[Ghoulish Delight]

It's the inherent problem with judged events. If you leave the judging standards loose and aesthetic, you get disagreement and anger because it comes down to subjectivity. If you start to quantify it to take the subjectivity out, you're ruining the soul of the sport. Lose-lose.

Another reason I like the snowboarding events. They seem to have thus far been able to just say, "Screw it, it's subjective, we're not going to break it down by individual points for particular elements. We're going to give it to the run we liked the best." And the competitors seem okay with that.

At least that's how the sport has been until it got into the Olympics. Already this Olympics there's been grumbling that the judges seemed to be rewarding pure height, and giving less weight to the difficulty and execution of the tricks. If that kind of thing persists at the Olympic level it's only a matter of time until riders start tailoring the rest of their competition runs to match, which would be a shame.