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- Jun 21, 2003
The dreaded “<” seems to be completely dominating the outcome of competitions these days. The skater who gets away with underrotating wins. The skater who gets caught loses. Little else counts.
Fans post videos of jumps that 1000 people view over and over in slow motion and stop frame. 500 of the viewers say there is a clear underrotation and 500 are just as certain that there is not.
According to the rules of the ISU judging system, a jump with 2.74 revolutions gets the same base value as one with 1.76 revolutions. Both are “doubles.”
Quite a number of Golden Skaters (Joesitz, Blades of Passion and many others) have come up with suggestions about how to fix this.
1. Have a sliding scale of base values so that a legitimate triple attempt that comes up a little short will get more points than a double of the same type, but not as much as a fully rotated triple.
(By comparison, the "e" versus "!" is a sort of sliding scale for wrong edges.)
2. Take this out of the hands of the technical panel altogether. Have the judges spaced throughout the arena and let them judge the jump they see. Underrotation is a fault like many others to be taken into account in the GOEs.
What do you think?
Fans post videos of jumps that 1000 people view over and over in slow motion and stop frame. 500 of the viewers say there is a clear underrotation and 500 are just as certain that there is not.
According to the rules of the ISU judging system, a jump with 2.74 revolutions gets the same base value as one with 1.76 revolutions. Both are “doubles.”
Quite a number of Golden Skaters (Joesitz, Blades of Passion and many others) have come up with suggestions about how to fix this.
1. Have a sliding scale of base values so that a legitimate triple attempt that comes up a little short will get more points than a double of the same type, but not as much as a fully rotated triple.
(By comparison, the "e" versus "!" is a sort of sliding scale for wrong edges.)
2. Take this out of the hands of the technical panel altogether. Have the judges spaced throughout the arena and let them judge the jump they see. Underrotation is a fault like many others to be taken into account in the GOEs.
What do you think?