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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please explain the difference between American and National like I'm five?[/quote]

The ELI5: National and American refer to the RELATIVE competitive level of two teams.  The National team will generally be more competitive than the American team. Its important to note that the comparison is generally only relevant within a club.  Just because Club A has a team they say is National and Club B has a team they say is National, doesn't mean the Club A's team and Club B's team are equal.

What gets confusing is some clubs use National to denote their top team, but that team may or may not be competing at the top levels of competition.  Most of the top clubs use the term &quot;open&quot; to distinguish a team that competes at the highest level in CHRVA. So a better way to consider the competitive level of teams is to think about Open-&gt;National-&gt;American being the ranking heirarchy.

On this board, when we talk about &quot;Open&quot; teams, we really are only talking about the three teams that regularly compete at that level at USAV qualifiers.  There are another 10-20 teams in the region that compete in open at travel tournaments regularly. 
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