no, since it was only a partical WE get the 10,000 and american gets a AT LARGE BID.

In the USASF.net "Cheerleading Worlds Registration Packet" states

NOTE: A gym may receive no more than one
bid to The Worlds, “Paid,” “Partial Paid,” or
“At Large,” for any given division. Should a
team already have been awarded a bid to The
Worlds, decline acceptance of a
“Paid”/“Partial Paid”/“At Large” bid, or fail
to accept the “Paid”/“Partial Paid”/“At Large”
bid by the deadline noted, the bid may be
transferred to an alternate team at the sponsoring
company’s discretion.

West Coast All Star wrote:

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I am also a little confused by that. But from what I have gathered JAMZ offered 1 Paid and two At Large Bids. The prize money is in addition to the bid they are not tied together. So from what I heard Power can take the $10,000 because it is prize money and not a Bid and they can pass the bid on to the next team in line which I believe is American.

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Correct. Division championship or small/large program money is completely seperate from the Worlds bids. They involve totalling up the highest scores from a particular number of your teams; the highest total wins the money. It has nothing to do with Worlds bids.

Nor Cal Coach wrote:

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Also, just to clarify, the $10,000 program prize money may have nothing to do with the score of the team that won the bid. It's likely that a team getting a bid had the highest score of their program, but not necessarily. And even if their score did contribute to winning the prize money, other teams in their program contributed as well...to say that some other program "deserves" the prize money because Power already has a bid takes away from the other teams that helped them win that prize. The prize money is to the program as a WHOLE, not just to their teams going for bids.

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Thanks for the backup. I am on here alot because I like to hear different sides of the story. I believe that alot of people are confusing the Bid and Prize money because alot of the times people get on this board without the facts and just want to start trouble. I like it when people ask legitimate questions and they get legitimate answers. I hope this cleared things up a bit for thoses questioning Power taking the money.

I wonder if American interpreted the rules that way when they decided to go to JAMZ? I read the rules as "a partial paid bid" ......"At large bid + $10,000". I was apparently incorrect, but it seems an easy mistake to have made.

From what I've read from some of their posts, they were only going to JAMZ to try to get the "partial paid bid".

JAMZ could've been more clear in their written marketing and specified that it was "$10,000 for the division winner", not the "at large bid" winner.

American didn't go to GSSA because they were sure they could beat Power for the paid bid, correct? I wonder if American still would've decided to go to JAMZ if they were clear on this "$10,000 rule".

Well... wrote:

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It seems to me that if Power acted ethically they would give the money to American. How selfish can you be to take it all. Why do you need $35,000? Give the money to American. On another note, why can't California Allstars taked the $25,000 for winning the large coed division and just give Motions the at large bid? I think if you get the bid you should get the money too. To take all the money is way too greedy!!

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That is where I believe you are confused. CA All Stars Were Competing and won their division there is no prize money for the division winner of the Large Coed only PAID bids. Everyone in that division was competing for a PAID BID. The $25,000 is tied to the bid.
The $10,000 is not a PARTIAL PAID BID.
Read on the JAMZ website
they offered a AT LARGE BID.
I am sorry If you do not understand but that is what it says.I
t is a AT LARGE BID.
The $10,000 is for the Division Winner read the previous Posts before you go lashing out at other teams regarding ethics

I think Jamz should give some kind of monetary consideration to American. I doubt if anybody interpreted that the money and the bid were not tied together as a partial paid bid. I thought it was bad enough that they didn't consider small coed for anything either cash or bid. I didn't go, but everything that I read about that competition leading up to the actual competition to how they handled the awards makes me glad that our gym didn't go...and pretty much guarantees they won't be going in the future. American, I hope we'll still see you at Worlds.

OK...NO ONE thats goes to this board that posts these comments know ONE BIT of ALL STAR cheerleading....if you did you would know that American ACCEPTED the bid from Cheersport...GET YOUR FACTS BEFORE YOU POST!!! This was meant for all "annonymous" posters that put false facts on these boards!!

The way Jamz words it on their website, it seems like the At-Large Bid and the money are tied together. It may not be a "partial bid", but it would seem like the two are given to the same team. If I took a team to JAMZ and received the AT-Large bid they advertised for in Large Senior All Girl, I would assume the 10,000 would go to my team as well, regardless of how I placed. I don't think the JAMZ ad says it would go to the WINNER of the all girl division, it just said the receipent of the AT-Large Bid. Jamz should of had the money and the Bids in 2 seperate paragraphs, because these bids are very serious to many programs. I just feel if your going to advertise a Bid and prize money together, then make it go to the same program. Power just happened to be the team that won 1st, but they received a bid the week before, so why wouldn't the prizes go to the next best team, which was American. It just seems logical to me.