Category: judging

College Gym News – Airing of Grievances

If you’re a fan of Seinfeld, you likely know of a little holiday called Festivus and one of its annual traditions called the Airing of Grievances.

We’re taking the opportunity to air some grievances about college gymnastics and start 2019 with a clean slate of frustrations:

Judges Not Judging

Constant Complaining

Biased Fans

Athletic Departments Not Seeing the Value of Gymnastics

Inconvenient Meet Times

We Need to Talk About BTN (and the Big 12)

Nonexistent Scores

Lack of Transparency

Same Bar Release Discourse

Themed Meets

Words On Leotards

Click through for details.

The Second Annual Airing of Grievances

understanding College Bars scoring

Less science. More a magic black art.

Spencer:

Handstands are THE THING on bars.

When gymnasts cast to handstand in NCAA, we’re told the judges are expecting them to be within 10 degrees of vertical to receive no deduction. This “degree” stuff is super ambiguous (the human eye cannot tell the difference between 9 degrees and 11 degrees on a handstand), so the rule basically ends up as “y’all better be vertical.” …

WTF IS NCAA SCORING – BARS EDITION

NCAA Vault judging is stupid

NCAA judging is stupid. But some of the craziest injustices occur on Vault.

Spencer tells us the REAL rules:

NCAA pretends that it follows the JO code of points, except it obviously doesn’t. Not even a little.

There’s a tremendous amount of subjectivity remaining in NCAA scoring, including an unwritten understanding regarding which deductions from the JO code actually count and which ones magically don’t for the purpose of scoring NCAA routines. …

WTF IS NCAA SCORING – VAULT EDITION

Bonus

NCAA 10.0 Vaults
Yurchenko 1.5
Yurchenko 2/1
Yurchenko 1.5 tucked
Yurchenko 1/2 on, front tuck 1/2
Yurchenko 1/2 on, front pike (Omelianchik)
Yurchenko 1/1 on, back tuck or pike
Tsukahara 1/2
Tsukahara 1/1
Handspring pike 1/2
Handspring tuck 1/1
FHS, Handspring front pike

Alicia agrees.

Yusuke Saito sings the Code

One way to learn the named skills in the Men’s Code of Points. 😀

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Yusuke competes for Tokushu Gymnastics Club in Japan.

the mathematics of dance

Creative director: Masahiko Sato

Dancer: Kurimu Urabe

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

My first thought was that maybe, possibly, sometime in the distant future we MIGHT have computers judging artistry.

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new J.O. Level 6 & 7 Vault evaluation

Every coach I’ve spoken with likes the new Vault rules.

But how are judges going to evaluate?

Jason MacDonald put together a video from a presentation at Illinois State Congress.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Worlds 2019 – Fujitsu’s judging support system

I’m looking forward to seeing if this helps.

… The judging support system will now be tested at a forthcoming World Cup event and targeted for deployment at the 2019 World Championships …

… assist judges in coming to accurate determination of elements by capturing the gymnasts’ movements with 3D laser sensors and analysing as numerical data. …

Provide training solutions …

Improvement of entertainment applications and expansion of fan-base

– Offer TV and online broadcasting contents, while providing display boards and smartphone systems for visitors at competitions, to make Gymnastics more entertaining …

FIG’s Athletes’ input to FIG in Doha

It appears the world’s best Artistic gymnasts made great choices when electing former world champion Aljaz Pegan (SLO) and two-time Olympic medallist Oksana Chusovitina (UZB) to the FIG’s Athletes’ Commission to respectively be their men’s and women’s representatives. The pair exuded passion and commitment as they revealed the key issues at the forefront of their gymnasts’ minds during the Doha 2018 World Championships. …

… biggest issue they had was about the equipment …

… second issue was the colour of the equipment …

One area the male gymnasts were immediately vocal on was judging. The desire for as much consistency as possible …

“I explained about the Fujitsu project,” the 44 year old (Pegan) said, referencing an on-going FIG-led concept, looking into building a high-end data support system for judges. “Then we took them into a Fujitsu meeting.”

The project received universally positive feedback from the gymnasts …

Gymnasts plotting way forward for the sport

Men’s AA ranked by Difficulty and Execution

Execution:

  1. Artur Dalaloyan- 52.298
  2. Xiao Ruoteng- 51.898
  3. Artur Davtyan- 51.640
  4. Sun Wei- 50.998
  5. Sam Mikulak- 50.673
  6. Marios Georgiou- 50.232

Difficulty:

(Note this is just the difficulty they were credited with in the final, so many of them will have lower difficulty counted here than planned due to errors.)

  1. Nikita Nagornyy- 36.1
  2. Xiao Ruoteng- 35.7
  3. Kenzo Shirai- 35.5
  4. Artur Dalaloyan- 35.3
  5. Oleg Verniaiev- 35.2
  6. Sun Wei/Kazuma Kaya- 35.0

See the full list on MAGnastics.