More info on judging proposals...

[Lee]

...and yet [i:4fab71a562]another[/i:4fab71a562] version to Mme. La Gougne's story...

http://chicagosports.com/content/story/0,1984,178792,00.html

[Tigger]

Lee, the link's not working. Is there another way to read the article?

[Dustin]

Click: http://chicagosports.com/content/story/0,1984,178792,00.html

[Schmeck]

Thanks for the link, Lee and Dustin!

All this secrecy about scores, which judges are used, with no knowledge to the audience which judges scores are used, and half the judges are picked by the ISU? Yeah, this is really going to help :roll: Just think of the deals made before/during/after ISU technical meetings. Bet they aren't open to the public...

Cinquanta wants to make all of the judging secret, so no one knows who to complain about! This is really only going to make the whole situation worse! Why can't they figure out that we can't trust secret scores - people have to be honest in their judging, and open about it. No hiding behind the judges table, for goodness sakes!

Schmeck, thinking that this new judging panel is going to be worse then the present situation by a mile

[Tigger]

The link worked that time. Thanks Dustin!!

Sigh...From what I was able to translate from Cinquata's remarks, he's only now figuring out skating's in trouble!?! Oh and did anyone else notice that us fans and the IOC was mentioned before the National Skating Federations in his concerns about the problems skating is having right now? He wants to do this for the good of the sport...Give me a break!! If you believe that, then I have some gorgeous prime real estate for sale up in the Northwest Territories for sale. Sigh... :roll:

[Spinner]

I agree with Schmeck--why keep the scoring secret from [i:a8bc17c15b]everyone[/i:a8bc17c15b]? I say just keep it secret from the judges and let the individual marks be shown on TV, and maybe on a small monitor in the kiss 'n' cry so the skaters can see too. Then when the event is over have all the marks available to everyone.

And as far as a computer picking scores at random, let's take it a step further. Let the [b:a8bc17c15b]computer[/b:a8bc17c15b] pick who the judges will be too. When you let people pick judges it just screams duplicity. The computer could pick 20 people from the entire judging pool (ensuring that no country gets two judges, of course). All 20 judges attend the event where again a computer picks 9 of them to score the event. It should be made public who the scoring judges are, and to deter any 'bloc judging', have those 9 judges picked moments before the event starts.

Any other ideas?
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