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The perception that they may not have the "will to enforce them" bothers me. I don't claim to have excessive knowledge of the USASF but do deal with them as PAC Chairman. I've not experienced them not wanting to do something but more of an extreme balancing act of keeping gyms and EPs happy.
I'm certainly not getting into black helicopter conspiracy theories or anything like that. But I know from experience that rules can be circumvented when they're hard to enforce or cause political strife. I am certainly NOT suggesting that's what's going on here, mind you - but it's naive to think that doesn't happen.
There are several other factors that may be worth considering:
2. ACA actually had enough attending teams this year to qualify for 3 paid bids. I personally think that if an EP gets enough teams to move UP in the number of bids beyond what they had advertised, they should be given the option to give additional bids that year, rather than wait until the following year. (As a gym owner, I of course want as many paid bids as possible given out, however.)
This goes to my point above - at some point, why bother having the rule? Let the market take care of itself. If a event producer wants to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to give out paid bids to every level 5 team that shows up at a competition, then let them. They might not stay in business very long if they did that, but if they want to make that investment in order to attract teams to their competition, perhaps they should have the right to do so.
And how would that policy be substantially different than giving large cash awards to teams that attend non-World's comps? I'm not aware that there are restrictions on that practice, are there?0