re: Gymnastics National Semifinal: LSU survives and advances to finals saturday

Well moving on…do we know which apparatus we start on for Saturday?

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With OU, I feel like they land more with their feet far apart which is easier to stick but should be deducted for it, but they aren’t. They do this every year and I’m surprised the other teams don’t try it. Guess they would get deducted for it though cause not OU.

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I think part of it is the girls are a different style of gymnast. Although they are all good at most everything, OU has bars/beam queens and LSU has powerhouses, except for Konnor and Kailin. Powerhouses are great vaulters and tumblers. But control is always a problem for them. Beam requires complete control. Bars is all about swing. You need strength, but not the same power. I wonder if you measured the height of the 2 schools tumbling/vaults if LSU flies higher? I bet they do. Power girls always struggle a bit with beam and bars. Look at Chiles...look at Biles. They are both power.

So lsu vs ok again?

We were in the night session last year, as #1 seed.

Didn't get to watch it until late last night. Whew that meet had me stressed out.

On a bad note we had two bad sessions in bars and beam. On a good note, we were good enough to advance with two bad sessions.

We can beat OU and Florida, but we just can't have any bad sessions, much less two.

Caitlin, Amari, and Konnor kind of saved us last night. We'd be out if it wasn't for them being on all night.

When Kaliya balance checked on her beam I got a really bad feeling in my stomach. But we pulled it out on floor.

I don't know what Roethlisberger, the announcer, was talking about when it was coming down to the last few routines. Georgia's final vaulter had a pretty bad vault, stepping backwards twice and almost falling down, it was a minimum .2-.3 deductions and that was if everything else was perfect. So i was expecting something in the high 9.6's or low 9.7's. The score came in as a 9.6 something and Roethlisberger was like "I DONT KNOW THESE JUDGES MUST HAVE SAW SOMETHING THAT I DIDN"T BECAUSE THAT SCORE IS LOW." Wtf are you talking about dude, it was one of the worst vaults of the night.

On we go LFG girls

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This is so not fair. There needs to be a change. Meanwhile, Faith Torrez looks like she will win the all around and she has never competed it the whole entire year. In my opinion, you should be required to compete in it during the regular season a few times to be eligible to compete it at nationals. I think they did the same thing with Trautman a few years ago. It’s like I can’t even take these gym competitions seriously because of all of the bias.

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Itis definitely some BS. Judging varies way too much to let it ride on one night and especially given they are at separate times. Evening meet was definitely overscored more.

I'm seriously to the point to where I hate OU gymnastics an their wide arse squat landings more than I hate Alabama football.

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But OU has been in the 198s and is in Ft Worth and always get the benefit of the doubt

How can anyone beat that?

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I have a sliver of hope. We have to be perfect. I think if we're perfect we can beat them and also just pray that the judges even across the board.

And I hate it but I really wish Jay would start teaching wider landings to get more sticks. The judges clearly don't punish OU for them one bit. The benefit of a stuck landing with your feet together on the mat has virtually disappeared so why even try for that. It's like the 3 pass routine on floor almost being extinct. Why do three passes when you are just opening yourself up for more deductions when you can hit all your marks in two passes?

I've said it for most of the year that a final four would be a very solid accomplishment for this team, I think next year should probably have a slightly better team that has a better shot at the title.

They've got a lot to be proud of, it's been a good year, but they are certainly going to have to be better than last night if they want a shot at the title.

We had the lowest of the 4 scores so we will probably start on floor or beam

Just glimpsed at a couple of clips of the sessions and noticed the stands are mostly empty. Is this normal?

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It was the close to worst score of the night - 24th of 28 competitors.

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Right. I normally like Roethlisberger and he seems to like LSU a good bit usually and maybe he was just playing up the drama but it was just odd.

Thanks for the link, that's pretty handy. 6 judges is such a better system. Wish normal meets could at least get 3-4. Two judges can be so inconsistent.

OU's leadoff winning the vault title and getting three 10's