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[quote=Anonymous][quote=FPYCparent]Maybe to put in another way, ...

There is no central body that does scheduling for tournaments to ensure some level of fair competition.  This isn't high school (or Little League, the NFL, NHL, MLB, etc.) where someone has a vested interest in having all teams play each other.  At best, each tournament host takes all [b]paying[/b] entrants for a particular age group and tries to seed them so that better teams (based on past-but-hopefully-very-recent performance) have the best chance to win their bracket.  It is basically a [i]pay-and-you-are-in[/i] NCAA Tournament Selection Show and the tourney itself starting and ending within a span of a week ... and repeating the process weekly for the next tourney.  Things will naturally be out-of-whack here in January, because we really don't know how good/bad some teams may be in these early-season contests.

Remember, each club must pay a fee to the host of each team it enters into a tournament.  So, clubs have an interest to keep their own balance sheets clean while providing (we hope, as paying customers) an adequate level of competition.  Sometimes, it works.  Other times, it won't.[/quote]

Can only speak to MD Jrs but the main reason I think this is coming up is that this is a CHANGE.  For those of us who've had girls play on DMV club 2s teams for the last 4 years, no one can remember playing a travel team during a MD Jrs tournament.  And I've got multiple DDs playing for multiple teams, so we've got a good range of experience since many teams play at least 2 (some 4!) tournaments at MD Jrs per season.  So the question is, why NOW?  Why are Club Teams matched up with Travel teams at MD Jrs now?  Is it just squeezing in as many paying teams as possible and not enough to do a Travel-only tournament so throw them in with the club teams, just spread them out?  Or is there another reason?

All you say makes sense but it's the fact that this seems so different, it's natural to wonder what changed and why?[/quote]

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