I was thinking she meant that because NCA doesn't allow level crossovers...often lower level teams (where many crossovers come from higher level teams) often do not attend/compete. Of course, in some cases, the stacked lower level team does attend and the higher level team "stays home"
NCA does (hallelujah), but Summit you can have an entire level 5 team cross to level 1. The only crossover restriction is no more than 5 athletes can compete on one Summit team if they competed at Worlds (but that team could be level 1).
Sadly it is all tied to the all mighty dollar. Crossovers are very profitable to EPs.
Olympics are considered the most elite competition. I would compare it to Worlds in this example. There are what we consider "mega gyms" at Worlds or teams that consistently win that you could compare the USA or Russia, Romania, China etc to as far as being the best of the best in gymnastics, for example. And there are teams at Worlds that are on a completely different "level" from those highly competitive level 5 gyms and they probably will never make it to finals, such as a country that would never even qualify for Finals at the Olympics. There is nothing wrong with consistently strong countries at the Olympics competing against weak countries just as there is nothing wrong with consistently strong teams at Worlds competing against weaker teams - they are still all competing at the same level.
