Figure Skating Judging
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2022 10:55 pm
... has sure gotten a lot more complicated from what I remember.
When I was younger, the judges scored the skaters on a 0 to 6 scale with two figures, one for technical merit and one for artistic. They added the two scores together to determine the winner.
Now, it resembles the calculations for a NASA moon flight. They keep a running score for each skater throughout the program and assign each jump a degree of difficulty and they actually have video review to determine if the skater actually completed the jump. Plus skaters can sometimes get a 10% bonus for something, perhaps it's understanding how all the scoring works. There's still an artistic score, but I'm not sure how that works either. For most of the skaters tonight, their artistic score was fairly close to their technical score. And they also have deductions which I guess happens if you fall down.
This allows the TV broadcasters to put up a running graphic to show how well or poorly the current skater is doing in comparison to the leader in terms of technical scores but it managed to confuse me more than it helped.
When I was younger, the judges scored the skaters on a 0 to 6 scale with two figures, one for technical merit and one for artistic. They added the two scores together to determine the winner.
Now, it resembles the calculations for a NASA moon flight. They keep a running score for each skater throughout the program and assign each jump a degree of difficulty and they actually have video review to determine if the skater actually completed the jump. Plus skaters can sometimes get a 10% bonus for something, perhaps it's understanding how all the scoring works. There's still an artistic score, but I'm not sure how that works either. For most of the skaters tonight, their artistic score was fairly close to their technical score. And they also have deductions which I guess happens if you fall down.
This allows the TV broadcasters to put up a running graphic to show how well or poorly the current skater is doing in comparison to the leader in terms of technical scores but it managed to confuse me more than it helped.