The aim of the study was to investigate the trends in execution and difficulty scores of routines on all apparatus and in both qualification and final rounds of male European championships just before and during a 5-year period after the introduction of new "open-ended" Code of Points (CoP) in 2006. It was found that the new CoP solved the problem of invariant difficulty scores, most efficiently toward the end of the observed period (2011). Execution scores showed a clear decreasing trend, both in absolute value and also in it`s ratio with difficulty score. A question arises, if the decreasing influence of execution on final score (and therefore ranking of competitors) is the desired outcome of the new CoP and future evaluation of gymnastic routines. It was also questioned if the decrease in execution score should be solely explained by the increase of difficulty (which probably means more deductions) and some minor changes in CoP after year 2006, or it showed (possibly unjustified) changes in applying the CoP.
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