Complexity Digest 2006.07 - 03

13-Feb-2006

In Fitting Twist, Pairs Will Provide the First Olympic Test of New Scoring System, NY Times Bookmark and Share

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Vincent Laforet/The New York Times In attempts to avoid scandal, which shook the 2002 Olympic pairs, judges keep a running tally of points, adding or subtracting after each move.
While the new scoring system was created to fix the corruption and is more transparent, it is also complicated and comes with its own built-in debate: anonymous judges.


Editor's Note: Assigning a score to an ice-skating performance corresponds to building a fitness function on the high-dimensional space that describes the athlete's coordinated movement patterns. Making it independent of other influences is one of the challenges not only of the ice-skating community.