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- Feb 9, 2014
Back after a hiatus and am I going crazy or does Zagitova backload all 7 jumping passes and Evgenia is backloading 6?
I hate both of their long programs so much. What an abuse of the system.
It is your choice to hate their long programs, and indeed heavily backloaded programs often feel really unbalanced.
But it is not an abuse of the system at all. It's really what the system encourages, and also what the flawed judging encourages (PCS does not really get affected by quality/composition of the program, although it should). For any skater whose ultimate goal is to win (and I imagine most of these skaters' are), naturally they would backload as many jumps as they can, given the scoring system.