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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Your observations are accurate and well thought-out. The only aspect of your post that is off is about teams declining bids. Here's how it works. If a team plays in the Open Division of a national qualifier and earns a bid, they must take that bid. You cannot decline an Open Bid. A team can decline a bid in any other division at at national qualifier (Blue Ridge has typically turned down the USA bids they get at NEQ or other national qualifiers). You are partially correct that when a team participates in CHRVA Bid Regionals, they are committing to accepting a bid if they earn the bid outright that specific day of Regionals. Meaning, if Regionals are on March 21st, any teams that finish in a good enough position to earn a bid must accept that bid on the spot prior to leaving the tournament. So, you're correct on that. [b]However, a team that participated in CHRVA Bid Regionals does not have to accept a reallocated bid that comes back to the region after Regionals have already concluded.[/b]

It makes sense that the Region doesn't make teams accept these bids, as most of these bids do not end up materializing until the end of April or early May. With this little notice, flights and hotels get more expensive (and sometimes Nationals are not in a particularly convenient place, e.g., 18s Nationals in Reno this year), so it's not fair for the Region to mandate that clubs go. There are a lot of parents that would say no, especially if their child's team is already registered for AAU Nationals. In the case of the 14s Division, both MDJRS and MOCO are already registered for AAU Nationals, so I'm sure most of those parents did not want to have to pay for two separate nationals given how late the bid was offered to them. So, my guess is both of these teams declined the bid, hence why it trickled down to Paramount VBC 14 Priscilla. I believe this is also what happened with Premier Edge 17 and Metro 17 National. [/quote]

Thanks for the clarification on that. I read the following from those CHRVA rules as a warning that, hey, you may not know until May that you've earned a bid, so you're obligated to keep your options open:

[quote]Any team may apply to compete in the Bid Regional Championships, but by doing so, is committing to competing in the USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships at either the National, Freedom, or American division, should they win a Region bid. The total number of bids to be awarded for each age group is not determined until May.[/quote]

But the actual policy makes complete sense, for all of the reasons you mentioned. [/quote]

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