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I think a lot of the reason, for me at least, is they were honestly a first year team. Yes they were in the same division last year, but since a lot of the power kids moved over and they had all the motivation from being the only Cali team to not go to worlds last year, you could tell from that first competition that they were not messing around is year. They've been consistently strong at every single competition (I mean they got one of the first paid bids of this year). A few competitions they got grand champs over established teams in their own program.I have often found that this forum and the cheer world as well, has its "favorites" and those are the teams that get plenty of hype and talk (sometimes it seems more due to a history of success rather than current success). Then there are the "underdog" favorites so to speak. Those are the "little guys" that everyone would love and be ok with winning, taking it away from the "expected" victor.
In my opinion, Black Ops wasn't really on anyone's radar or "list" because they weren't a long time Cali team, they are from a satellite location (actually further from San Diego than Vegas is) and yet, because they are part of a big name program, they don't get the "the little guy" or "underdog" part. So when Black Ops won it was a "let down"for all the folks who were expecting GT, SOT or Twist and Shout and would have loved South Elite to be David who beats the Golaths in that division. It was early in the morning on a Monday and it was easy to look beyond it and move onto the Orange/Aces drama as the next focus of attention.
I know for me they were so consistently strong, for some weird reason I didn't need to narrow in on them.
I do agree with you, that their awards being so early kind of let them be overridden by the big battles that were to come that day.