- Mar 16, 2010
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Is there is a big difference in which teams win now? I'm not sure how much of the results variation from week-to-week can really be attributed to scoresheet variations and how much is just the fact that each team performs differently from week to week. My opinion - the larger gyms with more resources are currently able to study their results from different competitions and use that information much more easily than smaller gyms typically can. Public, standardized scoring would eliminate most of the huge information advantage that big gyms currently have. (There I go again.)
I see both sides, but the massive gains in efficiency, understanding, legitimacy, and quality of judging far outweigh any disadvantages to me. I still believe that different judges and the subjective parts of the scoresheet would still contain enough "randomness" to keep things from being too predictable.
In the day of CHEERSPORT being a score sheet being heavily-weighed on deductions and a 50/50 Day 1 and Day 2 split vs NCA Nationals with a less deduction heavy system and a 25/75 split, a team would inherently have varying levels of success. Teams that peak in one performance vs. teams that hit consistently had varying levels of success.
I agree that the benefit of consistency to the industry as a whole is obvious. I've already witnessed it as I've watched the NCA scoresheet become the Varsity scoresheet. And then the Varsity scoresheet got picked up by so many independent brands. For NCA Nationals, the pool of qualified judges is SO MUCH larger because so many judges spend the season judging on the system for other companies. For that, I am thankful.
Universal or not, I want to get to a place where the scoresheet (and rules for that matter) stops changing. A majority questions at the Event Tent during a competition aren't actually about the scores, but rather how the system works. During years where the system has been relatively consistent with the year prior, there were noticeably fewer questions/issues/concerns.