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[quote=Anonymous]Every club does tryouts differently, and they may do it differently every year or depending on the coach.

They are generally taking a closer look at the kids for the higher teams. It's possible the other kids may get offers for lower teams if there are enough openings.

DS went to two open tryouts at that age for two different clubs.

First one was a huge club. There were three fields. They seemed to group kids by size. They put all the biggest kids in the center and started sorting them into even smaller subgroups based on ability until they were only watching one small group.

There was one coach each assigned to the other two fields but it was more for show and to provide supervision rather than to seriously consider those kids. None of those kids got moved to the center. We were told later that all the lower teams at that age are roughly equivalent so it really didn't matter. Every child got an offer but the top team offers came from the center field. If your child didn't happen to catch a coach's eye as a big powerful kid you were out of luck.

Second was not a big club. The kids had been preassigned to groups randomly and they evaluated within those groups. Some kids were asked to sit out pretty quickly. They appeared to be best kids, the ones that had possession of the ball and made multiple goals.

This club did not give an offer to everyone. They were actually working backwards at the tryout by taking a closer look at those they may not give an offer to. This is the only tryout I've seen like this.[/quote]

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