How did Netflix's Cheer leave out this important detail?
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On January 12th 2022, season 2 of the hit reality show Cheer premiered on Netflix. The newest season features faces old and new, with particular newcomers including Trinity Valley Community College. Located around 40 miles east of Corsicana, Texas, where Monica Aldama and the Navarro Junior College Bulldogs Cheer Team train, the TVCC Cardinals are coached by Vontae Johnson, a college footballer-turned-cheerleader.
Johnson is also joined by assistant coach Khris Franklin (his old coach in college) and team leaders Jeron Hazelwood and Jada Wooten. They’re also one of the fiercest competitors at the National Cheerleaders Association's Collegiate National Championship for Navarro.
But one thing that isn’t made crystal clear from the get-go is that Navarro and TVCC are each others' only rivals - the two teams aren’t competing against anyone else. In fact, they’re the only two teams competing for the advanced large co-ed junior college division win.
Back in 2020, Monica revealed this rivalry in an interview with Slate, but she also stressed that it’s not as simple as it sounds: ‘We're two of the best teams out there... It doesn't matter that we're in a junior college division. Nobody wants to compete against us.’
Monica then went on to explain how there used to be more teams Navarro competed against, but the NCA divided the junior college division into ‘intermediate’ and ‘advanced’ groups. With intermediate groups being restricted in the types of stunts they do, Monica said: ‘it's really good for teams that just don't have the skills to compete with us, what we do.’
Basically, it seems that if a team weren’t up to scratch, they would drop down to intermediate divisions - which just leaves Navarro and TVCC.
But while this tiny little detail seemed to be left out of Cheer’s new season, Monica believes that only having one competitor doesn’t lessen their abilities or achievements, she thinks the opposite: ‘It's always been important for us to try our best to get the highest score—to get the highest score that we can’, she told Slate. ‘So at the end of the day, if we have the highest score, we can say, ‘Look, we beat every team there.'’
You can stream season 2 of Cheer on Netflix.
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