The columns and symbols on a score sheet
Reading a Score Sheet
A score sheet breaks downthe score by element.
After a competition, a score sheet is published for each skater. It has one row per element, showing the element performed, its base value, the judges’ GOE steps and the element score. Here, an invented performance shows how to read each column.
ElementBase valueGOEScore3Lz+3T10.10+1.35=11.45
ExampleRead a score sheet’s columnsfrom left to right.
Example: women’s Short Program
Each row is one element. The “Element” column shows its name as an abbreviation.
The “Base value” column shows the element’s base value. A jump in the second half of the program is marked “x”, and its base value is multiplied by 1.1.
The “Judges” column shows the GOE steps given by 9 judges.
Drop the highest and the lowest step, one of each, and average the rest. Converted to points, that average is the grade of execution (GOE).
The base value plus the GOE is the element score. Adding up the scores of all the elements gives the technical score (TES).
For a combination, the GOE is based on its hardest jump
Second-half jump: base value × 1.1
Element codes show the kind and difficulty of an element.
A jump code is the number of rotations followed by letters for the kind of jump. A spin or step sequence code is letters for its kind followed by a level number.
PlusLetters for spin positions: U = upright, S = sit, C = camel, L = layback (spun standing, with the upper body arched back)
Examples of reading a code
- rotationsLutz
- foot changecombinationspinlevel
- flyingcamelspinlevel
- step sequencelevel
Letters for each jump
- TToe loop
- SSalchow
- LoLoop
- FFlip
- LzLutz
- AAxel
Score sheet symbols record the technical panel’s calls.
The technical panel is a group of officials who decide which elements were performed. Their calls are written as symbols after an element’s abbreviation or beside its base value. The symbols can change the base value or the GOE.
| Symbol | Meaning | Effect on score |
|---|---|---|
| q | Landed a quarter rotation short | The base value stays. The GOE goes down. |
| < | Under-rotated (more than a quarter short, less than half) | The base value becomes 80%. |
| << | Downgraded (half a rotation or more short) | It is scored as a jump with one rotation fewer. |
| e | Wrong takeoff edge (flip and Lutz) | The base value and the GOE go down. |
| ! | Unclear takeoff edge (flip and Lutz) | The base value stays. The GOE goes down. |
| x | Jump performed in the second half | The base value is multiplied by 1.1. |
| +REP | Repeated jump: the same triple or quad performed solo twice | The base value of the second one becomes 80%. |
| +COMBO | Short Program: the second jump of a combination was not performed | The GOE becomes −5. |
| * | Invalid element (does not meet the rules) | It scores no points. |
| V | Spin that does not meet the requirements (for example, the jump entry or the rotations in a change of foot) | The base value goes down. |