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I'm confused though because both large coed teams had higher scores than them and everyone else that got a paid won their division. That makes sense to me so did the bid declaration say the 8 highest scoring teams? Or the winners of the divisions?
of course i can't actually find their bid declaration on their website, but i don't think they do either. because of the way they split up the divisons and have different judging panels, they understandably don't go by highest scores because it varies drastically between panels. I also don't think they've ever done the winners of each division. (not to mention there were 10 paid bid eligible worlds divisions and only 8 bids so that wouldn't work.)
i think it's at cheersport's discretion... which as long as that's published somewhere before the event, they're allowed to give the bids to whoever the heck they want to. it may suck for the team who got the short end of the stick, but they knew going into the competition that a division win didn't guarantee a paid bid.