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(Seriously, four of the teams in the NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship semi-finals are each assigned an all-around competitor from a school whose team didn't qualify)

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On Friday, April 14, 2023 at 2:18:20 AM UTC-5, michael anderson wrote:

On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 1:51:59 PM UTC-5, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:

https://twitter.com/OU_WGymnastics/status/1646264028229144576

(Seriously, four of the teams in the NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship semi-finals are each assigned an all-around competitor from a school whose team didn't qualify)

I really have no idea and obviously don't follow gymnastics, but I'm guessing the meaning of 'being assigned' is that this single
gymnast who qualified for individual events/the all around competition is simply 'placed' with another team for travel, accomodations, training schedules, etc purposes and that her scores don't count towards the team total for the purpose of the team

competition.

If that's how it works, it kinda makes sense I guess.

So in reading about how it works, maybe I guessed wrong. But hell I can't really make sense of it. the rules talk about sending the highest ranked individual competitor to the lower seeded teams, so I guess that implies their scores do count for the
team event?

Damn....the more important question is who the hell cares lmao.....

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On Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 1:51:59 PM UTC-5, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:

https://twitter.com/OU_WGymnastics/status/1646264028229144576

(Seriously, four of the teams in the NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship semi-finals are each assigned an all-around competitor from a school whose team didn't qualify)

I really have no idea and obviously don't follow gymnastics, but I'm guessing the meaning of 'being assigned' is that this single
gymnast who qualified for individual events/the all around competition is simply 'placed' with another team for travel, accomodations, training schedules, etc purposes and that her scores don't count towards the team total for the purpose of the team
competition.

If that's how it works, it kinda makes sense I guess.

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(Seriously, four of the teams in the NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship semi-finals are each assigned an all-around competitor from a school whose team didn't qualify)

I really have no idea and obviously don't follow gymnastics, but I'm guessing the meaning of 'being assigned' is that this single
gymnast who qualified for individual events/the all around competition is simply 'placed' with another team for travel, accomodations, training schedules, etc purposes and that her scores don't count towards the team total for the purpose of the team

competition.

Not for travel accommodations or anything like that - it's just that the individual all-around qualifiers have to compete in each event, and in the same order, just like the teams do, so it's easiest just to say that, in this case, the Michigan
individual competes in the Oklahoma team rotation. Two of the rotations in each semi-final had an all-around competitor; the other two each had four different gymnasts that qualified in separate individual events - for example, the Utah rotation had
someone from Arkansas when they were on vault, someone from Auburn when on bars, someone else from Arkansas when on beam, and someone from Auburn when on floor.

As for "who the hell cares"...good question. They don't even use the same scoring system the rest of the world does, and besides, most of these athletes are too old to be competitive internationally anyway.

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On Friday, April 14, 2023 at 7:42:26 AM UTC-5, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:

(Seriously, four of the teams in the NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship semi-finals are each assigned an all-around competitor from a school whose team didn't qualify)

I really have no idea and obviously don't follow gymnastics, but I'm guessing the meaning of 'being assigned' is that this single
gymnast who qualified for individual events/the all around competition is simply 'placed' with another team for travel, accomodations, training schedules, etc purposes and that her scores don't count towards the team total for the purpose of the

team competition.

Not for travel accommodations or anything like that - it's just that the individual all-around qualifiers have to compete in each event, and in the same order, just like the teams do, so it's easiest just to say that, in this case, the Michigan

individual competes in the Oklahoma team rotation. Two of the rotations in each semi-final had an all-around competitor; the other two each had four different gymnasts that qualified in separate individual events - for example, the Utah rotation had
someone from Arkansas when they were on vault, someone from Auburn when on bars, someone else from Arkansas when on beam, and someone from Auburn when on floor.

but for the purposes of the team competition does the michigan 'extra' gymnast count at all towards OU's team score for example?

As for "who the hell cares"...good question. They don't even use the same scoring system the rest of the world does, and besides, most of these athletes are too old to be competitive internationally anyway.

those two aspects really wouldn't bother me.....even if they were mostly the best in the world I still wouldn't care about women's gymnastics.

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Not for travel accommodations or anything like that - it's just that the individual all-around qualifiers have to compete in each event, and in the same order, just like the teams do, so it's easiest just to say that, in this case, the Michigan

individual competes in the Oklahoma team rotation. Two of the rotations in each semi-final had an all-around competitor; the other two each had four different gymnasts that qualified in separate individual events - for example, the Utah rotation had
someone from Arkansas when they were on vault, someone from Auburn when on bars, someone else from Arkansas when on beam, and someone from Auburn when on floor.

but for the purposes of the team competition does the michigan 'extra' gymnast count at all towards OU's team score for example?

No. Among other things, it wouldn't be fair to the other teams if one of the non-team gymnasts is far and away better than the others.

Oklahoma has six gymnasts in each event - not necessarily the same six in each one, although anyone not in all four events can't win the individual all-around title - and the low score of the six in each event is thrown out.

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On Friday, April 14, 2023 at 12:00:19 PM UTC-5, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:

Not for travel accommodations or anything like that - it's just that the individual all-around qualifiers have to compete in each event, and in the same order, just like the teams do, so it's easiest just to say that, in this case, the Michigan

individual competes in the Oklahoma team rotation. Two of the rotations in each semi-final had an all-around competitor; the other two each had four different gymnasts that qualified in separate individual events - for example, the Utah rotation had
someone from Arkansas when they were on vault, someone from Auburn when on bars, someone else from Arkansas when on beam, and someone from Auburn when on floor.

but for the purposes of the team competition does the michigan 'extra' gymnast count at all towards OU's team score for example?

No. Among other things, it wouldn't be fair to the other teams if one of the non-team gymnasts is far and away better than the others.

Oklahoma has six gymnasts in each event - not necessarily the same six in each one, although anyone not in all four events can't win the individual all-around title - and the low score of the six in each event is thrown out.

ok that's what I figured but then when I read the rules it was a little tricky. But in addition to what you mentioned about why it's done i bet there is some logistical advantages/practicalities to it as well.....like I would be surprised if support
personnel like Michigan trainers specifically fly out and get lodging just for her....she probably shares that with the OU team for example as part of her assignment.

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