Is anyone else infuriated by the new Olympic gymnastics scoring system?

Question

It's absolutley ridiculous and needs to change back to the 10-point system!

Answer 1

Oh my God, YES. What a mess. I mean, what were they thinking?

I liked the older system better, and that's saying something?

Answer 2

I like the new code of scoring because then a performance is really based on difficulty and how well it was performed - a more difficult performance should be worth more than something a little easier.  Both could be performed "perfectly" but difficulty level will set it appart.

Answer 3

I agree! I was wondering what happened to the 10-point system

Answer 4

Its all about judges being biased and bribed!

Answer 5

yes i do. i think its awful how in each event, the average score is higher. take pomel horse compared to uneven bars. i dont know the scores that great, but a very good routine in pomel horse will probly get u a 16.5 (around there). however in uneven bars a routine executed the same will probly get u a 15.7??????????????????????? wtf?! the problem i have with this is in all around competetions or team competetions, the gymnasts can focus on just the high scoring events, so that y they will do very good in that and the other events wont matter. all events should score the same, i feel, because the gymnasts should have to be good in ALL of the events, not just the high-scoring ones

Answer 6

Its annoyingly complicated now

Answer 7

It has never been fair and has always depended on the Judges.  

Answer 8

10 point system was a mess...

i dont see much problem with this  new one. as said, the new one takes in the difficulty level which is great and makes sense. in addition, it makes sense that the pommel horse is ranked higher than uneven bars because pommel horse is basically the h**l of all of the males' gymnastic events. it has a reputation for being especially hard for a reason. Thus, of course you would give someone who successfully tackled this a higher score than someone who tackled the uneven bars.

in some of the female events (beam, vault), the scoring system worked but came out "unfair" because of what the judges saw from where they were sitting -- not necessarily bias but some mightve not seen what others saw (as said by nbc commentators). however, in terms of the ludkin "controversy", I believe the scoring system is at no fault. both did great, almost perfect, but in the end, the judges found that on average, ludkin had more deductions. the scoring system did its job. if ludkin had less mistakes, she wouldve won. thats just how it goes

Answer 9

Sorry the 10-point system has flaws on it as well. Remember the Men's competition when Hamm STOLE the Gold from the Korean.

Neither system works..

Answer 10

I think both are useless.

They should develop a new system that has a limit, say 20. Then, if a gymnast does a really complicated routine and executes it flawlessly, they should get a 16, in addition to bonus points - making 16 only average.

If a gymnast messes up, regardless of how big or small, they should have points deducted.

Then again, I'm not a judge.

Answer 11

Yes. It's so extra complicated

Answer 12

No. Just because America didn't win this time doesn't mean that the 10-point system is better.

This way, it's more fair because the degree of difficulty is taken into consideration.

Answer 13

Perhaps you'll like it better if you understand how it works, and why it was changed in the first place.

The problem with the old system was that there was no way to reward gymnasts for difficulty.  A gymnast who did a very easy routine could score the same as a gymnast who did a very hard one.  If they both did their routines perfectly, they'd both get a 10.00 - which wasn't really fair, because the more skilled gymnast should score higher.  

The new system was designed to reward gymnasts for attempting more difficult skills.  Here's how it works:

There are two panels of judges. One panel does nothing but write down every skill the gymnast performs. Each skill has a value, based on difficulty. The judges add up the values of the 10 hardest skills in the routine, and that total is called the "A-Score" or difficulty score. Most Olympic level routines will have A-Scores around 5 or 6. An A-Score in the 7s is really good; only a few gymnasts have that much difficulty in their routines.

A second panel of judges watches the routine and takes deductions for any technical errors (form breaks, falls, etc). They start from a 10.00 and subtract, just like in the old days. This score is called the "B-Score" or execution score.

At the end of the routine, the A-Score (difficulty) and the B-Score (execution) are added together for the final score. So, if a gymnast has an A-Score of 6.5, and makes no mistakes, her final score would be 16.50.

This system means that a gymnast could make a mistake, but still beat another gymnast who made no mistakes at all. Because the first gymnast had a more difficult routine (and thus a higher A-Score), which made up for the fall.

Answer 14

In my mind, it is unnecessarily complicated and confusing but does not need to be changed back to the 10- point scoring system. Instead they need to get rid of these new rules that cause uncertainty and and controversy.

The change from the 10-point system was a good thing because it means gymnasts are scored on the degree of difficulty of the routine they're performing instead of on the same level out of 10.

Answer 15

Yeah we could have got gold yesterday but they followed the system right.....