The Personal Best and Season Best scores that the ISU uses for a skater only take into consideration certain competitions. For example, they do not take into consideration domestic competitions, such as Sectional, Regional or National Championships.
However, confusion arises when you come to the Major International Championships and the Senior B’s.
For the Majors, the ISU definitely takes into consideration the events they run themselves, and the Olympics. But, there does not seem to be any consistency over how they approach other events that are considered to be Majors.
And as for the Senior B’s, it is particularly confusing as an event may be taken into consideration one year, but not the next. Much of this is due to the changing make-up of the Challenger Series.
So, to make things simpler, some of the Fan Fests include a table that takes into consideration all the events that the skater has taken part in. These scores are referred to as “Absolute Personal Best” and “Absolute Season’s Best” so as to distinguish them from the scores recorded by the ISU.
The Absolute designations in these tables are based purely on the contents of the Competitive History table in the same post. If anybody knows of any scores that are not in the table, please let us know, and we will be only too happy to add them in.
As always when comparing scores, it should be kept in mind that you are not comparing like for like. There is a subjective aspect to judging, and every competition has different judges.
For the purposes of these tables, the competitions are defined as follows:
An additional consideration occurs because of changes in rules and scoring from year to year. The expansion of GOE from +/- 3 to +/- 5 in Season 2018-2019 renders comparisons with scores in earlier seadons extremely dubious.
However, confusion arises when you come to the Major International Championships and the Senior B’s.
For the Majors, the ISU definitely takes into consideration the events they run themselves, and the Olympics. But, there does not seem to be any consistency over how they approach other events that are considered to be Majors.
And as for the Senior B’s, it is particularly confusing as an event may be taken into consideration one year, but not the next. Much of this is due to the changing make-up of the Challenger Series.
So, to make things simpler, some of the Fan Fests include a table that takes into consideration all the events that the skater has taken part in. These scores are referred to as “Absolute Personal Best” and “Absolute Season’s Best” so as to distinguish them from the scores recorded by the ISU.
Absolute Personal Best Score | Absolute Season’s Best Score |
The Absolute designations in these tables are based purely on the contents of the Competitive History table in the same post. If anybody knows of any scores that are not in the table, please let us know, and we will be only too happy to add them in.
As always when comparing scores, it should be kept in mind that you are not comparing like for like. There is a subjective aspect to judging, and every competition has different judges.
For the purposes of these tables, the competitions are defined as follows:
Major Championships | Olympics; Senior World Championships; Junior World Championships; European Championships; Four Continents Championships; Universiade; Youth Olympic Games; International Children’s Games; Asian Games; European Youth Olympic Festival; World Team Trophy; Team Challenge Cup. |
Grands Prix | Senior Grand Prix Final; Junior Grand Prix Final; Senior Grand Prix competitions; Junior Grand Prix competitions. |
Other International Competitions | Challenger Series competitions; other Senior B competitions. |
National Competitions | National Championships; Regional / Sectional Championships; other domestic competitions. |
An additional consideration occurs because of changes in rules and scoring from year to year. The expansion of GOE from +/- 3 to +/- 5 in Season 2018-2019 renders comparisons with scores in earlier seadons extremely dubious.
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