declansdad
DIS Dad #639 New Brunswick, Canada
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2004
Yeah, that's the impression I got. During someones skate, I really don't remember who or even what event of the team competition, one of the commentators basically said if you attempted a quad and fell you would still get the same number of points as you would if you had landed a clean triple. It used to be there was more emphasis put on a clean program....technical difficulty was still important but you were better off doing smaller tricks you could land cleanly than attempting things you were shaky on. It's not that way anymore so now you see some people attempting monster tricks and falling on their backsides all the time because it doesn't hurt their score to try them.
I think I like the old way better.
I think that may been a way to take some of the subjectivity out of the judging.