How Olympic Freestyle Skiing Is Scored
Aerials, Slopestyle, Big Air: How All the Olympic Freestyle Skiing Events Are Scored
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Freestyle skiing's halfpipe competition is very similar to the snowboarding discipline, although it's somewhat newer — it was only introduced at the 2014 Olympics. Unlike some of the other freestyle skiing events, halfpipe doesn't break down scores by specific percentages. Instead, a panel of five judges award scores from 1 to 100 based on overall "impression," keeping the factors below in mind. These scores are then averaged to get a run score. However, there aren't hard and fast rules for how each run in halfpipe should be scored, which means skiers are typically judged relative to how other athletes perform that day.