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skatinginbc, do you believe that it's inherent in any "add the points system" to negate/diminish quality as related to difficulty?
I don't think that is an impossible question to tackle. If we decide that quality of execution should be better rewarded
[ -- I can't seem to stop using 6.0 language. In the CoP I should have said "more rewarded" -- ]
then we could take greater reductions for falls and other major errors. We could easily juggle the books so that a badly performed quad is worth less than a well-performed triple loop, for instance.
The main criticism offered by the author of the Wikipedia article seems to be that the gymnast with the highest base value in terms of difficulty will automatically win regardless of the quality of his performance.
By the way, as an aside, I never thought thought of gymnastics as having an "artistic" or "performance" aspect. Whoever did the hardest tricks won. The "execution" part meant, "I can hold an iron cross more steady than the other guy can."