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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a "trapped" kid (he's a freshman in college now.) It was very disruptive. His team (mostly 06s, a handful of 05s) got completely split up. They had been the A team and the 05s got split among the older A and B teams. The 06s were the majority but at least half left to go to different clubs because they felt like they were being demoted and the club didn't want them to play up. It wasn't chaotic or confusing, just disappointing because they had had a nice team.

I think that this one will be much less disruptive because the change will affect fewer kids. I think it will be easier for kids and clubs to be flexible with that small number and evaluate whether it makes sense to play up or move to grade level.

For what it's worth, I think going back to the way it was makes sense for youth soccer. My remaining two travel players are summer birthdays so they will now become the smallest/youngest players but I still think it will help the sport to allow kids to play with classmates.[/quote]

What do you mean it'll impact less kids, it's going to impact a similar number if the cutoff date is right in the middle of the year.  For example, if late 09, now you will no longer be playing with early year 09s and will be joined by early birth 2010s.  I don't think it's a big deal but it is going to impact the same account of kids.  The solution isn't playing up because then clubs would have to make a ton of exceptions and that is just problematic.  Small clubs will be able to allow kids to play up but larger clubs will not have an easy time with it.[/quote]

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