcome, they can just strategically place their most strict technical caller at certain competitions and keep them away from others. When for a while now imho, I feel the rule changes appears to target specific skaters, it does make you question why they are being moved about so much. Motivation, benefit and rewards.
I have noticed a few years now, the effect of these rule changes ends up removing differentials between one of the hardest combos like 3lz3t to the easiest 3t/3t after you factored the relaxed GOEs. The system ends up removing differentials of quality, difficulty and variety but not in quantity. As seen in recent WC, the difference between a 3lz3t to a 3t3t or 3f3t are worth less than +1 GOE equivalent in scoring (no more than 1x tano). The inflation of PCS certainly leads to the likes of Evegnia's rise while minimise the strength of those from Kostner, Asada, Wagner or those who focus on quality such as greater speed, coverage and attacks their elements (more effort devoted to a single element), and actualise a great performance and program.
Although it wouldn't affect Kostner as much her PCS rarely drops no matter how badly her TES get under a European majority panel. Where as, it can a affect the likes of Mao, Ashley and pretty much any non-Russian or those named Anna. Sotskova's PCS held her up during the FS, she got HIGHER PCS than Miki Ando winning the WC 2011 (an inflated PCS already) + a decent Kostner then, even Sotskova's TES had been 11th in the field in a debut season. Where as someone's who managed to do the rare clean high TES hardly affect their PCS to a competitive level, like Dabin Choi who actually had the 4th highest TES with 2x 3lz in the FS, but ends up 10th in PCS overall at 58.73
You are far too generous, I'd mark them about 67 ~ 69. Reason. I'd mark Kaetlyn overall higher in the SP. Evgenia higher in the long. And then everyone else reduce by 3-4 points (less drop than the leader at 76) in the last 2 flights, and increase the 1st flight by 2-3 points. The difference in PCS between then and now is crazy and wholly unjustified. TES may be okay despite generous and relaxed GOE rules, but it shouldn't affect on PCS THAT severely.
I don't disagree. Actually, my biggest complaint with the judging system is that it doesn't take into account difficulty in combinations. The problem with giving precise values for combinations is that you then have to create values for every possible combination. All six jumps, singles through quads, can be the first jump in a combination. That's 24 values. Each can be combined with a toe or a loop, so there's another 8. That's 192 values. All of those could include a third top or loop, so now we're up to 1536 possible combinations, and we haven't touched half loop combinations. So I'm ok with the PCS bump in lieu of having 20,000 values for possible combinations and arguments about how each one could be over or under valued.
