Age old debate....

[gymdog]

They're trying to maintain a minimum standard while allowing coaches to make individual judgement calls. If a gymnast was moved out of level 5 scoring 31 AA at the highest by states here, I wouldn't think that unless the coach's judgement call was correct and that gymnast made huge bounds of improvement over the off-season, that she could make the minimum score by level 6, so basically the minimum score works in that sense. Unless it was a situation where they hadn't worked the 6 routines and were just trying to get the 31 out to go to level 7.