THE MARKING SYSTEM

                 The marks that judges assign range from a low of "0", for "not skated" to a high of "6" for "faultless, perfect" performance.  Decimals to one place are permitted.

                The mark allotted a skater is of value only in relation to the marks allotted to other skaters.
                It is the ranking that is important, not the actual value of the mark.  Therefore, the skater with
                   the highest marks from a judge receives a first place from that judge, regardless of what the
                  mark is.  This placing is referred to as the ordinal or place value.  The winning skater is,
               of course, the one who receives the majority of first place ordinals.  For example, if three or
                more judges (out of five) place a competitor in the first place, he or she will be given the
               placement value of one, if three or more judges give the next skater a second place, that skater will receive a value of two and so on.
 
 

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