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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]
You're 100% correct that CHC is not a particularly competitive tournament. And the reason Metro is invited to play in Triple Crown is because they are a highly ranked club, based pretty much exclusively on the performance of the Travel teams. That's why I don't understand why every year there are rumblings about conspiracies to rig the tournament in favor of Metro. The Metro Travel teams should always be in contention to win most of the open divisions. The Metro Travel teams should be seeded highly because they are amongst the best teams inthe tournament - that's how seeding works.

As far as teams from local clubs not getting into the tournament in favor of teams that have to travel (and which generate hotel revenue), that is an unfortunate side effect of the economics of running a big tournament. On the bright side, it is somewhat nice though to have a different group of clubs to play against than you see regionally.  For teams that aren't going to multiple qualifiers, it's a chance for the CHRVA teams that do get in to play some different competition. And I think the shift of CHC from being a large mostly regional tournament is one of the reasons CHRVA started having their "Power League" tournaments - to allow larger numbers of mostly regional teams to play in a multiday format [url]https://www.chrva.org/page/show/6330580-girls-power-league[/url].

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