Email from Sonia: ISU reducing panels of judges

[Lisa Seye]

I wonder if you have heard that yesterday the ISU Council decided to reduce the paneles of judges for all events at the ISU Championships and the Grand Prix Final from 12 to 9 .I am really shocked. With only 9 judges in the panels, after deleting the highest and the lowest marks for the trimmed mean, and dropping two judges by random, you only have the marks of 5 judges left for the result. . And this is really concerning. With secret judging it will be even too easy to make deals. With the old 6.0 system, a panel of 5 judges was only used for minor international competitions, never for ISU Championships. Why haven't they discussed this matter two months ago during the Congress? Probably because they were sure that such a proposal would have never been accepted . If the ISU has to save money, better would have been to chose less expensive hotels for the championships and for the Council members to travel economic class or low cost.
Sonia


I wonder why the changes and am also surprised at the reduction. Anyone know why this is happening? Would love to know.

[iloveskating]

What is the point of having 9 judges and using only 5 scores? Are the judges that unreliable?

[patsue]

Hang on folks--it's gonna be a bumpy ride for some of your favorites this coming season. :boggled

[aaronts]

gosh, what else?

i guess the ISU figures it'll sail the sinking ship to the end. with what else is going in the world, FS seems like grain of sand~

[patsue]

hmmmmm-you suppose this was a part of speedy's plan all along-to kill FS and drive all the fans to speed skating as an alternative? :sarcastic

[berthesghost]

gosh, what else?

i guess the ISU figures it'll sail the sinking ship to the end. with what else is going in the world, FS seems like grain of sand~1968 and 1976 had some pretty craptacular things going on, but Peggy and Dotty mesmerized us, in fact they still do.

the ship may be sinking, but scum like $peedy will be the first to dress in drag to get in a life boat while innocents drown.

[Crizzy]

We don't need less judges, we need less of $peedy.