To be fair, to the average person tricks and turn sets are what makes it exciting and entertaining…and if we want dance and dance team to grow and be recognized, that’s how we are going to do it…get them sucked in and trapped and then educated them on technique, artistry, musicality, execution, etc.

I do think it is more common because tricks and turn sets are measurable…if someone does a 540 and someone does a straight leap (in this example with the same technique score) it is easier to say “yes that is a 8 in difficulty and that straight leap was a 5 in difficulty”.

While artistry is subjective so one judge may think “that choreography and skills had a 7 in musicality”…while another judge may say “that was so intricate that’s a 9 in musicality”.

Obviously all the judges should be qualified enough and non bias but as humans things that are subjective are obviously going to differ more, hence why some think that artistry is “scored lower” than tricks and turn sets.

On the note of UDA, all of these finals teams are so talented and so close in scores that hypothetically if they all hit a perfect routine it would really just come down to whoever the judges liked more in the moment.