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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one thinks there’s a literal smoke-filled room with villains twirling mustaches. It’s much simpler: when the host club prioritizes this over Triple Crown (for valid historical reasons), then seeds itself high at its own event (don’t kid yourself that it’s not a Metro event), and the founder’s kid is front and center on social, the “optics” do the heavy lifting.

And yes, the best teams end up in gold, especially when a chunk of the actual other national contenders are in Kansas City. So it’s dominating a field that thinned itself out.

Metro regionals not sweeping lower divisions isn’t the gotcha you think it is. Even a homer tournament can’t manufacture talent across that many teams. [/quote]

Over the last decade at least Cap Hill hasn't been a tournament that draws national contenders. This was true even when Triple Crown wasn't that big of a tournament and it took a while for Triple Crown to get to the size it is now.  Cap Hill has historically been a good "super-regional" tournament that drew a large number of CHRVA teams as well as a reasonable number of teams from adjoining regions.  That's what made it successful. Its disappointing they've moved away from what made it great while simultaneously lowering the competition level.

For seeding the easiest way to figure out if Metro teams are being favored is to compare their rankings right now to the pool seeding they receive this weekend. None of the Central, East, or South U13-U17 teams are ranked above 1500.  Some are in the 3000-4500 range which would place have them seeded 4th in pools at most tournaments and near the bottom overall seeds.  If those teams are seeded 2nd or higher in their pools, then there's likely some kind of bias in the process.

For example, in U14 Metro South PW & FX are ranked 4536 and 4540, there are only a couple CHRVA teams lower than them in the 14 club division. In U15 Metro South PW is #4257, which appears to be lower than all but a few teams in the 15 club division.  In U16 Metro North is currently #3853, which should have them at or near the last seed in the Patriot division.[/quote]

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