Turin will be the first Olympics with the new scoring system generated after the last Olympics figure skating fiasco. I’ve been reading articles that mention the new scoring system, but I finally read an article that actually explains what it consists of. It seems like there are pros and cons to the new system. A newer, less well-known skater may have more of a chance— that seems to be a pro to me. On the con side, in my opinion, the judges’ scores are now anonymous. You’ll no longer know if it’s that pesky Russian judge (or French, or German, or whatever) causing your favorite person grief. It will just be an anonymously generated score.
