Cheer Perfection Finale

                                 

Last night I watched the series finale of the TLC show Cheer Perfection. As I wrote in one of my previous blogs, cheer perfection is about a rising level 2 cheer team from Arkansas. Through this television show shows the ups and downs of the crazy sport of cheerleading, it also majorly has to do with the mama drama. On the finale of cheer perfection it takes place at the US Finals in Virginia. This is the last competition for the team, and this is what they have been getting for all season.

Even from the beginning the team is looking to good. In their warm up they are dropping stunts everywhere and not together as a team. While the team is warming up a different cheer team, USA All-stars, the number one level two team in the country come by for a little chat. The whole team comes in and discuss the competition, and make it very known that they are the best. I feel that this isn’t very necessary. I like how the team comes to say hello and wish CTR good luck, but I don’t really think that those are their true intentions. “The girls on the team don’t understand what is going on but us as adults do understand” said head coach Alisha Dunlap. I feel like USA All-stars really only wanted to be on TV and make it known to the country that they were number one.

When CTR begins everything is looking great, all the stunts are perfect, and it looks as if it is the best time they have ever performed their routine. But this good luck quickly ends when a back base, Kylie H, is hit is the nose, making her bleed everywhere. This event had about blood going everywhere had playing as previews since the show first started its second season. I think that they made it sound a lot worse than it really was. Sure they could have been disqualified but Kylie only had a bloody nose, not a broken bone. When the coaches realized that Kylie wouldn’t be able to perform the rest of the routine, James, one of the coaches ran up on stage and helped Kylie off. This is where the panicking begins. Not only were the cheerleaders and coaches panicking, but also the parents. You would think that they would be panicking and worried about Kylie’s nose but half the parents didn’t even know that someone was hurt, they were more worried about if they would get to perform again. The parents went crazy, with many of the moms crying and shouting. One mom said “it’s just not fair”. We later find out that the team can perform again, just they were only be scored after the part where Kylie was taken off stage. You would think that this was a good thing since the first part of the routine was perfect and they get to perform again, but there were still complainers.

After a lot of pep talk from Coach Alisha the team performs for a second time, doing just as good as or better than the first time. All the cheerleaders are so pumped up because they think they have this in the bag, when the coaches get a call from the judges. When you get a call from the judges usually it isn’t good. We find out that CTR has done an illegal stunt and will get a major deduction. The team ends up getting fifth out of nine, and the team is destroyed. This is a lesson on you can think positively, just don’t get to cocky because you can’t win everything.