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The FIS World Championships Slopestyle final takes place on Wednesday.
This will be another opportunity to see the new FIS Slopestyle judging system.
That way, they have something to build on and its not something that surprises them.
Thats intermingled with a 40% overall score, thats still the same as usual.
Its hard to get away from Oh an 89.
Thats good, I may have won the contest but why wasnt it a 93?
Why didnt you give me a 90?
Why did you have to keep me in the 80s?
The scores arent the thing that matters, its about the ranking in the old judging system.
They know exactly what they were docked for in their run.
They killed me on that.
So thats how it works.
X Games and Dew Tour will stay with the regular overall impression.
Its a system that was created in snowboarding and its had a lot of success.
We are attempting to adapt it because the athletes were pushing for it.
Everybodys been pleased so far, I have fun looking at the runs afterwards.
I would be curious to see it work on a course with three or four jumps.
If people dont necessary, spin in all 4 directions or theyre not spinning fluently throughout the run.
Thats one place I can see it altering.
Like: oh you took 15 points off for that.
But its not really the points its just they couldnt place above this skier with that mistake.
Jason has been doing it since day one, check out our interview with himhere.
I feel that way in which weve been judging has really promoted that environment.
Based on the judging systems that have been implemented.
That the judges can be held accountable for.
In reality, were just judging overall impression of each feature specifically and then accounting for it overall.
It kind of is just a more comprehensive overall score.
So youve heard from a judge and a competitor, what do you think of this system?
