All-Star Cheer Tech, Wildwood 12/1-12/2/12!!

RaRaMama said:

The email we received said some teams were not fully paid and that's why they weren't listed.

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Not paying isn't the reason for our gym, they have our teams mixed up, we don't have a jr. 1.

MissBee said:

Couldn't pay me to go.

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Agree with you here. Between our gyms we went to three of these competitions last year. All of them were complete and total CRAP. The scoring was stupid at best. Judges seemed clueless in comments on sheets. I had a 4.2 team told to add BHS immediately after jump to max out. A youth 2 told to add more variety in baskets to increase score. A senior 4 told to take out the pause after jumps before tucks to score higher. The owner is a jerk at best. The person who said "Buy-a-Bid Nationals" was dead on. Instead of having your parents pay 20 bucks a day to get in, just charge them all a 20 dollar fee and apply to your worlds teams fund and skip any and all of these events. They are terrible to say the least.

My friend used to judge for them and stopped about 2 years ago bc she felt they were extremely shady and unfair in judging processees, also for 2 days they did not pay well and it got to a point where the frustration and disorganization was not worth the time for the little pay.

I think it's an economical way to get your teams out on the floor and "practice" so when you get to the big ones you have a few places you can go to get in practice round or just keep your competition ready attitude through the season. I also think it is a good first round and true, easy and lower pressure for the worlds bids.

SparkleSpankies said:

My friend used to judge for them and stopped about 2 years ago bc she felt they were extremely shady and unfair in judging processees, also for 2 days they did not pay well and it got to a point where the frustration and disorganization was not worth the time for the little pay.

I think it's an economical way to get your teams out on the floor and "practice" so when you get to the big ones you have a few places you can go to get in practice round or just keep your competition ready attitude through the season. I also think it is a good first round and true, easy and lower pressure for the worlds bids.

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Half the benefit of those 'practice' competitions is being able to get judge feedback which is sounds like isn't too great from this comp.

cheeeeer93 said:

Half the benefit of those 'practice' competitions is being able to get judge feedback which is sounds like isn't too great from this comp.

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If you want to know how to do an illegal skill at your next comp, or are planning on taking your level 2 team up to level 4...well then it's great feed back!

cheeeeer93 said:

Half the benefit of those 'practice' competitions is being able to get judge feedback which is sounds like isn't too great from this comp.

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Point well taken! However, at times, you just need to keep kids in uniform and keep them going so they just always feel competition ready.

Does anyone know if they even bother to look at crossovers? We have a ton of youth/junior crossovers, same with senior 3/5....and they compete super close to each other. I can see with a really large comp not having much choice....they told our coaches they would work it out during warm up times.

RaRaMama said:

Does anyone know if they even bother to look at crossovers? We have a ton of youth/junior crossovers, same with senior 3/5....and they compete super close to each other. I can see with a really large comp not having much choice....they told our coaches they would work it out during warm up times.

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I will say with all the negatives I have to say about this company they were pretty good when it came to this topic. They let my Senior 3 compete out of division last year, at the end after individuals because we had to wait for 5 kids to travel from a school competition in North Carolina.

RaRaMama said:

Does anyone know if they even bother to look at crossovers? We have a ton of youth/junior crossovers, same with senior 3/5....and they compete super close to each other. I can see with a really large comp not having much choice....they told our coaches they would work it out during warm up times.

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I've been through this with them every year. And prepare yourself for a headache in warm ups. You will go in and no one will know what you are talking about and play dumb. The out come has been different every time but its a stressful road getting there. GOOD LUCK!!!

FamousMatty said:

I will say with all the negatives I have to say about this company they were pretty good when it came to this topic. They let my Senior 3 compete out of division last year, at the end after individuals because we had to wait for 5 kids to travel from a school competition in North Carolina.

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They have done this for my kids that were driving from taking the SATs. But I think we were penalize for it. We scored badly after hitting a good routine. The very next day we performed the same routine, at the same venue, with the same judges and same company and their was a huge difference in scoring and placement.

CoachARobz said:

They have done this for my kids that were driving from taking the SATs. But I think we were penalize for it. We scored badly after hitting a good routine. The very next day we performed the same routine, at the same venue, with the same judges and same company and their was a huge difference in scoring and placement.

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Man that stinks. I can't really say how we scored or whether we were penalized for it. We built that particular routine to a Cheersport rubric and not their's (which is ridiculous btw) so we went in knowing we weren't maxing out. The team we competed against unfortunately had two very very rough performances so the differences in scores was over 80 points so can't really compare to say whether we were penalized or not.

Cheer Tech comps suck!!! Last year at our old gym, we competed Thanksgiving weekend and one of our girls threw-up on the mat. Some of our older guys helped the creepy owner set-up the next week at another one of his comps only to roll the mat back out with throw-up still on it! $20 a day is a waste! Glad that our new gym isn't attending any of their comps.

congratz to fab 5 and cja for their full paid bids this weekend

PhillyCheerMom said:

Cheer Tech comps suck!!! Last year at our old gym, we competed Thanksgiving weekend and one of our girls threw-up on the mat. Some of our older guys helped the creepy owner set-up the next week at another one of his comps only to roll the mat back out with throw-up still on it! $20 a day is a waste! Glad that our new gym isn't attending any of their comps.

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Almost threw up.

dedewu96302 said:

congratz to fab 5 and cja for their full paid bids this weekend

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