America doesn't have monopoly over cheerleading and needs to open their eyes to the rest of the world.
You're right, America doesn't have a monopoly over cheerleading, but they do have a monopoly over the World Championships that takes place in Florida every year. And Worlds would have never taken off or been as popular/well-attended by spectators as it currently is without the regular US club divisions.
Cheer isn't like other sports where Worlds is run by a truly int'l governing body and the location moves around the globe every year (that would be cool, but I don't see it happening). I see Worlds as more of a giant invitational hosted by the US where the rest of the world is invited to attend. I'm sorry you found my post arrogant, but it's a fact that Worlds was formed and remains popular/lucrative because of the regular club divisions. So when I see Worlds Finalists competing on a Monday night in a relatively empty arena because Worlds has gotten so out of hand with the number of divisions (mostly Int'l ones) that the competition couldn't possibly finish on a Sunday, it bothers me to an extent.
It seems like we may have different definitions of cheerleading. For some countries it's mostly stunts and chants. In the US, it's mostly stunts and tumbling, and that to me is the most athletic, sporty type of cheer we could have-- the type of cheer that sports fans around the world
might be willing to take seriously and consider a sport. (What, exactly, is the point of chants and trying to lead on a crowd if you aren't on the sidelines of a sport like a football game or a basketball game? Why does this need to be a part of competition?) Not to sound arrogant again, but the version of All Star cheer that the US popularized seems like the one we should be encouraging around the world, not the one with chants, signs, props, no tumbling, etc. We should
hope more countries eventually gain access to spring floors instead of accepting this as the norm for the sport. Very long ago, gymnasts competed on a dead mat too, but now every country has spring floors.
The non-tumbling division is like a gymnastics competition without a balance beam, a basketball game with no 3-point shots allowed... there's something incomplete about it. The fact that 4.2 teams threw routines together at the last second and ended up at Worlds was pretty telling as to the level of the division. When a division is brand new, it tends to be rough for the first year and then it improves, but still, put it at the Summit if you must, not Worlds (the problem there would be that countries won't want to come all the way to the US for Summit).
In gymnastics, several countries don't have access to a full vault runway, yet you don't see gymnastics removing the vault apparatus from the sport. A lot of countries don't have many ice skating rinks, yet they still find ways to participate in skating competitions and eventually build their own ice rinks (which is a heck of a lot more expensive than a spring floor). If tumbling is a part of cheer, countries will eventually adjust and seek out spring floors. I just don't see dumbing down the sport and adding excessive divisions helping cheerleading in the long run.