gkelly
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The rules are very clear that a fall in a choreo sequence requires a -5 reduction of the GOE from whatever it would have been otherwise. That is not subject to interpretation.
What may be a gray area is whether a fall was in the sequence or whether it occurred right before the sequence began or right after it ended.
However, we don't even know for sure that that's what happened in that case. A look at the video would help; otherwise we're just guessing.
There are several other possible guesses to explain the discrepancy in scores. It may be that what the skater did was messy enough to be interpreted in more than one way, or it may be that one or more judges made a mistake in data input for reasons that may have more to do with the judge's knowledge and understanding or more with limitations in the data interface used at this competition.
No point in making a guess just so that you can rant about one reason that might not even be the correct reason.
What may be a gray area is whether a fall was in the sequence or whether it occurred right before the sequence began or right after it ended.
However, we don't even know for sure that that's what happened in that case. A look at the video would help; otherwise we're just guessing.
There are several other possible guesses to explain the discrepancy in scores. It may be that what the skater did was messy enough to be interpreted in more than one way, or it may be that one or more judges made a mistake in data input for reasons that may have more to do with the judge's knowledge and understanding or more with limitations in the data interface used at this competition.
No point in making a guess just so that you can rant about one reason that might not even be the correct reason.