All-Star Summit Bid Winners 2015

[onecheermom]

question.... has anyone heard of any Wild Card teams that have upgraded to a Paid bid???

 

[TheVipersMom]

question.... has anyone heard of any Wild Card teams that have upgraded to a Paid bid???

Pinnacle cheer took a wildcard for their j4 at our first comp of the season..

They got a paid bid at ACA in the small gym division.


That's where aca gave half their bids to.


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[CheerDad18]

I actually found the page there are 100 paid bids this year and 400 at large so there are 50 more bids this year over last. There are 214 wild card bids so that means 264 more teams will be invited this year over last. I am going to guess there were complaints about all the large comps having the bids. I want to say Cheersport Atlanta had 40 bids this year they had 30. So some were probably given to smaller comps.

 

[onecheermom]

Pinnacle cheer took a wildcard for their j4 at our first comp of the season..

They got a paid bid at ACA in the small gym division.


That's where aca gave half their bids to.


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So one team out of approx 90 wild card teams so far. Yikes

 

[CheerDad18]

I believe Pinacles J3 team also upgraded but the site still list them with w/c and paid.

 

[amy1k]

So one team out of approx 90 wild card teams so far. Yikes

Wait. There are 90 WC teams and 1/3 of them are in small j3??? Good god.

 

[TheVipersMom]

I believe Pinacles J3 team also upgraded but the site still list them with w/c and paid.

Then yes they did.

I believe they got paid at cheer power cash bash


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[cheermomforever]

From what I have read and don't have computer handy to look it up but there are slightly more paid and at large bids this year. Last year there were 100 paid bids 350 at large. This year I remember seeing paid staying at 100 but at large at 370 ish. The wild cards have to be adding 200+ teams to the mix. Sorry my opinion of w/c is all about $$$.

The division of one of our teams has 35 WC teams, if they all come that is 700 or so athletes paying 250? Each! Of course it is all about the $$. That a just 1 division.

 

[CheerDad18]

Sorry I don't know why anyone would take a wildcard unless it's a small division. Small J3 has 30+ wild cards already. One team advances from Friday. To win as a wild card you have to be perfect 3 days in a row to win. Also that 29 teams that have to pay to be there 4 days and that will not advance.

 

[amy1k]

I'm just going to continue to hold out hope that the rules will change and half of the J3 wildcards will be automatically moved to at least day 2. They all worked so HARD. They DESERVE it.

 

[randomactsofcheer]

Sorry I don't know why anyone would take a wildcard unless it's a small division. Small J3 has 30+ wild cards already. One team advances from Friday. To win as a wild card you have to be perfect 3 days in a row to win. Also that 29 teams that have to pay to be there 4 days and that will not advance.

I have a feeling that most gyms that took WC's did not anticipate having to compete against 30+ teams.

 

[coach12]

I personally have no desire to take a wildcard. We told our parents we would go on either an at large or paid. If we took the wildcard
Then there is a extra day they would
Have to stay. They would need to be down there by Thursday. And of course you would need a room til Monday just in case you make it to finals. Every comp I have been to that have out wc it ended up going to low placing teams because the higher teams were not accepting them.

 

[randomactsofcheer]

The more bids are likely added with more competitions then.

Several of the comp we went to this year handed out less paid and at large bids or they allowed a separate competition for small gym to get half the bids.

I feel small gyms should have to beat us if they want the bids. When they go to summit they don't get to compete in the small gym division because there isn't one (except now they created a small gym summit for next year). Why do you want to hand over money for a paid bid to a team that won't have a chance against larger gym teams.

(I'm not saying large gyms are better and I don't really consider us a large gym except we have more than what is considered a small gym)

There is a small gym here who got a bid for all their teams last season (4 of them) because they competed in small gym all season and killed them. They went to Disney and every single team was out on day 1. They aren't use to seeing big gym teams and I believe their parents had no idea what the beast of summit was.

I don't feel aca should hand out half their bids to small gym in a separate competition. They didn't last year.

I don't feel cheer power nationals should spilt into small gym, medium gym, and large gym

And only give 1/3 of their bids to large gym.

This is why there are less bids for us that is where I have noticed the less bids is at these comps.


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And THIS is why Varsity should stop handing bids to competitions and then letting the comps hand them out at the competitions discretion. They should take the number of paid and at large bids offered each year and say, "We are giving L5 15 paid and 50 AL, L4 15 paid and 50 AL, etc. And X competition get 1 paid per level and 2 AL's per level."

Or give every competition a set standard for dispersing bids. Bids will probably not be evenly dispersed across divisions this way, but at least every team attending Summit will have been chosen by the same standard. Then let the competitions hand out Wild Cards at their own discretion.

 

[CatFan22]

I'm just going to continue to hold out hope that the rules will change and half of the J3 wildcards will be automatically moved to at least day 2. They all worked so HARD. They DESERVE it.

What the heck! Why don't they just give all the WC's free AL bids. They ALL deserve it, don't they?! :rolleyes:

 

[amy1k]

What the heck! Why don't they just give all the WC's free AL bids. They ALL deserve it, don't they?! :rolleyes:

Perfect! [emoji6]