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Subject: Re: Skating abandons its latest version of scoring

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Robin

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Date Posted: 19:48:04 09/25/03 Thu
In reply to: PaulJ 's message, "Re: Skating abandons its latest version of scoring" on 17:48:38 09/22/03 Mon

>Skating hasn't used the "skating system" for a very
>long time...

I believe this is not true. At least until 1998 the skating world has used the "skating system". The appearance of absolute marks out ot 6 was just an appearance, as it was immediately converted into ranks which were then used in a skating system. (actually the artistic and technical marks of each judge were added and then turned into a rank). So the system was no different from just letting the judges rank ice-skaters. Just that they called it BOM (best of majority) system, not the "skating system".

Since then a paired comparison method has been used (very similar to what Ali has proposed for the overall team-match scoring, if not identical), still based on converting marks into placings for each judge.

The new system actually tries to give an absolute score by adding lots of individual scores for each element (and doing some really random things like keeping judges marks secret and selecting 9 out of 14 etc. etc.) It's not applicabable to dancesport in any case as it requires all judges to follow every figure of every competitor so you'd have to compete one at a time, which makes it a completely different event (like showdance).

Robin

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