Day 9: Feelings on Code of Points
First of all, I apologise for not sticking with this, but the break was needed ha ha.
I am going to probably annoy a lot of people by stating my feelings on the CoP. I have no problem with it. Yes, it's still being tweaked after nearly eight years since it's inception, and yes it's hard to keep up with the numbers and the rule changes and blah blah blah...
But Competitive skating should be sport first and I feel the CoP pushes that more so than 6.0. Yes, corruption still exists, let's not try to kid ourselves one way or the other. As long as there is anonymous judging and personal preference there will be those issues.
Do I think it has killed the artistic side? No, I think those skaters that are on top now would probably be on top with 6.0 with the same sort of program (ie boring). Do I think Patrick Chan would still get bonus points from the judges when he flubs up - yes. These are the same judges we had 8 years ago give or take a few names. It's not all that different, just more numbers and more work to finagle.
This season has been a weird one. The ISU is dancing a very odd tune trying to please the sport aspect while pleasing then many vocal unhappy fans. They are trying to get that balance of artistry and sport. It's seemingly backfiring this season with the quad points as Chan has proven.
Is it a perfect system? No. But, then, no system would be. I think the CoP is the right direction.
I completely agree with you.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. I've skated under the CoP system and honestly it's much easier to plan a program with it than the old system. It levels the playing field only allowing you to do so many jumps and not repeating your best jump over and over. It demands the skater to develop more even skills between spins, jumps, and field moves and rewards skaters who are artistic.
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