The Judges Go Off
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
The Judge Survey
- This week, we had elite and NCAA judges complete an anonymous survey, and they did NOT hold back. We discuss:
- Parents offering sexual favors to get their children higher scores
- Judges getting bribed to adjust scores
- The deep generational tension permeating NCAA women's judging
- The politics of changing scores to stay in range with the rest of the panel
- Judging: Not for the faint of heart. Stories about thrown projectiles, threats of bodily harm, and the very real danger presented by passionate grandparents
- Judges offer up what needs to change in judging, including deep racial bias from other judges and the impossibility of judging accurately in NCAA
- The judges sound off on what they get most unfairly criticized for
- The biggest misconceptions about gymnastics judging—like the importance of lineup order and the alleged subjectivity of judging
- Plus, the hero child who punched the beam, a spate of judge food poisoning, and an important lesson about why you don't go to the bathroom to complain about the judges
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Someone else said how to smaller school request that a visiting school get big scores so they return because they sell tickets. |
| 0:09.0 | Which is fascinating. |
| 0:12.0 | Remember this show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
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| 0:37.0 | We gave judges an anonymous survey and they had a lot to say. |
| 0:43.0 | Today the judges go off from critiquing the code to racial bias, the old girl network sexual favors, and the pressure to give impossible scores. |
| 0:54.0 | Plus heartwarming and funny stories about the joys of being a judge. |
| 0:59.0 | Want to know what life is like on the other side of the table? |
| 1:02.0 | What do judges want to see changed? This is the episode for you. |
| 1:06.0 | This is the 25th episode for 2022. It is the week of June 21st. |
| 1:11.0 | And welcome to the number 100 NASA podcast in the galaxy. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation. |
| 1:18.0 | And shall we begin with a little background on how we put this episode together? |
| 1:24.0 | Yes, we'll start with a background of how we put the episode together, which is that Kenzley did it. |
| 1:28.0 | She's not here right now, but Kenzley did it. |
| 1:32.0 | Kenzley did it based on the amazing suggestion from one of our long time listener judges, but Kenzley did so much work and she put the survey together. |
| 1:42.0 | Although there were a few questions from me. We'll get to that part. |
| 1:45.0 | You can help the questions that were from Jessica because there were typos. |
| 1:51.0 | Oh, there you are. But basically Kenzley, thank you. |
| 1:56.0 | And basically, the idea behind this episode was that, you know, judges give scores and then aren't allowed to like come back with stuff after they give their scores. |
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