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I'm not 100% sure if I like the change being made to Extra Small to be honest. I really liked the idea of that division being restricted to gyms that only have one worlds team as it meant that some of the smaller gyms got a chance to globe and now that is being taken away from them, it essentially reverts things back to the situation that small was. I could see this being a good thing for a team like CJA Bombshells as there isn't anything keeping them from the Extra Small division now if they wanted to enter it, but with how well they were doing in small, who knows what will happen. I just hope this isn't the death of something that very quickly became one of my favourite divisions at worlds.
It won't personally hurt my CP, but defeats the reason why they started x-small teams. I feel bad for d2 gyms. I figured this was in the works when they added a senior 5 to D2 summit.
I think the X small gym division will continue to grow, but it will increase from large gyms instead of small gyms.
The problem is the whole argument has gotten convoluted into talking points that may not truly be indicative of what is desired.My feeling is now as has been for years if many of the other issues like recruitment, truly independent judging, transparency with scores, reduction of blatant favoritism due to program size in regards to preferential warmup/compete times, meeting rooms, etc., then this would be less of an issue because all would feel like all have an equal and fair shot no matter the size, marketing, or location of program.
Face it, most athletes are not going to up and relocate to Lower West Podunk to compete on their first year L5 team that has little chance of making it out of prelims, does not pay for glitz glam marketing packages made to look like it is just random fandom. But they (larger gyms and mega gyms - just using the terms not throwing shade) will recruit L3-5 athletes to leave Lower West Podunk to cheer at the gyms who recruit world wide for athletes. Until that is some home equated, we will forever be comparing apples to oranges. The two products are just different. Not bad, or worse, different. STop trying to make them the same because they are not.
I agree with you. CP competed all 6 years at a small gym that "raised" the talent that ended up on the worlds teams at larger gyms. There needs to be some way for small gyms to be successful at upper levels on a national stage. D2 summit went a long way towards that, but there needs to be a place for their worlds division teams to compete because they will never be able to compete with the mega gyms.I'm incredibly sorry if I've caused a disagreement with what I said or was misinformed with my opinion in any way. I totally agree with what you are saying and in an ideal world they wouldn't have to create new divisions for shots to be fair in the first place. I guess coming from a very small gym that struggled in the success levels we had over the years, I was very excited to see something that could work in favour generating decent revenues for the smaller programmes again and would finally bring an end to the mass exodus of closures and mergers that have been happening over the last few years.
I agree with you. CP competed all 6 years at a small gym that "raised" the talent that ended up on the worlds teams at larger gyms. There needs to be some way for small gyms to be successful at upper levels on a national stage. D2 summit went a long way towards that, but there needs to be a place for their worlds division teams to compete because they will never be able to compete with the mega gyms.