XX Olympic Winter Games

[Ghoulish Delight]

Thoughts on the new scoring system in figure skating:

1) I'm baffled. The scandal in 2002 was not becuse the scoring system was broken, it was because a couple judges cheated. So why in god's name was the scoring changed? I mean, I can understand the anonymous/9 of 12 scores at random part. That directly adressed the problem of one or two judges being able to purposely fix a score. But the whole thing about turning it all technical? Bloody pointless.

2) With this amazing new scoring system that's supposed to judge on the technical excellence of each element, then why did the American couple that landed a flawless triple axel throw and were whose synchronization was fairly good score lower than both Chinese couples, one whose synchronizatino sucked start to finish, and one who had a hand down on the very first jump?

Lame. Good skating, but lame.