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Ladies - Short Program
http://www.isuresults.com/results/wc2013/SEG003.HTM
1 Q Yuna KIM KOR 69.97 36.79 33.18 8.39 8.07 8.32 8.36 8.32 0.00 #14
2 Q Carolina KOSTNER ITA 66.86 34.01 33.85 8.46 8.21 8.43 8.57 8.64 1.00 #34
3 Q Kanako MURAKAMI JPN 66.64 36.87 29.77 7.57 7.21 7.50 7.54 7.39 0.00 #30
4 Q Kaetlyn OSMOND CAN 64.73 35.19 29.54 7.29 7.07 7.50 7.43 7.64 0.00 #9
5 Q Ashley WAGNER USA 63.98 33.06 30.92 7.75 7.57 7.79 7.71 7.82 0.00 #31
6 Q Mao ASADA JPN 62.10 29.70 32.40 8.18 7.86 8.11 8.18 8.18 0.00 #33
7 Q Akiko SUZUKI JPN 61.17 30.71 30.46 7.82 7.50 7.50 7.64 7.61 0.00 #24
8 Q Adelina SOTNIKOVA RUS 59.62 30.97 28.65 7.36 6.89 7.18 7.25 7.14 0.00 #26
9 Q Gracie GOLD USA 58.85 30.23 28.62 7.18 6.89 7.25 7.25 7.21 0.00 #21
10 Q Viktoria HELGESSON SWE 58.36 30.73 27.63 7.07 6.68 7.00 6.86 6.93 0.00 #27
11 Q Mae Berenice MEITE FRA 56.90 30.75 26.15 6.71 6.29 6.57 6.57 6.54 0.00 #32
12 Q Zijun LI CHN 56.31 30.76 26.55 6.82 6.32 6.68 6.75 6.61 1.00 #29
13 Q Alena LEONOVA RUS 56.30 26.47 29.83 7.57 7.18 7.54 7.50 7.50 0.00 #35
14 Q Elizaveta TUKTAMYSHEVA RUS 54.72 27.97 27.75 7.11 6.75 6.79 6.96 7.07 1.00 #28
15 Q Elena GLEBOVA EST 54.59 29.47 25.12 6.46 5.96 6.32 6.36 6.29 0.00 #20
16 Q Sonia LAFUENTE ESP 52.44 28.79 23.65 6.14 5.75 5.93 5.96 5.79 0.00 #18
17 Q Natalia POPOVA UKR 51.67 27.99 23.68 5.96 5.75 6.04 5.96 5.89 0.00 #19
18 Q Jenna MCCORKELL GBR 51.23 26.61 24.62 6.21 5.89 6.25 6.21 6.21 0.00 #23
19 Q Monika SIMANCIKOVA SVK 51.18 28.70 22.48 5.89 5.39 5.75 5.57 5.50 0.00 #16
20 Q Brooklee HAN AUS 50.62 29.56 21.06 5.32 5.04 5.43 5.18 5.36 0.00 #2
21 Q Valentina MARCHEI ITA 50.41 24.29 27.12 6.82 6.50 6.86 6.82 6.89 1.00 #25
22 Q Kerstin FRANK AUT 49.66 27.98 21.68 5.71 5.21 5.43 5.46 5.29 0.00 #15
23 Q Kexin ZHANG CHN 48.80 27.46 21.34 5.68 5.07 5.39 5.36 5.18 0.00 #4
24 Q Nathalie WEINZIERL GER 48.14 26.82 21.32 5.64 5.11 5.29 5.29 5.32 0.00 #13
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29 Elene GEDEVANISHVILI GEO 42.40 18.54 24.86 6.54 6.07 5.93 6.29 6.25 1.00 #22

Judges Scores (pdf): http://www.isuresults.com/results/wc201 ... Scores.pdf

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VIDEOS
(later): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... 7FaWnf9-js
or all here: http://www.youtube.com/user/LaRiservaIS ... rid&view=0

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Ice Dance - Short Dance
http://www.isuresults.com/results/wc2013/SEG007.HTM
1 Q Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA 77.12 38.29 38.83 9.57 9.50 9.82 9.82 9.79 0.00 #20
2 Q Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 73.87 35.57 38.30 9.46 9.43 9.64 9.71 9.61 0.00 #24
3 Q Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 70.05 34.71 35.34 8.82 8.64 8.93 8.86 8.89 0.00 #29
4 Q Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 69.65 34.57 35.08 8.68 8.54 8.86 8.93 8.82 0.00 #25
5 Q Anna CAPPELLINI / Luca LANOTTE ITA 67.93 34.28 33.65 8.29 8.18 8.50 8.46 8.57 0.00 #26
6 Q Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 67.54 34.22 33.32 8.25 8.04 8.50 8.39 8.43 0.00 #23
7 Q Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES USA 66.74 34.78 31.96 7.89 7.71 8.11 8.07 8.11 0.00 #15
8 Q Maia SHIBUTANI / Alex SHIBUTANI USA 66.14 34.14 32.00 8.07 7.86 8.11 8.04 7.93 0.00 #27
9 Q Elena ILINYKH / Nikita KATSALAPOV RUS 66.07 31.28 34.79 8.82 8.50 8.75 8.68 8.71 0.00 #28
10 Q Penny COOMES / Nicholas BUCKLAND GBR 63.66 33.43 30.23 7.39 7.43 7.79 7.57 7.61 0.00 #21
11 Q Nelli ZHIGANSHINA / Alexander GAZSI GER 60.59 30.85 29.74 7.25 7.07 7.68 7.64 7.50 0.00 #22
12 Q Pernelle CARRON / Lloyd JONES FRA 60.58 31.86 28.72 7.00 6.89 7.36 7.29 7.32 0.00 #19
13 Q Ekaterina RIAZANOVA / Ilia TKACHENKO RUS 59.52 28.86 30.66 7.71 7.46 7.71 7.79 7.64 0.00 #18
14 Q Siobhan HEEKIN-CANEDY / Dmitri DUN UKR 59.20 32.93 26.27 6.57 6.39 6.68 6.75 6.46 0.00 #8
15 Q Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER CAN 58.61 31.00 27.61 6.89 6.50 7.07 7.00 7.00 0.00 #5
16 Q Charlene GUIGNARD / Marco FABBRI ITA 57.89 30.85 27.04 6.79 6.54 7.00 6.68 6.79 0.00 #7
17 Q Julia ZLOBINA / Alexei SITNIKOV AZE 57.80 29.65 28.15 7.18 6.82 7.21 7.07 6.93 0.00 #16
18 Q Isabella TOBIAS / Deividas STAGNIUNAS LTU 57.39 31.13 26.26 6.54 6.32 6.68 6.79 6.50 0.00 #9
19 Q Cathy REED / Chris REED JPN 53.95 28.29 26.66 6.50 6.29 6.75 6.93 6.79 1.00 #17
20 Q Sara HURTADO / Adria DIAZ ESP 53.12 29.92 23.20 5.68 5.57 6.04 5.89 5.82 0.00 #

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VIDEOS:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... MBZ8cSrCMo
http://www.youtube.com/user/kobachiba/v ... &flow=grid

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Три путевки в Сочи для российских фигуристок под сомнением:
http://rsport.ru/figure_skating/20130315/651166645.html

Фигуристка Туктамышева не смогла объяснить, почему упала на ЧМ:
http://rsport.ru/figure_skating/20130314/651158771.html

Фигуристы Дэвис/Уайт побили мировой рекорд в коротком танце на ЧМ:
http://rsport.ru/figure_skating/20130315/651192424.html

[Gabry]

Thank you very much for the results and videos!! Ciao from Gabry, Italy

[MiLa]

The Canadians Moore-Towers/Moskovitch were brilliant. I have just seen them. Eurosport covers the Worlds live. Such an inspiring performance I have rarely seen.

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Pairs - Free Skating
http://www.isuresults.com/results/wc2013/SEG006.HTM
1 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 149.87 76.36 74.51 9.39 9.07 9.36 9.32 9.43 1.00 #16
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 132.09 64.18 68.91 8.68 8.50 8.39 8.86 8.64 1.00 #14
3 Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD CAN 130.95 65.75 65.20 8.11 7.89 8.25 8.25 8.25 0.00 #13
4 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN 130.69 64.75 65.94 8.29 8.00 8.29 8.32 8.32 0.00 #11
5 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN 130.25 66.78 63.47 7.89 7.82 8.14 7.86 7.96 0.00 #9
6 Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV RUS 122.81 62.41 60.40 7.68 7.43 7.46 7.64 7.54 0.00 #10
7 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS 121.61 56.39 65.22 8.04 8.04 8.04 8.36 8.29 0.00 #15
8 Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES FRA 119.19 61.38 57.81 7.39 7.07 7.32 7.29 7.07 0.00 #12
9 Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM USA 117.78 61.15 56.63 7.07 6.79 7.29 7.11 7.14 0.00 #7
10 Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK ITA 112.70 58.83 53.87 6.86 6.32 6.89 6.71 6.89 0.00 #5
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Judges Scores (pdf): http://www.isuresults.com/results/wc201 ... Scores.pdf

VIDEOS (later all):
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... xfFLzLS2BM

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FINAL RESULT

1 Tatiana VOLOSOZHAR / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 225.71 1 1
2 Aliona SAVCHENKO / Robin SZOLKOWY GER 205.56 3 2
3 Meagan DUHAMEL / Eric RADFORD CAN
4 Kirsten MOORE-TOWERS / Dylan MOSCOVITCH CAN
5 Qing PANG / Jian TONG CHN
6 Yuko KAVAGUTI / Alexander SMIRNOV RUS
7 Vera BAZAROVA / Yuri LARIONOV RUS
8 Vanessa JAMES / Morgan CIPRES FRA
9 Alexa SCIMECA / Chris KNIERIM USA
10 Stefania BERTON / Ondrej HOTAREK ITA
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[MiLa]

Volosozhar / Trankov were just AMAZING!!! ONE CANNOT IMAGINE SOMEONE CAN SKATE SO WELL !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Men - Free Skating
http://www.isuresults.com/results/wc2013/SEG002.HTM
1 Denis TEN KAZ 174.92 87.76 87.16 8.54 8.43 8.89 8.86 8.86 0.00 #23
2 Patrick CHAN CAN 169.41 82.13 89.28 9.11 8.96 8.61 9.00 8.96 2.00 #21
3 Yuzuru HANYU JPN 169.05 89.05 80.00 8.25 7.75 7.86 8.14 8.00 0.00 #13
4 Javier FERNANDEZ ESP 168.30 83.00 85.30 8.43 8.18 8.36 8.79 8.89 0.00 #15
5 Takahito MURA JPN 160.72 84.50 76.22 7.75 7.39 7.79 7.57 7.61 0.00 #18
6 Max AARON USA 160.16 85.86 74.30 7.61 7.11 7.50 7.39 7.54 0.00 #17
7 Kevin REYNOLDS CAN 154.82 77.04 77.78 7.82 7.61 7.71 7.93 7.82 0.00 #24
8 Daisuke TAKAHASHI JPN 154.36 70.36 85.00 8.54 8.21 8.46 8.50 8.79 1.00 #19
9 Andrei ROGOZINE CAN 149.25 81.03 68.22 6.82 6.50 7.00 7.00 6.79 0.00 #11
10 Brian JOUBERT FRA 148.09 65.81 82.28 8.29 7.82 8.43 8.21 8.39 0.00 #22
11 Michal BREZINA CZE 145.91 70.17 77.74 7.93 7.68 7.68 7.79 7.79 2.00 #20
12 Peter LIEBERS GER 145.64 78.92 66.72 6.61 6.57 6.75 6.75 6.68 0.00 #9
13 Ross MINER USA 141.66 73.38 69.28 7.07 6.82 6.79 6.96 7.00 1.00 #8
14 Maxim KOVTUN RUS 141.55 75.81 66.74 7.04 6.36 6.68 6.75 6.54 1.00 #2
15 Florent AMODIO FRA 141.10 63.52 78.58 7.89 7.61 7.71 8.04 8.04 1.00 #14
16 Misha GE UZB 139.05 68.81 71.24 6.86 6.79 7.29 7.18 7.50 1.00 #12
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22 Tomas VERNER CZE 112.45 39.87 72.58 7.36 7.04 6.89 7.50 7.50 0.00 #10

Judges Scores (pdf): http://www.isuresults.com/results/wc201 ... Scores.pdf

VIDEOS:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... p2zoM15Yhd

play-by-play Men's free skate:
http://www.examiner.com/article/2013-wo ... free-skate

QUAD COUNT: 23 attempted (Kovtun toe, Kovtun toe, Majorov toe, Miner sal, Rogozine toe, Hanyu toe, Hanyu sal, Amodio sal, Fernandez toe, Fernandez sal, Aaron sal, Takahashi toe, Brezina sal, Brezina sal, Joubert toe, Joubert toe, Ten toe, Reynolds sal, Reynolds toe, Reynolds toe), 13 clean (Kovtun toe, Kovtun toe, Rogozine toe, Hanyu toe, Fernandez toe, Fernandez sal, Aaron sal, Chan toe, Chan toe, Joubert toe, Joubert toe, Ten toe, Reynolds toe)

Kevin Reynolds CAN - quad salchow (turn out), quad toe-triple toe, triple axel (possibly underrotated, two-foot)-triple toe, quad toe (possibly underrotated, hand down), double axel, triple flip-double toe-double loop, triple lutz (two-foot), triple salchow - TES 77.04, PCS 77.78, FS SCORE 154.82, TOTAL SCORE 239.98

Denis Ten KAZ - quad toe (beauty), triple axel-triple toe, triple axel (wow, that was like nothing), triple lutz-double toe-double toe, double flip-double toe, triple salchow, triple loop, double axel - wow, that's a medal for sure - TES 87.76, PCS 87.16, FS SCORE 174.92, TOTAL SCORE 266.48

Brian Joubert FRA - quad toe (nice!), triple salchow, triple axel (hangs on), quad toe-single toe, triple flip-double toe, triple lutz, triple salchow-double toe, triple flip (that's a zero, two many repeated jumps) - TES 65.81, PCS 82.28, FS SCORE 148.09, TOTAL SCORE 232.26

Patrick Chan CAN - quad toe-triple toe (beauty), quad toe (another beauty), triple lutz (fall, way off axis, possibly underrotated), triple axel (underrotated, fall), triple loop, triple flip-half loop-triple salchow (fall out, hand down), double lutz-double toe, double axel - TES 82.13, PCS 89.28, FALLS -2.00, FS SCORE 169.41, TOTAL SCORE 267.78

Michal Brezina CZE - quad salchow (fall), triple axel, quad salchow (underrotated, fall), double axel-double toe, triple flip, triple loop, triple lutz, triple axel (fall out, hands down) - TES 70.17, PCS 77.74, FALLS -2.00, FS SCORE 145.91, TOTAL SCORE 229.00

Daisuke Takahashi JPN - quad toe (two-foot, looked possibly clean?), triple toe, triple axel (beauty), triple axel (underrotated, fall), triple loop (hand down), triple salchow, triple lutz-double toe-double loop, triple flip - TES 70.36, PCS 85.00, FALL -1.00, FS SCORE 154.36, TOTAL SCORE 239.03

Takahito Mura JPN - quad toe (possibly underrotated, step out), triple lutz-triple toe, triple axel, triple loop, triple axel-double toe, triple salchow-double toe, triple lutz, triple flip - well done! - TES 84.50, PCS 76.22, FS SCORE 160.72, TOTAL SCORE 234.18

Max Aaron USA - quad salchow-double toe, double salchow, triple axel-double toe, triple axel (landed but hit the boards), triple lutz-half loop-triple salchow (beauty), triple flip, triple loop - nice! - TES 85.86, PCS 74.30, FS SCORE 160.16, TOTAL SCORE 238.36

Nan Song CHN - triple toe, triple axel-double toe, triple axel, triple lutz-triple toe, triple flip, triple loop (hangs on), double axel (foot down), double salchow-double toe - TES 68.05, PCS 66.60, FS SCORE 134.65, TOTAL SCORE 207.68

Javier Fernandez ESP - quad toe (nice), double salchow-double toe, triple axel, quad salchow (beauty), single lutz-double toe, triple loop, triple flip-half loop-triple salchow, triple salchow - TES 83.00, PCS 85.30, FS SCORE 168.30, TOTAL SCORE 249.06

Florent Amodio FRA - triple salchow, quad salchow (underrotated, fall into the boards), triple axel (turn out), triple axel (turn out, no comob), triple flip, triple lutz, triple salchow-double toe - did he only do seven passes again?! - TES 63.52, PCS 78.58, FALL -1.00, FS SCORE 141.10, TOTAL SCORE 216.83

Yuzuru Hanyu JPN - quad toe (hangs on), quad salchow (hand down, step out), triple flip (hangs on), triple axel-triple toe, triple axel (possibly underrotated)-double toe, triple loop, triple lutz-double toe-double toe, triple lutz - TES 89.05, PCS 80.00, FS SCORE 169.05, TOTAL SCORE 244.99

Misha Ge UZB - triple axel (two-foot, could've been clean), triple flip-double toe, triple lutz-double toe-double loop, triple lutz, triple flip, triple salchow-triple toe, double axel - nicely done, Ge has really gotten consistent in the past few years - TES 68.81, PCS 71.24, DEDUCTION -1.00, FS SCORE 139.05, TOTAL SCORE 207.50
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Tomas Verner CZE - triple toe, triple flip (two-foot), single axel, double axel, single loop, double flip, triple flip, single loop - TES 39.87, PCS 72.58, FS SCORE 112.45, TOTAL SCORE 180.50
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Ross Miner USA - quad salchow (step out, hand down), triple axel (fall), triple axel-double toe, triple lutz-triple toe, triple lutz-half loop-triple salchow, triple loop, triple flip (fall out) - TES 73.38, PCS 69.28, FALL -1.00, FS SCORE 141.66, TOTAL SCORE 211.90
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Maxim Kovtun RUS - quad toe-double toe, quad toe, triple lutz-triple toe, triple axel-double toe, triple axel (step out), triple flip (fall), double salchow, single axel

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FINAL RESULT

1 Patrick CHAN CAN 267.78 1 2
2 Denis TEN KAZ 266.48 2 1
3 Javier FERNANDEZ ESP 249.06 7 4
4 Yuzuru HANYU JPN 244.99 9 3
5 Kevin REYNOLDS CAN 239.98 3 7
6 Daisuke TAKAHASHI JPN 239.03 4 8
7 Max AARON USA 238.36 8 6
8 Takahito MURA JPN 234.18 11 5
9 Brian JOUBERT FRA 232.26 5 10
10 Michal BREZINA CZE 229.00 6 11
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12 Florent AMODIO FRA 216.83 10 15
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16 Misha GE UZB 207.50 15 16
17 Maxim KOVTUN RUS 207.40 19 14
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21 Tomas VERNER CZE 180.50 17 22

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Articles...

http://fsrussia.ru/news/
http://rsport.ru/trend/figure_world_11032013/
http://www.team-russia2014.ru/article/5313.html
http://news.sport-express.ru/rubric/398

@JohnnyGWeir:
https://twitter.com/JohnnyGWeir/status/ ... 1490768897

This judging is ridiculous and the only reason people buy it is because it's in North America. Imagine the outcry if it were Russia+Plush!?

Chan takes third career gold in controversial win over Ten at Worlds (Photos):
http://www.examiner.com/article/chan-ta ... -at-worlds

World champ's apology is perfect ending to flawed skate:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/co ... s/1992075/

'Home-ice' advantage boosts Chan to World Figure Skating title:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ct ... 8346.story

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Виктор ПЕТРЕНКО: «Для победы в Сочи даже одного четверного будет мало»:
http://fsrussia.ru/news/514_viktor-petr ... et-malo--/

'Chanflation' helps Patrick Chan keep world skating title:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/ ... 7759.story

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http://www.examiner.com/article/opining ... components

Opining on Worlds: The plight and misuse of program components

A day later. Were the results right?

Emotions were high last night at the 2013 World Figure Skating Championships after Canada's Patrick Chan won his third consecutive World title. That all sounds great until you factor in the fact that Chan made multiple mistakes, including falling twice, while the silver medalist, Denis Ten, made one less noticeable mistake and was brilliant in his free skate.

I had an urge to write this analysis of the event immediately. Like many skating observers, I felt Ten was the rightful winner last night - doing more than enough to overcome the almost seven-point deficit from the short program to Chan. But in the interest of level-headedness, I wanted to reassess it a day later. So walk with me while I dig.

It's all about components
Those who read my post-competition analyses know that I do tend to find the rational among the sometimes seemingly irrational outcomes that the ISU Judging System has delivered. Yes, component marks have a way of favoring the favorites. But the outcomes tend to be the correct ones, especially after factoring in the technical score, which are usually the marks that tell the story. And then there's the fact that people have short-term memories - the results from the short program also need to be factored in.

But one thing has to be noted - nowhere in the IJS criteria for components does it explicitly mention that a fall equates lower component marks. That's often the go-to line for those trying to dispute results that they don't like. More subtly, the only component that comes into play is in the Performance/Execution mark, where "clarity of movement," which takes about the "precise execution of any movement," can and should be interpreted as an area for consideration when it comes to falls.

Why? The idea was to clearly separate the technical side on the technical mark - so falls, poor landings, well-executed jumps, strong spins, etc., would be taken care of in the technical elements score. The program components score is more of a big-picture mark that takes the overall performance into account.

A fall that doesn't disrupt the program and the skater's performance of it? That doesn't - and shouldn't - do much to the components mark. That was precisely the conversation last year at Worlds when it was Chan vs. Takahashi. A fall that completely disrupts the program and takes the skater completely out of the performance of the program? That is what doesn't get addressed nearly enough.

Start from the short
Chan was the clear and runaway winner of the short program. No one came close to him when you combine his technical and component prowess there. His lead over Ten, a sizable one of over six points, was more than justified.

Ten, on the other hand, experienced what was a perfect storm of events that skyrocketed his components. The combination of underachieving favorites, skating late in the short program (he was 31st of 34 skaters), and a flawless program gave him component marks - deserved, mind you - that were the best of his career. But I guarantee you, had Ten skated before names like Takahashi, Fernandez, and Hanyu, his short program score would have been a good three or four points lower.

Judging the performance
So that leaves us to the free skates. In the technical department, Ten hit one quad and six triples; Chan hit two quads and two clean triples. Ten's sole mistake was doubling his triple flip. Chan, on the other hand, had two falls - one on a lutz and th other on an underrotated triple axel - a step out and hand down on a sal, and a doubled second lutz.

The margin of victory for Chan was 1.30. Had Ten not doubled the flip, we wouldn't even be having this conversation right now.

Going through the protocols, nothing seems particularly egregious or significant. There was one judge who mindbogglingly decided that the step out/hand down on Chan's triple flip-half loop-triple salchow combination was not worth a negative grade of execution, but otherwise, things looked fine.

So we necessarily have to look at the components - and that's where it goes awry. Judges are supposed to assess the current performance in front of them - not past performances, not practices, not the warmup that immediately preceded the skate. That practice, unfortunately, gets overlooked. It happened during the 6.0 era and it continues to happen today.

Watching the two performances again, it is clear that Ten skated a program that was unmatched in his emotional involvement, character expression, and dedication to music. His free skate component marks - once again, the best in his career by far - were more than deserved.

Chan started off wonderfully. But with each mistake, his performance diminished - shoulders started slumping, movements were not completely finished, the attention to the audience and to the music went away. It's not to say that he tanked. But he skated a program that, in the realm of Performance/Execution and Interpretation, were much more pedestrian than they were marked.

There's no taking away his Skating Skills, Transitions, and Choreography. Chan has taken great steps with this free skate this season in showing, and successfully so, a side of musical interpretation that he hasn't before. It's a wonderful program in choreography, but the actual performance of it last night was the second worst of the season. The only one that was worse was his debut of this program at Japan Open, where he fell four times.

So an 8.61 for Performance/Execution and an 8.96 for Interpretation (higher than Ten's 8.86)? Both marks should've been a half-point to a full point lower, which would have translated to two to four points in the overall score. Chan won by just over one point.

A separate debate
That the final standings would have been that close even with a proper marking of components is likely pretty stunning to many. I have written about this before - what is missing in the IJS currently is a better system of incentives and disincentives. Cleanness is not rewarded enough and mistakes aren't penalized enough. There just isn't enough of a range of penalties to properly separate the egregiousness of mistakes.

Mistakes are more logarithmic than linear. You have a slight hand down on the landing of a jump - ok, that's a slight mistake on the jump. You fall on a jump - that's a complete failure of the jump. The scale of GOEs right now is linear, but that's not how skaters and skater observers think. We need another round of revisiting the IJS, and this result could be the catalyst for it.

Not the first time this season
But overmarked components have actually undermined more than one result this season, only in Chan vs. Ten, this one was on the biggest stage with a large set of eyes. Mao Asada's victory at NHK Trophy over Akiko Suzuki was one such case, as was Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov's win at Grand Prix Final over Vera Bazarova/Yuri Larionov. In both instances, the mistakes made by the winners severely impacted their overall performances - a fact that was lost in the component marks for those programs.

There are two more events happening today with the free dance and the ladies' free skate. Let's hope we don't have another explosion of outrage at the end of the night.