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[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]

I wish more teams went to Triple Crown NIT - Cap Classic is stacked for Metro to win the divisions and it drives me crazy.  This is our 6th year and year and year it's the same story... Metro players and teams just so happen to have the easier brackets and seems to win "best players" when they actually aren't.  [/quote]
I agree it would be more appropriate for Metro Travel teams to go to Triple Crown, but whether due to some contractual arrangement or loyalty to the Goldbergs, most Metro teams are at Capitol Hill. But the reality is that Metro is the only club invited to Triple Crown that attends Capitol Hill instead.  Historically, Metro and Circle City (from Indianapolis) are the only major clubs invited to TC that don't attend.

I don't agree that the CHC seeding is done to somehow stack the deck in favor of the Metro Travel teams. The Open divisions have between 48 and 64 teams in them, meaning there are between 12 or 16 first round pools on Saturday. It would be nearly impossible to predict the the outcomes of all of those matches to insure that Metro had the easiest path to the gold medal match. Yes, Metro teams are often the first seed in most age groups, but not always. In my opinion that's because they are usually the strongest teams. Results from qualifiers and other tournaments throughout the season generally validate that to be true. It would be dishonest to suggest that a Metro Travel team shouldn't be among the top seeds in their age/division at Cap Hill. There will always be disagreements about seeding but it's usually outside of the top tier of teams. It's really hard to seed a tournament with teams from all over the country this early in the season, particularly in the middle of divisions - a team being a 2 seed versus a 3 seed in their day 1 pool can have a real impact on the outcome, but how do you decide how to seed teams ranked between 500 and 1000 in AES? AES is an imperfect system on its best day, and this early in the season there just isn't enough data to do an accurate comparison. Those 2 and 3 seeds in the day 1 pools are where a lot of movement can happen that impacts the end results, but that does not usually involve the top teams. Unfortunately in a 3-day tournament, if you don't make it to the top half after day 1 (coming in 1st or 2nd in your pool) there isn't a way to fight your way back up to a higher finish. But that's an issue for all tournaments formatted like CHC - there just aren't enough matches to allow for a team to have a bad first day and then recover.

In my 8 years of attending Capitol Hill, the best teams are generally in the gold bracket on day 3 and they have to beat the other top teams if they want a medal. Of course there are upsets on days 1 and 2, but that's sports. And if it really was possible to "rig" the tournament for a particular club, why aren't Metro regional teams winning the lower divisions?

In terms of the best player awards, your complaint isn't unique to Capitol Hill. Almost every tournament that gives out these kinds of awards selects the players from the top few finishers at the tournament, which for Cap Hill (in which Metro historically wins a majority of the open divisions) means a lot of awards will go to Metro players. Is it possible that the "best setter" or "best server" were on teams that didn't make the gold bracket? Absolutely, but I don't know of any tournament that regularly hands out awards to players on teams outside the top finishers. [/quote]

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