All-Star Janky Comps

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We attended a local competition a few years ago where the announcer was just unbearable. I think he may have been one of the reasons that the competition ran so behind. He had personal commentary for each team that took the floor. The worst statement that I can remember... "Wow!! Team X!! That was such an improvement over last year! Way to go!!" Awkward.
 
We attended a local competition a few years ago where the announcer was just unbearable. I think he may have been one of the reasons that the competition ran so behind. He had personal commentary for each team that took the floor. The worst statement that I can remember... "Wow!! Team X!! That was such an improvement over last year! Way to go!!" Awkward.
OMG, we must have had the same announcer before.
 
Spirit Unlimited this was back in 2008 in Hampton, VA. The venue looked like a HS gymnasium. there was only 1 bleacher section (enough to hold about 70 people). the announcer after introducing the teams would stand on the mat until everyone got in their spots and then would say in a deep Barry White kinda voice "you may begin" :banghead:

It was so unorganized, warmup area didnt have enough mats. There was a local HS/Rec team there who got into a physical fight with another team, cops had to be called which delayed comp even more which was already BEHIND! They had the audacity to charge $15 for this cluster....
 
We attended a local competition a few years ago where the announcer was just unbearable. I think he may have been one of the reasons that the competition ran so behind. He had personal commentary for each team that took the floor. The worst statement that I can remember... "Wow!! Team X!! That was such an improvement over last year! Way to go!!" Awkward.

We have a local DJ here and he really just does HS comps and they are always at least an hour behind. The one time, the judges were ready holding their little ready sign up and he was like "Now this takes a while b/c the judges really need to look at their scores and add them up to make sure they are right." Meanwhile the judges were like waving at him, we are ready. Then he has something to say about everything and is not afraid to walk around and be like so is everyone ready for the next team meanwhile the last team performed 7 minutes earlier... OK buddy keep it moving.
 
When I was younger I competed individuals.... I remember like, the 3rd one I competed at and our individuals were AFTER everyone's awards at like 8:00. The only thing they left out for us to practice on was a dead-mat tumbling strip. They didn't even leave the radio so we could practice with our music on... There were maybe 12 girls in total competing and they grouped us all together (as in i was against senior girls...) At awards they had 1 trophy and a medal for the winner. They only called first place too... and me and all the other girls that didn't win against this senior girl throwing trick passes didn't get a medal or a participant ribbon or anything... it was sad. :( also, the backdrop was plain black- no competition name or anything... and they also got my team's score sheets mixed up with another gym's and called them in 1st and us in last. It was janky. and I think we travelled to it, too.
 
I was at a doozy this weekend.

Floor was not raised--VIP seating was not raised, and no standing in the front so if you didn't get in the front row, you couldn't see your team.

"General" seating was like a football field distance away from the stage.

Sound system stunk, several teams' music skipped, and they didn't get a do-over or anything.

Scoring was suspect. We got major deductions for a stunt we've put up at 8 other comps this year, that cost us a better placement. I didn't notice any favoritism-- just odd that we got slammed on this one thing.

No green rooms, team seating or back hallway team areas. Teams had to grab whatever space they could find in a hallway to corral bags, meet up, put on makeup, etc.

On the plus side, it ran on time and the bathrooms were clean :D
 
Aaaaaa! I'd love to see a picture of those!
I looked but alas I think the blue plastic COA tablecloth windbreaker found it's way to the trash. I did however come across the ever so lovely white plastic zip-up AmeriCheer International Champion jacket from around 2006 or 2007. Why ex-cp held onto that one and not the tablecloth I have no idea.
 
I've been to a lot of small local ones but I go into those not expecting much. As much as I love the whole Cheer for the Cure idea... they're rarely executed well. I remember one year, the warm up room was so low they told us we couldn't warm up baskets so we had to wing them on the floor. They did like group tumbling, so everyone in that division went out and had ten minutes to take turns warming up tumbling on the competition floor. AWFUL.

This isn't janky but I was never a fan of Jamfest's Express or One day where you compete twice national thing. I don't remember if that's what it's called. We went to one in Pittsburgh and I was coaching a team and competing on two, and my J3 team first went on at 7:45 a.m. and mind you they had teams on earlier than that... and my S4 awards were around midnight. Granted, it's a great concept, compete twice in one day and get the feel of a two day nationals without the hassle but still, everyone was exhausted, warm ups got chaotic, just too much to handle.
 
We go to one at a high school called Broughton. After attending twice, going on three times...I've given this competition the title of "Cursed Broughton"...something always goes wrong on absolutely every one of our teams routines...what makes it so janky is that we always have something really bad happen, and we still haven't lost yet here with the exception of our minis who respectively placed something like 2nd last year against like 10 teams.
My first year here, an elevator in the middle of our pyramid fell on my team, and the pyramid couldn't go because it would've been illegal...then a dancer on our front row (who was in said stunt group) ran to her dance spot early and started dancing like 5 counts before everybody else...she's perfect with dances, that just doesn't happen, lol.
My second year...oh boy...I think they got a new mat, because we were all slipping all over the place. On S2, we had like 5 or 6 people tumble off the floor. And then my bestfriend did a forward roll in the dance, and slipped trying to stand up, and almost fell...she split center on the front row...On S4, we had a partner stunt fall, multiple tumblers go off the floor, and half our pyramid fall... and then when I was watching J1, the power went out in the middle of their routine..like music, lights, everything went dead..for like 10 seconds. They kept going with their routine, and the music picked back up exactly where they were though ironically.
the jankiest of janky competitions.
We have been to Broughton at least 7 times in the past 6 years. Meh-Love the school, places to eat around there, but very few bathrooms, horrible lighting, stage on floor with no VIP seating.
 
The one we just came back from in TN was pretty janky-felt more like a one day than a two day nationals. Only 6 level 5 teams, no worlds teams. Lots of Level 1 and 2 teams. Arena was dark only a couple food vendors. Luckily we had time in between to go out to eat, and there was tons to do outside the comp. They had a DJ, but sometimes music was off for teams or would fade out.Only good thing was level 4 and 5 had awards early (middle of day) and we could get out of there fast. I think problem is so many comps out there, that too many overlap. I.e. this weekend was UCA, two weeks before King of the Jungle was same weekend as big comp in DC and one week before NCA.
 
Last year, i was at a different program and we went to a JANKKKKK comp at a central california high school. The venue was very very small for the amount of people that were there. The competition floor might as well of had no springs in it lol it was literally a dead mat.... and when we went back to the warmup room (aka the cafeteria) there were two 6- panel floors crammed into the room, every mat was unequal and some of the mats werent even taped together!!! Not only were there two mats in there, there was a tumbling strip that was only long enough to maybe fit a roundoff on... not to mention that the mat on top of it wasnt even taped down and it was curled so bad that it slipped completely off whenever somebody tried to tumble on it. Needless to say it was a rough competition for a worlds team to warmup at lol
 
I'm not sure, I competed in the second session so I came after the first awards ended. It was a soffe open
Oh, then I don't think we were at the same competition. I was at a Coastal one (not to call them out because this was the first time something like that had happened at a coastal competition).
 
okay i'm sorry but UCA nationals in Disney is pretty janky, having some teams compete in a tent and some in the HP filed house and some in hollywood studios your parents have to pay upwards of $80 just to see you preform and we had 8 minutes to warm up on one spring floor it was ridiculous my team always practices what warm ups will be like but gyms that don't do that would add another unneeded stress and they split divisions so strangely there was a division split where group A had 11 teams and group B had 3? it didn't feel like a competition and over all i wouldn't want to go bacl
 
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