This is a good point. I suppose the main counter to it is, a bad call in a game like basketball, you can’t really unwind that, because there’s so much interplay between the teams. But gymnastics is much more, your routine alone. Except, a gymnast can change their routine on the fly in response to an opponent’s performance, so there is some of that interplay (which is why the difficulty score isn’t set ahead of time, which is kind of the root of the whole problem). And then you might say, yeah, but this is the last call, it really does indisputably affect the outcome, but that’s true in some situations in basketball, too, and you still accept that the ref might get that wrong, and once you’ve exhausted whatever in-game appeals process exists, you live with it. You don’t overturn it after the fact.
This is a good point. I suppose the main counter to it is, a bad call in a game like basketball, you can’t really unwind that, because there’s so much interplay between the teams. But gymnastics is much more, your routine alone. Except, a gymnast can change their routine on the fly in response to an opponent’s performance, so there is some of that interplay (which is why the difficulty score isn’t set ahead of time, which is kind of the root of the whole problem). And then you might say, yeah, but this is the last call, it really does indisputably affect the outcome, but that’s true in some situations in basketball, too, and you still accept that the ref might get that wrong, and once you’ve exhausted whatever in-game appeals process exists, you live with it. You don’t overturn it after the fact.