Disclaimer: I am not a certified judge (as the title says). My only qualification is being a fan for 5 years (and that isn't even really a qualification). Over time, I've come to learn what NCAA judges do and don't deduct for.
Also, I have not had the opportunity to watch this meet, so I will be viewing these routines for the first time, and I am not going to look at the replays.
You can watch the meet here.
Oklahoma Vault:
- Nicole Lehrmann: 0.05: hop, 0.05: looked slightly underrotated
- Anastasia Webb: 0.05 hop, some judges would take off for form while others wouldn't so I'm going to invent a 0.025 deduction in situations like this because there's only one of me.
- Jade Degouveia: 0.05: hop, 0.05: didn't get the height the prior two vaulter got
- Allie Stern: 0.05: knees, 0.1 step
- Olivia Trautman: 0.05: knees, legs were apart on landing but judges don't deduct for that
- Brenna Dowell: 0.1 hop
My Event Total: 49.575 Actual Event Total: 49.575
Nice vault rotation. There should be more form deductions and such taken, but their form is good enough to be ignored.
Florida Bars:
My Event Total: 49.550 Actual Event Total: 49.675
- Alicia Boren: 0.05: we didn't totally get to see the very beginning but from what we got it looks like her back wasn't flat on her opening handstand, 0.05: hop on dismount
- Rachel Gowey: 0.1: didn't stay in handstand on half turn on low bar, 0.05: hop on dismount, 0.05: chest down on dismount.
- Amelia Hundley: 0.05: short handstand after pak, 0.05: short on final cast to handstand, 0.05: didn't get height on the dismount; looked like she just flung it out.
- Trinity Thomas: 0.05: college stick. I can see why one judge went 10.
- Savannah Schoenherr: 0.05: short first handstand, a little short on full turn and close catch of jaeger which I'll combine both of those for another 0.05 off. (NCAA judges tend to do things like that)
- Megan Skaggs: 0.05: short handstand on half turn on low bar
My Event Total: 49.550 Actual Event Total: 49.675
I think the main difference between the judges and I are the deductions I took on Gowey and Hundley's dismounts.
Oklahoma Bars:
- Anastasia Webb: 0.05: over on first handstand but it's a bit hard to tell from this angle, 0.05: short on final cast to handstand, 0.05: step on dismount
- Olivia Trautman: 0.1: short handstand after tkactchev, 0.1: elbows bent on overshoot, 0.1: handstand after overshoot, 0.05: short final cast handstand, 0.05: hop on dismount
This is the first egregious score. I don't understand how a judge could go 9.9 for a routine with a fairly large mistake.
- Karrie Thomas: 0.05: bent elbows/hesitation on giant half, 0.05: hop on dismount
- Brenna Dowell: 0.05: over on handstand after Ray, 0.05: hop on dismount, 0.05: there were two other handstands that looked off but I can't be sure with this angle.
- Nicole Lehrmann: 0.05: short handstand after jaeger, 0.05: shaky handstand on overshoot
- Maggie Nichols: nice handstands, 0.05: staggered legs on landing. They'll take off for staggered but not for being apart...
My Event Total: 49.450 Actual Event Total: 49.725
My Team Total: 99.025 Actual Team Total: 99.300
The only thing that was absolutely ridiculous was Trautman's score, and although it didn't count towards the total, it helped with score building. I also thought Lehrmann's 10 was odd because she's done better than that.
Florida Vault:
- Amanda Cheney: nice to see her in a lineup, 0.1: hop, 0.05: pike down, 0.05: leg separations
- Maegan Chant: 0.05: leg separation on entry, 0.1: hop, 0.05: pike down
- Nya Reed: 0.1: front foot step, 0.05: back foot moving forward
- Savannah Schoenherr: 0.05: knees, 0.05: height. best vault landing of the meet though
- Alicia Boren: 0.05: bent knees, 0.1: hop, it looked like three 0.05 steps and another 0.1 step but it's hard to count lol
- Trinity Thomas: 0.1: hop, 0.05: not center, 0.05: short on rotation
My Event Total: 49.150 Actual Event Total: 49.150
My Team Total: 98.700 Actual Team Total: 98.825
Landings, landings, landings....
Oklahoma Beam:
- Olivia Trautman: 0.05: knees on series, 0.05: bit of a wobble on front toss, there were heads blocking the view of her dismount but I think it was stuck.
- Nicole Lehrmann: 0.5: fall, 0.1: wobble on front aerial, 0.1: hips on front aerial, 0.05: hop on dismount
- Carly Woodard: 0.05: knees on series, 0.05: slight wobble on series, 0.1: wobble on front toss, 0.05: hesitation after switch leap
- Brehanna Showers: so this is where things get spicy. 0.1: wobble on series. The judges seemed to take 0.3 off of the split leap slip as a "grasp of beam to avoid a fall", but she did not go hands first. She avoided falling off because she split the beam, not because she grabbed it. In my mind, this is a 0.5 fall. 0.05: college stick
This was a very obvious attempt to try and save the team score since they already had a fall in the lineup.
My Event Total: 48.725 Actual Event Total: 49.200
- Anastasia Webb: 0.05: slight wobble on turn, 0.05: not fully secure landing on series, 0.1: hip bend on front aerial, 0.05: leaps looked short
- Maggie Nichols: there was a slight slight wobble on the full turn, so I would take 0.05 off, but I can see why judges might give it a 10, so I'm gonna use the imaginary 0.025 deduction.
My Event Total: 48.725 Actual Event Total: 49.200
My Team Total: 147.750 Actual Team Total: 148.500
That was not a beam rotation worthy of 49+. I've been mostly okay with the judging until this rotation.
Florida Floor:
My Event Total: 49.350 Actual Event Total: 49.600
- Sydney Johnson-Scharpf: looked like one large 0.1 step and then three 0.05 steps and then 0.1 for OOB, 0.05: lack of control on 2nd pass landing, wins all of the artistry awards, 0.05 control on last pass
- Amelia Hundley: The choreo during The Greatest Showman part is awkward, 0.05: slide back on whip+double tuck, 0.1: double pike lack of control, 0.05: last pass was a controlled step and went into dance, but it was a big step
- Nya Reed: 0.05: chest on double layout, 0.05: lack of control on leap series landing, 0.05: stepped forward on double pike instead of back (indicating she was short on rotation)
- Alicia Boren: 0.05: lack of control on double layout, I'm gonna deduct 0.05 combined for lack of control on 2nd pass and lack of control on leaps because neither were bad enough on their own but together it's enough to deduct.
- Trinity Thomas: 0.05: hop on leap series, 0.05: lack of control on double pike
- Alyssa Baumann: 0.05: lack of control on second pass, 0.05: lack of control on leap series; it's disguised by the choreography but still should be deducted
My Event Total: 49.350 Actual Event Total: 49.600
My Team Total: 148.050 Actual Team Total: 148.425
My team totals have Florida ahead at this point while the real totals had them behind. Landings, landings, landings part 2, but I like their choreography better than last year
Oklahoma Floor:
My Event Total: 49.500 Actual Event Total: 49.825
- Anastasia Webb: 0.05: lack of control on double front twist, 0.05: second leap in leap series was short. I'm a huge fan of her style.
- Brehanna Showers: I like this routine too, overall, Oklahoma's choreo is my kind of style. 0.05: lack of control on rudi. 0.5: fall, 0.1: step back before the fall
- Jordan Draper: 0.05: knees on the first pass, 0.05: knees on second pass, 0.05: knees weren't fully straight on second leap. Am I going crazy or did she only do two tumbling passes?
- Jade Degouveia: 0.05: lack of control on front double twist, I'll combine the 2nd pass landing and the leap series landing for a 0.05 deduction.
- Brenna Dowell: 0.1: slide/lack of control on first pass
- Olivia Trautman: Combining last pass landing and leap series landing for 0.05 off.
My Event Total: 49.500 Actual Event Total: 49.825
My Team Total: 197.250 Actual Team Total: 198.325
This was a good floor rotation for Oklahoma, but not program best floor rotation. Overall, their performance was good but not spectacular, but the 198 does not reflect that at all. This was not their best meet of the season, yet they got their season-best score.
Florida Beam:
My Event Total: 49.550 Actual Event Total: 49.600
- Megan Skaggs: 0.05: hip bend on series, 0.05: hop on dismount, 0.05: chest on dismount
- Amelia Hundley: 0.05: sissone looked short, 0.05: bit of a wobble in her choreo
- Alicia Boren: 0.05: wobble on front toss, 0.5: fall, 0.3: massive hip bend before the fall
- Rachel Gowey: 0.05: not secure in series, 0.05: college stick
- Trinity Thomas: 0.1 hop on dismount. Trinity, please start sticking these dismounts so you can start getting 10s
- Alyssa Baumann: I'm giving her a 10.
My Event Total: 49.550 Actual Event Total: 49.600
My Team Total: 197.600 Actual Team Total: 198.025
So based on my judging, Florida should've won this meet. Their vault rotation was not as bad as Oklahoma's beam rotation.
So, what did we learn? NCAA Gymnastics is a scam and we need to have an open-ending scoring system and fire all of the current judges. I'm kidding, a little bit. For me, NCAA gym hasn't really ever been about the scores, but more about watching gymnasts have fun and watching clean gymnastics rather than "let's chuck a produnova and hope I don't die", but if we want to be treated as a more serious sport, we need to act more like a serious sport.
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