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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I'm aboard the wagon that I shouldn't have to travel too far for a game.  But I also don't want the same drive every Sunday, I like going to different places for DS game.  As a family we usually stick around the area(not always) and explore different parts of another county I otherwise would never have gone to.[/quote]

The biggest advantage to a model like CCL is not the supposed level of competition but the club to club scheduling. If you have multiple kids playing, and they can all play on the CCL team at their club, then scheduling is sooooo much easier. Even with the travel just having all the kids at the same place for all the games is a huge advantage and selling point. [/quote]

NO.  It's not!!  Unless you have twins in the same team.

I had two kids (2.5 years apart) both in CCL.  Games were multiple hours apart.  Often not at the same place.

If kid A has an 8 am game I'm not hanging out until the 4pm game.

I don't know who is spread in this fallacy.

My U9 and U12 CCL kids games did not line up.[/quote]

Wow, just wow. So there is no advantage at all of being in the general area. Having both kids play at the same time on opposite sides of the beltway I suppose is better?

You really are simply just not cut out for inconvenience of any kind are you. [/quote]

This is a rather typical "CCL4EVA!" response. Can't handle any criticism of the league's sales pitch, let alone of the league itself.

Frankly, the "club scheduling" is really convenient -- for technical directors who only want to see their clubs' A teams. It also helps the rare family with, say, three A-teamers on the rare occasion that all of their games are at the exact same venue.[/quote]

LOL, and how do you think ANY league will make scheduling around your family any better? [/quote]

As it stands now, it probably won't.

But few of these leagues claim to do so as aggressively as CCL's backers do. "Come with us, it's easy!" It's really not.

Well, EDP claims to be concentrating teams regionally, and they do so when they can, but you still have a few league games that cross a couple of state borders in addition to other events.

Admittedly, NCSL and others hardly even seem to be making the effort -- except at U9 and U10, where the "divisions" are typically clusters of clubs. Seems like they could do some "Division 4 West" and "Division 5 South" groupings to keep St. Mary's from playing all its away games in Loudoun and Prince William, but they don't do that.

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