- Jan 26, 2017
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Ok... I totally need to vent and I’m hoping maybe someone can help me to understand (because American Cheer Power won’t explain themselves). Our team attended a competition this past weekend and got robbed of a PAID bid. There were 5 Paid bids handed out and the first 4 were given to the top 4 teams with the highest score. Our team was next in line for the final paid bid and we were skipped over for a team that had over 2 points lower on their final score. How does this happen??? I have tried to rationalize this decision but everything I come up with leads to the same conclusion... we got cheated. I understand that ultimately it is the competition’s decision as to who tonhand the bids to, but I want an explanation as to why they did what they did.
The other 4 teams were the next highest scoring at the event, so it wasn’t a score issue (as I stated we were next in line score wise). The other bids were also handed out in the same divisions (2 went to one division and 2 went to another division), so it’s not that we had too many bids for our division and they were trying to spread things out. It’s not because they had a clean routine and we had a .25 deduction, because they too had a deduction. So what is it? The only thing I can come up with is that we are a small gym with 5 teams and the team that for our bid is a large gym that brought 15 teams. Is this really what our sport has come down to?
Sorry, rant over. Just had to get this off my chest and see how many people/teams this has happened to and what people think.
The other 4 teams were the next highest scoring at the event, so it wasn’t a score issue (as I stated we were next in line score wise). The other bids were also handed out in the same divisions (2 went to one division and 2 went to another division), so it’s not that we had too many bids for our division and they were trying to spread things out. It’s not because they had a clean routine and we had a .25 deduction, because they too had a deduction. So what is it? The only thing I can come up with is that we are a small gym with 5 teams and the team that for our bid is a large gym that brought 15 teams. Is this really what our sport has come down to?
Sorry, rant over. Just had to get this off my chest and see how many people/teams this has happened to and what people think.