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  1. ETGator1

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    Projected Brackets from College Gym News:

    Tracking Regionals Qualification Live - College Gym News

    Projected Bracket
    Last Updated: Saturday at 10:00 p.m. EDT

    This is NOT the official bracket. There is reasonable certainty about the top 16 teams as well as the teams in bold, but the remaining teams are simply a guess of what the committee might do. There are six teams within 400 miles of University Park ranked between No. 17 and No. 36, and our best guess at which one will be moved is Rutgers, but that is not set in stone.

    University Park Seattle Tuscaloosa Salt Lake City

    1 LSU 2 Oklahoma 3 Florida 4 Utah

    8 Michigan St. 7 Missouri 6 California 5 UCLA

    9 Kentucky T-10 Georgia 12 Alabama T-10 Minnesota

    16 Arkansas 15 Auburn 14 Oregon St. 13 Stanford

    17 Michigan 20 Nebraska 19 N.C. State 18 Denver

    25 Ohio St. 21 Arizona 22 North Carolina 24 So. Utah

    28 Penn St. No. 26 Arizona St. 23 Iowa No. 30 Boise St.

    31 Maryland No. 29 Illinois 27 Clemson T-32 BYU

    36 West Virginia 35 UC Davis 34 Rutgers T-32 Utah St.
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    Kentucky 9 and Michigan State 8 could be in a fight to advance to national, depends on which team shows up. Last year, the Spartans pretty much bombed in the Gainesville Regional so I know they will not want to have a repeat of that happening.

    I'll be surprised if seeds 1-7 don't advance. There have been some surprises over the years. Florida, LSU, and UCLA have had highly seeded teams not to advance; however, I'm not expecting that to happen with the top 7.
     
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  2. orangeblue77

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    Trinity Thomas was calling out the scoring and I stand with her! Lol
     
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    Trinity then was thinking many scores were higher last night :)
     
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    I’m no gymnastics guru but the scores for the Gators seemed particularly harsh on every rotation except bars which the Gators were simply magnificent and undeniable on. Too many mistakes to win yesterday but absolutely should have finished second.
     
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    Oh..I agree..a couple of floor scores were too low in my estimate..and a beam for Selena
     
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    If two ladies make the same jump on a landing deduct both equally. Same as diamond sports lol. If you call that a strike for one team it better be a strike for the other team as well. Bias is a big pet peeve of mine.
     
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    I agree..too much subjectiveness in scoring..I looked a judges score cards..I was amazed ( not in a good way) at the huge differences
     
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    uf's last 2 beam scores which included selena's were scored to make sure ou finished second.
     
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    The only way to win is by already being the predetermined winner. Some really crazy chicken and egg stuff there. Or for the Gators JUST do ALL four sessions like they did bars and be Thanos inevitable!
     
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    Because sports, subjectivity is becoming one of my least favorite words in the English lexicon.
     
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    Usually we are good on beam...and improved a lot on floor...Leeann missing that connection is unusual for her
     
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    Well in gymnastics and diving and ice skating...it happens
     
  13. orangeblue77

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    Beam team! We chose to start on floor and finish on beam. Missing that connection hurt but I think everything was already decided anyway.
     
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    I love gymnastics and figure skating and I hate it lol!
     
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    Entirely possible I’m misinformed but I heard we chose to start on floor.
     
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    I got a couple green checks from ETGator on gymnastics and only one bacon. I totally consider this a win! :)
     
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    I think rotations are determined by seeding.
     
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    I believe you are correct, but I think that Jenny had the choice of beam or floor as the third seed. I think she chose floor as the lesser stress rotation - whether that was the right choice is something we can debate but will never know if it was the better choice.
     
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    Given the choice, I would have taken floor too. If I recall correctly, UF started on the beam in 2024 and was out of the meet by the end of the first rotation.
     
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    I'm not ETGator who is a moderator and a more levelheaded poster than I could ever be. I'm ETGator1 because ETGator already had the name I wanted when I joined back in the spring of 1998.

    I only gave you bacon because I disagreed with your statement that everything was already decided.

    Teams can beat the judges bias, but they have to be better than the higher ranked team as the judges will give more credit to teams that did better over the course of the season when all other things are equal.

    UF had the meet won until Leanne missed her connection. From there to the end of the UF beam team rotation, the judges bias kicked in to see that OU finished second behind LSU. The Tigers had already shown they were better than OU in the meet. The Gators failed to show they were better than OU.

    We'll likely see a repeat of the SECs play out in the national finals with the top 3 SEC teams plus whichever team makes it to the national final. It will be incumbent on UF to show they are better than both LSU and OU as it will now be for OU to show they are better than LSU. The Gators don't need an historic repeat of bars so much as they need to do better on beam and floor plus stick a couple of more vault landings. The differences between LSU, OU, and UF are minimal.
     
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