re: #2 LSU at #1 OU Gym Thread/LSU Falls to OU- 198.125 to 197.925

Pretty much what I expected. You could tell that Jay and the team knew what they were up against too and were just trying to perform well. Maybe we will get better judging in the postseason. It wasn’t going to happen at OU. Congrats to Chio on a great night, regardless!

That was 2 evenly matched teams. I had LSU slightly ahead but didn’t expect LSU to beat OU in their home gym. Even the head coach was telling the team to compete and not look at the scores, he knew that we would come up a little short due to the bias of the OU judges. The score should have been much closer. LSU outperformed OU in 2 of the events yet the judges had them behind in all 4 events.

Maybe you can explain, how did Oklahoma get two 9.90, one 9.925 and a 89.875 when they took steps on five of the six vaults. From what I've read, there is a .1 reduction for minor steps an a .15 reduction for medium steps, which means that the raw score was 10.0 for two vaults and greater that 10.0 for two more of the vaults. That seems unreasonable since they were not given any pure 10.0 in the entire meet.

That being said, their score was 49.525 for the event, which seems to be at least a full .1 higher than feasible. If that translates the entire meet, then they were likely scored .4 too high.
It really doesn't matter as I understand it who won this particular meet, but it surely must matter if scores are that subjective. It kind of puts a huge question mark on the entire sport.

It was at OU. That's all you need to know.