With all the discussions going on about the possible "fixes" etc for next Saturdays show due to the way the points are allocated; I don't understand why the BBC doesn't implement the scoring system used on DWS.

As far as I can determine, it works as follows:

The scoring begins with the judges' marks. Each judge gives a 1 to 10 score, for a total score of 3 to 30. When multiple performances are scored, only the cumulative total counts.

The contestants' "judges' shares" are calculated as the percentage of the total number of points awarded to all contestants that evening. (For example, if a team earned 20 points on a night when the judges awarded 200 points, their judges' share would be 20/200 = 10%.)

This percentage is then added to the percentage of North American votes received by each contestant.

Doing it this way would ensure you could never get into the situation currently faced.

As DWS is a BBC Worldwide production, why are they not just doing it this way for SCD?

The problem with that method is that, whilst I trust this judging panel to rank the couples reasonably, I don't trust them not to overmark some couples relative to others...especially in the case of a talented pair that they may believe is struggling for votes.

I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea but it would require proper judges rather than pantomime judges for it to stand any chance of working in a way that just didn't create more controversy...and arguably that's overkill.

In ice dance competions the highest and lowest mark is discarded, this could then be converted to a percentage