How does the figure skating system of scoring differ from the one they had before?

I know they used to have a different way of scoring for figure skating. I can't remember what the details of it were before though. It has been a while. Anyway, I was just curious about it. I feel like it would be an interesting thing to know.|||The old judging system was the 6.0 system, which was basically 2 sets of marks (artistic and technical marks) and the score would be out of well a 6.0





The new ISU judging system is supposed to be less biased and more technical





First, the technical part of the judging.


The elements a skater has executed have base values (example: a triple flip has a base value of 5.5). Though a skater can score higher or lower depending on the GOE aka grade of execution which can be anywhere from -3 (which is normally falling on a jump) to a +3 (which is doing an absolutely amazing jump, but getting a +3 isn't normal).





Spins, spiral sequences, and footwork; are graded in almost the same way with a base value and the GOE, though they also have a level (1,2,3,4, or no level). Depending on features a skater puts in their spins, spirals, and/ or footwork. These features are called level features and they raise the level of a skaters spins, spirals and footwork, therefore adding more points





The last part of the marks are the artistic marks. The judges grade skaters on a score out of 10 (I think) on Skating skills, Transitions, Performance, Choreography, and Interpretation. The scores from all the judges are averaged and added together with the technical element score to create the total score





On a side note, to make the judging even more fair the judges that gave the highest and the lowest scores are dropped. They (sometimes) drop a random judges score before averaging the technical and artistic scores.|||Before the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics they used the 6.0 system. If I remember correctly, you'd have all the judges, and, well, just like you'd see in a kiddie cartoon, they'd rate you out of 6.0 points in two "marks". The first mark was technical execution, and the second mark was the artistic one. Not a very precise system, if you ask me.





At one point, I believe, they removed the highest and lowest scores (or maybe this is now?) to try and make it fairer.





Not, overall, a greeeaaaat way of judging, but I definitely don't think that this system is perfect either.