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COP: How important is judges selection?
For years, I have felt COP can also stand for Conduct of Points. Points itself may imply absolute value but are actually meaningless, they can vary from competition to competition. The power and influence lies more with the judges than the skaters.
Moving on from the Japan Open thread where I made an analysis of of past 5 consecutive years in the ladies, where against mathematically probability, we see EU judges consistently makes up the overwhelming majority judge panel during the ladies FS final, with an average of 8/9 representation and 100% representation 9/9 in 2015. This is despite 4 out of 5 world champions had all took place outside Europe (and thus disprove the the standard believe if you have competition in the region, you are more likely to get judges from that region.)
What also stood out, is the overwhelming majority REPEATED EU federations representation (judged as many as 4 times) out of 5, while non European Judges from the rest of the world, only makes up an average of 1 time every 5 years, including US, and zero time for China. The question I pose to the forum is
1) How important is judge selection?
2) Is proportionate representation and diversity important?
3) Can competitions be slanted by judge panel?
4) Do you feel there should be proportionate representation at world events, and what that mean? For example, should there be minimum 3 continents representation.
5) Finally, what would be the ideal and fairest panel look like and how to achieve it? By randomised draw? Qualification? Judging history? Avoid conflict of interest?
For years, I have felt COP can also stand for Conduct of Points. Points itself may imply absolute value but are actually meaningless, they can vary from competition to competition. The power and influence lies more with the judges than the skaters.
Moving on from the Japan Open thread where I made an analysis of of past 5 consecutive years in the ladies, where against mathematically probability, we see EU judges consistently makes up the overwhelming majority judge panel during the ladies FS final, with an average of 8/9 representation and 100% representation 9/9 in 2015. This is despite 4 out of 5 world champions had all took place outside Europe (and thus disprove the the standard believe if you have competition in the region, you are more likely to get judges from that region.)
What also stood out, is the overwhelming majority REPEATED EU federations representation (judged as many as 4 times) out of 5, while non European Judges from the rest of the world, only makes up an average of 1 time every 5 years, including US, and zero time for China. The question I pose to the forum is
1) How important is judge selection?
2) Is proportionate representation and diversity important?
3) Can competitions be slanted by judge panel?
4) Do you feel there should be proportionate representation at world events, and what that mean? For example, should there be minimum 3 continents representation.
5) Finally, what would be the ideal and fairest panel look like and how to achieve it? By randomised draw? Qualification? Judging history? Avoid conflict of interest?