So, I was rewatching yesterday’s meet and decided to check what score we would get if we had stuck landings on all of our counting routines on beam, vault, and bars. Solely because every routine that one Norman team counted on those events either had a stuck dismount or a very small hop (Ava’s vault, Smith’s bars and Bower’s beam, especifically). So yeah, there's that.

I added tenths to each final score, depending on what deduction I feel was probably taken for the uncontrolled landing (small step/hop up to 0.1; large step/hop up to 0.2).

Note that all of this is subjective, and I did not take into consideration the 1-second hold rule because, you know, nobody seems to be doing so anyways. Also, some landings had a hop/step due to underrotation (e.g., Sav’s vault), which should be a separate deduction, but I only added the landing parcel of the score (theoretically, you can underrotate and still stick it - finesse, am I right?).

Ok, here we geaux.

Small step/hop up to 0.1
Large step/hop up to 0.2

Vault

KJ 9.875 (n/a)
Finnegan 9.85 + 0.1 (small step)
Schoenherr 9.85 + 0.05 (very minor hop in place)
Johnson 9.925 (n/a)
Bryant 9.975 (n/a)

Actual score: 49.475
Dream score: 49.625

Bars

Jonhson 9.825 + 0.1 (small hop)
Cowan 9.95 (n/a)
McClain 9.9 + 0.1 (small step)
Schoenherr 9.85 + 0.05 (minor hop?)
Haleigh Bryant 9.925 -> 10; she had 9.9s and 9.95s for that routine, so I guess some judges took 0.1 for the step (which feels right imo) and others considered it ‘very minor’ and took only a 0.05.

Actual score: 49.450
Dream score: 49.775

Beam

Ballard 9.8 (I don’t know about this one, it was like 2 or 3 steps, so kind of an impossible score here, but let’s consider a 9.875, shall we?)
Schoenherr 9.85 + 0.05 (very minor hop back)
McClain 10
Bryant 9.950 (n/a)
Finnegan 9.875 (n/a)

Actual score: 49.475
Dream score: 49.600

Total actual score: 198.075
Total dream score: 198.675

Feel free to disagree with the deductions I saw. I know a 49.775 on bars is kind of a reach, and yes, some of the routines are a bit unlikely to stick (Ballard on beam, Sav/Finnegan on vault), but I feel like the rest is doable.

We’d still be a tad behind Oklahoma, so maybe we’d need to be perfect AND get some help from them. I’m not sure their floor scores will translate to the big stage; they competed at LNC, after all. They were undeniably lights out yesterday, but could they be that perfect once again? (probably yes, but one can dream for everything to work out in our favour that one night