Wow, pretty sweeping proposals.
>2. Simplify the IJS Scoring System to make it more understandable to the general fan.
Personally, as someone who watches skating on TV too, I love this idea. But there are actually very few sports where most of the fans know all the rules, so you can take this way too far.
>4. Redefine/Rename the ‘Senior’ category to allow for wider range in age for competitors
might mean that the skaters who are old enough to compete at Worlds are also old enough to compete at the Olympics. I don't get why there is a difference.
>5. Eliminate all Short Programs across all disciplines.
I'd rather see them as separate medals, like different ski events get separate medals. That would certainly give more skaters the chance to medal, which is what the team event was sort of for. And it would motivate TV coverage to include all events.
>7. ISU decide what will be the one Team Skating discipline for the Olympics; the Sochi model or Synchronized Team Skating.
We all know the Sochi model can really only be won by one team, and is completely unfair to skaters from most countries.
As an aside, if you have one Synchro team, would you take a country's best Synchro team, or would you try to combine the best skaters from many teams? If the latter, you would have the same problem as you have with hockey - the skaters wouldn't have time to practice much as a team. Which would mean that a National Synchro team wouldn't be as good as the individual teams within country - as is true of hockey, where the best NHL teams are much better than any of the Olympic teams. Maybe more so, since unison is one of the biggest factors for judging Synchro.
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Maybe ISU could just split into ISU/Speed and ISU/Figure.
Anyway, it is hard to believe that the ISU governing council would pay any attention to a petition signed by people who aren't verified to belong to the ISU, including their ISU membership numbers. I hope they had the sense to so limit it.