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The thing that shook me the most was how they gradually raised her artistry deductions over the course of the meet, and gradually dropped Rebeca's. Wasn't there like, almost 3 tenths on average between them, just on artistry? Use any of her artistry deductions in QF, TF or AA, and she would have...

I mean - surely it was Biles' for the taking?! She had like a billion out of bounds, got absolutely destroyed on artistry, was downgraded a leap which they gave to others - and she still basically won. It was Simone that completely threw that final gold medal away.

There were so many issues with OOB deductions on floor in Paris. I just found another one. ETA: She would have easily made EF if she hadn’t fallen on the DLO. 12.7 with a fall.

Disagree on artistry. Or posture. But she does have nice extension through the knees and toes. Not through the upper body though.

As much as I like transparency, I don't think I am in favor of publicly listing a name next to the judges deductions. I dont think the FSU do this either, right?

The angle of completion on her pirouettes on bars, or her leg separations on vault? No. As to your second question - they're trying. But we can't all be ballerinas.

Back to topic - is the rule now that the foot has to touch the crown of the head? Foot at head height (which Saraiva's clearly is) still gets a 0.1 deduction, right?

Because she has lovely posture and carriage.

Allowing judges to see a 1/4 speed video replay of the vault should be a no brainer. These vaults are so complex nowadays. No-one was doing a Cheng in 1995.

I have her at an 8.3. I can't be arsed to type it all out (at least not today). But I had Skye 0.2 ahead of Melnikova (Skye 3 ahead on E, and 1 behind on D). We all know that Melnikova gets overscored.

I am absolutely not a Melnikova fan, but I don't think you can make such blanket statements like that. I had Yang in silver, Skye in bronze, McDonald in 4th, and Melnikova in 5th (losing a tiebreak). I have yet to do the AA. But when I'm bored between now and Winter Cup, and if we can find a...

Yes it seems like the problems stem from the 1-3-5 model. Melnikova's mistakes (like the leg sep) are borderline 1-3, so most judges go with 1. Karina's are visible, so they also get 1 - even though Melnikova's are visibly worse. And they end up with the same score. It is a shame. We need the...

Either way, given how bunched the E Scores are on vault, I think we can all agree that Melnikova's should not have been ranked higher in execution.

What are your 0.5 other tenths for Schoenmaier?

Totally agree. Except that I don't even think Shoenmaier should get 0.3 for the landing.