Yes, they were, but not by much. I am not a judge, but there is just no way this routine would have come close to scoring a 9.9 in USAG. The other frustrating thing about NGA is that my daughter did the level 7 and level 8 bar routine with the pike on to high bar, kip cast handstand, freehip handstand, giant, giant flyaway. She got credit in NGA for being above the 45 degrees and earned what I thought were excessively high bar scores on level 8 last year (9.7 at some meets without quite hitting all handstands), but she didn't get "extra points" (what is a value part?) for the more difficult routine last year. So it just didn't benefit her to do the more difficult routine in NGA in any way. Certainly not a 9.9 even with multiple stuck landings over the season, so after seeing that routine, I am actually wondering how she didn't get 10.0s last year. That is how absolutely ridiculous this was. The scoring is very inconsistent and confusing. As another example, I saw a kid last year do a free hip low bar routine and then giants with completely bent legs, and she scored a 9.2. I've never seen anything like that at a USAG meet. I also recall going to an NGA/USAG hosted meet last year, and the judges scored the NGA session just like the USAG session, so the scoring was much lower at that one meet. It just seems that the scoring can't even be reasonably compared between the two organizations.
What is IGC?