2025 Week 4: January 20, 2025-January 26, 2025

[Sasha]

I heard she's been ill.

Well shit. All the best to her.

 

[MaryClare]

Well shit. All the best to her.

Wow. She’s incredibly brave

 

[cftmoonlight79]

What gyms did she train at? I feel like there was a few before Woga.

 

[RedBirdie]

She was at Paramount Elite when she first qualified elite, then moved to TCT.

 

[cftmoonlight79]

Did Selena Harris-Miranda get married? Or some other reason for the "new" name?

 

[RedBirdie]

No, not married. She's using the Latinx naming convention, where you have two last names: your father's and you mother's. Although usually it's not hyphenated.

 

[cftmoonlight79]

Ok thanks!

 

[cftmoonlight79]

If anyone would like, I'd appreciate a breakdown of the SV of the MSU floor routines. I'm not quite seeing how they get to a 10.0 SV. I'm a DP coach so I know bonus works a bit differently. It's good to know for my athletes trying to do NCAA. TIA!

 

[MaryClare]

No, not married. She's using the Latinx naming convention, where you have two last names: your father's and you mother's. Although usually it's not hyphenated.

I believe the reason is to separate her UCLA results from her Florida results.

 

[RedBirdie]

Right out of the gate, Florida with insane and occasionally impossible scores. So it's gonna be one of those nights.

 

[Mthegymqueen]

Did not expect Arkansas to beat out LSU...

 

[irichluck21]

LSU had a rough night.
Two low beam scores (one from Konnor McClain) and a fall and near fall on floor from Kailin Chio and Aleah Finnegan.
Arkansas had a little home cooking scores as well but did deserve the win based on LSU's mistakes.

 

[RedBirdie]

Going from UGA-UF to OU-Bama was whiplash. Scored with two wildly different pens. Very frustrating.

 

[cats]

I try really hard to like what’s good about NCAA and ignore the rest, but I really can’t with the two pass routines. Aside from the issue of it just not being enough gymnastics, there are very few gymnasts and choreographers who can actually fill that time. It’s boring, and it’s ruining the whole back half of the meet.

I did appreciate the score separation between Bowers and Davis and the various gymnasts who were clean but not pristine at OU/Bama.

 

[JaJa]

I try really hard to like what’s good about NCAA and ignore the rest, but I really can’t with the two pass routines. Aside from the issue of it just not being enough gymnastics, there are very few gymnasts and choreographers who can actually fill that time. It’s boring, and it’s ruining the whole back half of the meet.

100% agree

 

[Passion]

Aside from the issue of it just not being enough gymnastics, there are very few gymnasts and choreographers who can actually fill that time. It’s boring, and it’s ruining the whole back half of the meet.

I was thinking the exact same thing last night. There's too much dance and it's not even real complicated dance, a lot of it was just sort of shimmying around like you would dance at a party. I don't care to watch 40 seconds of that over and over and over.

 

[irichluck21]

I would be fine with shortening the floor routines from 90 seconds to 70-75 seconds if we are going to keep up with two passes.

 

[Big_rock_show]

I would be fine with shortening the floor routines from 90 seconds to 70-75 seconds if we are going to keep up with two passes.

Agreed!!! 70 seconds is probably PLENTY.

 

[Big_rock_show]

Also, did Washington really host Michigan at 8pm pacific time last night?! That’s brutal! It would have felt like nearly midnight for Michigan

 

[arabiandoublefront]

I try really hard to like what’s good about NCAA and ignore the rest, but I really can’t with the two pass routines. Aside from the issue of it just not being enough gymnastics, there are very few gymnasts and choreographers who can actually fill that time. It’s boring, and it’s ruining the whole back half of the meet.

I did appreciate the score separation between Bowers and Davis and the various gymnasts who were clean but not pristine at OU/Bama.

Yeah, at this point, I only watch it because it's convenient, not because the product is good. I'm so bored of two pass floor routines and beam isn't much better. I know they say it's to save their bodies, but I just feel like it's an easy way to reduce deductions.