Winter Cottbus Pajama Revolution

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!
  • ALL TEAMS MUST REDRAFT THIS WEEK before Friday at 2:15pm Pacific

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    • 2025 College & (M)Cocktails menu (including mocktails of course)

MERCH

• GymCastic Store: clothing and gifts to let your gym nerd flag fly and even “tapestries” (banners, the perfect to display in an arena) to support your favorite gymnast!
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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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