Same execution scores in which category exactly? Did you happen to see their difficulty score in that category for that particular team? You can have a lower difficulty score but higher execution score, so I don't really see the issue?
I believe she's looking for the breakdown of day 1, the ones listed in the pdf you linked is the final breakdown (combining the scores of both days), I think?
Nope. And I kind of resent that. I say the Cali team looks great so therefore I must be a parent of an athlete on that team? Whatever. I asked for other divisions to throw into this discussion but alas this one seems to be the one that keeps coming up. Vipers mom threw it out on the table when she posted scores, videos and breakdown for this division and unfortunately it ended up being the example because as she said "so many people were saying this team should not of won". I would however like to be a Cali parent but all I see when I look out my window is currently snow.. so I'm a long way off.
The point I was trying to establish has been missed. This conversation became about this division and it was never intended to. I'm very curious of other examples were something similar happened. The system is not going to change unless people speak up and point out the issues. I know that Varsity people read these boards ( howdy Varsity) and it's important they realize and see beyond angry people spouting off because they are sore losers. As I said 15 pages ago - my daughters team won but many of her friends teams did not and I encountered many many people with legitimate concerns about scoring and say what you will about CSP but hello.. she's a pretty big name and I think carries some weight. This is how change happens. I don't feel like these are situations that people should just suck up and move past. If the system is flawed, it's hurting kids and contributing to the illegitimacy of this sport. It must be changed. Our children deserve to be recognized by every school, sporting institution and the general population as the true athletes they are and all of these issues contribute to not making that happen. I think every single poster on every fierce board would agree that All Star Cheer is a sport, in every sense of that word and trumps what many define to be sports in other areas (badminton is at the olympics for petes sake but not cheer) and deserves that recognition once and for all. A fair, accurate, concise scoring system is an essential component for making that a reality. @12stepCheermom
Well thank you so much for instructing me on the proper way to ask a question on a thread. I was responding as well to what was being thrown at me by all y'all. It makes me so so disappointed that this is what happens when someone shares a different opinion and doesn't sugar coat it on a board. We tell our kids to stand up for themselves and to speak their minds but as parents so many replicate the behaviors they would be mortified to have their children emanate or endure. Let me try to rephrase it nicely to make you happy..
Oh you would not believe what I kept hearing at NCA.. people were actually saying that Texas team edged out non-Texas teams in a lot of divisions when the scores were really really close. Do you think that's true? And people kept saying that due to all the weather challenges and flight cancellations NCA was scrambling to find judges and had to bring in a bunch of local judges from Texas that were biased to local teams and not qualified to be judging an event of this magnitude..that couldn't possibly be true right?? I see that a poster put up a pic of a very close R5 division that a lot of people have responded negatively to and that a texas team barely edged out another non-Texas team..this must just be a coincidence right? Even that Viper mom poster said lots and lots and lots of people are saying they shouldn't of won and this is only one division in question. If one of you has a few minutes of spare time could you pretty please explain to me how that could happen when the team they beat out after I watched the videos was equally as incredible and some might even say better than the one that won and the team that got third delivered an incredible performance on day 2 - too. They were simply fantastic. That viper team had huge deductions on day 1..how could they of come back from something like that to rise up so high? Now here are lots of smiley faces to make sure my tone is not misconstrued...
