I said it all along, deserved or not (pcs) Nathan has a great chance at world gold or at least a medal. I disagree with the scoring system but it is not up to me. PCS are not so important (comparatively folks don't get your skates into a knot) and there is little to distinguish top skills from excellent to very good to good skills. Thus one jump especially a quad obliterates any pc advantage. I really wonder if Chan and Brown are feeling the end is near. Kind of sad because I think those two really are the best pc skaters. Then followed by Hanyu with a gap to Denis Ten and a gap to Javier and Yan and maybe Ge with another gap to Rippon and then yet another gap to Chen et al. But I can tell you that is not the case score wise Crown him medallist if not king of all Nathan Chen Bye bye Chan. Au revoir golden American ponytail boy Brown.
Well, clearly the PCS aspect deals in subjectivity. I would not specifically agree with your rundown re gaps and pecking order on aesthetics. I think it would be helpful if they reviewed the PCS judging parameters and also considered having true performance experts on the judging panel. Of course it's a very mixed bag and very uneven enterprise. That's where the inequities arise. As fans, it's easy to shrug and say don't worry about comparing individual PCS scores, because there's nothing we can do about it. The comparisons though are rather laughable. I realize the scores are averages arrived at after individual judges' scores for each skater are added up. There are many inequities in the judging system, but that's nothing new for figure skating. The thing I try to do is to realize that IJS is basically a crock, and just try to enjoy the skaters' performances as best I can. Look on the bright side as best I can.
That's one of the reasons why I love Jason Brown: his unfailing positive outlook. No one talks about his amazing courage in battling an injury and making the 4CCs and Worlds teams. They only speak about him having trouble mastering quads. The sport will be the lesser if Jason is relegated to the scrap heap because quads are all the rage. The guy is trying so hard, and even when he landed one at SA, they went batshit crazy over-scrutinizing what was a good landing -- it was too close to say he didn't land it. Now that's what I call mean! In the interim, Jin and Hanyu have the cache to be sloppy all over the place and still receive a shitload of points out the wazoo. Hanyu is a strange mixture of brilliance and loosey-goosey sloppiness.
SA was one of Jason's finest performances of the season of his fp. He's an exquisite performer and all-around skater, as well as a feisty, determined competitor. The sport will be the lesser without Jason at Worlds in coming years, should he be unable to make it back, with quad all the rage, and Joshua Farris coming back. There just aren't enough spots available, especially if you have trouble mastering all mighty quad. But being one of the finest all-around skaters with consistent jumping ability and amazing performance skills apparently is not enough.
So as things move forward, we're going to get more cart-before-horse athletes like Boyang Jin, mastering the quads before learning how to skate and how to perform beautifully to the music.
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