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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous](V)CCL was started because the elite teams outside of NOVA (Beach, Kickers/Strikers/SOCA, etc) had no local competition. Beach drew every top player in a 30 mile radius - the second best team in the area was Beach's B team. So they started a league to give themselves meaningful competition. The NOVA clubs (excluding RFCs brief tenure) didn't have the balls or the wits to create their own variant, they joined the existing VCCL as the "North", then everything kind of imploded with the development academy and you are left with this frankenstein CCL that doesn't make as much sense for the NOVA clubs. [/quote]

What about CCL doesn't make sense? To the PP's point, we make 2-3 trips outside of the DC area per year - not a big deal IMO, and for those of us with two kids in the same club playing CCL, we get two games in the same location on the same day. Blowouts are the exception, not the rule - if our team is up by 3 or 4 goals, the coach changes the dynamics for the kids, and makes them pass X times before shooting, moves kids around to different positions, implements a two-touch rule, tries new formations, etc. There are fewer conflicts for coaching, and where they do have a conflict, other club coaches can cover for them. Players can easily guest with an older team where it makes sense. I think CCL works exactly like it was intended to work. No league is going to achieve perfect competition and no travel. When my older daughter's team played in WAGS (pre-VCCL), we drove an hour plus to Maryland and had no competition (granted it was U9 where teams don't have history). I guess I just don't get all the criticism of CCL. It seems pretty collegial among the clubs, ScrimmageFest is a cool event for the younger kids, scheduling and coordination works well, etc.

To the PP's point, you have choices in this area.  If the travel really doesn't work for you, find a different option.  [/quote]

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