Day 17: Current System or the Perfect Ten?

There are things I like about both of them. The current system does reward gymnasts who do more difficult skills, but it places so much emphesis on difficulty over artistry and execution. It is to the point that a beautiful-in-the-air Amanar that is sat down can score higher than a relatively cleanly performed DTY. I just think there's something not quite right with that.

The perfect ten system was much easier for casual fans to understand, because all apparatus were scored out of ten. The closer you were to ten, the better. Easy. Now, a given score might be terrible on bars but good on beam. The perfect ten did have its flaws. Because it put so much emphesis on execution, a step out of bounds on floor could all but ruin an otherwise perfect routine.

They both have their pros and cons, but to me, this:

 

will always be one of the most exciting things ever in gymnastics.