Freestyle Skiing FIS World Cup 2024 - 2025

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Scoring in all these events is a bit strange as they are not judging a pre-defined move to an absolute standard, as happens in diving, gymnastics etc, but are constantly shuffling around trying to score riders relative not only to each other, but to that riders' previous runs earlier in the competition and qualifying.  

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5 hours ago, heywoodu said:

But how? Because to know whether run two was better, the scores need to be made anyway. It takes like 5 seconds extra to publish them.

Judging always takes two or three minutes in these competitions - longer even for possible medal runs - for reasons above, so just saying DNI is a way of saying it's not worth comparing a fall on the third hit to a fall on the fourth hit since neither are going to affect the overall.  

[heywoodu 14,866]

11 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Judging always takes two or three minutes in these competitions - longer even for possible medal runs - for reasons above, so just saying DNI is a way of saying it's not worth comparing a fall on the third hit to a fall on the fourth hit since neither are going to affect the overall.  

If run one has a fall on the third hit and run two on the fourth hit, it's very much still in need of scoring both runs to see which one scores best. In terms of the overall, finishing 7th or 8th definitely makes a difference.

 

The only time a second run might not be scored is if run one was entirely clean (or at least didn't have a fall) and run two did have a fall.