Her double twist had crossed legs and leg separation and her back layout stepout was VERY low, her knee was bent substantially when she contacted the ground. She had a low landing on her double pike, as well.

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And yes, judges DO consider level of difficulty when judging. They are not going to go ahead and give an easier routine with a 10 SV a 9.9 just like that. It would have to be absolutely brilliant, and Deetscreek’s routine was not brilliant, it was average.

I know level 10 and NCAA judges and I talk with them about deductions, so please don’t tell me about understanding scoring. I know plenty well what’s required, I simply rewatched the wrong video (I watched the competition live and discussed with one of those judges during the competition what deductions could and should be taken).

Grace Taylor did whip through to double pike, double tuck, and a double full dismount for a 9.725, how is Deetscreek’s score too low? Gymnasts are already starting from a 9.9 with only a C dismount (not in combination).

I was impressed with how Georgia didn’t let a fall on every event let them have another one. They were rock solid on beam other than the several little balance checks, but they were rewarded for it with the scores. Their floor has a ways to go. Not good landings, out of bounds, and their choreography is not well performed. I’ve already mentioned vault. Right now that and floor are their weak events.

But again, Utah was not over-scored at all compared to Georgia. Robarts and Deetscreek were both robbed on floor, and they were very tough on Mackie as well with the last pass being her only major mistake. Annie’s routine to finish the meet was very fair at 9.875.

I’m not going to say each team didn’t have a few routines that went a little high, but both did, and you’re simply letting your biases stand out, especially when you try to paint a picture of Deetscreek. She’s making her gymnastics look easy right now. Her “tumbles” are not low, Daria’s “gigantic” hop was not gigantic, and Rizzo’s vault being “flat” as you describe was as good as every single Georgia girl minus Ding and her step was very controlled.

So in review, Georgia had a fall on bars, a fall on vault, and are lacking a lot there, a fall and several out of bounds on floor, bad landings by Couch, and a bad landing by Mauro, several balance checks and one or two girls taking steps on landings on beam.

Utah had a very nice vault rotation with several sticks and controlled steps and a virtually perfect vault from Robarts, struggled on bars with handstands but had several sticks and no falls, had a fall on beam with the first girl, but then hit the next 5, but could have had more sticks, and went to floor with Gael getting hit hard because of the rough last pass although she stayed on her feet, and the next five girls did a very clean set with basically the only complaint you legitimately have is the step out of Daria’s middle pass which was going away from the judges so it wasn’t even that noticeable to them.

All of this, yet the judges were more than willing to give out big scores to Georgia in the last rotation and they were really strict with Utah. And you think Utah was overscored??

And when I talk of UGA’s balance checks on BB, they were small ones.

Tanella really dropped the ball at this meet, but everyone else did a pretty good job.

“You didn’t mention all the falls and out of bounds that Georgia had.”

Because only ONE gymnast fell, and only ONE gymnast went OOB, and they were the same girl, Tanella. Couch had landing troubles, but she didn’t go out, and her score of 9.525 reflected that.