MAG Age brackets at regionals (mens gymnastics)

[Dahlialover]

The Region 2 Regional Championship is going on now and I’m perplexed about how they are doing the age categories. Some levels are broken up into only 2 age groups: Jr and Sr. I’m not sure the exact age cut-off between the two groups but I know a 8-year-old and a 12-year-old who are both competing as level 5 Juniors. Is this typical for Regionals?

 

[ORgymmom]

I don’t know if it’s typical but we are in region 2 for WAG. At the one meet we attended that included MAG, there were sessions included what seemed like a huge span of ages and multiple levels. Region 2 is small for WAG, let alone MAG, so just two age groups for Level 5 sounds possible. Alaska is also an expensive, long trip, so all athletes who qualified might not be there.

 

[Dahlialover]

Lots of level 3s declined to attend due to travel costs. They offered spots to kids with lower qualifying scores. I know that there were so few level 6s in our state that all of them qualified. I guess they have to have a minimum number of kids to make a competitive division. It just seems a little unfair for 2nd graders to compete against middle schoolers.

 

[ORgymmom]

Lots of level 3s declined to attend due to travel costs. They offered spots to kids with lower qualifying scores. I know that there were so few level 6s in our state that all of them qualified. I guess they have to have a minimum number of kids to make a competitive division. It just seems a little unfair for 2nd graders to compete against middle schoolers.

It is crazy! All you can hope for is a good experience and his own best performance. What a great adventure, though!