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[quitthedrama]

Varsity All Star ‏@VarsityAllStar 21h
Regardless of an EP's suggestions, no official recipe exists that guarantees a PERFECT Difficulty Score. Scores given at judges' discretion.

This makes no sense to me, so I am hoping someone can explain. How is difficulty up to the judges' discretion?

 

[NJ Coach]

We have been told multiple times, once you get into the correct range, it is at the judges' discretion where in the range you fall. There are no guarantees that you will max out, and judges comments on how to add points are really only useful for that particular panel, not any future panels.

I have very serious issues with this. While our difficulty scores fall into the correct range, they are never constant. A score that was at the very highest point of the high range one weekend, will be at the very lowest point of the high range the following weekend. This is with no changes to the routine. 3-4 tenths up for grab every weekend, and we have no idea if these particular judges will like us or not in order to give us those tenths.

Let's not even get into the execution part of the scoresheet, because that's a HOT MESS!

 

[cheerislife1]

We have a big issue with this too. It just doesn't make sense to me. They tell you they are strictly enforcing skills cap so once you do the required skills your difficulty scores will not go up if you do more. Like for tosses they tell you that you need to do a group toss plus 3 additional. But so many of our comments on our score sheet from athletic in providence told us to add more tosses to max out in difficulty. When we are doing more than the required number. They need to revamp this score sheet I think.

 

[NJ Coach]

I had issues with our scores at Athletic in Providence too. Actually, we all did. I couldn't believe how much our scores changed from Spirit Cheer the week before. Same routines, but apparently our execution (which you can't argue) went down in a week.

Lots of comments at Athletic to add things to up our score, when we should already be maxing out.