- Joined
- Jul 29, 2003
There were a lot of jumps where I thought “oh, +2!” or even “+3!” with my old-system mindset and was expecting to hand out +4’s and +5’s, but then when I checked it against the new GOE bullets, most of those jumps were lucky to scrape a +2 maybe a +3 under the new system.
It's absolutely brutal when it comes to combos since bullets 1&3 apply to both jumps and the minimum deduction for loss of flow/rhythm is -2.
When I was scoring Patrick's 4t/3t at 2017 worlds free, my immediate instinct was +4. Both jumps were big and beautiful and he had good speed on the take off and exit but there was a slight struggle between the jumps. That dropped his starting GOE to +3 because of bullet #3, then I was forced to take another 2-3 off for loss of flow - which caused him to only get +1 for that combo. He lost 30% BV on his 4t because of a little pause before the 3toe!!!
Then there's Jin. His single jumps are enormous but because of bullet #1, he's capped at +3 on his combos because his second jump is small.
I gave almost no combo more than +3 for the guys. Guys are going to have to think hard about whether it's worth stacking the combos at the end if they're trading BV in GOE to do it. I think Jin might be better off doing his lutz solo unless he plans to do 2 4lutzes, which I think he should do since his lutz is better than his toe anyway.