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Drivingmissdaisy, you've made your technical case for Sotnikova winning. How do you explain her PCS scores being higher than Kostner's and on par with Kim? (Sorry too lazy to go back in the thread to see if you mentioned it)
I'd be interested in this, too.
I can understand her PE/EX and IN being way up there but the others... Is there some rule that says that a judge can't give, say, 6.75 for SS and 9.75 for PE/EX if the performance really does merit that (and Adelina, for example, performed the heck out of that program)?
I was wondering about this during Worlds since I felt that for example Carolina's (whom I adore) SS in her LP merited 9s but her Execution sure wasn't higher than say 7... whilst in the Olys both were most definitely in the 9-10 range. If there's some maximum point difference allowed between the different components then I'd understand why all five are so close to each other even when what happens on the ice doesn't reflect it.
Another discrepancy that I find baffling is little PCS fluctuation between competitions, in fact there's almost always an upward trend. Is it really due to reputation that one skater can get nines for PE/EX for the same program in different competitions, even though in competition X the skater goes pristine clean and in competition Y falls 2-3 times and otherwise messes up (two-footing, traveling spins etc). Not that he has much of a reputation yet, I'm thinking Jason Brown's Oly individual LP, where he got higher PCS for a much sloppier program than in the team LP which had one fall but was otherwise cleanish. A better example might be Patrick Chan's multiple falls in multiple events - is it fair that he gets very high points for Execution when the elements are not really executed very well?
Or have I just misunderstood the whole PCS system? If so, I'm sorry