Cal leads headed to floor. Hard to see Auburn recovering to catch Furd. Barring disasters (cal steps out; Furd falls on bars)
Gymnastics is also very predicated on massaging the score, which you can never predict because judging is also dependent on whatever the judges feel like. Vault/bars was graded super harshly for Cal and beam/floor was probably overscored.Schroeder71 said:
I watched the entire meet. Cal had that hot streak when the team scored 198+ four consecutive weeks. Since then, they have cooled off and are regularly scoring in 197s. The vast majority of Cal gymnasts are making small errors on landings (taking small steps) and even a couple have fallen completely off of the balance beam. When the Bears were "on fire" they were not doing these things...If they continue to make these errors, the team is in for trouble. Everything is life goes in cycles. Nobody can stay at peak performance consistently. Mya Lauzon is a good example. For most of the season she was unbelievable and ended up ranked #2 all-around gymnast at one point. Now she's slumping but got a couple of 9.9+ last night which is promising.
Hopefully, Cal will advance on Sunday. Stanford is peaking now and could upset us. I know nothing of Denver except that they were ranked #6 and beat UCLA. Hopefully, if the Bears survive their own regional-the team will begin trending up again for the key meets that follow. GO BEARS!
ncbears said:
Except for Oklahoma, postseason scores are lower in part because there are more judges. Prior meets had two judges on each apparatus whose scores got averaged. I think there are four at regionals - drop high and low and average the middle two scores.
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Any final attendance figures announced?ncbears said:
It's a shame that more people weren't at Haas for the meet.
I don't know how much people in Haas recognized the high drama for Stanford's best gymnast to have to nail a floor routine to send Stanford through to Nationals.
Because the AD doesn't promote sh*t to students unless they can make decent money off of it.JTfromClash said:
I'd guess 5000. Stanfurd had a lot of people. ASU and Denver not as much. So in total a bit disappointing turnout by Cal fans. Not sure why students didn't go.