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@Doug1233 Those are artistry deduction totals among the 7 judges who evaluated execution? So basically divide by 7 to get the average artistry deduction per gymnast?

Is Anna Kalmykova eligible for Worlds? Is she really that good?

She was way over on the stalder full, so the kip was definitely related to an error. Which makes her score all the more impressive. But I think it makes sense -- the routine is pretty efficient, the cast to HS at the beginning avoids deductions for not going to vertical, and she has one of the...

Gogean earned that floor gold -- and really, all of her floor golds -- for sure, I feel.

Too expensive. And it's not a dance competition per se. It never has been and nobody wants that. That's why I think it makes sense to remove the overall impression, which IS harder for the E-panel to do, in a way, and call for actual dance passages. They'd get treated like lower-difficulty...

But notice how I structured that — 0.1 EACH TIME. For both the deduction for not dancing into or out of a dance element AND for EVERY dance passage that is poorly done.

Look at the execution scores over 9 that we're now getting in Men's gymnastics. I wonder if they will start penalizing hops on floor less severely as well as lighten up on the hold deductions on rings a little to equalize the E-score distributions. All 3 Armenians over 9. Not over 9, but lots...

I never thought Oka was the best in the world — he was just the best that day when other people faltered. But I thought he was at least the 2nd best in Japan after Daiki Hashimoto. That didn't work out so well in qualifications. Emard can do much better, but I don't think Colt Walker can...

Don't even give them 10 things! Instead: Delete the leap passage requirement, like you said. It's awful. Institute 0.1 deductions for "not dancing either into or out of a dance element". They have to do at least one or the other. Make one of the required dance "elements" a Choreography...

It's both odd and acceptable that Gabrielle Hardie had one of the highest FX scores on the strength of her E-score — even though her hardest element was a back 2.5 or a double back. Honestly, her execution wasn't unusually great either. But her dance was good, and I think that is probably...

China is getting pushy with the "Hong Kong, China" If you're going to call it China, then it's China. No Hong Kong. Which I don't think most people want to happen. So call it Hong Kong and get over it.

So what's your floor music? :)

I said this out loud in my best impression of Simone Biles' voice. And then I laughed hard.

Meanwhile, Szabo flashed 505, a piked Tsuk full. NOT a piked Tsuk full. That was a Piked Cuervo. It was wonky off the horse, had a form break at the end, and hopped. And it got 9.95.

It says 302, and as she runs, it appears to change to 1000, but are you sure that is the SV? The images I posted are from that code, which was published in 1989 1979. Maybe they changed the value after 1979, though. It was an absurd value, and in 1985, it's in the code as a 10.0 (though the...