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(GYM) New SEC Gymnastics Format In 2025

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  1. gatornharlem

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    On Tuesday, the SEC announced changes to the gymnastics conference championship format, starting in 2025 when Oklahoma officially joins from the Big 12. Among the changes includes a new two-day format, where day one will feature two semifinal competitions between the bottom eight teams from the regular season. The No. 1 seed will get a day one bye and will be joined by the winning teams from each semifinal, as well as the next highest scoring team from both sessions combined. Will the days of competition be back to back? Will there be a rest day like regionals? Will it start on Thursday, Friday, run from Saturday to Sunday? The NCAA rulebook states that all scores that will be factored into a team’s NQS should be submitted and confirmed on the Sunday after Saturday conference championships.
    Regular season:Nine Weeks of Head-to-Head Action.
    Each school sponsoring a gymnastics team will meet each other member institution at least once a year on an alternating home and away basis, consistent with the current process. An additional week will be required to accommodate nine teams. This leaves just two weeks open in the regular season for non-conference competition. One will be taken up by teams’ senior nights, and the other will come during the first week of the season. Anything else will have to be scheduled around the SEC calendar with double headers or multi-team competitions. The B1G 10 has ten teams. Each school has five regular season conference dual meets and one five (quint??) meet where they compete against the 4 schools not on their regular meet schedule. That leaves 4 weeks open. So maybe it would make more sense to hold a handful of SEC tris or quads to allow teams to get the most bang for their buck while also still having an opportunity to compete against non-conference opponents.
    Individual Champions
    This new format makes awarding individual champions a bit tricky because the No. 1 seed does not compete on day one, and obviously the teams that don’t advance to the final won’t compete on day two. Or combine the day one and day two results and take the highest score for gymnasts that compete twice, or count scores from gymnasts on teams seeded second through eighth from day one and the No. 1 seed’s day two score? I definetly oppose having it determined completely by NQS. It should at least follow a similar format as how they determine NCAA individual championship.
    What do you think?
     
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