Event (FIG) Scoring Worlds Routines

[Denn]

I can't get to 8.333 without making up deductions.

• BHS mount: -1 sIightly crooked (nice save!)
• spin: -1 slight loss of balance
• BHS + layout: -1 pause before, balance check at the end
• switch ring leap: -1 balance check. gorgeous shape!
• front aerial + split ring jump: -1 for rhythm of connection, if it was credited.
• side somie: -3 for balance check (bending forward). maybe harsh.
• split leap + split jump. 0 for me. Watch in slow mo. MAYBE you could justify being tilted on the second element. Yet, I bet every judge deducted a couple tenths...
• dismount 0.1, for not opening up and landing bent over and 0.1 hop. Hard to see in the video... Maybe feet? or an extra hop? 0.1 extra just in case.
• Artistry: –1 lack of fluency. Her choreo is pretty but kind of generic, but there's no deduction for lack of creativity.
• That's 8.8 from me

BTW... Some people have pointed out that some of our write-ups get very long. Let's try to be succinct. (Hope I did okay just now!)

 

[Aeris]

The full turn gets precision for being overturned, front leg below horizontal on the split leap and jump (and probably they took slow connection deduction), dismount has leg separation + flexed feet in addition to the chest position on landing and the step. Side somi just a .1 balance check and then the artistry deductions varied between .1 and .2 I'm sure, for the end result of either 8.3 or 8.4E

 

[Denn]

Judging the same way I scored Saraiva:

• layout full: 1 feet, 1 legs apart, 1 legs bent, 1 crooked, 1 balance check
• switch split + split jump: slow motion shows full splits, maybe slight imperfections. 1 rhythm of connection
• BHS + back layout: 1 legs apart, 1 feet, 1 balance check, 1 height?
• spin: precision, balance check 3
• front aerial: clearly bent leg, not straight 1, balance check 1
• side aerial: 1 feet, 1 off balance
• switch split + BHS: 1 crooked in the air
• roundoff
• BHS: 1 pause, 1 legs apart, 1 legs bent
• double tuck — 1 feet flexed, 1 feet apart (even though her knees are together), 1 low chest, 2 steps
• 1 lack of fluency, I guess.

E-score: 7.3

Nowhere near what Saraiva did. Not even close.

 

[Denn]

No. Saraiva's split leap hits a GREAT position.

I feel that the split jump, below, is fine, too. Because she's a little oversplit, the back leg is high, but the front leg is horizontal. It looks overall tilted slightly, but again, humans, not computers. Only a jerk would deduct this.

She actually intends to do a quarter turn out of the full turn. She goes straight into the choreo there. Benefit to the gymnast.

@Aeris Your math ain't mathing. I already had two of those deductions (.1 for feet on the dismount and .1 for artistry) and you gave back 0.2 I took off. Even accepting your deductions on the turn, split leap, and jump, you only have 0.2 or 0.3 more than I did, if you deduct the connection of the dance series. So 8.5 or 8.6 from you.

 

[Denn]

Start at 2:07 for Aleah Finnegan


acro series: 1 prep/pause before, otherwise perfect
straddle jump: 0
switch split: 0 (see slow-mo)
split jump: 1 balance check.
turn: 0
side aerial: 1 excessive prep, 1 flexed left foot
front aerial: 1 bent leg , 1 balance check
dismount: legs apart on landing 1
artistry: Choreo is LOVELY and stylish. She has a slower pace, and it's a breath of fresh air after all the frantic "dance" so many gymnasts do. Maybe you deduct something. Lack of relevee?

E-score: 9.2.
Judges score: 7.933 What the fuck is that?

 

[Denn]

Some stills — oversplit in the first two and 180° in the third.

 

[Doug1233]

Yurchenko half on - piked barani off.

4.2.

Outrageous.

 

[RedBirdie]

Yeah, Roberson got absolutely fucked by the judges there.

 

[Aeris]

@Denn For Saraiva's routine it's +.2 on the side somi but -.3 on the leap series, .-2 on the dismount (if you only took 2 deductions, if you took 3 your E score is 8.7), .-1 on the turn, and .-1 more on artistry could be justified. That's why I'm saying the 8.333 definitely is fair with the rules. They actually could take an extra .1 for "step without choreography" before the acro series if being especially cruel (hate that rule so much).

You can't judge leaps by freeze frames. In real time they should have a HELD full split. Watch a good ballerina and the leap appears to hang in the air in the position before descending. The descent should also be clean. The way most gymnasts try to do split leaps, including this one here, they are dropping their front leg too quickly, trying to jam it down for stability. The position should never look like this (unless trying to land with the back leg held at horizontal scale):

Even in freeze frame on Sairaiva's split jump, that front leg is not perfectly at horizontal. Yes the back leg is slightly above horizontal so overall the leap is (very briefly) at a 180 split, but both legs have to be at horizontal.