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[quote=Anonymous]Just to expose you to another side of age group chaos: in girls’ gymnastics kids compete by level with placement determined within their age group. Except that at every meet (other than elite or elite qualifiers), girls are in different age groups. The take the amount of competitors in an entire level and divide it into groups so that it is relatively even compared to other levels. Each group is a span of birthdates. So in one meet my daughter might compete against girls who are within 2 weeks of her birthdate, but depending on the number entrants at another meet, she might be competing within an 18 month-2 year age span. She has several rivals with close birthdays, so sometimes she happens to be in a different age group and can easily win, and other times they’re all together and are scoring within very close margins of one another. Girls who advance quickly/slowly and are young/old for their level might win a ton just because their level is atypical for their age even with scores that are far less competitive than other age divisions. It’s so arbitrary and dependent on luck that she focuses on skills and improvement. [/quote]

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