Well the first problem is if you look at the amount of respondents...311 out of how many USASF credentialed gyms in the country? Unfortunately when members don't vote it leaves the board to fill in the blanks and decide what they want. The last rules drop was ugly and I expect this one to be as well. The fact they are going backwards is interesting, we just cleaned up the coed Worlds divisions and now they want to add one back in taking us to the Large Limited Coed days.
I do 100% agree with changing the division names from tiny-mini-youth-junior-senior to U5, U11, U15, and U18. Its small but it's a step towards being more in line with other youth sports. Now they just need to fix the cut off age so it's 12/31 instead of in the middle of the year. In diving your division is determined by how old you turn during the competition season, so my 10 year old competed in the 11-12 Age Group because she turned 11 during that season.
As for J5R, I'm shocked at the numbers it pulled considering we JUST rode this bull during the last rules voting and it was overwhelmingly shut down by USASF. So I'm expecting that even if it gets "voted" as yes, it will be veto'd by the board.
@Andre @King Are they going to Livestream the Rules Discussion like they have done in the past? Or did that ship sail already?