I was reading over the draft scoring for level 6 co-ed and I have a question that someone here may have an answer for. In the STUNTS section:
DIFFICULTY (0-20 points)
0 pts: No skills performed.
1.0-8.0 pts: Less than a majority of the athletes perform two or less L5/L6 appropriate skills.
8.0-20.0 pts: A majority of the athletes perform two L5/L6 appropriate skills.
*If your team performs only multi base stunts the stunt score is restricted to a max of a 14.0
*If your team performs a combination multi base and single base (assisted or unassisted), your max score is not restricted.
*If your team performs only single base stunts (assisted or unassisted), your max score is not restricted.
*Assisted is defined as an additional person, other than the base, touching the stunt at any time (ie. initiation of the skill, during the transition up, settling or stabilizing skill at the top, etc.) for any period of time during the stunt, other than the dismount.
So looking at this it seems that there is no downside to having a spotter touch a stunt if there is a chance that it's going to bobble.
So just for some concrete examples:
1. The spotter 'bumps' a rewind and then assists the catch but then lets go. Is this multi-base or simply assisted?
2. An arabian dismount, where the spotter touches the stunt 1 count before the dismount begins and assists in the pop (and cradle of course).
3. The spotter goes hands-on the stunt just before the double twist cradle - but the stunt was tossed by the base without an assist.
I get that the very top of the points (19.5 - 20.0) will likely be only given to teams that perform completely unassisted stunts but from my view of things you stand to lose way more marks to bobbles/stunt falls than you do to having the spotters touch the stunts in the first place.
Am I reading this correctly?