I am curious about something I have experienced this year. For t&t I competed level 9 again and this year I noticed a lot of girls not doing their required skills, often opting for harder skills with more DD, but the issue is those are skills you are required to perform at the level, and in t&t if you don't do a required skill there is supposed to be a big deduction and I just didn't see it be taken.
Fast forward to yesterday. I competed Ladies division Mod op. There is also a ladies mod 8. This gal told me she competes mod 8 but dropped down to mod op because she wanted people to compete with and no one else entered mod 8. She then performs all her mod 8 routines including arabians off bars and on floor and scores really big. But for mod op you are supposed to be limited to one B skill at least on floor and beam. I was a bit irked because I felt like a level 2 competing against a level 6, and the fact that she was rewarded for it. In my opinion she should have been bumped up to mod 8.
Anyways more ranty than anything. But I am curious if you see these types of things happening, and what is usually done or what is supposed to be done? Is this normal?
Fast forward to yesterday. I competed Ladies division Mod op. There is also a ladies mod 8. This gal told me she competes mod 8 but dropped down to mod op because she wanted people to compete with and no one else entered mod 8. She then performs all her mod 8 routines including arabians off bars and on floor and scores really big. But for mod op you are supposed to be limited to one B skill at least on floor and beam. I was a bit irked because I felt like a level 2 competing against a level 6, and the fact that she was rewarded for it. In my opinion she should have been bumped up to mod 8.
Anyways more ranty than anything. But I am curious if you see these types of things happening, and what is usually done or what is supposed to be done? Is this normal?