Shaping the divisions: coaches, we want your input
Divisions, age grids and scoring make or break a competition. We're drafting ours in the open and asking UK clubs to help us get them right.
By Team Ignyte
Ask any coach what makes a competition worth entering and you’ll hear the same things early: sensible divisions, fair age grids, and scoring that’s transparent and consistent. Get those right and everything else is detail. Get them wrong and no amount of production saves the day.
So we’re doing something a little unusual — drafting ours in the open, a full season ahead, and asking you to pull them apart.
Where we’re starting
Our working draft covers the full ladder of allstar cheer levels alongside dance categories like pom, jazz, hip hop and lyrical. You can see the current (very much TBC) structure on our Divisions & Scoring page.
Nothing there is final. The questions we’re wrestling with are the ones you’ll recognise:
- Where should level and age boundaries sit so teams land in the right place?
- How do we handle crossovers fairly without turning the day into a logistics puzzle?
- What group sizes and small-team categories does the UK actually need right now?
- How detailed should the published scoresheet be — and how much feedback can we get back to clubs?
How to get involved
If you coach or run a club, register your interest and tell us a little about your teams. We’ll be running coach conversations through the build-up, and the clubs who put their hand up early genuinely help decide where the lines fall.
A competition is only as good as the clubs in it. We’d love yours to be one of them.