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Miscellaneous Thoughts

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I had a few thoughts recently I thought I would share. I think UCA should move High School Nationals to March and All Star Nationals to February. I’m not sure this would work with state basketball tournaments, but it would be nice to give the high school teams an extra month to get ready and give All Star teams attending UCA and Worlds more time between expensive trips to Disney.

I think year end events such as All Levels and US Final should be in April and Worlds should be the the 1st weekend of May. I would also make Worlds smaller overall, take fewer teams to finals, and increase the size and scope of the USASF Awards. I’ve gone into making Worlds smaller in the prior articles and won’t again in this one. I would take fewer teams to finals so all division finals could be at the Milkhouse and possibly move the ICU finals to Sunday at the Milkhouse as well. In addition to the awards currently given, I would announce All Levels and US Finals champions.

I think Jammy and Varsity should release their scoring systems under a Creative Commons license so other event producers could adopt them as long as credit is given. They should also set up a program among event producers adopting their scoring systems to have involvement in making adjustments and receive training in using it properly.

UCA Receives Approval from USASF for Additional Paid Bid

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On Wednesday, March 17, UCA received approval from USASF in their appeal to award an additional paid bid to Brandon Senior White.

UCA National All Star Cheerleading Championship Announcement

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UCA released the following announcement concerning Worlds bids at UCA Nationals:

UCA National All Star Cheerleading Championship Announcement

This weekend at the UCA National All Star Cheerleading Championship (NASCC), Brandon All-Stars Large Senior Semi-Limited Coed team (Senior White) should have been awarded a paid bid to the USASF Cheerleading Worlds in April.

This unfortunate misunderstanding has taken away from Brandon All Star’s recognition in front of their peers at the NASCC, and UCA deeply regrets that the team was not able to share this exciting accomplishment with the all star community at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.

UCA is appealing to the USASF to secure this bid correctly and rectify this mistake, so that Brandon All-Stars – Senior White can take their well deserved place at the prestigious 2010 USASF Cheerleading Worlds.

Below is the exact appeal sent to the USASF sanctioning committee Monday afternoon:

Last night, at UCA All Star Nationals, it was discovered after the Cheer Worlds bids were awarded, UCA had passed up awarding a paid bid to one of their highest scoring teams of the weekend, Brandon All Star’s LSSLC (Large Senior Semi Limited Coed).

When UCA looked at the spreadsheet, they noted another Brandon Coed team, who already had a paid bid from CHEERSPORT, was marked on the Worlds Spreadsheet as SSLC (Small Senior Limited Coed). UCA assumed SSLC stood for Senior Semi Limited Coed and noted that team as an accepted paid bid team. Therefore, they were not awarded the paid bid.

UCA, does not feel they can go back and take one of their paid bids away from one of the 3 awarded paid bids and would like to award a 4th paid bid to the team that clearly earned it.

This is not a situation, where UCA had used this as a marketing opportunity to increase enrollment. They just want to make the wrong right and pay for another paid bid.