All-Star American Grand Las Vegas

[xtremeteal4life]

I am curious to know how cheer extreme liked the competition from travel to the city, venue, amount of competition, success of teams, and so forth. Did they enjoy it enough to possibly come again in the future? I personally love seeing the east coast teams travel to grand or spirit sports in Palm Springs for bids. It makes it so much more exciting and entertaining and makes the west coast teams work so much harder! I would love to see them back and hopefully a few other programs that travel making other arrangements and switching their competition schedules a bit to come a bit further west!

I'm pretty sure based on the many Facebook posts, team successes, personal friends who went (like mstealtoyou, and many others)...I wouldn't surprise me!!

 

[yojaehs]

Judging panel, at most events, but specifically this one, don't change at all between Day 1 and Day 2.

One of the main reason raw scores go up is because coaches get back their score sheets and discover areas that they could earn more credit. Often, minor tweaks to the choreography drastically improve point ranges. For example, some teams only got credit for 3 jumps on Day 1. By doing 4 jumps on Day 2, their difficulty changed from Medium to High.

This is confusing to me. The way I was explained the breakdown of jumps is 3+1 OR 4 equals the same difficulty value?

 

[NoOneSpecial]

Judging panel, at most events, but specifically this one, don't change at all between Day 1 and Day 2.

One of the main reason raw scores go up is because coaches get back their score sheets and discover areas that they could earn more credit. Often, minor tweaks to the choreography drastically improve point ranges. For example, some teams only got credit for 3 jumps on Day 1. By doing 4 jumps on Day 2, their difficulty changed from Medium to High.

I understand that point. But as someone mentioned that variances from day 1 to day 2 if all things equal could change based on different panel judges. So to your point if team A was to add in difficulty recognize where they fell short based on day 1 scores - a different panel judge day 2 could cancel out what team A added that they thought would be enough to edge out the comp.

IMO same panel judges should remain for both days at all events.

 

[magical mom]

I am curious to know how cheer extreme liked the competition from travel to the city, venue, amount of competition, success of teams, and so forth. Did they enjoy it enough to possibly come again in the future? I personally love seeing the east coast teams travel to grand or spirit sports in Palm Springs for bids. It makes it so much more exciting and entertaining and makes the west coast teams work so much harder! I would love to see them back and hopefully a few other programs that travel making other arrangements and switching their competition schedules a bit to come a bit further west!

From what Courtney said they enjoyed it. Everyone was really nice to their athletes and they were treated great. I think they will return. Loved the east coast flare they brought.

 

[ferociouslyfierce]

Does anyone have the results for the majority of the rest of the competition? (Not level 5's)

 

[AcaseA]

Does anyone have the results for the majority of the rest of the competition? (Not level 5's)

I don't have any results but according to the website
"results will be posted within one week of the event"

here's the link to where they will be posted
The American National Championships - American Grand - Results

 

[AndrewSky]

Does anyone have the results for the majority of the rest of the competition? (Not level 5's)

What division's Ted? I got most of them down on Sunday!

 

[ASCheerMan]

This is confusing to me. The way I was explained the breakdown of jumps is 3+1 OR 4 equals the same difficulty value?

In my example, I'm not referring to a team that has 3+1 changing to 4. I'm referring to a team that has 3 changing to 4.

That clarification aside, remember that 3+1 & 4 score IN THE SAME RANGE, But that doesn't mean they will get the same score. A team that whips out 4 difficult jumps will possibly outscore a team that does 3 jumps w/a prep in between and an additional jump later.

 

[ASCheerMan]

I understand that point. But as someone mentioned that variances from day 1 to day 2 if all things equal could change based on different panel judges. So to your point if team A was to add in difficulty recognize where they fell short based on day 1 scores - a different panel judge day 2 could cancel out what team A added that they thought would be enough to edge out the comp.

IMO same panel judges should remain for both days at all events.

I agree. I just can't think of a single event producer that changes up the panels on Day 2 anymore (I'm sure that one exists, I just can't think of who it is).

 

[xpressjag]

Does anyone have the results for the majority of the rest of the competition? (Not level 5's)

I can't believe the results aren't out. With all this modern technology you would think it would happen right after the event.

 

[ArizonaMVP]

I can't believe the results aren't out. With all this modern technology you would think it would happen right after the event.

One would think. And yet, I am still waiting for the first two comps in our area to be posted, one by UCA December 1st, and the other USA on December 8th. Not sure why Varsity thinks its ok to delay posting results for a month. Simply throwing up a 'coming soon' sign two weeks ago is NOT cutting it.

 

[xpressjag]

One would think. And yet, I am still waiting for the first two comps in our area to be posted, one by UCA December 1st, and the other USA on December 8th. Not sure why Varsity thinks its ok to delay posting results for a month. Simply throwing up a 'coming soon' sign two weeks ago is NOT cutting it.

Agreed.. Don't even get me started on how most cheer companies are light years behind other professional sports. Schedules, results and information is so last minute or late but registration fees are due so early. With computers the way they are, information should be accessible very quickly.

 

[xpressjag]

From what Courtney said they enjoyed it. Everyone was really nice to their athletes and they were treated great. I think they will return. Loved the east coast flare they brought.

I'm glad CEA enjoyed it.. they seemed to do really well at this competition.

 

[AndrewSky]

One would think. And yet, I am still waiting for the first two comps in our area to be posted, one by UCA December 1st, and the other USA on December 8th. Not sure why Varsity thinks its ok to delay posting results for a month. Simply throwing up a 'coming soon' sign two weeks ago is NOT cutting it.

It's just this company - they've always taken forever to post results and I doubt it will ever change.

 

[xpressjag]

It's just this company - they've always taken forever to post results and I doubt it will ever change.

I can't think of to many other companies that are technological savvy and put the results of competitions within 24 hours of its completion.