All-Star Summit Bid Winners 2015

[notyourcheermom]

The whole purpose of the Summit was to make the competition something exclusive and special. Something similar to the Super Bowl of cheerleading. Varsity stuck to their guns for about 2 years. Last year there were 100 paid bids and 350 at large teams. At least in the Midwest you had to do something special, win and be a level champ to get a bid.

This year they almost doubled the amount on teams allowed to compete, 50 more at large teams and 214 wild cards. That just cheapens the event in my mind. There are NFL players that never play in a championship or Super bowl game in their entire career. Not everyone should make it to the Summit. I know that's a hard thing to hear but it's true. The reason they keep adding bids are gyms and parents just want to say they are going at any cost. There is already a talk of a small gym Summit next year.

I am sorry if you want to award Wild cards do them at 2 day tournaments to 2nd and 3rd place teams. Anybody can get lucky at a one day event and have the performance of a lifetime it's another thing to do it 2 days in a row. Put some stips to award them there need to be 10 teams competing to award a wild card 15 to award 2.

In a couple of more years Summit will be as big as Cheersport Atlanta or NCA and what will make that special to have 1200 teams competing?

When your child performs at the Summit they should be thinking in the back of their mind I need to stick this because I may never get back here!

So you've been to Summit, your CP's team almost won. Remember that elation about making it to day 2? It was awesome for kids and parents and coaches. J3 will not feel cheap. It will be amazing. The kids bring it better than you have ever seen and think they are even capable of . They know they have to hit and stick or they will not win and probably won't make day 2. My CP has been successful at Summit twice, she is in your CP's division. The competition will be fierce. It will be hard. It won't feel like they just let everyone in. You'll be sitting there thinking, Oh my goodness, I hope they don't crack. When they have won it's been like OMG, do you even believe they just won and tears and happiness? When they make day 2, it is Everything! There are still plenty of gyms around that are shooting for a bid that have not received one. Wildcards are new this year, they are trying it out. Summit was new three years ago, it could have bombed. After going to Summit the past two years I feel like NCA should get rid of divisions and Cheersport and pile 45 teams into the division. Get rid of small gym and large gym, too, especially if they are awarding Summit bids. There is no small and large gym division at Summit, so there should be no small and large gym breakup when Summit bids are being awarded. Bring on the 45 teams at the big comps. There are plenty of teams not getting a bid to Summit. If you want less teams in your division, CP will have to get placed on a team that not most every gym has. J3 has had competition at every single comp we have been to. Our Y4 team on the other hand, not many Y4 teams out there...

 

[CheerDad18]

Why should it matter to the AL and P bid teams if there is a WC round?? I don't understand how that "cheapens" the event. Only ONE team from each division moves on from the WC round. It doesn't add a bunch of weak, one-day-wonder teams to the event.*insert eye roll* It is a calculated risk (and expensive one) that these teams decided to take when accepting the bid. Frankly, as a parent, I kind of preferred winning this at our first competition so we could plan and fundraise for the trip. Most of the 2 day comps don't start until later in the season and I would hate to still be chasing a bid and wondering if we should be planning anything that weekend. For the record, our team has been very consistent this year, and has scored 1st or second at most comps. They understand the pressure of competing in the WC round...you don't hit, you are done. Again, just scratching my head about how the presence of our team, competing in what is essentially a "play-in" round, makes the Summit less of a competition. Does it just bother you that these teams are being able to BE there?

My problem is not with the Wild Card teams. Some people have done what you have done and taken a calculated risk. In some cases I am sure Gym owners have taken the Wild Card just to be able to say they are going. And in some cases Parents just want their CP to have the experience.

My problem is with the competition which was sold as the Best of the Best. The top 10 or 20% in the country. It is fast becoming just another big competition that anyone can get to. You can literly go to a one day event compete against 2 teams and get a wild card.

Let's be honest if the event was being held in any other place instead of Disney people would not be so anxious to go to it.

 

[CheerDad18]

So you've been to Summit, your CP's team almost won. Remember that elation about making it to day 2? It was awesome for kids and parents and coaches. J3 will not feel cheap. It will be amazing. The kids bring it better than you have ever seen and think they are even capable of . They know they have to hit and stick or they will not win and probably won't make day 2. My CP has been successful at Summit twice, she is in your CP's division. The competition will be fierce. It will be hard. It won't feel like they just let everyone in. You'll be sitting there thinking, Oh my goodness, I hope they don't crack. When they have won it's been like OMG, do you even believe they just won and tears and happiness? When they make day 2, it is Everything! There are still plenty of gyms around that are shooting for a bid that have not received one. Wildcards are new this year, they are trying it out. Summit was new three years ago, it could have bombed. After going to Summit the past two years I feel like NCA should get rid of divisions and Cheersport and pile 45 teams into the division. Get rid of small gym and large gym, too, especially if they are awarding Summit bids. There is no small and large gym division at Summit, so there should be no small and large gym breakup when Summit bids are being awarded. Bring on the 45 teams at the big comps. There are plenty of teams not getting a bid to Summit. If you want less teams in your division, CP will have to get placed on a team that not most every gym has. J3 has had competition at every single comp we have been to. Our Y4 team on the other hand, not many Y4 teams out there...

I have no problem with the number of teams in the division small j3. And I agree the more the better. My CP got their bid at WSF by winning in a 31 team division. They went to Cheersport and won their division and put up the best score out of all 45 junior 3 level teams. They put up the best score in the entire level 3 at Cheersport.

I am all about competition. Personally I think Varsity needs to do a better job distributing the bids or maybe wild cards could be used in divisions where there are not 20 teams competing.

I also understand years like this do not happen all the time and we are extremely thankful and enjoying every minute. I tell my daughter to enjoy it because you never will know if you will make it back.

 

[CheerDad18]

So you've been to Summit, your CP's team almost won. Remember that elation about making it to day 2? It was awesome for kids and parents and coaches. J3 will not feel cheap. It will be amazing. The kids bring it better than you have ever seen and think they are even capable of . They know they have to hit and stick or they will not win and probably won't make day 2. My CP has been successful at Summit twice, she is in your CP's division. The competition will be fierce. It will be hard. It won't feel like they just let everyone in. You'll be sitting there thinking, Oh my goodness, I hope they don't crack. When they have won it's been like OMG, do you even believe they just won and tears and happiness? When they make day 2, it is Everything! There are still plenty of gyms around that are shooting for a bid that have not received one. Wildcards are new this year, they are trying it out. Summit was new three years ago, it could have bombed. After going to Summit the past two years I feel like NCA should get rid of divisions and Cheersport and pile 45 teams into the division. Get rid of small gym and large gym, too, especially if they are awarding Summit bids. There is no small and large gym division at Summit, so there should be no small and large gym breakup when Summit bids are being awarded. Bring on the 45 teams at the big comps. There are plenty of teams not getting a bid to Summit. If you want less teams in your division, CP will have to get placed on a team that not most every gym has. J3 has had competition at every single comp we have been to. Our Y4 team on the other hand, not many Y4 teams out there...

 

[amy1k]

Just for the record, my child's team earned a Wild Card bid in small j3. They were 2nd place that day, to a team that already had a bid. The two bids were intended to go to the highest scoring senior and highest scoring junior teams. While they didn't even win their division, they were the 3rd highest scoring team of the competition that day. :)

 

[CheerDad18]

Does anyone know if the set up is going to be similar to last year? Levels One and Two performed in the tent and Finals day two were in the building attached to the ESPN Endzone, Level Three performed both days in the building attached to the Espn Endzone the Josten Center, and level 4&5 are in the Field House both days?

 

[FierceIsTheName]

Quick question: Natural Venom blackout (sr coed 3) got a bid last year at sea to sky that carried over to this year, but they aren't on the list... anyone in the PNW know what happened?

 

[amy1k]

Quick question: Natural Venom blackout (sr coed 3) got a bid last year at sea to sky that carried over to this year, but they aren't on the list... anyone in the PNW know what happened?

They are definitely going.

Eta: I see them on the list!!!

 

[FierceIsTheName]

They are definitely going.

Eta: I see them on the list!!!

Okay i thought so!! I was looking at it yesterday and i couldn't find them!! Looks like I cant read :p. So 5 gyms going from wa, nice!

 

[amy1k]

The list is soooooo long.

 

[FierceIsTheName]

The list is soooooo long.

right. I'm thankful theres only 11 wildcard bids in my division (still a lot, but not as bad as j3). Hoping we get 1st on WC day!!

 

[amy1k]

right. I'm thankful theres only 11 wildcard bids in my division (still a lot, but not as bad as j3). Hoping we get 1st on WC day!!

I didn't realize you were also on the team that's going! I hope we'll be able to watch you guys!

 

[FamousMatty]

I am not clear really on how the WC bids cheapen the idea of the summit. Yes, technically it opens the door for a lot of teams to "get to" the summit but they are all lumped into massive divisions where one team moves on. Summit boasts that it is a competition that is for the elite 10-20% of teams. If there are 30 WC bids in a division and one team moves on...I don't think that is really altering the fact that semis and finals are still the best of the best in the country. I much prefer this way than say small coed 5 at worlds where (I think this is how they did it last year) teams were broke into A and B and twenty teams got to move on to semis. I think it is the freebie gimme at large bids that are cheapening the summit...but that is a topic that has already been hashed out enough.

 

[DaniV]

I am not clear really on how the WC bids cheapen the idea of the summit. Yes, technically it opens the door for a lot of teams to "get to" the summit but they are all lumped into massive divisions where one team moves on. Summit boasts that it is a competition that is for the elite 10-20% of teams. If there are 30 WC bids in a division and one team moves on...I don't think that is really altering the fact that semis and finals are still the best of the best in the country. I much prefer this way than say small coed 5 at worlds where (I think this is how they did it last year) teams were broke into A and B and twenty teams got to move on to semis. I think it is the freebie gimme at large bids that are cheapening the summit...but that is a topic that has already been hashed out enough.

I was just going to post that the WC round is exactly like prelims for small coed but even harder (one moves on versus 20) but you beat me to it!

If anything, I think it's harder to get a WC bid (even with gyms turning them down) than it is to get a Worlds bid. Unless they change venues there isn't a way that they could squeeze in 1200+ teams like NCA does. Summit will never get that big as long as it at DisneyWorld and I don't see them changing that in the years to come. People are worried about something that isn't even really feasible.

 

[coach12]

The only thing I'm not happy about with the wc bids is that they are changing how they are picking to move on. We were all told in the beginning of the season that all wc bids have to compete on Friday and only the first place team would move on to the next round. So based on that we made a decision to not accept. Now they are saying that they will take more than just the first place team. Not very happy about that.