I think this is actually the main point. Most, if not all of the international teams outside of the USA can't hang with us when it comes to tumbling. Slowly but surely, the international committee has given more points to builds versus tumbling because other countries said they would no longer participate at worlds if the playgrounds weren't evened out to a certain extent. Otherwise no team in any other country would stand a chance against a USA team (GT, Spirit, CA, TG, etc...). This is the best that IASF/USASF could do to get a balance going so real international teams would stay in the game outside of the USA. Granted it's more favored for them versus the USA. But without those teams, I think it would void the concept of the term "Worlds". Besides, if teams like Bangkok and Thailand keep doing the crazy stuff they are doing, then no USA team is going to stand a chance to hold on to that gold medal, mainly in the International 6 division...