- Mar 31, 2010
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I have been considering all these requirements for a while... and there is one thing that concerns me. While all these requirements make complete sense I am concerned TOO many all at once will get voted down. So doing a little political thinking I have come up with this.
All warmups must be at least 15 minutes on mats meant for activity (this does not include stretching). That is the only suggestion I will make and have people vote on. I believe that can easily get the most support from other gyms AND have the most positive affect.
I was talking more about voting with our money in that post.
As to passing an actual vote, I would need to know more about who would vote on this particular type of issue. If its the coaches then I would venture to guess that the whole package would pass without a problem. If its the event producers, you'd have to look at the percentage of events who already meet or surpass the standards vs the ones who come up short.
If an EP is coming up short on meeting the standards, its going to cost potentially a lot of money to meet them.
Additional spring floor, more mats, truck space, set up time.
Elimination of some, which I assume are cheaper venues.
The potential unintended consequences could be-
Elimination of the Under $55 events (that seems to be about the price point in my experience that divides competitions that have some production value and meet the minimum warm up standards and the ones that don't)
That could lead to an increase in overall participation cost in cheer which could slow growth or it could decrease the number of overall competition which would increase the number of teams per competition which could possibly help keep those numbers down(in theory, but in reality, the competition with the most participants are also the most expensive)
The gyms that I see this hurting the most are the upstarts, More Rec ish gyms, and 1 to 3 team gyms that just want to stay local.