Was Qiu Qiyuan's 15.5 Beam Overscored? 

overscore or not, this beam is so beautiful to watch than others I've seen so far, that BHS+Arabian is just *chef kiss*, and finally no wolf turn!!!

7.0 D score is crazy impressive

Firstly, I would love for her to win uneven bars gold with a 7.0D bars routine (finally connecting the Downie + Pak) Secondly, watching Qiu and Zhou Yaqin going head to head with 7.0 beam routines in the final would be awesome. I would love 2 Americans (Simone and Suni/Skye) to join them and fight for medals. Thirdly, when was the last time we had an uneven bars and balance beam Olympic champion? I wouldn't mind Qiu taking both titles. If she can manage to upgrade her vault to a DTY, she can be a dangerous All Arounder in the next quad. Hoping the Paseka training paid off. Lastly, does China have a chance challenging USA for gold? If they are able to upgrade their vaults, it brings up their team score by 1.5-3 points. They can bring high 14 bars (whichever of Qiu, Zhang, Huang, Du goes) and potentially have 15 beams (Zhou and Qiu, Ou Yushan can be the third beamer because she's consistent as fuck), whilst having mid 13s on floor. They need like a Wang Yan-sort of gymnast - Zhang Jin usually fills that spot but she has low difficulty right now

Re: Qiu Qiyuan's Landing Position on the Arabian I believe that this would only be a 0.1 deduction because the hips are at knee level. Only when the hips are below knee level does the deduction increase from 0.10 to 0.30.

Just wanted to mention that the artistry deductions from last worlds were leaked, and Qiu was given 0.36 off in artistry deductions at both of her beam routines, and with almost universal agreemnt across all 14 judges (7 judges times two routines) on 0.3 or 0.4 off. It is nearly impossible to get less than 0.2 off on artistry on beam. If you round to the nearest tenth, only one gymnast in all of worlds averaged 0.1 off on artistry--Eythora. (Pauline's qulaifications routine also averaged 0.1 off but her other routines had more deductions), and only 8 averaged 0.2 off, everyone else averaged 0.3 or more. Point being that even if this checks the artistry boxes better than worlds, 0.1 is still probably significantly too low on artistry deductions.

I love your analysis. Please keep up the excellent work and the education you provide fans.

Her leaps were so inCREDibly high, I caught my breath with each landing!

Good job. I do think that a few of the deductions you took could've went past the judges because of the angle. She is improving each and every competition. I'm so excited for her to hit and claim BB and UB gold in Paris!

It was a phenomenal routine, huge difficulty, overall fairly solid. However, 15.5 is too high, but I do think 15-15.2 is more fair for this routine.

can you do it with bars too? and btw i agree with you, the only thing i would add is some deductions on artistry. idk how they work but based on worlds scores i think she would get around 0.2 deductions….

I think Overscored. She’s off on a lot of those leaps, some pauses, some balance checks. I think a 15.2 is generous. Maybe a 15

I'm not necessarily opposed to this being an 8.5 -- like some of your deductions are a tad harsh (that switch ring was epic!) -- I'm just annoyed that what inevitably happens is some other gymnast's super clean, simpler routine without a single balance check will also end up scoring low 8 E score at the same meet just because.

I love comparing my scores to others out there. Although I had a few deductions different than you, I landed at 15.266 prior to seeing your assessment. I think it's pretty cool that we ended up less than a tenth different. Although, they were ruthless in Tokyo.

I think actually the jumps/leaps other than the switch 1/2 would be fine (i.e. no body shape deductions), it's because of the camera angle, there's a vid of someone filming from the side and looks like she hit 180 split on all of them

Amazing young Gymnast

First off I want to say I LOVE Qiu Qiyuan on beam and have been a fan for years now. Also, nobody constructs a high-D beam routine like the Chinese. They have it down to a mathematical certainty - building routines that will gain maximum difficulty. However, watching this angle on this routine, she seems quite wobbly and unsure throughout. It looks as though there are many elements in the routine that she had only recently added, and she was not confident in them. Not even necessarily her fault, as I'm sure the Chinese coaching staff push the athletes to maximize scores re: what I said earlier about the D-scores. Still love her!

Incredibly overscored!

Your deductions are moderate compared to beam judges 😂

Totally wonderfull ❤

1:13 what is your body shape deduction here?

So...very very good .this must be a Difficult match in the olympic games in paris

Overscored not perfect one

I wonder why she didn't add another jump after the mount? She looked fairly secure and would have gotten an easy tenth right?

Deep squad - 0, 100?

She shouldn’t have gotten the connection for the mount or the switch to switch half and the Arabian was a 3 tenth squat. I’d also take a couple artistry deductions considering even Zhou got 4 tenths. Funny how y’all don’t dragging her for judging like y’all do me unprovoked.

Where can I watch this meet?

Im not very knowledgeable with the gymnastics scoring procedure but are the judges scoresheet are available to the public? In other disciplines the scoresheet is available without the judges names so you can have a feel is the judging panel sucks lets be real a lot of these judges are not giving fair scores including the olympiad.

Het switch ring is perfect. I saw a video from the side of beam. Also somebody in the comment are so mean about the artistry. She is very artistic to me. I don’t think the artistry deduction is a good thing, because it is way to subjective. Some European gymnastics with little deduction they do have very much choreography but those choreography are not beautiful or the way they dance are not beautiful.

Everyone, stop hinting towards USA getting overscored or pulling race cards. Simone is hands down the current best, people saying she is not as artisitc, is just blatently wrong, and NOT because of her skin! I think this girl was a tad overrated yes, but I'm not an expert. She did do an impressive job, for sure!

So what if she was overscored. Shes certainly not the first and definitely wont be the last

totally overscored

Execution really a bit over, considering this years results, but not that absurd. Zhou Yaqin had a similar to cleaner routine and scored 8.200 at Cairo WC. Anyway, 7.0 is quite impressive, it's more than the previous olympic champion Guan had, even without the 0.2 DMT bonus from the new Code.

Yea, I think you're right. She was overscored.

Everyone has an opinion; why are you not one of the judges at the competition ?

is the hardest beam of all times?

TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH YOUR VIDEO AND YOUR SUBJECTIVE SCORING, ESPECIALLY BOGUS DEDUCTIONS LIKE SLOW CONNECTION. YOU WANTED A CONTROVERSIAL VIDEO AND MADE SURE YOUR SCORING WAS LOWER THAN 15.5. THANKFULLY YOU WEREN’T A JUDGE.

0.1 artistic deductions, be serious. And the arabian squat is 0.3

If she is a girl from USA,she will get 15.799

She should win over Simone!! This is so impressive and harder than Simone's too!!