Women Regions judging opinions

[Flicfliclay]

While reading a post about regions, i came across something that i see pop up quite often so i thought i would take a poll and see what others have to day.
What regions do you think judging seems to be hardest to easiest? Lots of 38's or hard to get 38's or 10's...

 

[Dahlialover]

I had the same question reading that other thread!

 

[Flicfliclay]

I guess i can start a bit even though i don't really know what regions are what from the top of my head. I have heard that Florida tends to give out a lot of high scores. We did do a meet in Tennessee once and saw some very questionable scores, super high scores with obvious errors. Been in Texas before and the scores where "normal".. California and Arizona seemed pretty normal as well. I want to go to a high scoring meet just to experience this! LOL so tell me where they are!

 

[GymnastMomX2]

I’m curious too, where is the easy region, where should our gym be scheduling travel meets next year?

We’ve done meets in Texas, Louisiana, California, NY, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas over the years and scores have all seemed “normal” to me.

I just realized how many states we’ve traveled to compete in between my two girls. Crazy.

I did do a deep dive looking at scores between level 10 regionals and nationals per region a couple years ago and there was no significant difference, so while there may be scoring differences at smaller local meets, it didn’t appear to be there at regionals.

I’m semi convinced the regions claiming they have difficult scoring just have lower scoring because of a smaller talent pool, but that’s hard to prove/explain without sounding like I’m putting down someone’s gymnast.

 

[gym_dad32608]

Ya, I dont really subscribe to the theory that one region judges easier than another.

 

[NutterButter]

Ha! I’ve always wondered if this was myth too and I’m from one of the supposed ‘hard regions’. I’m in Region 4, specifically the Twin Cities. Anecdotally, it did seem my DDs scores were mostly the same when she had travel meets but generally her performance at these meets was not her best due to late nights with teammates in the hotel.

I’ll also add that the myth extends to D3 gymnastics too. My DDs college coach (eastern school) would complain when it was a WIAC year for nationals as ‘scoring would be harder’.

 

[Dahlialover]

I have a boy and sometimes extremely high scoring girl’s routines come across my social media feed and I am baffled by The scoring! For instance, is it not a deduction for girls to bend their arms on giants? I’ve seen people posing 9.9 routines with 3 bent arm giants and a flyaway below bar height . All of those things would be deductions for compulsory level MAG boys!

Also, are girls allowed to take a step out of their tumbling passes without a deduction? Is sticking it just a MAG thing?

 

[Coach Kate]

I have a boy and sometimes extremely high scoring girl’s routines come across my social media feed and I am baffled by The scoring! For instance, is it not a deduction for girls to bend their arms on giants? I’ve seen people posing 9.9 routines with 3 bent arm giants and a flyaway below bar height . All of those things would be deductions for compulsory level MAG boys!

Also, are girls allowed to take a step out of their tumbling passes without a deduction? Is sticking it just a MAG thing?

I can't speak to the first half because it should be a deduction for bent arms, but in the dp code, a controlled lunge is allowed.

 

[allthetrees]

We are up north and I have noticed in past years that when we travel to meets in southern states, our team’s AA scores tend to average almost a full point higher than they do at home.

 

[3rd_time_around]

We always joke around that if you want to score your first 10.0, go to Florida.

I have seen many a "Perfect 10.0" on YouTube with obvious errors that even the untrained eye can see, so I sometimes wonder what the judges are looking at? I wouldn't say certain regions judge harder than others, but I would be bold enough to say that some states judge harder or easier than others. I have a side-by-side of my daughter's level 6 bar routine with a gymnast from Texas. The routines are almost identical, except that my kid has straighter legs and higher amplitude than the TX gymnast. My dd's score was 9.275 while the TX score was 9.75. If I could post them here side-by-side, I would so that you could see them. I have seen almost perfect routines score in the low 9s while seeing sloppy routines from other states scoring much higher. I don't know what the answer is, or the solution, as the judges are supposed to be all learning and studying the same COP.