Elite season is back with the Cottbus World Cup and Winter Cup, where Frederick Richard debuted his genius marketing campaign uniform revolution, impossible scores, and the Oklahoma mini-documentary!

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AWARDS

• The Most Winter Cup Award
  • Zoey Molomo's unintentional dismount
  • Runner up: Claire Pease getting a full point of OOB deductions on floor
• The Best Way to Get People Talking About Men's Gymnastics Award
  • Frederick Richards' revolutionary basketball pajamas at Winter Cup
• Best Reason to Cancel NCAA Gymnastics as a Sport
  • One judge gave Kayli Boozer a 9.550 WITH A FALL.

• Injury updates
  • Anya Pilgrim (Florida), Sloane Blakely (Florida), Charlotte Booth and Jennifer Gadirova (GB), Brianna Taurek (Cal)

Winter Cup

• Ashlee Sullivan is your 2025 Winter Cup Champion! Jayla Hang came in second despite a fall on beam, and Simone Rose came in third
• Wait a second... did the U.S. get the memo about beam choreography?
• Why NASA needs to hire Kelise Woolford because have you seen her Jaeger?
• Why everyone and their mother is suddenly doing a second vault
• Event Champions
  • Zoey Molomo is looking ready for college
  • Alicia Zhou won bars with her amazing E-score
  • Tatum Drusch and Claire Pease shared the beam title
  • How we know Nola Matthews actually read the new Code
• The skill that Vivi Crain did that made us all swoon

GYMTERNET NEWS

• Serenity gardens, chandeliers and “We can say that’s better but better is still a deduction, right? And better is less than you are capable of.” - what learned from the SEC Networks's "Inside Oklahoma Gymnastics" mini-documentary.
• We have another all-Black podium! This time at Elite Canada
• Eythora will be competing at Gymnix

Cottbus World Cup

• Why we have problems with the award ceremonies
• The vaulting is for grown-ass women club: all vault medalists were 30+
• The German audience applauded the men who could actually hold a scale
• Noah Kuavita understands the assignment and threw all the big-D skills
• Thoughts on the new 0.2 women's post-flight bonus
• Why Artur Davtyan's vaulting could lead to a potential Doordash sponsorship

NCAA

• What are the ranking shakeups after week 8?
  • LSU, UCLA, Cal, Georgia, and Florida
• Florida had an injury apocalypse at Oklahoma and had to count a fall on beam
• Cal scored a season-high 197.775 against Pittsburgh
• We have problems with BTN's coverage of gymnastics
• Pride meet alert: Cal hosted a pride meet with very prominent pride flags
• Ondine finally made her beam lineup debut!
• We hand Clemson the "Gaslighting the Judges" award
• Mika Webster-Longin and her Yurchenko 1.5 wins the "Figuring it Out" award

UP NEXT

• • College & Cocktails: The Live NCAA Gymnastics Post-Meet Show
    • after Arkansas v Alabama on Friday, Feb 24th at 6:30pm Pacific
    • Spencer is doing a watch-along watch along live blog at 3:00pm Pacific before College & Cocktails
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FANTASY GAME:

• • GymCastic 2025 College Fantasy Game now open. Never too late to join!
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RECENT 

• College & Cocktails: Florida at Oklahoma
• Spencer’s Live Blog – Friday, February 21, 2025
• Fantasy News: 2025 NCAA Season, Week 7
• The 5th Rotation: February 18, 2025
• Rhys “The Prodigy” McClenaghan Interview
• College & Cocktails: Oklahoma at LSU
• Spencer’s Live Blog – Friday, February 14, 2025

RESOURCES

• Spencer's essential website The Balance Beam Situation 
• Gymnastics History and Code of Points Archive from Uncle Tim
• Kensley’s all things men’s gymnastics: Neutral Deductions

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