How did the apparatus world cup series qualifiers do?

[rue_des_plantes]

Every +1 criteria had major restrictions on who could enter, and the FIG didn’t differentiate quota places beyond nominative, non-nominative, and the order in which they wanted them to be allocated. This was intentional, even if they didn’t really spell out or play fair with the allocation order.

I can see FIG generally wanting major specialists or big countries whose specialists don’t fit in well for 4-3-3 going for individual Cups, then two big countries get an AA +1, and anybody who doesn’t have 1-2 spots fights it out with new seniors and individuals without quota places at Continentals, bigger countries being handicapped by who they can send.

Judging by the language and how they treated the AA Cup, i.e. reallocating it before the original allocation and confirmation window even though this didn’t follow per their pandemic documents, I would guess the FIG never intended to have a situation like USA and CHN winning a +1 at Continentals before either World Cup circuit was completed and allocated.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

What is the purpose of having a World Cup for Apparatus?

To give event specialists a mechanism to compete at the Olympics. Which is what it did. Jade Carey didn’t compete any less on the event/s she won because she also did bars, beam and the AA final.

 

[MRR]

Rich, are you still against the rule knowing it would’ve allowed Skinner into the AA final?

I’m curious how Jade winning VT and FX but the tiebreak going to VT would’ve been treated. Would she have only been able to compete VT, despite beating Ferrari and Mori on floor? That would have discouraged her from entering the World Cups entirely.

I can understand apparatus qualifiers limited to their event on principle (and this is how NCAA handles specialists, no?) but it’s inconsistent for the FIG. They can’t allow apparatus qualifiers at Worlds to compete AA but not World Cup winners, as (I believe) was the original proposal.

 

[KristyJ]

I think the NCAA does limit competitors to the event/events on which they qualified to nationals, but the key difference is that they have the opportunity to qualify on every event.

 

[makam]

But wasn’t it basically only one non-team gymnast for each event? Whatever it was it felt like too few the last time I watched. There were a lot of gymnasts on teams that didn’t make it that had gotten 10s on different events over the season that could have nipped a medal.

 

[KristyJ]

Oh, I agree they really should have had more individuals

 

[cats]

NCAA needed to bump up individual qualifiers to go along with the smaller set of teams. Just didn’t have everyone there who belonged.