Viewing information for the European and Canadian Championships is now available on our website.
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Viewing information for Japanese Nationals is now available on our website!
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Happy NYCDA Day 1 Everybody :)
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Not Me researching electrocution for several days for my fanfic & then having an employee tell me she got electrocuted here two days ago
Me being like 😥😥😥😥 PLEASE get that checked out????
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Hello! May I take advantage of your judging knowledge and ask two questions about judging? 1. Are the judges informed of what the title / music of each programme is? Is this maybe in the judging system or are they given it printed out, perhaps? 2. I was sitting behind the technical panel at a competition once and it seemed like they had the planned programme content for each skater printed out and annotated. Do they prepare for each competition and make notes like "double-check the Lutz edge" or similar? Any insight would be very much appreciated!
Ah these are fun questions! Thank you for asking them!
About the program music, it's not in the system as in they get them on the screen before the skater starts with their program the way audience does on the TV and streams. However, judges will usually have it printed out together with the planned content. Quite often knowing what kind of program to expect can be helpfull. I can't speak for everyone obviously, but it's common for the judges to also watch performances from previus competitions (unless it's the skater's first comp of the season ofc) as it gives the idea of what to maybe expect in terms of PCS. But it's not something that ISU will force them to know, it's pretty much a method that differs from judge to judge. The technical pannel on the other side doesn't have to know anything about the music choice as their only job is to call levels and mistakes such as downgrades or extended lifts etc. Which brings us to part two:
The tech panel must have planned program content as that is the base for all their further work. Pretty sure that 99% of the judges have them, too. They may annotate it beforehand, at the meeting before the competition when the referee gives out some pointers, or if they are a really experienced judge who has developed their own system during the actual performance, or not at all. The second last option is the most difficult since everything happens in a blur and they don't have to just watch for the entry-element-exit but also the program overall for the PCS. The judges that are able to do it are always extremely prepared for the post competition meetings when the scores are discussed between the panel and the referee. The annotations for the tech panel are probably exactly double-check the Lutz (I am not a technical controller); for the judges, due to differences in what replays we get compared to tech panel, that same Lutz note would be more like pay attention to the entry or something.
For me, I usually have an entire notebook with me which is my "general study on the IJS". I know a number of judges, too, have those. Often, the rulebooks are carried around. I'd say it's a matter of experience overall. Someoen who has been judging for 10 years will find the process much easier than the judges who just passed the international examinations and those younger judges will do more background research before the competitions.
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Looks like seniors are skating pretty much in reverse ranking order, though i don't understand Soucisse/Firus above Lauriault/LeGac or Lily/Nathan below M/G and L/R if so. Juniors don't seem to be that way, though. You've got Gauthier/Thieren, the alternates for JGPF in group 1 and B/B skating in the middle of group 3 instead of last, where they'd be in reverse rank.
IAMO: Robinson/Portz, Hensen/Lickers, Sales/Wamsteeker; and Veillon/Brandys and Lewis/McMillan
IAM: Bronsard/Richmond, Lauriault/LeGac, Lajoie/Lagha, Fournier Beaudry/Sorensen; Gauthier/Thieren
More than half the senior Canadian field, 7/13, are IAM and IAMO teams
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