Dear USASF,
Please consider splitting Worlds into multiple events. One event will be the USASF Championship and the other remains the World Championship. The USASF Championship event would take place on Friday and Saturday and be limited to American teams. The World Championship would take place on Sunday and have the American medalists compete against teams from around the World.
We’re still early in our thought process about this, but think it would work in the long term. Some work would have to be done to align the International and Senior divisions, but that could be done slowly over the next 3 years. We also ask that if you decide to make this change, or any other significant change, you let us know at least a year in advance. Changes made after tryouts are frustrating to gyms and parents, aka your customers. Please let us know what you think.
Sincerely,
CCXII
Thats a great concept but honestly for International teams a one day event isn’t worth the trip to the USA. Imagine 14 hour on an airplane for 2:30 seconds?
I thought about that before publishing, but hadn’t decided between my favorite options. The first is to have an International only competition on Saturday with only 2 divisions; All Girl and Coed. The other option is to have the international teams do an exhibition during the American finals, similar to what UCA College does with the paid bid teams.
I wouldn’t want to fly 14 hours for 5 minutes or 2.5 minutes, but a lot of teams do.
The comment about the international teams not wanting to fly so many hours for one performance I dont believe is fully accurate. All of the teams going in knowing that only 3 US teams make finals!