Arlington travel tryouts

[Anonymous]

I’m wrong about the second bullet. They have not officially offered all remaining top team spots, and are highly unlikely to do so today.

Anonymous wrote:I know of some of the younger age groups on the boys side who did and didn’t get offers. I don’t have info specifically on 2013G, but based on what I know for boys and our past experience both in this club and others, what I gather is:

- 1st set of offers went to existing top team players. This occurred a few weeks ago, and included “offers” where top team kids moved down.
- 2nd set of offers went out yesterday. This set appears to be the remaining spots on each age’s top team, after evaluating outside players from tryouts against existing non-top team players who may move up
- It is common for clubs to lock down their top 1-2 teams (for Arlington looks like just the top team) first before working down from there. It’s also common for offers to last 48 hours.
- therefore, if you’re still holding out for a top team spot, most likely the *earliest* you hear back is late on Thursday - assuming they are not giving out extensions, which I hope they’re not due to how late Arlington’s tryouts were.
- only after that will they start rolling out offers for non-top team spots. An earlier mass email said everyone will hear by May 22 (I think) but I’m not confident that date will stick.

We are reasonably confident in our assumptions and are planning accordingly based on them, but it’s the internet so take it with a grain of salt.

Anonymous wrote:Is this for 2013G?

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like the remaining pre-academy and academy offers went out today. At this point, If you didn’t receive an offer then you’ll have to hope that someone who did rejects it. Accept deadline probably Thursday, though someone correct me if I’m wrong. ☹️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I’m wrong about the second bullet. They have not officially offered all remaining top team spots, and are highly unlikely to do so today.

Any idea why that is or anticipated timing for the rest of the teams?

Anonymous wrote:I know of some of the younger age groups on the boys side who did and didn’t get offers. I don’t have info specifically on 2013G, but based on what I know for boys and our past experience both in this club and others, what I gather is:

- 1st set of offers went to existing top team players. This occurred a few weeks ago, and included “offers” where top team kids moved down.
- 2nd set of offers went out yesterday. This set appears to be the remaining spots on each age’s top team, after evaluating outside players from tryouts against existing non-top team players who may move up
- It is common for clubs to lock down their top 1-2 teams (for Arlington looks like just the top team) first before working down from there. It’s also common for offers to last 48 hours.
- therefore, if you’re still holding out for a top team spot, most likely the *earliest* you hear back is late on Thursday - assuming they are not giving out extensions, which I hope they’re not due to how late Arlington’s tryouts were.
- only after that will they start rolling out offers for non-top team spots. An earlier mass email said everyone will hear by May 22 (I think) but I’m not confident that date will stick.

We are reasonably confident in our assumptions and are planning accordingly based on them, but it’s the internet so take it with a grain of salt.

Anonymous wrote:Is this for 2013G?

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like the remaining pre-academy and academy offers went out today. At this point, If you didn’t receive an offer then you’ll have to hope that someone who did rejects it. Accept deadline probably Thursday, though someone correct me if I’m wrong. ☹️

[Anonymous]

Yes, i got new info. I don’t know how many top teams it applies to though, so some could be filled. I can say that others’ concerns about the downstream impact of our neighbors’ merger on Arlington is real. Sorry to be so vague. I’m not trolling, unlike the person on another thread with an ‘elite’ 5 year old. People bit hard on that one. 🤣🤣

Any idea why that is or anticipated timing for the rest of the teams?

[Anonymous]

I think you’re saying top Arlington teams will likely have some new members from McLean. If so, I am not surprised given the tenor on these forums about the club and the loss of their ECNL charter. I also think the culture of the two clubs and family demographics are similar enough to make Arlington an attractive alternative for families looking for more stable teams than McLean has to offer these days.

[Anonymous]

I know it’s not exclusively McLean but yes. I think the greater concern for others on this forum is being an existing Arlington player who gets bumped down for an existing McLean player. Mclean’s top teams in certain age groups are about the same, maybe a little worse, than Arlington. So there’s a higher chance that a top team spot that could go to an existing Arlington player will instead go to a top team McLean player who isn’t all that much better, if at all.

Anonymous wrote:I think you’re saying top Arlington teams will likely have some new members from McLean. If so, I am not surprised given the tenor on these forums about the club and the loss of their ECNL charter. I also think the culture of the two clubs and family demographics are similar enough to make Arlington an attractive alternative for families looking for more stable teams than McLean has to offer these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it’s not exclusively McLean but yes. I think the greater concern for others on this forum is being an existing Arlington player who gets bumped down for an existing McLean player. Mclean’s top teams in certain age groups are about the same, maybe a little worse, than Arlington. So there’s a higher chance that a top team spot that could go to an existing Arlington player will instead go to a top team McLean player who isn’t all that much better, if at all.

Anonymous wrote:I think you’re saying top Arlington teams will likely have some new members from McLean. If so, I am not surprised given the tenor on these forums about the club and the loss of their ECNL charter. I also think the culture of the two clubs and family demographics are similar enough to make Arlington an attractive alternative for families looking for more stable teams than McLean has to offer these days.

Is there a thread that explains what is happening in McLean that is causing all this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it’s not exclusively McLean but yes. I think the greater concern for others on this forum is being an existing Arlington player who gets bumped down for an existing McLean player. Mclean’s top teams in certain age groups are about the same, maybe a little worse, than Arlington. So there’s a higher chance that a top team spot that could go to an existing Arlington player will instead go to a top team McLean player who isn’t all that much better, if at all.

Anonymous wrote:I think you’re saying top Arlington teams will likely have some new members from McLean. If so, I am not surprised given the tenor on these forums about the club and the loss of their ECNL charter. I also think the culture of the two clubs and family demographics are similar enough to make Arlington an attractive alternative for families looking for more stable teams than McLean has to offer these days.

Is there a thread that explains what is happening in McLean that is causing all this?

They lost the ECNL path.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it’s not exclusively McLean but yes. I think the greater concern for others on this forum is being an existing Arlington player who gets bumped down for an existing McLean player. Mclean’s top teams in certain age groups are about the same, maybe a little worse, than Arlington. So there’s a higher chance that a top team spot that could go to an existing Arlington player will instead go to a top team McLean player who isn’t all that much better, if at all.

Anonymous wrote:I think you’re saying top Arlington teams will likely have some new members from McLean. If so, I am not surprised given the tenor on these forums about the club and the loss of their ECNL charter. I also think the culture of the two clubs and family demographics are similar enough to make Arlington an attractive alternative for families looking for more stable teams than McLean has to offer these days.

Is there a thread that explains what is happening in McLean that is causing all this?

They lost the ECNL path.

Again. Untrue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just sharing that my son is a returning player on a 2015B middle-level team and we don’t have our offer yet

Bump.

Any 2015B ARL middle-level team players get offers yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know it’s not exclusively McLean but yes. I think the greater concern for others on this forum is being an existing Arlington player who gets bumped down for an existing McLean player. Mclean’s top teams in certain age groups are about the same, maybe a little worse, than Arlington. So there’s a higher chance that a top team spot that could go to an existing Arlington player will instead go to a top team McLean player who isn’t all that much better, if at all.

Anonymous wrote:I think you’re saying top Arlington teams will likely have some new members from McLean. If so, I am not surprised given the tenor on these forums about the club and the loss of their ECNL charter. I also think the culture of the two clubs and family demographics are similar enough to make Arlington an attractive alternative for families looking for more stable teams than McLean has to offer these days.

We know a few players going to Arlington. Some were ECNL offers made months ago, some are recent RL offers.

The ECNL players were ones who didn’t make Union, but wanted to keep playing ECNL. Given how far away VDA and Loudoun are, Arlington was the obvious choice. Arlington got their pick of players here, with most of the remainder going to SYC or FCV.

The RL offers were for players less worried about the league, but wanted both a short drive and to play for a strong team. They opted to go to Arlington RL over MYS RL due to team strength. Should give Arlington RL a bit of a bump, but we’re not talking about massive amounts of players. Some went to other, strong RL teams nearby instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just sharing that my son is a returning player on a 2015B middle-level team and we don’t have our offer yet

Bump.

Any 2015B ARL middle-level team players get offers yet?

Our returning player got his this am

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your DCSC offer is safe until August. The DC clubs struggle to fill rosters at every age group so you should be fine hollding out to hear from Arlington. Communication goes a long way to not burning bridges though so take this informaiton and now communicate with DCSC. They may play hardball, but trust your kid could show up in September and make their team if you got this offfer now in May

received 2015 B Arlington offer for Silver which is the lowest team and have DCSC offer for Red which is 2nd team. Thanks for the advice as DCSC is freely letting me delay my decision. I'm torn as to which one to take.

[Anonymous]

Any sense of 2015 G offers?

[Anonymous]

Nada on 2015g for current travel player

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:received 2015 B Arlington offer for Silver which is the lowest team and have DCSC offer for Red which is 2nd team. Thanks for the advice as DCSC is freely letting me delay my decision. I'm torn as to which one to take.

Can you handle the commute to DCSC practices? If so, much clearer path there to #1 team at a young age if that is your goal. The practices may be more competitive (development). It is a good club. However, depending on the depth of the 2015B group at Arlington and DC's level, the Arlington Silver team could be a good, competitive environment for development.

Arlington tends to lock in players to tiers at very young ages and stick to it. Part of it is that there are just so many players trying out at a young age (hard to get a handle on it). Plus, they get a lot of new players externally and at Arlington the tie-breaker goes to external players for placement onto higher teams. Even if your DC develops, you will have a hard road getting them advanced to higher tier teams, but not impossible. Ironically, going to DCSC at a young age may put you into better position for placement on a higher Arlington team down the road (again, if that is your goal).