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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe Paramount is the only local team invited to Triple Crown NIT while other teams like VA Elite, American, Vienna Elite, VA Jrs, Blue Ridge, Metro, MD Jrs, MVSA, etc play in the Capitol Hill Classic.

Good luck to all these teams competing this weekend.[/quote]

Metro gets invited to Triple Crown too, but turns it down because they're committed to CHC in honor of Barry Goldberg.[/quote]

I don't think it's a goodwill gesture. Metro would rather be at Triple Crown. It's a contractual thing. When Barry sold the club to the current Director in 2015 (for those who don't know, Barry started Metro in 1999 and grew it into the most dominant club in the area, before selling it in 2015), part of the deal was the new director had to guarantee that Metro's teams would always participate in Cap Classic. [/quote]

This is probably the case, but declining and waitlisting many better CHRVA teams has the impact of making it come across as Metro stacking the tournament for Metro. That discredits the tournament and makes it look like a cash grab in my opinion.[/quote]
While there is the connection between the Goldberg family and Metro, Metro does not run the tournament.  I don't believe Metro has any input at all into who is accepted to the tournament nor do they have any input into seeding, although it does seem fair to say that more Metro teams are accepted than other clubs are able to get in.

Is it likely that the tournament limits the numbers of local teams to maximize their revenue from hotel stays?  Sure, that seems probable.  But I agree with the prior assessment that I don't see any top CHRVA teams that didn't get in. [/quote]

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