its alright...i guess

INTHELOOP said...

what do you guys think of the new scoring format for Freestyle?

Is this the scoring format that you are talking about?

52. SCORING
A competitor shall be scored while being in the designated competition area. Whether a competitor is in or out of the competition area, will be at the discretion of the senior judge on the relevant panel and the Head Judge.
Judges should be visually separated when possible and it is the responsibility of the Head Judge to see that the judges do not discuss scores.
Judges will assign numerical scores to tricks performed by the competitors inside the designated competition area during the heat. The individual trick scoring will be done from 0.1 to 10.0, broken into one-tenth increments.
The scores of the respective competitors will be tabulated together to get their results from the heat: highest points wins.
In a 5 judges Judging Panel, the highest and the lowest scores will be withdrawn and the average score of the other 3 judges will be counted as the final score for each trick by the Computer Scoring System.
The maximum number of trick attempts per competitor during a heat will be 12 and only the best 7 tricks with the highest individual scores will count towards the final score for men and women's divisions. If the maximum number of attempts and counted tricks per heat has to be changed per division, this shall be decided by the Riders Committee and the PKRA Head Judge and posted in the Official Notice Board before competition begins.
Once a competitor have reached the maximum number of trick attempts per heat including crashes, the competitor will no longer be scored during the heat.
Crashes will be scored by the Computer Score System as a 0.1 and will be counted as an attempt.
If a competitor has attempted less tricks than the maximum number of tricks that count towards the final heat score, the remaining tricks will be counted as a 0.0 score by the Computer Score System.
Judges may not change their scores on the Computer Scoring System. In the Event that a mistake has been made the judge should have the Head Judge make the correction for them.
If a judge misses a trick, or part of the trick, he should place an "M" in the Computer Scoring System and that score will be tabulated as the average of the other judges' scores for that trick.
Tied competitors' heat scores shall be listed in order of best to worst individual trick scores and at the first point where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favor of the competitor with the best individual trick score.
Qualifier rounds will be judged based on Overall Impression, therefore the Computer Scoring System do not apply.
The judging scores of each individual judge shall be shown only to competitors in that heat, on their request.
The scores of the judges may not be appealed.

http://www.prokitetour.com/pkra-event-rules.php

Troyrotor said...

Im yet to compete but the rules sound good.
Only thing I don't like is that a crash is awarded a 0.0, I reckon it would stop people attempting crazy tricks in competition if they arnt 100% sure they are going to land it.
Obviously not worth full points but depending on how close they come to landing the trick, some points should be awarded.
Comps would be even better to watch

you can still butt check a trick and get some points, but personally i don't think you should be awarded for crashing a trick, even if you come pretty close, you still havnt completed it, landing is usually the hardest part

It sounds very very similar to the asp system (pro surfing) where there's five judges and the highest and lowest scores are cancelled out leaving only 3 which are averaged out, the asp also has the a wave limit and gives a minimum score if the surfer falls of, it almost sounds as though they,ve taken their scoring system and adjusted it slightly.

The major difference between the two though is that if the location is known to be challenging (pipe or teahupoo) they will give the surfers a decent score for putting their balls on the line and going for it, which is great cause it gives an incentive to go for insane waves and makes watching the event more exciting and sometimes they even make the waves.

All in all it's a good system for scoring bit their needs to be an incentive for competitors who are pushing the limits