Gymnastics signee Jade Carey 2nd in vault at WORLDS!

Sorry, your example is BS. At least, in college gymnastics. This ain't the Cold War and we're not dealing with the Warsaw Pact.

There is a problem with inconsistent judging, but the problem is that the same routine will get a 9.9 at Westwood, a 9.8 at Gill, and a 9.7 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Every team in the competition ends up over- or under- scored. Since the national seedings are based on these scores, it means that Oklahoma (by all accounts, the worst venue) is consistently overrated, Michigan is consistently underrated.

Sometimes it's a matter of who is in the meet. When UCLA or Utah is at Gill, our score goes up a half-point or so. The reason is obvious - the judges see Ohashi's routine ant they give her the 9.95 that they've been told is the minimum she ever gets for it. And once one girl has been scored high, they can't help but heap more of the same on the others.

But within the meet itself, you really don't see much "home cooking". At least, I've never seen a meet on TV or at Gill where the bias was obviously one-directional. Fans will always gripe, of course, but fans are idiots. Always.

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This is f-ing hilarious.  I make a simple post congratulating OSU Gymnastics signee Jade Carey for for her fantastic accomplishments - finishing 2nd in the World Championships on vault and earning a team gold - and a few people take it as an excuse to be unhappy.

Go figure.

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I never "called BS" on your post.  That was "bennyskid".

My apologies. When I said "Fans are idiots", I was trying to be self-deprecating. You see, I'm a fan. I assure you that I'm not that know-it-all that thinks he can do the judges' jobs better. If I was a judge it really would be unfair, since I'd start every one of our ladies at 11.0 just for the orange in their leotards.

And instead of "BS", I should have said "outdated". Because the perception of bias is outdated, and I stand by the text that followed.

I am a recent convert to watching Gymnastics live, and I second the notion of taking in the event live....

Like WBB, we have some *very* skilled young ladies wearing Orange and Black. And like the Pac-12 in the sport, we are world class with respect to the teams we compete against.
Like Soccer, there are moments that take your breath away interspersed with a lot of "more routine" moments.
Like Volleyball, there is constant activity and lots of places to focus your attention.
Like Baseball, there are lots of traditions and deeper strategies that you can really geek out about while still admiring the more 'superficial' aspects of the sport.
Like many sports, the in-person ambiance is a whole different animal than TV......TV requires a mostly single-threaded narrative, and the action is definitely more suited to folks with ADD, and being easily distracted (and I resemble that comment) is actually beneficial to being in Gill :-).
Unlike many of the other "us vs. them" team sports, it is not as easy to decide from moment to moment how we are doing vs. how they are doing. And you don't get the move/countermove in the small, but more in the large.

I love the "change up" Gymnastics presents to me vs. other sports I follow. That is what one season of watching the sport has taught me.......Your mileage and opinions may vary, of course.

Go Beavers!