Someone linked me to this on Facebook, it all reads pretty sad if true. It sounds like even kiteboarding is getting big enough now to be caught up in the politics and corruption this corporate world spawns . I'd love to hear what that know it all SirROWDY has to say about this!!!???

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It was a judging mistake to begin with, was that the work of the orgainser?

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no seriously....ride with us

I'm no comp expert, but if you have video footage, you should be able to score the trick, and add it to the total. Why re-run the heat. Makes no sense. NO re-runs.

I watch heaps of ASP (surfing) on fuel. Loads of waves are scored via video footage and from different camera angles. Sometimes because you are watching one person riding a wave and then some is riding another at the same time. Other times the judges actually use the video footage and compare the 2 side by side to make sure they get the right scores.

Can you imagine getting a perfect 10 wave, and be told "oh we need to re-run the heat coz some of the judges were looking in the other direction and missed some of the heat during one manuveur.

Your performance is your performance, use the tools you have to get the scoring right. If the trick was video captured, then its add the score to the total.

-Maybe there needs to be camera persons filming each rider for the duration of the heat. That way no tricks get missed. PKRA needs to do something like that to avoid this type of situations.

Right?!?

If a trick or manouvre is missed by judges in any sport its down to judges decision.

Good organisers have extra spotters and a quick video replay by the head judge to organise correct scoring.

I can not belive that Gisela would of cracked a hissy fit, but if she was injured and the had to do a rerun then her loss.

Judging criteria will have to be fixed if this is the result.

So it has been decided that they can not hold a heat outside of the competiton dates so the score has been worked out on there actual results in the comp for the two womenTherefore they now get equal first for the pingtan event

You are half correct. The IKA overturned the decision of the PKRA to re-run the heat in Haikou as it was outside the specified competition dates for Hainan and goes against IKA/ISAF rules. Both girls were still in a tie-break situation, as such they were awarded equal 1st place for that event.