mommadonna
Cheer Parent
- Nov 13, 2010
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I've thought long and hard about this. One thing I thought of is using a rule of percentages. In other words, a gym may use crossovers, but only a percentage of the team can be made up of these athletes, say, for example, 15%. This may conceivably still help small gyms have teams that are appropriate for the athletes that come through their doors, but help to prevent the kind of blatant sandbagging for wins that has become so much more rampant lately. (At one comp, we saw a level 3 team turn around and compete the same routine with the same athletes at the next level with the stunts and tumbling modified to level 4. We're talking same dance, pyramid, the whole works. ) Maybe by using percentages, crossovers can be used as intended and not as a way to work around the system for the win. Just an idea...