Evil Geniuses For A Better Tomorrow

Olympic observation of the day:  synchronized 10m platform diving is a bit of a weird sport, but after having watched this while waiting for the 200M freestyle medal swims I found it to be a lot more interesting to watch than regular platform diving.  In regular diving I can’t really tell anything about how something will be judged other than to see how big the splash is; big splash == low score. By the last round of the synch diving competition I was able to make easy judgements on how closely synced the two divers were and having the second diver as a comparator made it a lot easier to notice certain details like tuck position and how vertical the diver was while they were still in the air.  With regular diving I only notice this when the commentator shows the dive in slo-mo, but in syncronized diving it seemed much more apparent and I was able to make a guess at what the score would be before the divers surfaced.