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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So at a tournament this past weekend I saw a player that I know is on the top team of a local club playing on the second team. 
The player helped the team win the championship in the second division.

Against the rules, or just bad sportsmanship?[/quote]

How about just fun. My “A” team star son recently played a tournament with his “B” team best friends because they weren’t used to winning and he was and he wanted to play with his friends and make the game fun for them. While I felt slightly bad for the teams they beat, I know for a fact that at least one of the teams they faced had “A” team players from another team, so not so imbalanced. Fact is, his friends’ “B” team scraped out a couple close wins, but my sons skills really helped his friends play better.  In the end, they had a great time, long time friends played together, and everyone got great close games out of it.

And I believe this was the right call because 1) these are kids and they should be having fun, and 2) there’s no way the “A” coach was going to take four “B” players to his “A” tournament and play them.

Don’t be so cynical people. Ask next time and maybe you’ll realize there’s a good reason X kid is playing with Y team. And you might even approve?[/quote]

It was really so generous of your amazing star of a son to win the game for them and 'make it fun' for the poor little B team players. And so nice that you felt slightly bad for the teams they beat. &lt;gag&gt; Seriously?? [/quote]

The funny thing is all I ever hear from B team parents is how their kid should be on the A team and it is all "political", coaches kid, managers kid etc. Just nothing but how undeserving those A team players are and things like half the B team could replace the A team. This is said constantly throughout these threads. Then when ONE, ONE! A team player joins the B team it is "illegal" and cheating, and poor sportsmanship and unfair etc...

You cannot have it both ways. It was one kid, not 2, 3 or 5. [/quote]

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