I don't always understand scores and it can be frustrating sometimes when it doesn't turn out the way we think that it should. DD also received a low score this week and she and I both thought that that she did better then last meet and yet recieved a lower score. I spent a lot of time talking to her about judging and things varying from week to week and that the score wasn't the most important part but that her improvement was more important. I do think that your DD deserves to be on the podium for her terrific attiude. She was a champ for handling herself in the way that adults are sometimes unable to.