The Balance Beam Situation
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The Balance Beam Situation
1w ago
The Florida regional has gone to plan so far, with all the seeded teams advancing to today’s regional final. Now, your chaos may begin. Michigan State will start on vault, with Utah on bars, Florida on beam, and Missouri on floor. Missouri’s 49.575 floor is the highest NQS among the teams on their opening events ..read more
The Balance Beam Situation
1w ago
The first four national championship competitors will be determined today from two meets that, in the beautiful wisdom of NCAA, will overlap for some reason. It’s fine, I didn’t want to see it anyway. The elimination of Michigan in the regional semifinals has allowed some breathing room for Oklahoma and Alabama to enter as favorites ..read more
The Balance Beam Situation
1w ago
In today’s first semifinal, Utah starts out on vault, Michigan State on floor, Towson on beam, and Maryland on bars. If nothing else interesting happens, Michigan State will want a lead on Utah after 1 with a big floor score to show competitiveness for Sunday. Sam tells us that regionals is more pressure than the ..read more
The Balance Beam Situation
2w ago
We have a little bit of overlap today, so here’s what we’re dealing with. In theory, Alabama/Michigan and Kentucky/Arkansas are supposed to run away with our first two semifinals from the opening rotations, so we’ll see who’s keeping this interesting. Please be everybody. Rotation 1 – MichiganAlabama on vault, Penn State on bars, Kent State ..read more
The Balance Beam Situation
2w ago
Something to note in both meets today: Illinois and Boise State are the higher ranked overall, but both Ball State and BYU have the higher total of apparatuses NQSs. That can tell you that the lower-ranked teams have higher scoring potential overall but haven’t always put it together in the same meet. So regionals was ..read more
The Balance Beam Situation
2w ago
Full bracket 10 – Clemson v Iowa State @ Florida Play-in The play-in meets (er, sorry, the firstroundoftheNCAAchampionship!!) will open the curtain on regional competition, and among these dual meets, Clemson/Iowa State sure is the one storylining up a storm. Clemson has advanced to the elimination meets in its very first season and goes up ..read more
The Balance Beam Situation
3w ago
Hugs are the hardest combo pass My accidents are more vertical than your tries LET’S FIND A GAY! Anyway, off to type up the individual qualifier names for the regionals announcement Special congratulations to Molly Adams and Karina Monoz The best part was when they did the individuals wrong and had to add three more ..read more
The Balance Beam Situation
3w ago
Format review: The top 2 teams in each regional semifinal advance to the regional final. The top 2 teams in the regional final advance to nationals. There is a day off between the regional semifinal and the regional final. In each regional semifinal, the #1-NQS team starts on vault, #4 on bars, #3 on beam ..read more
The Balance Beam Situation
3w ago
Settle in. Or, be like me and expend all your energy during the first session of Big Tens and then spend the next 7 hours in a score-resenting stupor. Either one. Major events timeline Is Iowa still alive? – At the conclusion of the first session of Big Tens (2:30 ET/11:30 PT), we’ll know if ..read more