USA Today · Feb 14, 2018
How is halfpipe snowboarding scored by judges at Winter Olympics?
In case you're wondering what the halfpipe scores for Shaun White, Scotty James and Ayumu Hirano mean, here's a quick explanation.
Think of it more as a ranking. The actual numbers the judges assign each rider's run don't really matter. The scores are a means of ordering the runs from best to worst.
So if the first run sets the base high, the better runs will score high. If the judges deem a run worthy of a 100, it will be the last rider. That's it.