I don't want to be a debbie downer, but probably not. I mean, it's sucky if you have a clearly awesome routine and just have an off day before BLOWING everybody out of the water day 2..but realistically, if you did that at Worlds, you might not even make finals (in all but perhaps large senior and large coed). I'm sure they're putting a bit of wiggle room in the standings (particularly for the larger divisions deep with talent), but if you can't consistently hit a routine, that's a tough sell to make. Doesn't mean you have to give up, but you REALLY need to show that you're worthy day 2.
Not that I know of.
Yes.
Here ya go: Junior Small 3
Kristen already addressed this, but I want to make an additional point. As she said, the likelihood of a last place team ending up first (in a large division) is unlikely. So what they do is essentially take the top teams (top 30% or 50% or whatever) and spend tonight ranking them as to how the bids would fall out if today was the only competition day.
That way when the divisions are over tomorrow, they can pretty quickly adjust the rankings and award the bids. And if someone comes out of nowhere, it's easier to adjust to a single team instead of having to do the entire ranking.
If they didn't, they would have to do ALL worlds teams awards and bids last and everyone would be screaming about how long awards take. With no Jammy to entertain, they have to be more creative!
Also, it's just part of being prepared. Frankly, I'm sure that other event producers do something very similar; they just don't have as many bids to determine.
So it's pretty much to save time and frustration?
Thank you to both you and Kristen for the answers.
You're 100% right. When you're averaging numbers to produce a mean score, there is no physically possible mathmatic way to end up with a higher score than: a) the highest possible score or b) the highest score you receive from any given judge. Unless there is some exception where they got bonus points somewhere, I can PROMISE you guys that either their deductions are wrong or their score is wrong. There is just no way that when you average a set of numbers your solution will be higher than the highest number in your test results. They have to be getting points from somewhere else if that is their true Day 1 score and their true deductions.
