That was really stupid. First time I was watching this sport and when I read the rules I thought all three formats are similar, since the 8 who were supposed to qualify for the finals had to be the best 8 in combined points. Then the Polish girl kicked everyones ass in speed climbing, just to almost fail to qualify for the final because she sucked in bouldering and lead.
Someone might say triathlon includes three different sports, or decathlon having both speed and strength. But in athletics you have the decathlon and you also have medals for each track and field event. Here, instead of giving medals for all three, and perhaps only then giving the 4th medal for the combination, they went for only one medal.
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They are counting it differently.
1, 20 and 19 is counted 1x20x19= 380. While 15x6x5 = 450.
But yeah, 15, 6, 5 is indeed worse than 1, 20, 19.
Edit: You were saying the same. Sorry