WAG Question about Canadian gymnastics

[DND]

DD is going to our Western Canadian championships in a couple of weeks.

As we are from a small province we only have 4 girls in her category so there are never any team events at meets.

She asked me to see if they will be able to compete as a team as there is only 4 girls and other provinces have at least 5 as many as 10.

I tried to read up on it and found it to be Greek to me. Does anyone know how it works and can they compete as a team?

Bog as the resident Canadian expert I guess this ones for you!

 

[hawaii_gymnast]

I am not sure if it will work different for westerns but I know that whenever there is a team competition here they take the top 3 scores and add them together no matter the number of girls.
And wish your daughter good luck at westerns, I was hoping to to but I was injured multiple times up to the qualifications so I didnt get to compete. Let us know how it goes!

 

[Canadian_gym_mom]

At Easterns it's the top 4 scores that count for team. We only send 4 girls anyway. Are you getting super excited? We are!!



http://www.abgym.ab.ca/downloads/Policy_Manual_Westerns_2012-2013.pdf

I found this link and it looks like there needs to be 5 girls for CPN to make a team, and the top 2 scores count. (page 8 of that document)

 

[bogwoppit]

Your 4 girls seem to be quite strong, you probably will have a surprisingly competitive team.

 

[DND]

Yes I read the document and it was the five girls and two score etc. that got me thinking with only four they can't try for team?!?

Then I thought I read somewhere as long as you have the minimum scores that count ...so you would only need two????

 

[Canadian_gym_mom]

Yes I read the document and it was the five girls and two score etc. that got me thinking with only four they can't try for team?!?

Then I thought I read somewhere as long as you have the minimum scores that count ...so you would only need two????

Maybe! That would be great. I have absolutely no idea as Easterns doesn't even work the same as Westerns (very odd to me) I was just reading and guessing, lol. Like Bog said, your 4 girls have great scores so they should do well!