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Except that doesn't necessarily help in many cases. It definitely doesn't help in deliberate scoring manipulation - These judges know what they're doing and are going to give GOEs & PCS that are a little bit higher (or lower, depending on the goal) but not unjustifiably so, so that they don't get flagged automatically. They also hold other skaters to different standards and different GOEs for comparable execution, but of course, all within the judging corridor. (And before you suggest that they should then just review every single element and compare across skaters for the same judges, that's not feasible. The OAC reviews 20 competitions each season, with 3 or 4 disciplines each with 9 judges, and competitor numbers at times breaching 40).If you'll look at my previous post to me it still sounds that he was found guilty of "not judging similarly with the other judges", and I would rather have a commission take element by element and pointing out exactly which element/component was judged incorrectly and why, instead of referring his total score being higher than the average.
For example, let's say two skaters have flat edges (that get called) on both Lutz and Flip, the jumps are otherwise similar in quality, and the skaters have the same layout. The mean GOE given on all four jumps is 0, and a judge gives one skater +1 and the other -1 on all of them - They won't be flagged, as there's no significant deviation. But at the same time, on those four elements alone, this judge has managed to "achieve" a TES difference of 4.48 points. Do that on every element, and you'll get a lot more of a difference. And at the same time, you did nothing wrong. At least on paper.
And if a judge is just scoring everyone differently, it is a very big coincidence for three skaters of the same country to be scored differently in only one direction (and significantly so). Very big coincidence, almost makes you think, no?
Let's take Isabeau's FS scored by Doug Williams as an example - There are no callable errors (apart from the 9.5 in composition, because she fell), but his score is almost 10 points higher than the average score. For Amber, it's the same thing - No actual errors, but 10 points higher in total.
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