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Part IISection 6: The Evaluation of competition exerciseArticle 6

General Rules

Two separates scores, “D” and “E”, will be calculated on all apparatus.

- The D-Jury determines the D-score, the content of an exercise,

- The E-Jury the E-score, i.e. the exercise presentation related to compositional requirements, technique, and body position.


- D-score content will include by addition:

1 - The additional difficulty value of 8 elements

2- The connections value, based on special rules on different apparatus.

3- Element Group Requirements Value, performed among the 8 counting elements.


Explanation
- Value of 8 elements
, The best 7 elements, but maximum 4 elements from the same Element Group, plus the value of the dismount.

If the judge needs to choose the counting 7 elements from elements which have the same value but belong to different Element Groups, he must determine them to the benefit of the gymnast.

Example 1
I I II III III III III II II IV
A B B B B B C E C D
B B B B C E C D
Example 2
II II I I IV II III II IV III
A D B D B D D D D D
D B D D D D D D
* In bold letters counting element


- E-score, will start from 10 points and will evaluate by deductions applied in tenths of a point:
  • The total deductions for aesthetic and execution errors.

  • The total deductions for technical and compositional errors.

  • The highest and the lowest sums of total deductions applied in tenths of a point for execution, aesthetic, technical and compositional errors are eliminated. The average remaining sums is subtracted from the 10 points in order to determine the Final E-Score.


  • The E-score is calculated as follows:

    7 E-score deductions: average the middle 3

    5 E-score deductions: average the middle 3

    4 E-score deductions: average the middle 2

    3 E-score deductions: average the 3

    2 E-score deductions: average the 2

    Explanation:


    if the E-jury consists of 7 or 5 judges we will take the E-deduction by the average of 3 middles deductions of E-jury judges, if there are only 4 E-judges we will take the middle 2 scores, if there are 3 or 2 judges in E jury we take average of all their scores.