I have no problem with a tech cap, but that’s because I’d rather see yo-yoing move away from pure speed and string hits and put just a little more focus on the overall performance. Tech is awesome for other players to watch, but if yo-yoing ever wants to grow outside of the niche it’s in it’s going to have to appeal to a bigger audience who can actually understand and appreciate what’s going on.
Here’s the problem I have. In a contest with the tech cap, most of the serious players will reach the cap. That means that they will all have the same tech scores. That means that the tricks themselves don’t really matter. I think that at least half of a person’s score should depend on his tricks.
I’m all for moving yoyoing toward innovation, but a tech cap is not going to do that.
I dont quite get how this is supposed to work. Further down that page, no one seemed to have reached any cap, which I assume is 50 (out of 100).
The raw tech score for a 3 min freestyle is typically 100+ but there is no upper limit. Does this mean like they simply divide the raw score by 3 or so, and anything above 150 is capped to 50?
But now that I think about it, I’m not sure how the tech cap would work. Normalizing the scores makes it so that each judge contributes the same amount. Some judges click liberally, while others don’t. Normalizing evens it up.
As my understanding goes, the traditional way is that the highest score given in the whole competition by a single judge is used as the base, and all players average score between judges is divided by this. Like if a player gets 150/145/140 by 3 judges and another one gets 120/130/140, the first will get a final score of 145/150(times watever the full score is, 50, 60 or 70) and the second 130/150. I still dont have too reliable sources, just that someone explained to me once why the highest tech scorer does not automatically get full score.
The biggest problem to the cap system that everyone should agree with is that liberal judges have more influence than conservative ones. I guess that is just a detail though.
Edit: by liberal judges, I mean judges who give a lot of clicks, not politically liberal. Same with conservative judges.