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Let me add more clarification to my original intent. I should have been more specific when I made up my teams. It is that every cheerleader that was listed as tumbling could do max level passes. I.e. all the minis with BHS could do BWO BHS or complex BHS passes such as front walkover round off handspring step out round off hand spring hand spring. Then there were the few minis that couldn't tumble at all. Same with youth. All the tuck kids could do series/complex (bhs stepout ro bhs tuck) BHS with jumps and complex passes to tucks with again the same few kids who have no level 3 skills
Bottom line: Do you hold a team back based on only a few non-tumblers but struggling stunters?
If its less then (lets say 10%) of your team, I would say go for the higher level (If they could max it out)
Varsity sheets say that a skill must be completed by half +1 t be majority.
If its only 3/4 kids, they would be easy to hide and you would still get full credit. But this would only be beneficial if the entire rest of the team could compete the max skills in their level, with medium to high technique. The more kids that you have ducking/hiding during tumbling, the more passes need to be thrown by others, and the higher the technique will have to be to make up for the lower difficulty (if the amount of kids not participating is noticeable)
My final advice would be to do what looks cleanest. Varsity score sheets reward heavily for cleanness. I you could not bet your bottom dollar that 95% of those girls throwing passes will do them with HIGH technique, then I would go with the easier skill that you could guarantee clean.
A team that competes clean simple skills might get a 4.2 (out of 5.) on difficulty, but a .9 (out of 1.0)on technique (5.1 total)
Level two might get a 4.8 out of 5 on difficulty, but if they score a .2 (out of 1.0) on technique, (5.0 total) they end up losing.
CLEAN will ALWAYS win.