I recently watched the 2013 European still rings final. The winner of this competition turned out to be Samir AIT SAID. The thing that confuses me is that Lambertus van Gelder routine seems much harder, but was ranked 7 out of 8 (a big step on the landing, but that shouldn't be too much of a deduction?)
Why is this?
video can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FR96qArRSI
Samirs routine is at 3:02:20
Van Gelders is at 2:48:40
Even if Samirs routine was better, isn't Van Gelder able to perform Samirs routine as well? And why didn't Van Gelder do a cross press to inverted cross (which I've seen him do before)?
Many questions at once, but I'm a bit confused about how routines are constructed and rewarded...