After his first dive, I was pretty far behind. I knew I had degree of difficulty on him. I knew if I could hit, I could overcome him. After the second dive, it was pretty close.

Her degree of difficulty has been lifted from 7.30 to 7.85, which is pretty high. But we also want to make sure her performance is stable.

We were pretty solid all the way through. I'm pleased with where we are in terms of our difficulty. We just have to get a little cleaner and a little tougher. I felt like we were right there ... on floor and beam, we were pretty close on bars and fairly close on vault. The teams that beat us just performed a little better.

I just want to see how we compare to the rest of the world.

I think that was the most fun I've had in any meet ever.

The process we went through to balance the difficulty is pretty rigorous. Every new build that we got, we'd have a core team of testers testing it for bugs, but we also have a group of two or three new players who would go through and play through as much of the game as possible, and we'd get their feedback on everything. A lot of the difficulty tweaking was done on a level-by-level basis. Some of the time limits were too strict or the enemy A.I. was too aggressive.