For the HJ and PV, USATF says "Five Alive Until 12 left." Anyone know what that means?
For the HJ and PV, USATF says "Five Alive Until 12 left." Anyone know what that means?
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I don't know the exact details, but have a vague idea. At a given height, the first five take a jump. If any miss, then they have their second jump before the sixth person has his first jump. As people make jumps, then others further down the list make their first jump. It is designed to keep the time between jumps at a given height to a reasonable amount of time, especially when there are large fields.
At any one time, only five jumpers are in "the rotation". Jumpers are removed from the rotation of five and the next jumper on the list added to the "five alive" upon a
pass, a clearance, or a third fault. Therefore, no jumper in the "five alive" is ever more than four jumps from their next attempt.
Each time the bar is raised, the system begins anew or the judge may announce to the remaining athletes that the conventional jumping order system (sequential) will be used at the greater heights after eliminations have left the field with a more manageable number of jumpers (arbitrary or judges' decision).
The reason the competition is run faster and fairer for all is that five, rather than three jumpers, are announced after each jump so that jumpers have more advance time to remove warm-ups and go through their pre-jump routine before they are "on the clock". Jumpers generally take less than their allotted time (60 seconds) when they are up and if they fail, have a brief but adequate time to make adjustments and receive feedback prior to their next attempt.
They keep on doing this process until there are 12 competitors left in the competition, where they will switch to the regular high jump format of everyone going at a height and such.
Makes sense. Thanks.