I've been thinking about this and I have come to the conclusion that the USASF has made allstar cheerleading better, if nothing else, by forcing everyone to get together and hash everything out and make industry wide decisions together. Before the USASF, for the most part, each event producer was making decisions based on what was best for their own particular brand, same with cheer gyms.... Putting JAMfest, UCA, and Cheersport all together in a room (figuratively if not literally) with representatives from the biggest of the big gyms to the smallest of the small and everyone in between and forcing them to make decisions that are "best" for the industry as a whole. Compromise, sacrifice, give and take, the foundation of any good relationship and the only way, IMO, to really move forward.