Only thing is theoretically all of the maneuvers in your pattern sequence should be sized similarly. Which means if your 1st centered maneuver is really big, the rest should be big too. I bet I get arguments on this but that was what I understood from judging school.
This is pretty much true. Unlike figure skating, which has a separate score for artistic merit, artistry in the pattern routine is judged along with the technical. One of the "artistic" criteria is maneuver size relative to the box and relative to other maneuvers. But I would start looking at the size from the first 1/2 rev Cuban 8, not the first centered maneuver. However, if the first was odd-sized compared to the rest of the routine, I wouldn't downgrade the rest! I'd perhaps downgrade the second because of the change in size, and leave the rest be. Might get irritating (also a judging criteria?) if the sizes were all over the place!
Ooops! Sorry. You had a SIMPLE question......
