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So you think that all three (or at least two) members of the tech panel had one agenda/preferred outcome and all nine judges had an opposite agenda?
The detailed marks are available here: https://www.usfigureskating.org/leaderboard/results/2018/26192/results.html
I do think the tech panel was much harder on Karen. Every close call went against her. Ashley's only deductions from the panel came on the pass that wasn't clean in her program. A few of the judges look like they preferred Ashley, but most had Karen about even, or ahead, on PCS. I don't think this would be the case if the judges really believed that Ashley's execution (one pass with deduction) was that much better than Karen's (four passes with deductions). Of course if any of us were Ashley we'd be mad if we were beaten by a program with that many mistakes by a skater we always get higher PCS scores than. I just don't think the scores reflected what actually happened on the ice.