Smaller member federations who have been excluded from the World Championships since 2012 due to the higher TES required. The ISU is looking at growing markets for skating in Southeast Asia and South America and having skaters from those regions being able to compete at Worlds will help with marketing figure skating in those regions.
Crazy lady here with random thought that this might actually help grow skating in smaller nations more than being worried some man from a smaller nation has to lift a 17 year old. But what do I know
I suspect they may have overestimated the extent to which 'Skater X didn't even manage to make it out of the qualifying round at Worlds' will be a point of national pride in said regions, but we'll see how it goes.
Yes, we will. People can choose to ignore the qualifying rounds if they feel it is beneath them to watch it.
This is something that is overwhelmingly supported by smaller federations. It’s important for all sorts of reasons (financial and media attention to name just two) to have skaters compete at Worlds.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of comments about how this hurts smaller federations but it appeared to me that a number of smaller federations spoke up in support. It passed with a decent enough margin too, right?
Oh, she was skewered in the live chat by people watching the stream. It was pretty amusing.
"Our skater made it to Worlds!" is how I've seen this presented in the past. Why would it be different now?
I can't remember what exactly she said, but it was something to the effect of when she judged the test event for splitting the panel at Nebelhorn a number of years back, she was assigned to judge GOE and skating skills (I think) and the next day she found she couldn't remember any of the programs. And then didn't expand at all on why she couldn't remember them or why it would be a bad thing.
I think splitting the panels is a good idea, however the test they did in Oberstdorf had, from what I understand, one panel judging GOE/Skating Skills and the other panel judging the remaining PCS categories. Perhaps reducing PCS to 3 categories would make the split better... because in that scenario, the PCS judges can still judge the program more holistically while the GOE judges take a closer look at the actual execution of the technical elements. Some might not like that, but that seems to be more of a mindset change, where they come to understand that there is a tangible difference in the purpose of TES and PCS and there needs to be a different approach when judging each, rather than a "program as a whole" mindset.
Me too. Thank you!I'd like to thank everyone who's following the proceedings and summarizing to us.
But that's what the PCS judges would be doing in a split panel.
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I was confused, I thought the judge who was complaining about not remembering the whole program was judging PCS. I re-read the paragraphs and found out she was there to judge skating skills and GOE. In that case, I agree with @Ena Grins that if that was her assignment, then she shouldn't be judging the whole program. She needs to be judging the elements as they are performed and the skating skills. Nothing stops her from watching and enjoying the programs later on, so long as videos are available....
Yes, it happened with a judge on an element in that example. But multiple judges for the same element seems to imply a more systemic issue.
