notimeforthat
Cheer Parent
- Apr 13, 2010
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1. Please have good, safe competition floors and warm up areas.
2. Personally I like dark arenas, lighted elevated stages and priority seating. If you are having two performance areas, 3. Please have plenty of competent medical staff on site. I once spent 10 minutes of warmups looking for someone with a bandaid. Imagine if something had really been wrong!
4. This year WSF brought encore to our area.please have them be equally good unless you are charging youth teams less for entry fees! At awards they replayed some routes and winning choreography etc. It took longer (a negative) but at least teams could see the routines that beat them etc
5. I agree about having replay right off the floor-super helpful to see and fix things for day 2.
6. Personally I have started steering friends and family toward the comps with no admission fee. I hate saying 'come see my kid' and then telling them to each bring $20 cash to get in so I end up buying their admissions and that really adds up. For non cheer people $20 admission to watch 2:30 is a bit steep!
7. Parent dance things are silly and are usually a cover for slow score processing. Same for trivia questions.
8. I would be your best friend if you got concession stands to offer some kind of breakfasts!
9. My cp wants to say that there can never be enough dippin dots!
10. Please make sure your photographers know what thy are doing if you intent to restrict parent photography. Expensive pics stink but crappy expensive pics are the worst!
11. Videos as competitor gifts are awesome. Your logo, brand and the money you've invested in your stage dressing will live on with every replay! Whereas an itchy scarf will die a slow death at the bottom of a cheer at until mom tosses it out.
Thanks for asking! It means a lot that you care :)
I left out the bolded bullets off my list.... they are also VIP!! Especially the one about one beautiful set up in one hall and then the second one being ghetto.... Its totally unfair to those parents & kids! they pay the same price and deserve the same treatment!
Also.... I noticed at some comps that you had to purchase the photos on site and they would not be available on line.... whats up with that??