Proposal 82: Scoring [ Revision 1 ]

Committee: 6. Freestyle
Submitted on 2025-07-18
Status: Passed on August 08, 2025

Background

Restore the integrity of scoring. Athletes currently receive a percentage % score that indicates the trend of judges. The rules however state scores have a maximum of 30 pts for Performance and Technical.

Now, why do we have % scores?
That is to protect judges. It happened too often, that parents noted down the judges for when their kids were competing and later, when the results were published, they harassed the judges about their scores.

However now the results are percentages that normalize the results, they no longer match the scoring as written in the rulebook the traceability is lost. The integrity of the results is eliminated. The main focus of this is to reinstate integrity.

Second is to scope the ranking as per classes and age groups.

Third, as observed, the judges deviate too much in their range of scoring which negatively impacts the final score. To eliminate this, enable the option again to allow for removing scores, but require a minimum number of judges for this.

Fourth: If there is a tie, then it is a tie. The chance for this to happen is very, very low (I only am aware of one situation in the past 10 years). Drop that unfair rule and honor the athlete's achievement.

Fifth: The percentage system definitely has some serious disadvantages, the biggest of which is certainly that the intended weighting of 45% technique, 45% performance and 10% dismount is no longer guaranteed due to the normalization to percentage values.

Sixth: There is another decisive disadvantage in the percentage ranking. It can happen that two people are ranked relatively close to each other and are then compared with each other once in their age group and again in their class, resulting in them mathematically swapping places.

Proposal

OLD:

6C.5 Scoring

To tabulate the scores in Artistic Freestyle events, each judge's scores in a category or age group are totaled and restated as a percentage of that judge's total points for that category or age group, i.e. the judge's relative preferences for each performer. Then the percentages from all of the judges are averaged per riders. This is done first in Performance, Technical, and Dismount. Once the percentage average value for each competitor has been calculated, these three averaged percentages are added together according to their weighting to see the final results.

6C.5.1 Removing Scores
All of the judges scores must be kept. The Chief Judge has the power to remove scores only if they are deemed to be biased, inaccurate, or another extreme case.

6C.5.2 Ties
In the case of a tie where more than one competitor has the same placing score after the above process, those riders will be ranked based on their placing scores for Technical. The scoring process must be repeated using only the Technical scores for the tied riders to determine this rank. If competitors' Technical ranking comes out equal, all competitors with the same score are awarded the same place.

 

NEW:

## 6C.5 Scoring

To tabulate the scores in Artistic Freestyle competitions, the scores per judging part (Performance, Technical and Dismount) are averaged for all judges. For the published results, athletes will receive one value per judging part and the total score. Athletes are ranked based on the total score.

Performance Score = AVG(Performance score of all judges)
Technical Score = AVG(Technical score of all judges)
Dismount Score = AVG(Dismount score of all judges)

These scores are weighted for the total score:

45% Performance Score
45% Technical Score
10% Dismount Score

Total Score = (Performance Score * 0.45 / 30 + Technical Score * 0.45 / 30 + Dismount Score * 0.1 / 10) * 100

The total score is rounded to three fraction digits. The formula for total score respects the weighted scores but normalizes them to 100 pts maximum. For example a rider scoring 30 pts in performance and technical and 10 pts in dismount would have 100 pts as total score.

Example for tabulated results*:

### 6C.5.1 Scope of Ranking

As routines are judged with scores, the results can be ranked per class and/or age group, see 6E.5.3 which ranking(s) will be used.

### 6C.5.2 Removing Scores

The highest and lowest scores for Performance and Technical may be removed to increase accuracy of final results. A minimum of five judges per judging part is required.

IUF Sanctioned and Endorsed events: The removal of highest and lowest scores is compulsory.

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Votes on this proposal:

11 out of 15 voting members have voted.

Agree: 8, Disagree: 0, Abstain: 3.