Sketchy Scoring.

Do you know what makes Gymnastics lose fans? It is often the scoring. The scoring is the most controversial part of gymnastics, because a trip that looked cool or a routine that you thought was awesome just watching the judges can see something and post a score that would reflect the total opposite. Often times you work so hard and do what you think is the routine to clench the title and then are unjustly rewarded with a score that is awful. Many gymnasts take that as a low blow when that score costs them the all around title, or the trip to state, or even for that matter the US Nationals. Scoring is often frowned upon from the REC leagues all the way to the Olympics. Gymnastics is a sport which is unfortunately based on someone's opinion of what looks good or not. But if you love the sport you learn to live with the bad days. Last year I was in one of these situations when I missed the scored for regionals by .125 this later on I found out wasn't even the case because the floor judges had deducted me incorrectly on my prescence on floor. Which means the way that I presented the routine, my facial expressions and attitude, which you can only deduct up to .5 for had lost me 1.0. they had messed up and because of it I did not make it to Regionals for my level 8 season. As much as I was upset by this and cried to say the least. I love gymnastics so much that I am just going to keep working and hopefully I will make regionals this upcoming year as a level 9 :D