All-Star Banned From Competitions

[jasoncheerdad]

Has anyone ever heard of a gym being banned from certain competitions?

 

[Official OWECheer]

Why do you ask?

 

[jasoncheerdad]

Why do you ask?

My daughter's best friend goes to a different gym than we do and the two girls were talking about competitions they were going to and when my daughter told her friend we were going to Cheersport Nationals her friend said they were last year but could not go this year because they were banned from that competition. I was just curious if competitions actually ban gyms from being able to compete.

 

[Lisa Seye]

Some gym in Florida was banned from. Florida competition because they had ineligible athletes on a team. Their medals were taken and the next event producer banned them from the EP upcoming competition because many teams threatened to withdraw. There's a thread floating around here about it. That's the first time I had heard of it but I would say it's probably happened before???

 

[FaithOverFear!]

I know of an Indiana gym that is barred from attending Jamfest events, but that's one of the only ones I can think of. It was allegedly for screaming at other teams at competition (and not in a positive way..)

 

[CheerItFullOut]

I know of an Indiana gym that is barred from attending Jamfest events, but that's one of the only ones I can think of. It was allegedly for screaming at other teams at competition (and not in a positive way..)

It's good that bad sportsmanship and cheating isn't tolerated... Bigger lessons have to be learned. Banning is great way to say, "we won't have it"!

 

[Bellabooker]

I don't think they do enough about cheating/bad sportsmanship ect type of issues. I think if they started banning gyms/teams for the rest of the season that would put a strong message out there and maybe stop some of the behavior.

 

[Nikaa]

I saw on Tumblr CEA Kernersville location was banned from Cheersport few years ago. But I think Kernersville location has attend Cheersport every years and I also read it on Tumblr so....

 

[CheerBank]

I don't think they do enough about cheating/bad sportsmanship ect type of issues. I think if they started banning gyms/teams for the rest of the season that would put a strong message out there and maybe stop some of the behavior.

I wish there was a "bad gym" list publicly posted somewhere. Maybe the chance of being outed in this way and it possibly hurting their business would be enough to deter some gyms from behaving in these ways in the first place.

 

[KimKardashian]

KC Cheer has been banned from attending jamfest super nationals for a few years now

 

[CookieMomster]

I don't see why it can't be created. Peer reviews are used a lot to determine the integrity of a business (i.e. Google reviews, etc). Years ago I was part of a mommy selling site and we had our own version of a bad list of who was banned from the group and for what reason (i.e. fraud, poor communication, failure to ship items but took the money, etc). It helped quite a few people from being victims of fraud and we all knew to check the list before doing business with them.

The only flaw I could see in somebody creating such a list for cheer would be having somebody credible create it and update it vs somebody taking it upon themselves and using it as a gossip site and tarnishing the reputation of a good gym because they had a vendetta.

I'm still trying to figure out why subpar customer service is tolerated so much in cheer. If more transparency was created it could help with building the sport (or making it a sport for those in that camp of thought) and create healthy competition once the purging process was complete. In an ideal world everybody would play by the rules and nobody would have to take on the role of policing.

 

[njallday]

I saw on Tumblr CEA Kernersville location was banned from Cheersport few years ago. But I think Kernersville location has attend Cheersport every years and I also read it on Tumblr so....

I know they had an injury and a crossover athlete who was already on 3 teams competed on a 4th. It's been a while, but I believe that fourth team opted to exhibition instead of compete but Cheersport let them compete anyway... and then the horrible rumors of CSP began and the fierce board blew up.

As far as I remember CEA was not intentionally trying to do anything wrong, @mstealtoyou correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[AScheer]

I saw on Tumblr CEA Kernersville location was banned from Cheersport few years ago. But I think Kernersville location has attend Cheersport every years and I also read it on Tumblr so....

I know they had an injury and a crossover athlete who was already on 3 teams competed on a 4th. It's been a while, but I believe that fourth team opted to exhibition instead of compete but Cheersport let them compete anyway... and then the horrible rumors of CSP began and the fierce board blew up.

As far as I remember CEA was not intentionally trying to do anything wrong, @mstealtoyou correct me if I'm wrong.

I also feel like they weren't banned, but CSP was unhappy with the way it all went down and they took a year off from going. I could be mis-remembering?

 

[quitthedrama]

I also feel like they weren't banned, but CSP was unhappy with the way it all went down and they took a year off from going. I could be mis-remembering?

but it was on tumblr so it must be true!

 

[CookieMomster]

but it was on tumblr so it must be true!

Especially if it was also cited from a Wiki page or Facebook.