On February 18, 2022, the beijing winter olympic freestyle ski women's U-shaped venue finals will begin.
In the preliminaries of the previous day, Gu Ailing entered the final in terms of scoring with a very comfortable leading position. After that, there was a video on the Internet saying that Gu Ailing "frantically staged a dimensionality reduction blow" in the preliminary round of the U-shaped venue, which attracted the dissatisfaction and objections of some netizens.
Can Gu Ailing's lead really be described as a 'dimensionality reduction blow'? I'm not going to sell it here. Gu Ailing took the soaring height as an advantage, and indeed carried out a 'dimensionality reduction blow' on the players competing in the same field.
So why is the effect of the height of the slotting so large on the points? This brings us to the scoring system and criteria for this project within the framework of the International Snow Federation. I've said this before: Any event prediction that doesn't follow the official scoring criteria is a hooligan.
Don't be too wordy here. Allow me to list the scoring criteria for referees:
The referee's set of actions to the athlete is based on 5 criteria. The importance of these 5 criteria is not prioritized, and they must be considered equally by each referee. The five criteria are:
Execution
Difficulty
Amplitude (height)
Variety (Action Richness)
Progression
First, the referee will score the top 5-10 points according to these 5 criteria. These 5-10 points are called the Anchor Score of the match. All scores scored by the referees subsequent to the match will be based on these anchored scores. Anchoring scores can be said to be the product of the combination of objective criteria and metaphysics. Subsequently, the referee will play an impression score in his mind according to these 5 criteria and reference anchor scores. If the performance of the two players is very close to the referee's impression score, the referee can decide who has the higher score according to his subjective preferences.
If it is still impossible to distinguish between high and low after adding subjective factors, the referee will deconstruct the players' actions according to these five criteria. If an athlete's full set of movements is considered better on three criteria or more, the athlete will receive a higher score. That's why an athlete waits a while to rate the referee after completing a set of moves in a U-shaped field. If a game is very stressful, the referee will be more entangled in how to score. This will also result in a longer scoring time.
It is worth noting that the increase in the standard of Amplitude (height) will also directly raise another standard - Difficulty (Difficulty). To put it simply, the height of the groove of the same set of actions has increased, and the difficulty has naturally increased. Boosting height is killing two birds with one stone in terms of scoring. Therefore, whether it is a single board or a double board U-shaped field game, increasing the height of the slot is always a tactic that can be multiplied with half the effort.
In order to be able to intuitively feel the impact of the soaring height on a whole set of movements, let's compare the video of the competition between Gu Ailing and Hildaru (the third-place Estonian player in the same competition) in parallel:
Gu Ailing:
Hildaru:
Let's compare the actions of the two contestants in their respective videos.
Gu Ailing Action Sequence:
1. Natural (right) deflection shaft rotor 900 - large angle deflection. Pay attention to the fact that your feet are completely above the head during the movement.
2. Unnatural (left) deflection shaft rotor 900 - large angle off axis, as above.
3. Natural (right) pan 720
4. Slippery unnatural (left) translation 720
5. Anti-uphill unnatural (left) turn 540 - anti-uphill plus unnatural turn, plus points!
6. Reverse uphill natural (right) turn 180
Hildaru Action Sequence:
1. Natural (left) turn flat 900 - natural rotation refers to the direction in which the player's rotation ability is stronger
2. Unnatural (right) rotation translation 900 - unnatural rotation is more difficult than natural transformation
3. Unnatural (right) reverse uphill rotation 540 - Reverse uphill rotation is more difficult than downhill rotation
4. Reverse uphill natural turn 540
5. Natural (left) turn 540
6. Unnatural (right) turn 720
7. Backward sliding natural (left) turn 1080 - the difficulty of backward sliding is higher than that of positive sliding; the difficulty of backward sliding and landing is higher than that of positive sliding
Both men's Execution (degree of completion) is high. Comparing the two sequences on paper, Although Gu Ailing is better at Variety (action richness), Hildaru seems to have an advantage in Diviculty (difficulty).
Compare amplitude again. Please look at the position of the circle red in the screenshot. Hildaru's set of actions, the highest fly out of the U pool wall height of 7 feet 3 inches; the average height of 5 feet 4 inches. Compared with Gu Ailing, it can be said that it is beyond reach. Gu AiLing soared to a maximum height of 12 feet 7 inches and an average height of 11 feet 3 inches! Gu Ailing's average soaring height is more than twice that of Hildaru!
Gu Ai Ling soared into the air
Hildaru vacates altitude
Although there is no priority for the 5 scoring criteria, Amplitude (height), as the simplest and most intuitive scoring criterion, has been independently divided with the other 4 criteria. This shows the importance of the simple element of 'height'. In fact, in a sense, or in the referee's subconscious, Amplitude (height) is the king of the explosion! When an athlete's soaring altitude is significantly better than that of other athletes in the same field, that athlete already has a huge advantage.
Therefore, Gu Ailing still has an absolute Amplitude (height) advantage in the case of extreme competitiveness in Term(completion), Difficulty (difficulty) (action richness), and I think that 'dimensionality reduction attack' is not modest but not excessive.