Re: The "NEW" judging system in operation in Shanghai. .
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 04:51
Reading here at dancesportinfo the interview with Arunas and Katusha I was so very pleased when I came to these words.
Katusha, you as a former figure skater know how many problems we have with judging and how many different approaches and changes do you think that any one of them should be applied to dancing?
[Katusha] You know no system is perfect and we will never find a system which is perfect.. You know in competitions sometimes the system works for you and sometimes it works against you but I think at the end of the day the best one wins anyway.
[Arunas] I think at the moment the way it is the way most competitions are run when we have many couples on the floor the Skating System and marks 1 to 6 is probably the best. I am sceptical about this system which IDSF tried to introduce in Shanghai when they gave marks not from 1 to 6. Every couple danced separately so that makes it long. That changes ...
[Katusha] ... priorities...
[Arunas] It changes the thing as it is now because it is more difficult to compare the actual dancing, the quality of the dancing, the way the couples are moving, the togetherness, the musicality. I think it enhances them to search for more effect choreographically because they are on their own. And when you are on your own on the floor this changes the way you would dance if there were 6 couples on the floor. I think it is difficult to compare. Other factors come in to it and I am not sure if those markings really reflect the actual dancing.
[Katusha] It is like today before we came for this interview we were watching the Latin and today that's a great competition. There are so many new couples in it and they are all going for it. It is almost like when you have 2 good couples in the same heat they bring the best out of each other, so I think the couples are going to miss that competiveness because you are by yourself.
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