Frequently Asked Questions

Maximum Cheer and Dance (which includes all Maximum, MaXout, and Allstar Showdown events) is planning to award paid bids at most of our events during the 2023-2024 season. To ensure we continue to provide the level of service and experience that our customers are accustomed to, if an event has fewer than 60 teams registered 14 days prior to the event, we, Maximum Cheer and Dance, have to have the right to change the TYPE and NUMBER of bids being awarded to that event.

For traditional 2-day events, all teams compete on both days for 2-day events except for novice teams. We also have single performance 2-day events where divisions are split between 2 days.

Recreation is for non-affiliated teams.  There are 2 categories:

• Performance Recreation follows the Open Series rules and the Open Series elite rubric.
• Traditional Recreation follows YCADA rules and the Open Series prep rubric.
• Youth League is for affiliated teams, such as Pop Warner and AYC.  They follow YCADA rules, rubrics, and age groups.

Allstar teams follow The Open Championship Series rules and rubrics with the exception of coed.  Coed teams will follow the same elite rubric as the all girl teams.

We will be using a combination of both, virtual and in-person judges, at our events.

Virtual judging is still done as the performance happens (“live”). The luxury is that now they have a front-row view (instead of 60 feet, or more, from the performance floor) with pause, zoom in, rewind, etc to ensure the most reliable scoring. In addition, allowing the judges to be virtual ensures our events have consistent, high-caliber judges (despite any travel limitations/mishaps or family time restrictions). Many of the best judges in the industry have families and/or full-time jobs, by allowing judging virtually, we are able to utilize those judges more often. With in-person judging, they would have to be willing/able to give up a few weekends away from their families or take a day or two off work. In most cases, they have to leave on Friday and would return home on Sunday or Monday. In the case of virtual judging, they are only away from their family time for the duration of the event and aren’t taking days off work. We do require all our judges to be trained, certified, and committed to continuing their judging education in order to be a part of a Maximum, MaXout, or Allstar Showdown events. Each week prior to an event we have a judging call with our scoring director and all the judges for that weekend’s event(s) where any changes are communicated and we address anything else needed to be covered.

Your scoring challenges, when needed, are submitted onsite to a live person. We don’t charge any fees to review challenges. You will have a 15-minute window from when scoresheets are sent out to submit any scoring challenges. The forms will be submitted in warm-ups so that if you do have another team going into, or already in, warm-ups when the score sheets are sent you are still able to easily submit that challenge. At all events, we schedule a coaches liaison (accuscore) person onsite. Travel, sickness, etc may prevent this at some events but when it does we will be doing phone calls and video calls as a backup measure for those discussions to make sure you are heard.

If there are any challenges that are still “in process” prior to an award session that may affect the placement of that award session, that award session will be delayed. In cases that it will not affect placement, we will often present those awards while continuing the challenge clarification. Just like submitting a legality video for approval, you may not always agree with the decision but we will make sure that you are heard. Once the decision has been made by the scoring director for that event, it will be the final decision. We are willing to have further discussion on your concerns, but that may happen after the event concludes.