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Originally Posted by melindawarren
I've been banking on Douglas, Maroney, Raisman, Ross, Weiber, with Finnegan and Price as alternates.
Saddened to see Bross and Sloan not have such great nights. I miss the days when we had fiery Bross.
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Posting this because MelindaWarren called it right down to the alternates - I just concurred with her, so I don't think my prediction counts. My daughter called it quite a while back, but she never put it in writing so....tough beans for her.
Looking back at my prediction, I said I would take Finnegan over Price as an alternate and I'd switch that now. I really wasn't sure in the end they wouldn't take Price over Maroney.
Anna Li as an alternate surprises me a little bit but she does have great bars and they need that.
AGDee - The gymnasts and coaches generally weren't happy with the scoring change either. They have two scores. The first is difficulty - there's a complex formula based on elements and combinations of elements that determine it. Basically it goes from 1-7 (no one actually has a 7) and most elite gymnasts should have routines that are high fives or somewhere in the sixes (the better routines are middle sixes).
The second score works the way the old system did - they start at a 10 and take deductions (although they are a little more extreme with the deductions than they used to be). They add them together.
Generally a 16 or above is fantastic, a 15 is pretty darn good, a 14 is okay and a 13 is a disaster, but floor and bars tend to score lower. On those a 16 is almost unheard of, a 15 or above is fantastic and so on. ....Yeah, this probably way more information that you wanted or needed. Oh, and this can all vary some (not much) depending on the judges.
Jordyn is an all business type of girl who just isn't a big smiler, but WOW! A credit to the state of Michigan.