How is Competitive Diving Judged?

ever wonder how competitive diving is
judged hi welcome to watchmojo.com i’m
your host Kristine and today we’ll be
telling you how divers must perform a
set number of dives according to various
established requirements including
somersaults and twists in various
directions from different starting
positions a dive is not judged by entry
alone all phases of the performance are
considered the approach that take off
the technique and grace during flight
and entry into water the judges score
each dive in its entirety as each dive
has an assigned degree of difficulty to
reward the athlete for complicated
skills a perfect entry with no splash is
called a risk after the loud tearing
sound it creates a bad entry in which
the diver enters the water at an angle
not nearly vertical is called a wash to
reduce the subjectivity of scoring in
major meats panels of five or seven
judges are assembled in the case where
five judges are assembled the highest
and lowest scores are disregarded and
the middle three are sums and multiplied
by the degree of difficulty in major
international events seven judges are
assembled in these circumstances the
highest and lowest scores are again
disregarded and the middle five are some
then ratioed by three-fifths and
multiplied by the degree of difficulty
so as to provide consistent comparison
with a five-judge event accordingly it
is extremely difficult for one judge to
manipulate scores