UCLA gymnast Vanessa Zamarripa scored the eighth perfect 10 of her career on vault on Mar. 17, 2013.
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Many mock the “perfect” 10 in College gymnastics. But that’s closer to a 10.0 than the 9.20 it would have scored in FIG competition.
College scores have escalated this season. More than past years.
The judging at Utah’s upset over Florida has drawn more wrath online than any other meet.
Get a Grip – Judge Well, Lest ye be Judged
Sport and entertainment.
This time more entertainment than sport. That huge crowd at Utah will be talking about this competition for years.
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While there are some good routines/vaults getting 10s in NCAA, the scoring in general is so ridiculous that I can no longer watch NCAA. The scoring makes it a mockery of everything I’ve enjoyed in gymnastics.
Come on, I think they might have given that one a 9.5, assuming she had done a DTY like that (which we know she can do easily). The E scores track with the D scores, but no one who has enough power for a harder vault would do a FTY in elite for the most part.
I’m waiting for the day, and it could be here tomorrow, that our sport uses a computer to judge…just like swimming. People don’t time in the olympics, it is all done by computer and sensors.
We have the technology for a computer to see a routine in real time, watch the angles, record the skills, and the deductions. When we finally go this way (and we will) judges will be obsolete, and tragedies like Zou Kai being awarded high bar medals will be a thing of the past.
She took a step. Watch her slide her foot back. That was not even close to a 10. Come on
As I said before (http://gymnasticscoaching.com/new/2013/03/florida-looks-unstoppable-198-425/#comments) …
Women’s NCAA scoring is embarrassing. On the one hand, I’m glad the 10.0 still lives. On the other, they’re making a mockery of it. I don’t care how good Florida is, and I agree they’re very good, averaging a 9.92 isn’t humanly possible. We’re months away from a school scoring a 199, which is completely ridiculous. I don’t think it shows the quality of NCAA gymnastics, anymore than the 1980 Olympics demonstrated “perfection” with its embarrassing glut of 10.0s for anything with a stuck dismount. When 9.6 quality routines get 9.8s, than 9.8 quality routines have to have to get a 10.0 to make it “fair.” The escalation is out of control and soon they’ll have nowhere to go. Honestly, I think we’re there now.
… And to add, I’d like to see Florida win. They deserve to. Of course, they’ve also deserved to, what, the last four years, at least? But, instead, what will probably happen is Florida will self-destruct, again, and one of the big four teams, probably UCLA, since they’re hosting, will once again win with everyone talking about new blood and next year.
Deja vu all over again.
Women’s NCAA is a joke not only because of the scoring, which is pretty hysterical, but because there are only 4 schools in history that have won. And continue to win, coming up on 4 decades into the sport’s existence with the NCAA. No other NCAA sport has ever seen such a meager showing. None. Zero. Zip.
Will someone else win? Yeah. Eventually. And it will probably, finally, be Florida. But adding a new name to the roster every two decades or so, and that’s how long it’s been since UCLA broke in, is still redonkulous.
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