So you know when I get into a sport, I seriously get into it? Well, uh, gymnastics is really interesting, because of the Code of Points and stuff. I am by no means an expert, however, as you need to remember that I only really got into this thing in September, LOL.

I'm sorry for boring my regular readers with this, but I haven't had anything serious to rant about in a while, so yeah.
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Okay, so I was reading the new 2009 Code of Points for Women's Artistic Gymnastics...

To find out that they've reversed the new ruling of limiting root skills on bars? Like, what? It's already bad enough that bars tilts the All Around score, like, waaaaay to the advantage of a bars specialist. I thought the first revision of the CoP does a good job of at least trying to even out scores.

It was good that they've limited floor to 4 tumbling passes (Trust me, it's a pain for me as a viewer and for the gymnast as the person who executes the tumbling, to see a FX routine with seven tumbling passes), to even out the difficulty, but reversing the changes on bars? People like Nastia already basically has 1 1/2 routines of another gymnast, as there's no time limit on bars (Unlike FX and BB, where it's 1.5 mins), or number of skills/connections that would count (Unlike VT, which, well, you can only do 1 vault for AA anyway).

I mean, bars are already the highest scoring apparatus. Beth Tweddle has an A-score of 7.9 (Which basically means, if she hits a perfect routine, she can score to a maximum of 17.90. Which is freaking high), Nastia, He Kexin and Yang Yilin already have 7.7 A-scores (And I'm not too sure if Nastia's adding difficulty). Shawn's UB routine 'only' has a 6.4 A-score.

The highest A-score I've seen on the balance beam is Shawn Johnson's and Alicia Sacramone's 7.0

For Vault it's 6.5 (An Amanar is a 6.5, not too sure about the Cheng vault, as I'm not really checking the CoP right now, so I'm thinking it's a 6.3 or 6.5)

And for Floor, it's Shawn's and Cheng Fei's 6.6.

Now THAT is pretty confusing.

Anyway, I just like watching bars for He Kexin's release moves and Nastia's pirouettes, and I don't bother counting deductions and things like that when I watch gymnastics, so this rant was just... weird on its own, and I do not know what I have accomplished in this.

Except that... Damnit, there isn't going to be much (if any) changes with the bars.

OH, and that no one has come up with a sort of countback system* for vaults, to avoid getting people who fell on their vaults get onto the podium. (I still love Cheng Fei, okay? But really, I'd have given Sacramone, who stuck both her vaults, the bronze, rather than to Cheng Fei, who fell on her own Cheng. Poor bb)

*The countback system is used in pole vaulting/high jump, where the person who takes the least jumps to pass the highest gets the higher ranking, for example,

Name	1.99m	2.01m	2.03m
Blanka Vlasic	o	o	o
Tia Hellebaut	x o	x o	x o

At this point, Blanka is ranked first, as she took only 1 attempt to clear 2.03m.

Then...

Name	1.99m	2.01m	2.03m	2.05m
Blanka Vlasic	o	o	o	x o
Tia Hellebaut	x o	x o	x o	o

This is when Tia takes the first place, because she cleared 2.05 in less attempts than Blanka, despite the fact that she took more times to clear previous heights. They both go on to not clear 2.07m.

And then she won Belgium's first athletics gold in Beijing, but that's a different story.

Anyway, if they'd have something like that for Vaults, it'll be a lot more fair, yeah?