| Gardner | Veeck | Istanbul Consensus | ASEBIR | Sjoblom | |
| Expansion | - | - | - | - | Compacting |
| 1 | Morula cavitation | 1 | From initiating expansion to hatched | Caviting | |
| 2 | 1 or 2 | 2 | A: 4AA (Garder), 3AA (Veeck), 311 (Istanbul consensus), AA - BA - CA (ASEBIR)
B: 3AA (Garder), 1BB-2BB (Veeck), 322 (Istanbul consensus), AB - BB - CB (ASEBIR) C: (ICM and TE) CC (Garder), CC - DC - CD (Veeck), 333 (Istanbul consensus), AC-AD (ASEBIR) |
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| 3 | 3 | 2 or 3 | |||
| 4 | 3 | 3 | |||
| 5 | 4 | 4 | |||
| 6 | 5 | 4 | |||
| - | 6 | - | - | ||
| ICM | A | A | 1 | A | |
| B | B | 2 | B | ||
| C | C | 3 | C (Indifferent) | ||
| - | D | - | D | ||
| TE | A | A | 1 | A | |
| B | B | 2 | B | ||
| C | C | 3 | C | ||
| - | D | - | D | ||