USAV Bids 2026
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Anonymous
This team has had awful luck with injuries this year, unfortunately. |
Anonymous
Metro 18 North got the Freedom bid. |
Anonymous
Several teams finished tied for 5th at CHRVA Bid Regionals, including Paramount 18s, but the Region uses total point percentage to determine who gets the bid when teams are tied. Metro North's total point percentage was marginally better, so they get the bid. |
Anonymous
Unfortunate that CHRVA bid regionals and NEQ for 15 and 16 open overlap next weekend. It makes total sense for teams to go to regionals which is their best chance to secure some level of bid, but for Paramount who is working for an open bid, it forces them to miss a qualifier which is historically slightly easier than some of the larger qualifiers to get a bid. |
Anonymous
It's so heartbreaking that I can barely hold my tears back. |
Anonymous
I saw this and think CHRVA's scheduling is odd for the bid regionals. Aren't the schedules for the big open qualifiers out early enough to work around these? You would think they would want to avoid overlap with any qualifier, and this is preventable. I hope the CHRVA board is actively working on this for future years. |
Anonymous
I hope you'll be ok. |
Anonymous
Yes, the qualifiers notify all the Regions (especially those that are closest to them) well in advance. This is yet another example of the pure incompetence of the CHRVA Region. The Region should be making decisions that are in the best financial interest of its constituents. NEQ is the closest qualifier to the CHRVA Region, so by putting their Regional tournament on the same weekend as 15s/16s, they are now putting most 15s and 16s teams in the CHRVA Region in a position where they will have to attend an additional qualifer that will require a flight and more extensive travel costs. |
Anonymous
Let’s look at the facts. CHRVA Regionals have been held around the same time every year: 2026: March 21 2025: March 22 2024: March 23 2023: March 25 2022: March 26 2021: March 20 So this is not some new or unpredictable CHRVA date. Now look at NEQ: 2026 March 13-15 March 20-22 March 27-29 April 3-5 2025 March 14-16 April 11-13 April 18-20 April 18-20 (Gaylord) 2024 March 8-10 March 29-31 April 26-28 2023 March 3-5 April 1-3 April 7-9 April 14-16 2022 March 11-13 April 16-18 April 22-24 2021 March 27-29 April 2-4 April 9-11 April 30-May 2 Before this year, CHRVA Regionals and NEQ did not conflict. The issue this year is specifically that NEQ Weekend 2 falls on the same weekend as CHRVA Regionals. In prior years, that was not the case. Also, for 15s, only 15 Open is affected by that overlap, so at most that impacts three teams. The other 15s divisions are on Weekend 4, April 3-5, and that is where the bulk of CHRVA 15s teams will be playing. So if people want to criticize this year’s scheduling conflict, that is fair. But it is not accurate to act like CHRVA suddenly moved Regionals to some unusual spot on the calendar. The Regionals dates have been pretty consistent. The real difference this year is where NEQ Weekend 2 landed. |
Anonymous
You're missing the point. The CHRVA Region could have simply moved Regionals to a different date to avoid the conflict. A national qualifier should supercede a regional qualifier, and the national qualifiers are more restricted as to what dates the convention centers will give them. On the other hand, the CHRVA Region could have Regionals whenever they want. They chose to keep it on the same date as NEQ. Many Regions have their regional tournaments in February, others wait until May. The point is the CHRVA region has the kind of flexibility with their date(s) that the national qualifiers don't. National qualifiers also have to coordinate with the other national qualifiers to make sure their dates don't overlap too much, or else the fields will be too greatlly diminished. |
Anonymous
Nobody said CHRVA moved bid regionals this year. They are saying CHRVA **should have** moved bid regionals. Instead of locking in on the same weekendevery year, they should look out for CHRVA clubs and plan around the qualifiers, especially the closer ones our CHRVA clubs are more likely to attend. |
Anonymous
There really isn't much movement possibility for CHRVA regionals given a number of conflicting issues: 1) National qualifiers running through all of March, including Sunshine, Boston, MEQ and NEQ. 2) Spring breaks for schools (generally 3rd week of March through 1st week of April) 3) Facility availability (St. James has two large tournaments + other sport tournaments all through February and March, Adventist has basketball tournaments, etc). MD Jrs can only host 2 or 3 age groups at a time, which would require splitting the weekends for bids if it was all hosted there. 4) Overlapping established tournaments both in region and adjacent regions And most importantly, 5) NEQ now runs over four weekends (2nd weekend in March to 1st weekend in April) and every weekend has at least age group that overlaps with U11-U17 CHRVA teams. If CHRVA moves bids earlier in March, then they will directly conflict with Sunshine, Boston and MEQ qualifiers. Lots of teams attend those. Moving bids even earlier into February creates issues with accurately determining who should even be in the bid tournament because most teams only have 2-4 tournaments completed at that point. The last option is to move bids later in April, which puts them near the end of the regular club season and makes it very difficult for teams and clubs to plan (and to get hotel rooms at nationals, FYI). TLDR: Its easy to say "CHRVA should do better" but the reality is there really isn't a solution at this point. NEQ never overlapped in the past because it ran on fewer weekends. Its so big now that it has to run across four weekends and in multiple locations. At least one age group--and probably several--will always have to choose between attending CHRVA bids and going to NEQs unless multiple changes are made to NEQ, other tournament schedules, facility availability, etc. |
Anonymous
Thoughts and prayers for the Paramount teams and die hard/brainwashed parents that normalize verbal abusive behavior all in the name of "toughening up" etc, blah blah. |
Anonymous
I heard Paramount players are expected to play through injuries. To what extent is this true? I hesitated sending my daughter there for fear of damaging her play career or getting her burned out. |
Anonymous
That's an odd rumor. They haven't been playing the injured players. |