Recent content by Aeris

The letter grade needs to be lowered, it's simply a boring floor skill and not as difficult as others. The joke has gone on far too long.

Count mounts as a required 9th skill on UB, make the basic kip mount worth 0, and lower the amount of deductions taken. For vault I think the bonus should just be for doing any two different families. That way people can do something like DTY + Y1.5 if they want, but it won't be especially...

It's something that should be kept away from both sports. Audiences should be focusing on the performances while they are happening, not staring at numbers in the corner of the screen. During replays is where this info should be displayed. Gymnastics commentary would improve if the...

Will be nice to see Alice D'Amato. The decision to leave her off the World team is so bizarre.

The E-score rules are exactly the same now as they were then. I did not "want" Skye to win a medal, she simply deserved it, exactly based upon the rules we have and the routine she did compared to others. People should not accept bad judging.

Growing the audience of the sport is another reason to having completely accessible judging scoresheets. It makes things more understandable and gives people more to talk about.

When most of the people heavily involved with a sport can't make sense of the scores, it's a big problem. Keeping the deductions in the dark means the athletes, coaches, federations, and judges themselves don't have a clear way to assess routines. If for example everyone knew that someone was...

Doing a triple wolf on floor shortly after giving birth. What better evidence could you ask for about that skill line being overvalued.

There aren't any artistry deductions on UB though, nor are there supposed to be flow deductions for doing a normal cast handstand. Qiu Qiyuan at 2023 Worlds had 6 casts, with all of her skills in the routine unconnected after the opening jaeger, and received the highest E-score of the...

She's young still, a 2028 Olympic spot doesn't seem that out of reach. Unfortunate timing in both 2021 and 2024.

How else are the judges and FIG supposed to be held accountable? If we have all that info available but not the judge who did it, then it's mimicking figure skating during the 2005-2014 period, where judging protocols were available but it wasn't known which judge did each score. The judges'...

Nobody needs to care about the ranting of random person on social media. He also can already attempt to contact or call out the judges on social media if he wants; it's already known who was on a panel. Far more popular sports have refs making calls every day that crowds hate and those refs are...

It accomplishes transparency and education. The athletes can see exactly where their deductions are coming from and everyone can directly compare the deductions taken for any given routine and be able to more clearly assess if things are being done fairly (both with regards to the judges...

I don't think someone should be a judge if they can't handle their deductions being public. They have nothing to worry about if their scores are justifiable. Having the exact deductions public would allow the gymnastics community to better discuss how things should be scored, putting an impetus...

Grip adjustments without any balance issue on bars being .1 deduction is silly. 2.0 / 2.5 twist only being .1 difference on floor doesn't feel good. It becomes somewhat "fixed" when accounting for connection/dismount bonus, but that's not how every routine is constructed. Having 0.05 increments...