Routine Requirements
Every college bar, beam, and floor routine begins from a 9.4 base start value if they meet all the special requirements and have the minimum required number and difficulty of elements: 3As (0.1 each), 3Bs (0.3 each), and 2Cs (0.5 each). Gymnasts must meet all requirements and have a combination of connective and difficulty bonus to earn a 10.0 start value. For example, a gymnast cannot “make up” for a missing special requirement by adding in additional bonus. Gymnasts receive deductions from their maximum potential score for errors in routine composition or execution. The final score is determined by calculating the maximum start value and subtracting all applicable composition and execution deductions.
Start Value Components
| Special Requirements | ||
| Minimum two bar changes | No difficulty restriction | 0.2 |
| Minimum two different flight elements | Minimum one D and one C; cannot include dismount | 0.2 |
| One turning element | Minimum C; cannot include dismount | 0.2 |
| Dismount | Minimum D/E dismount or C element +C dismount | 0.2 |
| Difficulty Bonus | ||
| D Element | +0.1 | |
| E Element | +0.2 | |
| Extra Difficulty Bonus | ||
| Single bar release | Minimum D | +0.1 |
| Any release | E | +0.1 |
| Connective Bonus | ||
| C+C (both skills must have flight or turn) C+C (different circling skills with or without flight or turn) | +0.1 | |
| C+D/E | +0.1 | |
| D/E +D/E | +0.2 | |
| Connective Bonus Special Cases | ||
| Maloney (D) to Pak (D) | +0.1 | |
| Maloney (D) to Bail HS (D) | +0.1 |
Common Skills
| Transitions | ||
| Toe shoot | C | |
| Stalder shoot (Ray) | C | |
| From HS or release: Bail to >20 degrees below vertical | C | |
| From HS or release: Bail to vertical | D | |
| Shaposhnikova (clear hip or stalder entry) | E | |
| Toe-on Shaposhnikova (Maloney) | D | |
| Toe-on Shaposhnikova half (Van Leeuwen) | E | |
| Pak salto | D | |
| Bhardwaj (Pak salto full) | E | |
| From HS or release: Straddle back to HS | D | |
| Ezhova (straddle back half) | D | |
| Single bar releases | ||
| Tkatchev (Staddle) | D | |
| Tkatchev (Pike, layout, from stalder, toe-on, or clearhip) | E | |
| Geinger | D | |
| Straddled Jaeger | D | |
| Piked or layout Jaeger | E | |
| Delchev | D | |
| Hop full | E | |
| Turning and circling elements | ||
| Hop grip change | C | |
| Giant half | C | |
| Giant full | D | |
| Healey entry to front giant | D | |
| Clear hip or toe on to HS | C | |
| Stalder | D | |
| Dismounts | ||
| Toe-on front tuck or pike | C | |
| Toe-on front pike half | D | |
| Double tuck | C | |
| Double layout (second flip w/ closed/piked hips) | D | |
| Double layout with or without twists | E | |
| Any full-twisting double tuck variation | E | |
| Double front (also with half in or out) | E |
Common Deductions
| Composition: Up to the (difficulty) level (UTL) | (gymnasts must meet both dismount and element requirements) | |
| Elements (must have at least one) Dismount | – Single bar release minimum D – Any E release – Minimum two D releases – Minimum any two E skills (excluding dismount) Minimum D, or C dismount with connective bonus | 0.1 |
| Other Compositional Deductions | ||
| Lack of variety in elements | 0.05 | |
| Insufficient distribution of elements | 0.05 | |
| More than one squat or sole circle | 0.1 each time | |
| Uncharacteristic elements* | 0.1 each time | |
| Three quarter empty swing (breaks a connection) | 0.1 each time | |
| Execution Deductions | ||
| Flexed feet | 0.05 | |
| Under-rotation of release/flight element | ≤0.1 | |
| Insufficient amplitude | 0.2 | |
| Precision of HS throughout routine | ≤0.1 | |
| Touch/brush on bar or mat with feet | ≤0.1 | |
| Insufficient extension of glide/swings into kips | ≤0.1 | |
| Hit bar with feet | 0.2 | |
| Knee or leg separation | ≤0.2 | |
| Exactness of body shape (tuck, pike, layout) | ≤0.2 | |
| Bent arms (in support) or legs | ≤0.3 | |
| Extra cast/swing | 0.3 | |
| Hit mat with foot/feet | 0.3 | |
| Regrasp to avoid a fall | 0.3 | |
| Fall | 0.5 | |
| Amplitude: Cast or swing to HS | ||
| Skill receives credit No credit | Vertical to 10 degrees below 11-20 degrees below 21-30 degrees below 31-45 degrees below 46 and greater degrees below | No deduction 0.05 0.1 0.15-0.2 0.25-0.3 |
| Amplitude: Half or full turn in HS | ||
| Vertical to 20 degrees below 21-30 degrees below 31-45 degrees below 46 and greater degrees below | ||
| Amplitude: 3/2 turn in HS or full turn after HS | ||
| Vertical to 30 degrees below 31-45 degrees below 46 and greater degrees below | No deduction 0.05-0.15 0.2-0.3 | |
| Dismount/landing Deductions | ||
| Step/hop/slide (max 0.4 in total) – Small – Medium – Large | ≤0.1 0.15 0.2 | |
| Feet position – Staggard – Failure to join heels – wider than hip-width | ≤0.1 0.05 0.1 | |
| Direction | ≤0.1 | |
| Arm swing | ≤0.1 | |
| Landing too close to the bar | 0.1 | |
| Crossed legs | ≤0.1 | |
| Incorrect body posture on landing (ex. low chest) | ≤0.2 | |
| Trunk movements to maintain balance | ≤0.2 | |
| Pike down on dismount (layout) | ≤0.2 | |
| Failure to open body (tuck or pike) | ≤0.3 | |
| Height | ≤0.3 | |
| Squatted landing (hips below knees) | ≤0.3 | |
| Brush mat with hands without support | ≤0.3 | |
| Chief Judge Deductions | ||
| Coach between bars throughout | 0.1 | |
| Failure to remove springboard | 0.3 | |
| Incomplete exercise (fewer than five elements) | 2.0 | |
| Gymnast exceeds 45-second fall time | Routine ends |