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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]can someone explain the GA champions cup format please or am I close below:

1) so the first champions cup is in Dec at the Winter Showcase.  its says with all qualifying teams
2) how do these teams qualify? 
2) how are these teams determined? is it the top team or 2 from each conference from the previous year?   I see some conferences with 3 teams? [/quote]

Clubs that place 1st and 2nd in the conferences are automatic qualifiers for Champions Cup and the top 4 playoff teams not already in Champions Cup are also invited. They play the round robin round in Dec with the top 16 teams in each age advancing to the Champions Cup playoffs while those that don't play against 4 teams invited to play in the consolation bracket. [/quote]

But there are 11 conferences? That would mean 22 teams make Champions Cup.

I wish GA had more transparency on how the league operates, only having referee guidelines on the site isn't very helpful. I know they take the top 16 clubs from the previous years, just not sure how they determine it across the age groups.[/quote]

For the automatica qualifiers, they take the strongest CLUBs across all groups.  Not every conference gets the same amount of automatic qualifiers.  Take a look at this:

https://girlsacademyleague.com/champions-cup/

Scroll down to the bottom, and you will see the qualifiers from last year (who competed this year).  Those CLUBs had the best performance in those conferences across all age groups.  Think if this way, for each 1st place team a club within a conference has across the age groups, they get one point.  For each second place team, they get points, and so on across all the age groups.  Then total that amount for each CLUB within the conference and the team (or teams) with the lowest total gets the automatic bid(s).  Then four wild card teams are chosen to round out the 20 competing in December according to this criteria:

[i]FOR ALL CLUBS: The Champions Cup Finals at IMG this year will include FOUR (4) non-Champions Cup teams at U14, U15, U16, U17, and U19. These four teams will be invited to attend the event by the GA following the Winter Showcase. Invitations will be based on:

Performance in last year’s playoffs (U14 performance last year applies to the U15 team this year).
Performance in regular season play through December 10.
Performance at Winter Showcase if applicable (attendance at Winter is NOT required). [/i]

From the 20 in December, the top 16 complete in Florida for the Champions Cup.[/quote]

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