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Referring Back to Post #379:

I went back and watched Anya Pilgrim's 9.825 floor routine in the bama meet. My findings, my subjective opinion:

1. What looked like a perfect routine, a crowd pleaser easy to root for a 10, was not a 10 and the judges scored Anya's routine correctly.

2. As floor routines start with a 9.4 and go up to 10 with bonus point elements, it's apparent Anya did the requirements to raise her top possible score to a 10. It does not look to me that she had any deduction for doing 2 tumbling passes.

3. The deductions that are apparent and it would have been to the judges were on Anya's split jumps of which she did a combination of three. However, the split jumps were nowhere near the 180 required to avoid deductions. They weren't 90, but they fell in the area of .15 or .20 deductions. The code deductions:

Splits/jumps
180 degrees No deduction
160-179 degrees 0.05-0.10
135-159 degrees 0.15-0.20
134 degrees or below Skill devalued

4. To get to Anya's 9.825 score, one judge graded her a 9.85 and the other a 9.80. Starting from 10 which means she did everything else well to both the trained and untrained eyes, one judge marked her down .15 and the other judge .20. Both scores are averaged to arrive at the 9.825 score which looks to be the correct score for Anya.

5. I've been hard on judges in general and have every right to be, even Bart Connor agrees, but the judges were right on Anya's 9.825 score.

6. The good news is Anya is highly talented and her split jumps are correctible in practice. The bad news is with 180 split jumps in her bama routine, UF would have likely tied bama even with our veterans having an off night. That says a lot about the potential for this team to score higher.

 

We think we have it bad, tigger fan at LSU ain't happy:

LSU Gymnastics Recruiting Thread (2024 and 2025 Recruiting Classes) | Page 8 | LSU Recruiting (tigerdroppings.com)

They know they have the best team money can buy and they are not happy with the results so far.

LSU comes to Gainesville so we may have a chance to upset LSU unless they get their crapola together by then.

 

If not, it's going to be a long, long season. I do expect the poodles to give their best against this Gator team just as I expect that from all of UF's opponents. Really, this meet is UF's to lose.

Meet Day:

No. 8 Gators at No. 21 Georgia Friday - Florida Gators

My hopes are the Gators improve their score for a 4th consecutive week, would be a really good road score, and that neither team suffers any injuries.

 

7 pm et

 

you can watch on sec network.