Yes top 8 AA then any event specialists who might have a shot to make O team and any girls who have a shot at being in the mix(maybe nursing a minor injury at P&G and can't do AA there but can be ready for trials). I would expect to see:
Thank you! Out of curiosity, is this list in order of your opinion of who has the best shot of making the team? Puma Jr is pulling for Ragan!
Close but not quite, I would have Ashton in the 5th spot . Maggie is a question mark right now. Right now I would have Ragan in the mix of 3 or 4 for alternate. But when choosing an alternate, vault and floor are the priority since those are the events a last minute injured athlete will most likely miss. Ragan probably has the weakest vault of all the girls in the mix and her floor has been inconsistent so far this year(pac rims) and almost sitting down her beam dismount at classics didn't help her chances.
True, but I think they pretty much have decided regardless who goes.......................
You are correct, sorry to be confusing! But @Deleted member 18037 I think you are also correct on both accounts-I think its all decided (both for the trials and the actual Olympic team) in that magical back room. And I assume by now they have a pretty darn good idea. And yes, the only thing (as far as I understand) that is guaranteed is that one Olympic team spot being the winner of the P&G. They might as well all hope for Simone, because if there's some bizarre upset, Simone makes it anyway so that's less chance for a bubble kid. It's like when they are picking the teams for the NCAA tournament-a Cinderella team that wins their conference in an upset gets an automatic bid making (in theory) less at-large bids since the team who "should have" won the conference tourney will get into the big dance anyway. (Sorry...can you tell I live in a basketball town?! Lol) It is so sad how many amazing gymnasts are going to be left off this team!!
Sort of....if the "should have" team is from a smaller conference they very easily become a "bubble" team in jeopardy of making the tournament and missing the dance because the big conference teams typically take those "at-large" bids.You are correct, sorry to be confusing! But @Deleted member 18037 I think you are also correct on both accounts-I think its all decided (both for the trials and the actual Olympic team) in that magical back room. And I assume by now they have a pretty darn good idea. And yes, the only thing (as far as I understand) that is guaranteed is that one Olympic team spot being the winner of the P&G. They might as well all hope for Simone, because if there's some bizarre upset, Simone makes it anyway so that's less chance for a bubble kid. It's like when they are picking the teams for the NCAA tournament-a Cinderella team that wins their conference in an upset gets an automatic bid making (in theory) less at-large bids since the team who "should have" won the conference tourney will get into the big dance anyway. (Sorry...can you tell I live in a basketball town?! Lol) It is so sad how many amazing gymnasts are going to be left off this team!!
Absolutely. But if you're a bubble team, you're hoping ALL the "should wins" win their conferences not just yours because that increases the number of at-large bids for you.
I guess what I mean is if I'm Laurie, I do NOT want Maggie to win the P&G. Because now Simone is still in, and probably Gabby and Ali too, so now I'm fighting the others for one spot not two.
Yes you "should"!
