I took the time to clarify that these are not inter-related.I was going to give this a bye but from genuine bafflement, can someone tell me how anyone in venue management would get the idea that the cost of organising volunteer sweepers for a now fairly small number of plushies somehow is a threat to paying for streams? Or what the two enormously disparate costs even have to do with each other???? As for stuffies being wasteful and dangerous, well so is figure skating by definition when you think about it. I'm a fan so I accept this, but the irony is pretty blatant.
(Please note, I have no intention, even if I ever get to a competition or show, of throwing the small number of precious skater souvenirs I have anywhere. at. all.)
Some of you are looking at it from the "it shouldn't be a big deal, it's not a top problem in figure skating (plushies).
I am looking at it the other way, it's not a top priority. That's all. And yes, the sport is already dangerous, how would you feel if you threw anything on the ice that got caught under someone blades while doing a big lift? No need to answer. It's a rhetorical question. And yes, it has happened before.
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