All-Star Could A Not-so-popular Allstar Team Win Worlds?

[SassyRachael]

yes it's totally possible.
however they would probably gain a good amount of popularity leading up to worlds.

 

[cheermomforever]

I would hope that if a non popular team had a great performance they would be scored correctly......we all know sometimes personal opinion can matter .....unfortunately.

 

[AndrewSky]

You know it's summer when old threads randomly pop up again..

 

[icheer2929]

When ACE Warriors won, no one made a big deal of it.


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[AndrewSky]

But in all honesty, there are a lot of "not so popular" gyms winning worlds, especially in the international divisions. PACE, Stealth, Flyers from canada.

 

[BlueCat]

DISCLAIMER: This may already be a thread. I'm not sure. Feel free to alert me if it is, Thank you.

Do you think that an unpopular team could win Worlds? Not unpopular as in untalented, but a team that not everyone has heard of. Every year you hear the same people win: Top Gun, Stingrays, CEA, Cali, CA, etc. Obviously they're beyond talented, but what if a small town team went all the way? Is it probable, do you think?

How are you defining popular?

 

[fullinitup]

Teams that I would love to see potentially win that arent so popular

Cheerforce
PCM
AZ POWER
FCA DIAMONDS
MATRIX
SOUTH JERSEY STORM

 

[Hotcheerfan]

Hotcheer won 4th in the small coed division last year. Our team had solid routines late in the year, but we proved that it could be done. I think it is possible, but difficult to do for most teams.

 

[AndrewJ]

In all sports where the outcome is decided by a humans opinion of who completed the criteria best after a short viewing (cheerleading, gymnastics, figure skating) its nearly impossible for an underdog to win. If you go back and watch videos of worlds 05 and 06 yo'd argue skill level from choreography. straight ups beat full ups because they had more doubles and were a better known team. So id have to say no i think hell will freeze over before a non popular team is allowed to win worlds due to all the angry fans who really know little about the scoring!

 

[Cheeranswers]

You know it's summer when old threads randomly pop up again..

when about 50 old threads pop up again...

 

[TheCouchCheerleader]

I think the best case scenario for a Not-so-popular team to win worlds (or at least globe) would be if a lot of the popular teams in that division really bombed. For example, Medium Senior, if both Orange and Aces had a BSB style routine, which is possible, then FAME or FCA would have a chance at the title.


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[dmouth11]

In all sports where the outcome is decided by a humans opinion of who completed the criteria best after a short viewing (cheerleading, gymnastics, figure skating) its nearly impossible for an underdog to win. If you go back and watch videos of worlds 05 and 06 yo'd argue skill level from choreography. straight ups beat full ups because they had more doubles and were a better known team. So id have to say no i think hell will freeze over before a non popular team is allowed to win worlds due to all the angry fans who really know little about the scoring!

I kind of agree, but I want to explain it a little differently.

At the end of the day, the "subjectivity" portion of the score sheet is how this manifests itself. I think that if you have two teams that are equally skilled, that larger/more famous gym almost 90% of time wins. (Smart event producers care more about Gym A winning [when two teams are about even in every category] because next year, they are registering another 10 teams as opposed to Gym B who will probably only bring 3).

This is not to say that certain unknown gyms or smaller teams don't ever win against more famous programs, there are more than a few outliers, especially in the lower levels. However, I think Worlds is such a public thing that it can't come without politics. So, I'd argue that there is a very slim chance for a team to win one of the senior divisions at Worlds (SAG, MAG, LAG, Smoed, Moed, LgCoed) without have a "famous" gym brand on their chest. People have crept into the top 10/5/ and even top 3 (South Elite, Basics, etc), but winning**? I'd have to see it to believe it.

And by winning, I mean winning even when the other team(s) hit. Not they fell so I slid up. Of course hitting your routine under pressure is part of how you become a World Champ, but you catch my drift.

 

[yojaehs]

Scoresheets don't have a "popular" category smh...again


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[Fiercecheer12]

There's supers that got bronze in medium senior so maybe

 

[BlueCat]

The answer would depend on how you mean "popular" in your question. It seems that "famous", "from a large program", "traditionally successful", and "crowd favorite" are all thrown around as part of the answers. Those are not necessarily the same thing, although they are typically correlated. (NOTE: That doesn't necessarily mean that one causes the other.)