Trampolining scoring, rules and officials
Scoring
A final trampoline mark is based on a difficulty and execution score.
A difficulty score begins at 0.0 and goes up continuously with every difficult skill performed.
An execution score is different and begins at a score of 10.0, and is then deducted by judges for errors in performance.
In a competition, a participant will receive five execution scores with the highest and lowest marks thrown out. The three middle scores are then added to the two judges’ difficulty score and a total final mark is given.
Rules
British Gymnastics has a set of competition rules and regulations for their disciplines that are revised and updated every four years in line with the Olympic cycle, led by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), and the Union Européenne de Gymnastique (UEG), and sometimes revisions are issued mid-cycle. This means that all judges have to be adaptable.
Officials
Although all trampolining disciplines have varying methods for scoring, the role of the officials remains the same throughout. In all disciplines, the 'Chair of Judge' and their assistant supervise a team of seven specialist judges. The seven judges are then separated to create a team of five to mark the execution and a team of two to assess the difficulty.