Posted by RM!
on 6/6/2009, 2:12 am, in reply to "Re: An Inside Gymnastics article ... "
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I''m really good about doing the math in my head real fast.. yeah its going to slow me down!! 
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: There has been some pretty funny stuff over
: on the college gym board ... along with a
: lot of annoying stuff ...
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: I thought the idea (from
: "balabanovv") of having audience
: members pick the next gymnast up on an event
: out of a hat was funny ... so kind of the
: luck of the draw ... add a little randomness
: to results as it will be to some extent in
: counting 6 scores.
:
: Suzanne Youclan ("JERSEYPAIGE")
: had an interesting comment about counting
: six ... (though she seems to be in favor or
: 5-up/5-count and the 4 team Nationals) ...
: pointed out that if you are counting 6, you
: no longer can thinK about a 9.8 average on
: an event is a 49 and a 196 team total
: (though she used the 9.9, 49.5, 198 example!
: ) ... much harder to do the math in your
: head when counting 6 scores! she thinks
: counting 6 hurts the parity for the
: mid-level teams ... but that 5-up/5-count
: would help the mid-level teams ... maybe so,
: but I don't like that either ... partly
: because of less opportunity with only 5
: competing on each event.
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