Category: judging

Olympic Champ’s 1st 10.0

Suni’s going to collect a LOT of these on Bars over the next 4 years.

39.825 AA !

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three 10s in a row on Vault

Reyna Guggino, Natalie Wojcik, Abby Heiskell.

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NCAA Bars scoring

Up to level

Unless. There are several possible routine-composition deductions in NCAA routines, but the one you’ll hear about the most during the season is the “up to level” deduction (UTL).

This deduction is a flat .10, taken from any routine that does not fulfill the standard of being “up to the competitive level.”

What does that even mean? Good question. …

Balance Beam Situation – WTF Is College Gymnastics Scoring

ZOU Jingyuan – P Bars

Every once in a while you should remind yourself that perfection is possible.

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Jocelyn Moore – Vault

One of the best vaults of the season, so far.

A good example of how video analysis rewarding height, distance and early completion of the twist would be more accurate than human judges.

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NCAA Beam scoring

The most important thing you need to know about NCAA deductions is ‾\_(ツ)_/‾. Keep that in mind at all times.

NCAA pretends that it follows the Level 10 code of points, except it obviously doesn’t. There is a tremendous amount of subjectivity remaining in NCAA scoring, including an unwritten understanding regarding which deductions from the Level 10 code actually count and which ones magically don’t for the purpose of scoring NCAA routines. The standard is, “We take the Level 10 code of points, and then just ignore all of it.  …

Balance Beam Situation – WTF Is College Gymnastics Scoring

10.0/9.8 split Floor judging

Lovely routine with interesting choreography.

Cal’s Andi Li.

Spencer — on GymCastic — pointed out that 0.2 is MUCH too great a range for a score at this level.

But it is allowed under NCAA rules.

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NCAA Floor scoring

Gymnasts are allowed to perform only two tumbling passes if they wish (instead of the traditional three), but there are special composition rules regarding routines with only two passes.

In two-pass routines, one of the passes must be at least a D salto, and the other pass must be either a D salto or garner 0.2 in CV. …

Balance Beam Situation – WTF Is College Gymnastics Scoring – Floor

Watanabe: computers may eventually replace judges

I feel progress has been slow.

I can’t foresee it happening any time soon.

Watanabe, who retained his position as FIG President at last month’s Congress, stresses that the technology is currently assisting judges but did not rule out the idea of it eventually becoming sole arbiter.

“At this stage, it is a judging support system,” Watanabe told insidethegames.

“It may be a substitute for humans in the future. …

Exclusive: FIG President Watanabe says computers may eventually replace judges