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- Feb 17, 2010
The CoP was ballyhooed as a system that that had sufficient objectivity that this sort of "ordinal judging in disguise" would fade away as being old-fashioned 6.0 thinking. I guess it didn't work out that way.
It is more objective to me, but still you have a finite number of available scores to give out to a large number of skaters. When Ashley skated her SP, she skated very well but there were at least 5 skaters who potentially could have skated a lights-out SP and topped Ashley. Most of the judges left room for any or all of those skaters to surpass her PCS scores. Is there any other way to accommodate those upcoming skaters other than to leave room? In the LP, she was about a half point higher on every PCS criterion, in large part because there was no uncertainty about how others would perform. The judges were able to assess her performance against the entire field at that point. I don't see where the controversy in any of this is.