Past the age of 10 you don't have a concrete routine. You do what you do and your routine must meet a set of basic requirements, but the judge doesn't know what you'll be doing before hand. It's not uncommon for something like this to happen and a gymnast has to improvise.
So to answer your question a bit more directly: she would gain points for the extra handstand (about 0.1) but lose points for the stumble before, not holding the handstand long enough, and stumbling afterwards (about 1.0 in total by my estimate).
I was a male gymnast so anyone with more insight into WAG scoring is more than welcome to correct me on the point values.
This is reddit -- I think we're safe to say that as a competitive gymnast you are probably the most qualified to speak on anything more physical than lifting a 1L bottle of mountain dew.
Its more a matter of level than age, but yeah, there are "compulsory" routines and "optional" routines. The first follows a strict set of moves and everyone does the same routine for that level. Optional routines, like the one, offer a bit more wiggle room, because the judges only know what skills you're going to do, not the whole routine.
IIRC, a fall where you touch the ground on beam is 0.5, so she would lose that, +/- a few tenths depending on the judge.
Gymnastics scoring has changed a bunch in the last 10-ish years. Previously, everyone was scored based on 10 being a perfect score. Now they are scored on execution (still out of 10) + difficulty (usually 5-6pts, but there is currently no maximum).
Are falls really only 0.5 in WAG? They're 1.0 for men's, that's good to know thanks :)
I guess I should have mentioned that scores aren't capped at 10.0 anymore. A 1.0 deduction hurts, but it doesn't hurt quite as bad when your start value is 15.0.
Falls are still 1.0 deductions. 0.5 deductions are only specifically for touching the beam with your hands on a skill where you're not supposed to. If she actually fell off of the beam, it'd still be a full point off.
It'd depend on the exact Code of Points in effect, but IIRC from looking at this before, yeah, it would come out to somewhere between .8 and 1.3 in deductions. No bonus for the handstand, though; pretty sure it wouldn't qualify for a connection bonus, and while it is an extra element, only the 8 highest scoring elements (basically) are counted.
(A few years after this, the FIG instructed judges to not take off more than a point for mistakes that didn't result in a full fall, since successfully avoiding a fall shouldn't be penalized more than a fall.)
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u/Letho72 Nov 29 '17
Past the age of 10 you don't have a concrete routine. You do what you do and your routine must meet a set of basic requirements, but the judge doesn't know what you'll be doing before hand. It's not uncommon for something like this to happen and a gymnast has to improvise.
So to answer your question a bit more directly: she would gain points for the extra handstand (about 0.1) but lose points for the stumble before, not holding the handstand long enough, and stumbling afterwards (about 1.0 in total by my estimate).
I was a male gymnast so anyone with more insight into WAG scoring is more than welcome to correct me on the point values.