The figure skating scoring controversy kicked off after the 2002 Winter Olympics, when a scandal broke out over claims that some judges fixed the results in the pairs' competition. This situation showed that the old 6.0 system was too open to personal bias and wasn't transparent enough, making it easy for judges to play favourites. Because of this, figure skating as a sport took a hit in terms of credibility, pushing the International Skating Union to bring in the new International Judging System (IJS) to make scoring clearer and fairer.