NCA - Dallas

Yay4cheerDIVA · Senior Member

RE: NCA - Dallas

IwantGold · Veteran Member

it was 4 points because 2 girls had hair ties on their wrists, 2 points per girl. unfortunately without that they would have won :(

cheerio · Senior Member

They are such a fun team to watch! Congrats on a great performance. That is too bad!!!

live4tumbling · Member

which cheerforce went? simi valley or san diego?

cheergirl622 · GURU

live4tumbling wrote:

which cheerforce went? simi valley or san diego?

just Diamondz (Sm Sr 5) from simi valley

CHEERMOMI2 · Senior Member

We love CA Jr. 4! You're winners no matter what in our book =)

Yay4cheerDIVA · Senior Member

IwantGold wrote:

it was 4 points because 2 girls had hair ties on their wrists, 2 points per girl. unfortunately without that they would have won :(

SO sad to hear..my friend is on that team :(

Did they give out any warnings or anything ?

Cfierce · Senior Member

a 4 point deduction for hair ties that is the silliest thing i have ever heard, OMGGGG lol i could understand for jewlary but for hairties???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/ evileye

1CHEERMOM · Veteran Member

IwantGold wrote:

it was 4 points because 2 girls had hair ties on their wrists, 2 points per girl. unfortunately without that they would have won :(

When and how did they see them? Were they on top of their uniform sleeves? Most kids have them under their sleeves, I don't understand.

echeercoach · Member

Officials grabbed them as they were walking off the floor. They rolled up their sleeves as they were done and they got nabbed. It was soo sad

. They had two great performances.

-- Edited by echeercoach on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 12:51:02 PM

LoveMyTay · Member

It reminds me of that movie "Stick it!" The Bra strap was showing deduction. The girls must have felt horrible! So sad. It should be about their performance not about a hair tie UNDER a sleeve. I'm sorry...That is just so ridiculous...

ACEDAD · GURU

echeercoach wrote:

Officials grabbed them as they were walking off the floor. They rolled up their sleeves as they were done and they got nabbed. It was soo sad. They had two great performances.

-- Edited by echeercoach on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 12:51:02 PM

This might be the most stupid deduction that I have ever heard of. I don't think cheerleaders can continue to exist without a pony tail tie around their wrist.

Ear rings. Fine.
Belly button rings. Fine.

But a pony tail holder? And NCA officials were waiting at the edge of the mat to "nab" them?

Seriously?

Danny · Senior Member

ACEDAD wrote:

echeercoach wrote:

Officials grabbed them as they were walking off the floor. They rolled up their sleeves as they were done and they got nabbed. It was soo sad. They had two great performances.

-- Edited by echeercoach on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 12:51:02 PM

This might be the most stupid deduction that I have ever heard of. I don't think cheerleaders can continue to exist without a pony tail tie around their wrist.

Ear rings. Fine.
Belly button rings. Fine.

But a pony tail holder? And NCA officials were waiting at the edge of the mat to "nab" them?

Seriously?

I agree. Pretty lame. I hope they checked the wrists of every competitor from every team.

LadyW · Senior Member

wow - that is wrong -- couldn't they contest it -- I wouldn't think you could deduct points after the performance, unless the penalty judge saw them on the floor and asked for verification. If so, dude has great eyes!

Justine · Veteran Member

yea i remember last year before we went on stage at Dallas NCA and one of the local comps at NCA in Sac they told us before we went on that we couldnt have anything on our wrists even hair ties or it would be a deduction, some girls were having to go run and get scissors for those string bracelets to cut them off, it was pretty crazy!

Bladezmom · Senior Member

echeercoach wrote:

Officials grabbed them as they were walking off the floor. They rolled up their sleeves as they were done and they got nabbed. It was soo sad. They had two great performances.

-- Edited by echeercoach on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 12:51:02 PM

OMG I had no idea that happened! Well then...I guess they were robbed!

justacheerkid · Senior Member

That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of!!!!!!!! Seriously, were they afraid they were going to stick their foot through the pony tail holder during tumbling and get hurt?!

-- Edited by justacheerkid on Thursday 25th of February 2010 02:53:18 PM

ACEDAD · GURU

Bladezmom wrote:

echeercoach wrote:

Officials grabbed them as they were walking off the floor. They rolled up their sleeves as they were done and they got nabbed. It was soo sad. They had two great performances.

-- Edited by echeercoach on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 12:51:02 PM

OMG I had no idea that happened! Well then...I guess they were robbed!

Even without the deduction, they would not have won, but they would have finished second instead of third.

oldcheermom · Senior Member

Years ago when my daughter was in Pop Warner cheer, there was an assistant coach who checked the girls for all the illegal things before competing - jewelry, nail polish, etc. No matter how many times they were told not to have these things, you'd be amazed at what was found, including from my daughter!!

ACEDAD · GURU

This whole safety deduction confused me, so I decided to go straight to the source. I emailed Justin Carrier, VP of NCA and asked about it. Here is his response:

"The athlete had on actual bracelets--not metal--but by all means it was jewelry. This was in addition to the hair bands she had on her other wrist. There were 2 girls. One had 6 friendship bracelets and one had 1 hair tie. Les Stella looked at both girls. (And a hair tie is a bracelet once it's on your wrist)."

So it was more than what we were led to believe and makes more sense to me now.