Youtube comments are terrible. It's basically a large, unmoderated, anonymous forum that some people unfortunately decide to misuse. So if that makes you feel any better, I wouldn't take it personally, but it is terrible. I'd make it so no one anonymous can comment, only your "friends" or whatever youtube calls it. Then people you know from here can comment positively and constructively. Or - just post the links here and we can comment in our own thread.
As far as the discussion going on about the score, that is about the score that wins in a regular invitational and sometimes at states as well. Usually not regionals or nationals, no, but by then the routines are usually more polished than at the early invitationals, so a 9.1 first place in January could be a 9.5 first play in April...this is really not an odd phenomenon. In the lower levels scores can start off higher, but 9.1 would still win in some meets so I don't really find that all that outlandish anyway.
You have to consider of course that in some events virtually no one even had a 10 SV in the meet. At a level 9 invitational early in the season, you can bank on that on vault for instance in my state, unless you're in the top states of R1, R5, or R3. For the rest of us, even when level 9s are attempting a 10 SV vault, a fall is likely and they probably do one attempt with a back up, lower SV vault as the other attempt. This is a little better now that the level 9 and 10 vault values are separate. On bars, beam, and floor 10 SV is much more common, but early in the year there will be lots of routines without a 10 SV too. And lots of falls at these levels of course...then you add in that bars is the hardest event and even a "made/stuck" routine likely has form deficits, no cast to handstand before high to low transition, etc (not a problem with the original routine here), and yes that routine and score is the best one.
As far as the discussion going on about the score, that is about the score that wins in a regular invitational and sometimes at states as well. Usually not regionals or nationals, no, but by then the routines are usually more polished than at the early invitationals, so a 9.1 first place in January could be a 9.5 first play in April...this is really not an odd phenomenon. In the lower levels scores can start off higher, but 9.1 would still win in some meets so I don't really find that all that outlandish anyway.
You have to consider of course that in some events virtually no one even had a 10 SV in the meet. At a level 9 invitational early in the season, you can bank on that on vault for instance in my state, unless you're in the top states of R1, R5, or R3. For the rest of us, even when level 9s are attempting a 10 SV vault, a fall is likely and they probably do one attempt with a back up, lower SV vault as the other attempt. This is a little better now that the level 9 and 10 vault values are separate. On bars, beam, and floor 10 SV is much more common, but early in the year there will be lots of routines without a 10 SV too. And lots of falls at these levels of course...then you add in that bars is the hardest event and even a "made/stuck" routine likely has form deficits, no cast to handstand before high to low transition, etc (not a problem with the original routine here), and yes that routine and score is the best one.
