[eagleclaw]

I honestly feel that it could have gone either way. P-burg had a cleaner routine while JC had a more difficult routine. JC did not fall 5 times,they had a early dismount which is not deducted as a fall,one fall with a attempted full and a end mount that didn't go up. On the difficulty level they had 360's ,a double down and over half squad standing tucks(which is worth alot of points). Also, I thought JC"S dance portion was better. At the end of the performance I made the comment that it could go either way it just depended on what the judges put more emphasis on cleaness or difficulty.And evidently is was difficulty.I can understand why P-burg is upset the same thing happered to JC at nationals, we put a clean almost perfect routine on the floor, but we didn't advance to semi's while other squads who had falls did. I'm not a judge,but I have been been to too many comps to count and realize that the team with the least mistakes is not always the team that wins. Every competition has it's own scoring criteria and when broken down it is very possible to make up points in some areas that are deducted in others. I don't want to over simplify, but for example if a basketball team takes 10 2pt shots and makes them all ,their total points is 20. And if another team takes 10 3pt shots and makes 7 their score is 21. So even if they miss more shots the difficulty gives more points. I've heard that the difference in score was one point,while I don't know this for a fact, I wouldn't be surprised. Do I feel that P-burg was cheated? NO. Do I feel that JC would have been cheated if the results went the other way? No. I just believe that it was a really close call and could have gone either way. I'm really proud of the JC girls, one of their flyers dislocated her elbow tues. and was not able to compete so they had to redo about everything.Good luck JC at State. Also,good luck to the other squads who made it. I really do feel bad about what happened to Sheldon Clark, that was just awful. Even though myself nor anyone from JC had anything to do with this, I still feel like saying I'm truly sorry this happened